JJ Dragon
@jjcosmicdragon.bsky.social
Dragon nerd into science and sci-fi. Specifically into astronomy, physics, space exploration, biology, paleontology, and robotics. As well as movies, fantasy, music, arts and animation.
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And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
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From my research trip to Lake Mungo. What was once a great lake dried out tens of thousands of years ago, and is now a great baking basin and dune formation strewn with fossils, and signs of human habitation.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
From my research trip to Lake Mungo. What was once a great lake dried out tens of thousands of years ago, and is now a great baking basin and dune formation strewn with fossils, and signs of human habitation.
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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
SWA Magazine: The Vipers look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Isaac Asimov: "It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future, and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell 'Whoa,' and..."
SWA Magazine: The Vipers look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Isaac Asimov: "It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future, and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell 'Whoa,' and..."
a man in a space helmet looks out of a cage
ALT: a man in a space helmet looks out of a cage
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
SWA Magazine: The Vipers look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Isaac Asimov: "It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future, and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell 'Whoa,' and..."
SWA Magazine: The Vipers look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Isaac Asimov: "It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future, and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell 'Whoa,' and..."
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Some say that Gusty sounds like Bart Simpson, but actually Bart Simpson sounds like Gusty. Nancy Cartwright voiced her first. 👀👀👀
Check out Ponies the Anthology 8! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAP...
Check out Ponies the Anthology 8! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAP...
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Some say that Gusty sounds like Bart Simpson, but actually Bart Simpson sounds like Gusty. Nancy Cartwright voiced her first. 👀👀👀
Check out Ponies the Anthology 8! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAP...
Check out Ponies the Anthology 8! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAP...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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For 8 great Star Wars movies (or, more exactly, narrative arcs), that seems more than fair to me. ☺️
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
For 8 great Star Wars movies (or, more exactly, narrative arcs), that seems more than fair to me. ☺️
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We should visit Valhalla.
It's a massive impact crater on Callisto, a 3800 km wide multi-ring structure (the largest in the Solar System) that's been preserved for at least 2 billion of years. It's also evidence that Callisto has had an underground ocean for at least as long.
It's a massive impact crater on Callisto, a 3800 km wide multi-ring structure (the largest in the Solar System) that's been preserved for at least 2 billion of years. It's also evidence that Callisto has had an underground ocean for at least as long.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We should visit Valhalla.
It's a massive impact crater on Callisto, a 3800 km wide multi-ring structure (the largest in the Solar System) that's been preserved for at least 2 billion of years. It's also evidence that Callisto has had an underground ocean for at least as long.
It's a massive impact crater on Callisto, a 3800 km wide multi-ring structure (the largest in the Solar System) that's been preserved for at least 2 billion of years. It's also evidence that Callisto has had an underground ocean for at least as long.
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Check out this excerpt from the latest video in our Frontier War series! Watch the full video and the Frontier War playlist on our YouTube channel!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#scifi #writing #audiodrama #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #audiobook #scifibooks
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#scifi #writing #audiodrama #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #audiobook #scifibooks
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Check out this excerpt from the latest video in our Frontier War series! Watch the full video and the Frontier War playlist on our YouTube channel!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#scifi #writing #audiodrama #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #audiobook #scifibooks
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#scifi #writing #audiodrama #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #audiobook #scifibooks
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Our ears are ringing with stellar news: #NASARoman will be well suited to study red giant stars in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge. Based on simulated data Roman will collect, this sonification converts the waves moving inside these stars into sound: https://bit.ly/3KYZIK8 🔭 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Our ears are ringing with stellar news: #NASARoman will be well suited to study red giant stars in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge. Based on simulated data Roman will collect, this sonification converts the waves moving inside these stars into sound: https://bit.ly/3KYZIK8 🔭 🧪
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#PPOD: A vast cavity on the Red Planet looks back at ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) with an icy stare. The crater is located in Utopia Planitia, the largest known impact basin in the Solar System, with a diameter of roughly 3,300 km, or twice the size of Earth’s Sahara Desert from north to south. 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#PPOD: A vast cavity on the Red Planet looks back at ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) with an icy stare. The crater is located in Utopia Planitia, the largest known impact basin in the Solar System, with a diameter of roughly 3,300 km, or twice the size of Earth’s Sahara Desert from north to south. 🧪
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Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
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#PPOD: Saturn is seen here through the lens of NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a ring plane crossing in February 2005. The picture reveals the razor-thin ring plane in blue, atmospheric bands in gold, and moons Dione and Enceladus as slight "bumps" in the rings. 🧪 🔭
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#PPOD: Saturn is seen here through the lens of NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a ring plane crossing in February 2005. The picture reveals the razor-thin ring plane in blue, atmospheric bands in gold, and moons Dione and Enceladus as slight "bumps" in the rings. 🧪 🔭
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Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. 🔭 🧪
NASA Shares Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Images - NASA+
Live event to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency's missions.
plus.nasa.gov
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. 🔭 🧪
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⛰️Glacier melt sustained water discharge from South American mountain basins during a recent severe drought, but glacier summer runoff could drop by 48% in future megadroughts, worsening water scarcity.
@wslresearch.bsky.social
@istaresearch.bsky.social
👉Read more:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
@istaresearch.bsky.social
👉Read more:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
⛰️Glacier melt sustained water discharge from South American mountain basins during a recent severe drought, but glacier summer runoff could drop by 48% in future megadroughts, worsening water scarcity.
@wslresearch.bsky.social
@istaresearch.bsky.social
👉Read more:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
@istaresearch.bsky.social
👉Read more:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Thanks to months of monitoring by the Unistellar and AFA communities during 2023, scientists at the SETI Institute and AFA have published a new scientific paper, led by Dr. Ariel Graykowski, that reveals Comet Hartley 2 changing in a dramatic way. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/citizen...
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/citizen...
Citizen Scientists Help Discover that Comet Hartley 2 is Fading
www.seti.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Thanks to months of monitoring by the Unistellar and AFA communities during 2023, scientists at the SETI Institute and AFA have published a new scientific paper, led by Dr. Ariel Graykowski, that reveals Comet Hartley 2 changing in a dramatic way. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/citizen...
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/citizen...
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This #NASAWebb image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537—the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera, Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. 🔭 🧪
Cosmic Creepy-Crawly NGC 6537 -- James Webb Space Telescope #shorts
This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537--the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backd...
youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This #NASAWebb image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537—the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera, Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. 🔭 🧪
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📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4535, nicknamed the ‘Lost Galaxy’ because it’s extremely faint when viewed through a small telescope. 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4535, nicknamed the ‘Lost Galaxy’ because it’s extremely faint when viewed through a small telescope. 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
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First trailer for "We Are Aliens" japanese/french animated feature film by Kohei Kadowaki (2026).
A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched in Japan to support production.
motion-gallery.net/projects/NOT...
A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched in Japan to support production.
motion-gallery.net/projects/NOT...
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
First trailer for "We Are Aliens" japanese/french animated feature film by Kohei Kadowaki (2026).
A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched in Japan to support production.
motion-gallery.net/projects/NOT...
A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched in Japan to support production.
motion-gallery.net/projects/NOT...
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Take a peek at the brilliant star WR 22 & its colourful surroundings 🌟 👀
WR 22 is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the Carina Nebula from which it formed.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1031/ 🔭
WR 22 is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the Carina Nebula from which it formed.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1031/ 🔭
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Take a peek at the brilliant star WR 22 & its colourful surroundings 🌟 👀
WR 22 is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the Carina Nebula from which it formed.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1031/ 🔭
WR 22 is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the Carina Nebula from which it formed.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1031/ 🔭
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Hypnotising view of Paranal!
Yet the sky is not revolving around the tip of an Auxiliary Telescope. The illusion is caused by the alignment with the southern celestial pole, around which stars seem to trail due to Earth's rotation.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2546a
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📷 O. Castillo/ESO
Yet the sky is not revolving around the tip of an Auxiliary Telescope. The illusion is caused by the alignment with the southern celestial pole, around which stars seem to trail due to Earth's rotation.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2546a
🔭 🧪
📷 O. Castillo/ESO
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Hypnotising view of Paranal!
Yet the sky is not revolving around the tip of an Auxiliary Telescope. The illusion is caused by the alignment with the southern celestial pole, around which stars seem to trail due to Earth's rotation.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2546a
🔭 🧪
📷 O. Castillo/ESO
Yet the sky is not revolving around the tip of an Auxiliary Telescope. The illusion is caused by the alignment with the southern celestial pole, around which stars seem to trail due to Earth's rotation.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2546a
🔭 🧪
📷 O. Castillo/ESO
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Popeye.mp4 (Reupload)
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Popeye.mp4 (Reupload)
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Hey new folks, did you know I voice Scratch in Monkey Wrench too? #monkeywrench #voiceacting
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Hey new folks, did you know I voice Scratch in Monkey Wrench too? #monkeywrench #voiceacting
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These soap films are area-minimizing surfaces: They take up the smallest area possible. Area-minimizing surfaces show up in the study of cells and black holes, and even in the design of biomolecules.
www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-p...
www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-p...
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
These soap films are area-minimizing surfaces: They take up the smallest area possible. Area-minimizing surfaces show up in the study of cells and black holes, and even in the design of biomolecules.
www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-p...
www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-p...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#OTD: 16 November 2022, @esa.int and NASA headed back to the #Moon together, with the launch of #Artemis I and NASA’s Orion spacecraft powered by the first European Service Module, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #ForwardToTheMoon
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #ForwardToTheMoon
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#OTD: 16 November 2022, @esa.int and NASA headed back to the #Moon together, with the launch of #Artemis I and NASA’s Orion spacecraft powered by the first European Service Module, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #ForwardToTheMoon
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #ForwardToTheMoon