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C_Pineda
@celestialvibes25.bsky.social
A lowly fleshling travelling across this vast universe. I post interesting stuff about astronomy, astrophysics and other related sciences.

Currently studying Computing & IT - The Open University

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https://bsky.app/profile/crispy404.bsky.social
Canada and northern US getting lucky again with the aurorae lottery. Hope we can have some here in the UK...if not only for the pesky rainy weather. LOL.

Frustrating to see events like this happen and then you have rain, all day in the UK. 🥲

#aurora
#november11th
#g3
#spaceweather
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Currently observing Super Typhoon Fung-Wong (local name: Uwan). The Philippines is still recovering from the devastation of Typhoon Kalmaegi (local name: Tino) and now have to face the incoming wrath of a super typhoon.

True colour image loop - Himawari 8 from tropicaltidbits.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Happy birthday, Carl. You are sorely, sorely missed. :(
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Astronomers have found that star-forming galaxies in the early universe were far messier than modern-day disk galaxies.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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#astronomy #galaxies #cosmology
Early Galaxies Were Messy, New Study Finds
Astronomers have found that star-forming galaxies in the early universe were far messier than modern-day disk galaxies.
skyandtelescope.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The Solar Chromosphere - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2opMMcc
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
youtu.be/rT7DMb3ZucU?...

Science has always been a team sport.
Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein | Sean Carroll
YouTube video by Big Think
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is what happens when substandard and corrupted government flood control projects fail. This is not a natural disaster, it's man-made catastrophe.

Corrupt folks who swindled billions of pesos from flood control projects are thriving whilst the common folk have drowned in the floods.
Deadliest typhoon so far this year in Asia, Kalmaegi has killed 114 in Philippines. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n...
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
www.space.com/space-explor...

My heart breaks for NASA. I have long dreamed of working there since I was a kid, even becoming my only reason to visit the US. I did not foresee that within my lifetime, I would see this institution be slowly incapacitated and decimated by the idiots on top.
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Right in time for #Halloween 🎃

Our VST has spotted a spooky bat flying over Paranal. But fear not, it's located 10,000 light-years away.

This "cosmic bat" is in fact a large cloud of gas. Let's fly through it in this video...if you dare! 🦇

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2518/
🔭 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Avi Loeb appearing on mainstream media and saying things is one of the most outrageous stuff that I have encountered in the internet.

Got me going like this (pun heavily intended)
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hurricane Melissa as viewed from Dragon (Space X).

Credits: sen.com

#hurricane
#melissa
#atlantic
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The headline I didn't know I needed. 🤣
Quite the battle royale here.
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As someone who is born and raised in the Philippines, a country similar to Jamaica when it comes to experiencing extreme weather, Category 5 typhoons (the Pacific term for hurricane) are absolutely scary thing to experience.

Hope that Jamaica stays safe and rides out this hurricane.
Melissa's ranking is #3 in the all-time Atlantic-wide basin pressure readings for the "modern" / recon / satellite era.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What a beauty. Wow.
More space beauty for your day: This new JWST image of Uranus shows exquisite detail in the rings, clouds, and huge polar cap. Imagine what it took to knock this planet on its side.

Processing by Andrea Luck. 🔭🧪

www.flickr.com/photos/19227...
October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
GOES-19 IR satellite image of Hurricane Melissa (category 5).

Credits: tropicaltidbits.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Deep View of the Tarantula Region in LMC - Narrowband Bicolour - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2mkXRi3
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fascinating. Imagine this rock hurling through space at blazing speeds.
INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION
Target: 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO 1 (1969 R1)
Date: 12 aug 2015 21:21:11 utc
Distance to Target: 329 km
Camera: OSINAC Orange filter
rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_20...

ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Are those Io's volcanoes?? Dang.
#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper
Perijove 70 Target: #IO

atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS...

NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Comet Lemmon over the High Tatras

Credit: Tomáš Slovinský www.tomasslovinsky.com & Constantine Themelis constantinethemelis.com

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

#APOD 🧪🔭
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
☑️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🔭
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Saw this post in my Linkedin and I am keen to attend this fascinating weekend at Oxford.
📕 Date for the diary 📕

@oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social’s 45th annual Astronomy weekend course will take place from the 18-19 April next year.

It will celebrate the latest advances in astronomy and planetary science, featuring the best images from space probes and ground-based telescopes.

⤵️
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Comet Lemmon will be visible in the UK skies from mid-October to early November. I am hoping that the weather will cooperate.
October 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Slightly off-astro but still a science topic:

There has been 2 massive earthquakes in the Philippines in the last couple of weeks:

6.9 magnitude in Bogo, Cebu
7.4 and 6.7 magnitude, doublet earthquake in Davao Oriental

Here's some wikipedia entries regarding these 2 seismic events.
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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October 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM