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RainOrShine99
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Interested in Astronomy, Cosmology, Spaceflight and Space Exploration, Earth Weather and Space Weather, Nature.
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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · Jul 15
I updated my profile picture to be a colorized version of the woodcut of:
“A traveller peers through an opening in the firmament in this illustration from Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire (Paris: Hachette, 1888), p. 163.” Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammar...
A person looks through the Earth’s atmosphere by poking their head through a star filled sky to see a greater universe beyond. The artist depicts a yellow sun to the right and a blue sky with stats to the left. A leafy tree is centered in the frame. The person is wearing a body length robe, is lying down prone, one hand reaches towards the Universe beyond, the left hand carries a walking stick, also laying on the ground beside them.
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Monday huh? Do I have to?

#birds 🌿 (a young hawk, maybe Red-shouldered?)
Close up photo of a brown and white streaked hawk looking straight towards the camera, looking a little bemused.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
From the CLM ##PenAndInk Archives ... small whimsical frog & environs ...
Black ink and pen whimsical drawing of a frog on a stick with a cattail, spiderweb, snail, arrowhead leaf - from the CLM Archives
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Busted.
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl looking out from inside her burrow.
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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scamperbeasts.bsky.social
This just in: for the first time, Saja has discovered the catnip toys.
Saja the kitten, eyes VERY wide, with toy.
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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carolpopegordon.bsky.social
Me on Monday morning before coffee - except for the feathers on the eyelids. 🪶
Barred Owl perched in a tree with its eyes mostly closed, showing its feathered eyelids
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
rainorshine99.bsky.social
🤔 🤭 🫣 💀 🤡
DealBook's Sarah Kessler talked with Valery Yakubovich, the executive director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at Wharton, about what corporate board members should learn from this strong performance by A.I. directors. The interview has been condemned and edited for clarity.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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banditelli.org
Was hoping to get the moon up last night because it was so good and no one cares about the moon the next day, but still, here it is.
a small sliver of a moon above the ocean, and island, and clouds.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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banditelli.org
Oh, YOU'RE back.

Big surprise.

Nobody expected YOU.
The 12% waxing crescent moon as seen outside my apartment 5 minutes ago.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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marwellaspaceart.bsky.social
Waxing crescent 9.2% on Sunday evening at 7 PM (UTC 12PM).
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Phobos over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph
Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54375128834/sizes/o/ (See licence below) Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Check out the original with the martian background distorted here: flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY. The camera scanning the satellite caused the original view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moved by. Colourised image created using data processed from archives.esac.esa.int/psa Mission: ESA Mars Express Orbit 22608 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2021-11-22 22:51 Product IDs: HM608_0000_BL3 HM608_0000_ND3 Notes: Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int. This is a single shot on HM608_0000_BL3, not a composite image, although the background has been resized to reduce distortion (see above original) and the details on Phobos are merged with the second filter HM608_0000_ND3, shot during the same observation. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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effinbirds.com
An important holiday update from Effin' Birds
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
No time to draw but… he needed it
Buonaparte Gull lad in his HAT - givin it his best Napoleon borb
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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banditelli.org
Overall a lackluster nature photography day, but this first year Bonaparte's gull CAPTURED MY HEART 🥰 🪶
A forward facing white and gray gull with a black break and some on its wings. Very round.
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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akasci.bsky.social
Here is another image taken in October from the International Space Station.
The one is of Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) floating above and behind Earth's airglow.
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...
#Astronomy
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) floating above and behind Earth's airglow
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
rainorshine99.bsky.social
This was last night
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rainorshine99.bsky.social RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 2d
Lint #Moon alert! 🚨

The crescent Moon at sunset. (I call it the lint Moon as it looks like lint on your phone.)😄 👀
A crescent moon in an orange sky with a few dark clouds above a very dark tree line.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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rainorshine99.bsky.social
Lint #Moon alert! 🚨

The crescent Moon at sunset. (I call it the lint Moon as it looks like lint on your phone.)😄 👀
A crescent moon in an orange sky with a few dark clouds above a very dark tree line.
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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akasci.bsky.social
Here are a couple of spectacular images of comets, taken in October from the International Space Station.
The first one is Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) seen through Earth's shimmering aurora lights.
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...
#Astronomy
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.
~Mary Midgley

🕉️

#BirdOfTheDay
#BirdOnAWire
#BirdsOfPrey
#BirdLovers
#Raptors
#Photography
A totally borbed Kestrel is perched on a wire right above my head so I'm taking pictures of his frank n beans for you from this angle against overcast skies, because it's cold...
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A male Eastern Bluebird heading out to join the rest of the flock.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
rainorshine99.bsky.social
Lint #Moon alert! 🚨

The crescent Moon at sunset. (I call it the lint Moon as it looks like lint on your phone.)😄 👀
A crescent moon in an orange sky with a few dark clouds above a very dark tree line.
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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thebirderbob.bsky.social
This Red-bellied Woodpecker was posing (posting?) nicely for me. #birds #birding #woodpecker #BirdOfTheDay
A woodpecker is perched on the left side of a square post, part of a boardwalk through a very birdy marsh. He's looking over his shoulder towards the right side of the image. As is usually the case, there is only a smidgeon of a hint of red on its lower belly!
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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nws.noaa.gov
La Niña, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the potential for a rare November Sudden Stratospheric Warming event (you're likely to have heard of this referred to as the "polar vortex") may combine to drive winter-like conditions across much of the U.S. late November into early December.
map showing the 6-10 day temperature outlook for November 26 through November 30. Below average temperatures are expected across a large area of the central US with above average temperatures in the west, across Florida, Alaska, and Hawaii.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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coffeedave.bsky.social
A different moon shot from me tonight, normally at over 1/100th second but due to cloud and such I tried at 1/6th second and raised the ISO to 1600 .... sorta made a unique shot for me.
Moon in the west.
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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monet.bsky.social
Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect - 1893
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10560
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM