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Oliver, Sternkieker 📯 🔭
@brokensky.bsky.social
Located at: Hamburg, Germany
Focused on: Astronomical outreach
Previous pro activity: crisis reporting, telecommunications engineering, optical industry
Motto: Life is change. Strangely optimistic.
Und sonst so: Repair Café, Bierbrauen, analoge Fotografie
Habe eben nach der Nachrichtenmeldung nachgemessen:
Meine Wohnung ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten kaum größer geworden. Einzig zwei Zimmer mit Wasserschaden, die komplett saniert wurden, haben geingfügig an Fläche zugelegt.
Anwältin meint: kein Grund zur Mietminderung.
September 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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♥️
September 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Sad to see the Goddard visitor center close. 🔭
Just a now routine little local bit of immiseration.
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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On the 21 September 2025 there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse. Visible over a small land area. 🔭 🧪 www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/sola...
Partial Solar Eclipse on September 21, 2025
Partial solar eclipse on Sunday, September 21, 2025: Where and when is the Sun eclipse visible? Shadow map, animation, and local times.
www.timeanddate.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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🔭 Star Trails over One-Mile Radio Telescope

Image Credit & Copyright: Joao Yordanov Serralheiro

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25091...
September 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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My animation of Mercury's escaping sodium exosphere over the course of a Mercury year. The only thing that changes is the magnitude of radiation pressure which is a function of where Mercury is in its orbit. Without radiation pressure, nothing would escape.
#EPSCDPS #EPSC2025 #planetsci #mercury
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Five celestial events to look out for this autumn. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Supermoons and meteor showers: Five celestial events to look for this autumn
From supermoons to meteor showers, Elizabeth Rizzini has your guide to what may delight in the autumn night skies.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Heute vor 128 Jahren kommt 1897: Irène Joliot-Curie, französische Chemikerin und Nobelpreisträgerin, zur Welt. Sie war die ältere Tochter der Nobelpreisträger Marie und Pierre Curie.
#Gittepedia
September 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Here's to living long and prospering! Brad and I are on the January/February cover of The Advocate, sharing our love story and talking about Star Trek, Japanese-American history, our political future, and more.
Living long & prospering: George Takei's inspiring love story
How the gay sci-fi icon and husband Brad survived the closet, the AIDS era, and internment to find happily ever after.
www.advocate.com
January 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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"Nicht Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler und wie sie alle hießen, haben mich verschleppt und geschlagen.

Nein, es waren der Schuster, der Nachbar, der Milchmann.

Sie haben eine Uniform bekommen, eine Binde und eine Haube - und dann waren sie die Herrenrasse."

Karl Stoika, Auschwitz-Überlebender
January 23, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I hereby name this phenomenon the "Amageddon Tipping Point of the Apocalypse" and claim copyright to it for the final edition of all history books and any publication in known and unknown form for the entire universe. Thank you.
This is probably the highest anomaly seen so far. It certainly looks like something odd is going on.
January 12, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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This week's sky at a glance, January 12-21. Very useful Sky & Telescope observing guide by Alan MacRobert. 🔭 🧪 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 12 – 21
The Moon passes Saturn, then Jupiter. Venus and Mercury shine at dawn. Capella paces Orion's bright foot. And Betelgeuse races Sirius.
skyandtelescope.org
January 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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A SAR Arc from New Zealand - ©
Tristian McDonald;
Text: Tiffany Lewis
(Michigan Tech U.)

📷 Photo: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24010...
📸 HD Photo: apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2...

#astronomy #astrophotos #🔭

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- About NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

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January 3, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Per aspera ad astra.
Tragic loss to the astronomy community. Harold was a pioneer of astrochemistry and a very kind person. 🔭
In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 - 2023

De Leidse astronoom Harold Linnartz overleed onverwacht op 31 december 2023

www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-me...
January 5, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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2023 war wettermäßig deutlich durchwachsener als 2022. 2023 sind wir mit 178 Mond-Aufnahmen auf deutlich weniger Sichtungen gekommen als 2022 (219). Hübsch anzuschauen sind sie natürlich trotzdem
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January 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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*Really* pleased with this image from our #solarcan. Positioned on the front of the house from mid summer’s day to mid winter’s day 2023. It shows the path of the sun across the sky throughout those 6 months. #solargraphy
December 24, 2023 at 10:16 AM
#Astronomie #Polarlicht
Hallo in die Runde: Wer jetzt klaren Himmel hat und nach Norden blickt, nicht unter Großstadthimmel leidet und möglichst weit im Norden lebt, kann die Polarlichter nicht mehr übersehen!
November 5, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃

Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭
October 31, 2023 at 3:30 PM
Was mach ich mit nem ängstlichen Eichhörnchen?
November 3, 2023 at 10:59 AM
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Ja, der Mensch ist gerne Opfer seiner Euphemismen.
Meine Stifte erklärten die „Klimaziele“ 2020 so:
(Aus zeichnerischen Gründen idealisierte Darstellung-die 4°C Linie dürfte bereits durch den Nachbarn der Person deren Hand wir sehen laufen.)
November 3, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Medizinischer Sinnspruch:
Läuft die Nase schon bei Rot,
ist der Hals auch bald in Not!
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#Serviceskeet
November 2, 2023 at 5:45 AM