Marc Kuchner | Author
@marckuchner.bsky.social
Dad. Author of the Cosmic Collisions books. Astrophysicist and Citizen Science fanatic @nasa. www.marckuchner.com
Asteroid vs. Comet. Which one will survive this cosmic collision? a.co/d/anQPTNd #astronomy #kids #kidlit #writingcommunity #booksky #space
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Asteroid vs. Comet. Which one will survive this cosmic collision? a.co/d/anQPTNd #astronomy #kids #kidlit #writingcommunity #booksky #space
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Into crystals and gems? There’s a new kind of tektite for you to collect! The discovery points to an 11 million year old crater that might be hidden somewhere in Australia. #astronomy #space #geology #news
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Into crystals and gems? There’s a new kind of tektite for you to collect! The discovery points to an 11 million year old crater that might be hidden somewhere in Australia. #astronomy #space #geology #news
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Librarians, teachers: Interested in a Zoom visit?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Librarians, teachers: Interested in a Zoom visit?
Do interstellar comets seed planet formation? meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... #astronomy #space #nature
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Do interstellar comets seed planet formation? meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... #astronomy #space #nature
Congrats to Siddharth Patel, a 12 year old Canadian who found two candidate asteroids with NASA’s IASC project! Teachers, sign up your classroom at iasc.cosmosearch.org #space #stem #astronomy #education #citizenscience
November 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congrats to Siddharth Patel, a 12 year old Canadian who found two candidate asteroids with NASA’s IASC project! Teachers, sign up your classroom at iasc.cosmosearch.org #space #stem #astronomy #education #citizenscience
Have you heard "Kiss Like A Zombie"? www.marckuchnermusic.com/song/8
It's a Dance-Pop Halloween banger. Play it now!
It's a Dance-Pop Halloween banger. Play it now!
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Have you heard "Kiss Like A Zombie"? www.marckuchnermusic.com/song/8
It's a Dance-Pop Halloween banger. Play it now!
It's a Dance-Pop Halloween banger. Play it now!
Citizen Science combined with Artificial Intelligence found invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar! New paper from the Mosquito Habitat Mapper team. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #news #nature #climate
USF study: AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar
Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi — an invasive and de...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Citizen Science combined with Artificial Intelligence found invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar! New paper from the Mosquito Habitat Mapper team. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #news #nature #climate
Rocking my new backyardworlds.org shirt today! Thanks, Peter Jalowiczor! #citizenscience #astronomy #astrophotography #space
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Rocking my new backyardworlds.org shirt today! Thanks, Peter Jalowiczor! #citizenscience #astronomy #astrophotography #space
Congrats to NASA Citizen Scientist @melina-iras07572.bsky.social! In 2019, Melina discovered the oldest white dwarf with a debris disk. Now this white dwarf is in the news again. @astroerika.bsky.social et al. suggest it may have recently engulfed a rocky planet. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Congrats to NASA Citizen Scientist @melina-iras07572.bsky.social! In 2019, Melina discovered the oldest white dwarf with a debris disk. Now this white dwarf is in the news again. @astroerika.bsky.social et al. suggest it may have recently engulfed a rocky planet. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
NASA Citizen Scientist Michiharu Hyogo is featured in this article about authors of Zooniverse publications. He's a citizen scientist on the Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds projects, & he wrote a first-author paper. #astronomy @royalastrosoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
People power in action
Zooniverse is a platform enabling citizen scientists to contribute to research, and it may just form the foundations of a new scientific community
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October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NASA Citizen Scientist Michiharu Hyogo is featured in this article about authors of Zooniverse publications. He's a citizen scientist on the Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds projects, & he wrote a first-author paper. #astronomy @royalastrosoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
So the Earth has quasi-moons! What is the difference between a moon and a quasi moon? (And which one should I howl at?) #astronomy #news #nature #astrophotography
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
So the Earth has quasi-moons! What is the difference between a moon and a quasi moon? (And which one should I howl at?) #astronomy #news #nature #astrophotography
Geophysicist Stefan Burns reported that a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun is heading right for interstellar comet 3/ATLAS. Collision expected on October 29. #astronomy #space #news #astrophotography #nature
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Geophysicist Stefan Burns reported that a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun is heading right for interstellar comet 3/ATLAS. Collision expected on October 29. #astronomy #space #news #astrophotography #nature
Meet Earth’s second moon! Well, really it’s a quasi-moon, asteroid 2025 PN 7. #astronomy #news #astrophotography #nature #space
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Meet Earth’s second moon! Well, really it’s a quasi-moon, asteroid 2025 PN 7. #astronomy #news #astrophotography #nature #space
Witness the largest explosions in the universe and help scientists figure out what’s causing them! www.zooniverse.org/projects/amy... #astronomy #citizenscience #astrophotography
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Witness the largest explosions in the universe and help scientists figure out what’s causing them! www.zooniverse.org/projects/amy... #astronomy #citizenscience #astrophotography
This Monday night is the best night to catch 2 comets in the sky at once! Several articles have pointed out that one of them was discovered by an amateur astronomer/citizen scientist. (Of course, most comets are discovered by citizen scientists!) #astrophotography #news
October 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This Monday night is the best night to catch 2 comets in the sky at once! Several articles have pointed out that one of them was discovered by an amateur astronomer/citizen scientist. (Of course, most comets are discovered by citizen scientists!) #astrophotography #news
Want to go to Mars one day? Try your hand at spotting Martian clouds! www.zooniverse.org/projects/mar... #scienceathome #citizenscience #space #astronomy
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Want to go to Mars one day? Try your hand at spotting Martian clouds! www.zooniverse.org/projects/mar... #scienceathome #citizenscience #space #astronomy
Never seen Halley’s Comet? Don’t worry. You’ll be able to watch pieces of it hit Earth on October 21! #astrophotography #astronomy #news
October 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Never seen Halley’s Comet? Don’t worry. You’ll be able to watch pieces of it hit Earth on October 21! #astrophotography #astronomy #news
A weird gamma ray burst may be showing us a white dwarf being devoured by a black hole. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw... by @philplait.bsky.social #astronomy #news
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A weird gamma ray burst may be showing us a white dwarf being devoured by a black hole. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw... by @philplait.bsky.social #astronomy #news
A newly observed wave crossing the Milky Way may point to a galactic collision. www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... #astronomy #news
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A newly observed wave crossing the Milky Way may point to a galactic collision. www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... #astronomy #news
Reposted by Marc Kuchner | Author
Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.
The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks to Chris Williams for this article highlighting NASA citizen Science! www.livenowfox.com/news/nasa-ci... #news
NASA has 36 projects you can help with right now
NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific discoveries.
www.livenowfox.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thanks to Chris Williams for this article highlighting NASA citizen Science! www.livenowfox.com/news/nasa-ci... #news