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Big Mars news! 🔴

While more data is required, these findings could represent the most promising evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. 🧬

We supported scientists at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on the work, putting UK science at the heart of this discovery. 🔭
September 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Hi all. This is my first post on Bluesky. But of an experiment, this one: North American and Pelican Nebulae taken with my PlayerOne Uranus C Pro, on a vintage Takumar 135mm M42 lens. Zwo duo band and UVIR cut filters. I struggled with haloes a bit. Processed in Pixinsight. #astrophotography
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.

Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪

➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer
A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At left is a large elliptical galaxy, smooth like a polished stone. At right lies a large spiral galaxy that is nearly a ring, with bright golden core. To its lower left is a smaller spiral with a barred core. At top and bottom, two bright stars shine brightly with multi-colored diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies are just smudges of various colors. A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top left is a large galaxy that is smooth like a stone, with wisps like cotton candy spiral from left and right. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. / A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At bottom left is an elegant two-armed galaxy, with arms extended like a dancer viewed from above. The bright points of three stars form a triangle at top center. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top right is a large galaxy with two whirling spiral arms wrapping around like a hug. At bottom left, two smooth elliptical galaxies appear near each other, like champagne glasses in the midst of a cheers. A bright star above the pair has red, green, and blue diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors. A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.
June 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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One morning in July 2018 I was capturing the Moon. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waning gibbous phase on a blue sky background.
July 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Happy 82nd birthday to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born #OTD in 1943. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 🎂
mcnees.bsky.social Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Jul 15
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a Cambridge grad student in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars!

In 1974 the Nobel was given to her advisor; she was left off. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭

Photo: National Science & Media Museum
Black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burrell, when she was a graduate student, holding a printout on a roll of paper and standing in front of a large radio dish. She is wearing a coat and glasses, smiling and looking toward the camera.
July 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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As human influence extends farther into space, broader ethical guidelines are needed for the exploration and treatment of extraterrestrial environments and phenomena, argue the authors of a Comment article in Nature. 🔭 🧪
How to chart a moral future for space exploration
Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used.
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July 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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4/n 🧵

This view shows Phobos over Arabia Terra as seen by @esa.int Mars Express

Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rgh8Pm
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY 🧪🔭

Captured on May 7, 2025 | Image ID: HQ944
Raw data from: psa.esa.int
High-resolution image of Mars showing the small, dark, potato shape moon Phobos in the foreground, passing over the cratered highlands of Arabia Terra. The Martian surface appears in soft rust and tan tones, with numerous impact craters of varying sizes. Faint bluish clouds hug the limb of the planet, which curves away into the blackness of space.
July 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars. 🔭🧪

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
noirlab.edu/public/image... @vrubinobs.bsky.social
A colorful picture capturing a cluster of stars
June 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Exactly 365 days ago I was capturing a Waxing Gibbous Moon. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waxing gibbous phase on a dark background.
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Today is May 10. #OTD in 1900, astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born in Wendover, England. From her work
we learned that stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Excerpts from #ReinventionofScience doi.org/10.1142/q0394 ⚛️🔭🧪 #Womeninstem womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/05/wome...
Women Reinventing Science - Part 3
Eds Note: We’re delighted to share with our readers excerpts from The Reinvention of Science by Bernard Jones, Vicent Martínez and Virginia...
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May 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A rock garden visited today by Perseverance, by the edge of the rim of Jezero Crater

▶️ zoomhub.net/gqjb6

#Mars May 17, 2025 - Sol 1507 🧪🔭
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Martian rocks in the sand. Martian rocks in the sand. Martian rocks in the sand. An ochre toned mosaic of 50 images capturing a Martian landscape
May 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🌟🪐🌙 = 🙂 In a few hours, at 6h UT on April 25th, the Moon, Venus & Saturn will all lie within a 4.1° diameter circle in the morning sky. For some locations, the celestial trio will align to form a "Smiley Face" above the eastern horizon. For example, in São Paulo, Brazil. 🔭
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A simulated view of the planets Venus and Saturn and the crescent Moon as they would appear on the morning of 25 April 2025 from São Paulo, Brazil. The two planets form the "eyes" and the crescent Moon forms the "smile" in the so-called "Smiley Face".
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Sh2-129 - Flying Bat and Squid Nebula

This was one of the most difficult targets I shot last year. The faint Oiii signal in the Squid Nebula is really more suited to a mono setup and required over 20 hours of integration to really pull the details out using an OSC.🔭
#astrophotography #spacepics
April 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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IC 1855, the Heart nebula. A close crop on my widefield image in false SHO Hubble palette.✨🔭
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #photography
April 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The Dark Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) is an interesting region in Cepheus. Dark nebulae contains dense interstellar gas and dust that blocks starlight. It is part of a molecular cloud that contains two bright blue nebulae (vdB 149 & 148).

Cam Exp: 6 hrs

#astronomy #astrophotography
The Dark Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) is interesting region in Cepheus. It is composed of dense interstellar dust that blocks starlight. It is part of a molecular cloud that contains two blue nebula (vdB 149 and 148). Skies were Bortle 3 No moon Equipment: Telescope: SVBony SV503 80ed Camera: ZWO ASI533 mc pro Mount: ZWO AM5 FIlters: SVBony UV/IR cut Settings: Exposure: 6 hours Camera Temp: -12C Processed in SIRIL and Photoshop
April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space
Mae Jemison wears a bright orange NASA space suit and holds her helmet for a photo
April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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RIP Robert McGinnis. One of the very best. A giant of illustration.
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Waxing crescent Moon, showing 47% phase, tonight.

Nikon D800 Skywatcher 200P, 1200mm f/5.9 1/60s ISO-100

#astronomy #astrophotography #moon #firstquarter #craters
April 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Astronomer Antonia Maury was born #OTD in 1866. She devised an entirely new stellar classification system that accounted for the strength and width of spectral lines, and conducted spectroscopic studies of binary stars. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Image: Vassar College senior year photograph
Astronomer Antonia Maury sitting for her senior portrait at Vassar College. She is wearing a frilly, high-collared top. Her hair is pulled back in a tight bun and she is looking to the right of the photographer. This is a very old photo, on a yellowed piece of paper. She is visible from the chest up.
March 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Lunar Eclipse Sequence - Celestron Regal M2 80mm spotting scope and Canon 5D Mk IV. 1/1600s at ISO 800 x6 plus 0.4s at ISO 3200 for totality.

#astronomy #astrophotography #eclipse #moon #celestron
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Our beautiful Moon Luna tonight! I am so happy how it came out! Absolutely beautiful! #astronomy #astrophotography #moon
March 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Moon, March 10th 2025 #astrophotography
March 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#Birds #Ornithology #SameHeron #WestYorkshire
Birds Ornithology Heron WestYorkshire
October 21, 2024 at 1:43 PM