Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

🔭 Tomorrow Earth is at aphelion, the farthest point in its orbit around the Sun. It's a great time to photograph the Sun to show it looks a bit smaller when we are farther away. If you combine it with an image taken at perihelion (when it is closest) you get this:

20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.

Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX

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@jillypoopoo.bsky.social I’m keeping it non-p*litic*l on this platform. My rants are on Threa*s ☝️😎

Kim K for Atty General? I can see it.

Trump is deporting the guy who mows your lawn but releasing the guy who bashed a police officer’s head in back to your community.

Buster and stuffed tiger movement 1

A few reasons why I love the west

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Buster my rescue beagle. He was found abandoned, starving, and wandering in the Mississippi woods. Now he spends most of his time taking walks, sleeping 😴, and getting loved on, not necessarily in that order. ❤️

Ohh, today's @apod.shinyakato.dev is like a scene from another world! Superb photography, and there's no need to look far off into space for it.

Features a beautiful crescent Moon hanging in the red dawn Sicilian sky, while Mt Etna blows vortex rings into the atmosphere.

📸 D. Giannobile/APOD 🔭🧪🌋

Buster my beagle - he’s approx 8