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@lroxby.bsky.social
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Comic artist, writer, in the astrophysics vortex
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stevedearden.bsky.social
Fantastic to watch the live stream of ⁦‪Malika Booker‬⁩ dancing to receive her Doctorate ⁦‪at the Uni of Newcastle‬⁩ - we are so lucky to have her as a member of the Writing Squad’s Core Team!
July 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
lroxby.bsky.social
unnnnbelievably hyped for project hail mary, I devoured that book faster than any other in my life and the trailer looks like everything I'd want from it. we got puppets. we got Ryland grace being a bit pathetic. we got cool unexplainable world ending problems. 9 months????? unbearable
June 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
[Upcoming movie] Project Hail Mary (March 20, 2026): 🚨FIRST TRAILER 🚨

11.9 Light-years from home.
6th grade science teacher.
1 chance to save us all.

I've been waiting so long for this film. 🤗
Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
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June 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
noirlab.edu/public/image... @vrubinobs.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook 🧪🔭
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. Messier 41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen over the telescope in this telelens photo. Image released June 23, 2025.
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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lostcitymagic.bsky.social
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are deep space nine and pronounced ahstuhkee oodlahnuhduh sawnaylah
June 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
lroxby.bsky.social
My favourite part of having multiple devices with screens is that none of them display colour accurately so I can never tell if the thing that looks fine on my drawing tablet is being misrepresented by my phone, my laptop, or, in fact, the drawing tablet. And colour calibration hasn't even helped!
June 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
#makeaterriblecomicday2024
wow it’s that time of year again!
A (terrible) comic. PANEL 1: Emma looks at her watch. “What! It’s JUNE 24th already?” PANEL 2: “That means it’s MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY! how does it sneak up on me every year?” PANEL 3: “participation is SIMPLE. just make a comic! It doesn’t have to be funny or insightful or beautiful or interesting. make something for the joy of making it and if you feel it going wrong just trust yourself and keep going!!!” PANEL 4: “make a comic and don’t stop until it’s made!” PANEL 5: “remember that ole MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY saying, ‘if you want to make something GREAT, you need to start by making something TERRIBLE.’” PANEL 6: “or the other saying, ‘YOUR PARTICIPATION IS COMPULSORY!’ Stop thinking and get to work!”
June 24, 2024 at 4:01 AM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
In addition to these never-before-seen cosmic neighbors, Rubin detected another ~1800 previously-known asteroids, bringing the total detections to just under 4000 in just 10.5 hours!🔭🧪

In other words, over half of Rubin's first detections are new discoveries☄️
An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids.
June 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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millmint.net
Commonwealth National Rail conductor starting her shift
June 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
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A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
We're celebrating today with the release of the first images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social. (Image credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory). This one, of part of the Virgo cluster, is my favourite.
A dark starfield is covered in galaxies. Many of them are surrounded by a faint halo of light - two blue spirals in the bottom right stand out.
June 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
lroxby.bsky.social
finally finished my spreadsheet of all the thought bubble business cards we collected. call me the prompt spreadsheet maker 😎
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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benmce.bsky.social
Morning on a moon 🌘
Comic page depicting a person waking up inside a house carved into an asteroid, they get dressed as they are surrounded by stars. They leave their home followed by stars.
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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okaychloegreen.bsky.social
Really happy to be able to bring our micro-buraries back for 2025. Please share as much as possible, send to everyone you know and tell them to pass it on too!! Thank you!
thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · Jun 18
Thought Bubble & Travelling Man have teamed up to present micro-bursaries for nine UK-based early career comic creators.

Each recipient will receive £400 in cash, and a table at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025.

Find out more and submit your name here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
A pink and purple poster with the words "Comic Creator Micro-busary. For early careers comic creators of Colour, Non Binary/Trans or Disabled. Submissions open!"
June 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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silversprocket.net
Pre-order MODEL FIVE MURDER by Singaporean cartoonist @juangeedraws.bsky.social
ahead of the 6/25/25 release date and get a free 5”x7” limited edition Risograph print.
June 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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daniel-williams.co.uk
In the time it took for me to write this we achieved what I believe to be the first ever quintuple detector lock.
A screenshot of the detector status for the gravitational wave detector network. 5 detectors (GEO600, LIGO Livingston, LIGO Hanford, Virgo, and KAGRA) are marked as observing.
June 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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edashtonwriting.bsky.social
Hey there, friends: one of my favorite sons is now on sale for a possibly limited time. Get 'em while you can:

www.amazon.com/Mal-Goes-War...
Mal Goes to War: A Novel
Mal Goes to War: A Novel - Kindle edition by Ashton, Edward. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mal Goes to War: A Novel.
www.amazon.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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comicboom.bsky.social
Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast is back for a new season and I'm so pleased for the podcast to have a home on Bluesky. If you are into #comics #education #libraries #graphicnovels #podcasts Please listen, follow and share to get us kick started on this new platform💥www.comicboom.co.uk
The artwork is split into 4 comics style panels, filled with orange and pink colours. the word 'Comic' appears in a speech balloon and 'Boom' in an explosion. On the top right are logos indicating the podcast is on Spotify and Apple podcasts. On the bottom left the logo indicating the podcast is sponsored by ALCS, the authors licensing and collecting society.
May 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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chuwenjie.bsky.social
i want to share a memory with you. a place from a long time ago.
May 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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asuarezmascareno.com
For now on I propose that instead of categorizing #exoplanets by their properties, we do it by how cool they are. I propose 5 categories. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b. Simpler and 100% more judgemental. Win-win.
Categories of exoplanets, split by how cool they are. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b.
May 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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neohazard.bsky.social
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"

Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
lroxby.bsky.social
finally watched mickey17 (like 2 weeks after accidentally reading the whole book in a 12 hour period) and yeah yknow what definitely a banger of all time. keep putting mickey in situations im here for it (i sit visibly restraining myself from reading antimatter blues until my coursework is done)
March 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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emily.space
Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes
may.as Maya @may.as · Feb 25
I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
March 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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funfactscience.com
Every astronomer the first time they do reduce radio observations 🥴
#radioastronomy #astronomy
January 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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jodiexists.bsky.social
Scouser's guide to space (1/3)
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM