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Inspiring space & climate themed education for primary children, teachers and families.
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mariecgould.bsky.social
Jane Goodall being a true Mage archetype and telling people to launch billionaires into space as her final words.

You don’t get much more mythic then that Dr. Goodall

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From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: Dr Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025 with the understanding that it would only be released after her death.
Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community
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October 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy.
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Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution
A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
#India #Agrivoltaics.
"Best decision I made. My income has tripled, and I sleep peacefully without the stress of climate or crop failure."
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Will farming under solar panels take off?
Farming under solar panels is still in the early stages in India, but will it catch on?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
All-electric town in Kent supplies power back to the grid. Otterpool Park’s 8.500 homes will run on solar and batteries with enough renewable energy to help keep the lights on elsewhere. Town will have about 34MW of renewable capacity.
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New all-electric town in Kent strikes deal to supply power back to the grid
Otterpool Park’s 8,500 homes will run on solar power and batteries – with enough renewable energy to help keep lights on elsewhere
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology
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The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
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July 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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weathermatrix.bsky.social
Earthquakes are terrifying, but the data is beautiful.
July 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
This is a type of rock called a banded iron formation.

It's made of alternating layers of iron oxides (magnetite and haematite) and silica (chert and chalcedony).

It's 3.2 billion years old.

And it formed before life had oxygenated Earth's seas and atmosphere. It's almost from another planet.
July 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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spacejammie.bsky.social
We hung Scorpius, I am in love ⭐️

I’ll take some more pics and video later once it’s fully dark. #SciArt #FrameOfReference
View of the structure with the Scorpius constellation lit up. You can see other bulbs which are not lit, belonging to the first constellation we hung up. The side view of Scorpius. I imagine the constellation from this angle looks like a long necked bird or a leaping ballerina.
July 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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greenisamission.bsky.social
Tropical forests cool the earth by 1° degrees.
Trees do not only bind CO2. The strength of the cooling effect through biophysical effects of forests has been underestimated so far.💚🌱🌿☘️🌲🌳🍀💚
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Contrary to common sentiment, the data also shows that businesses benefit from cycling infrastructure. If well-designed, a proper cycling network drives far more people to businesses than cars do.”

Bike-lanes mean business.

Via @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social
Opinion: No reason why Vancouver can’t become a cycling city | Urbanized
There is no good reason why Vancouver cannot become a proper cycling city. We need to stop our half-hearted approach.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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stephenleahy.bsky.social
Increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30% would have prevented 1.16 million of those heat-related deaths from 2000 to 2019

Botanical gardens, wetlands, rain gardens, green walls, tree-lined streets cool city air by 4 to 5 degrees C.

#heatwave

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Cooler Cities Save Lives
Cities and towns need to go green to survive a hotter world
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July 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Oh wow. If this pans out it'll be only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen passing through the solar system. May take a few days to confirm.

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h/t @asrivkin.bsky.social
astrafoxen.bsky.social astrafoxen @astrafoxen.bsky.social · Jul 2
Interstellar object candidate #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey, Chile (obs code X09). No obvious tail, will have to do a stack to see if there's anything...

Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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siprocks.bsky.social
Heart wrenching, short sighted, irresponsible, and designed to sabotage the nation and punish scientists.

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White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act
“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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eurospacehistory.bsky.social
#OTD 24 June 1982, @cnes.fr astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien was launched on Soyuz T6 to the Russian space station Salyut 7. This flight made him the first Western non-American, as well as the first French citizen and Western European, in space.
CNES astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien became the first western European in space when he was launched to the Russian space station Salyut 7. The Soyuz T6 'Starman' patch. The artwork for the mission patch, 'L'Homme etoile' (Starman), was designed by Michel Granger of Zigzag Enterprises.
June 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
I really like this video showing some of the 2104 asteroids found in 10 hours of data - really gives a sense of how Rubin's view of the changing sky will be different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmI...
A Swarm of New Asteroids
YouTube video by NOIRLabAstro
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June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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alisonstenning.bsky.social
First read of the Play Commission report “Everything To Play For” - it’s an incredibly comprehensive document recognising the value of play in all the spaces of children’s lives: homes, doorsteps, neighbourhoods, schools, hospitals, parks & playgrounds.
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Inquiry Calls For a New National Play Strategy for England to Reclaim Childhood and Tackle the Scourge of Addictive Doom-Scrolling — Play Commission
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June 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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elizabethtasker.bsky.social
New friend joined us for lunch at the ISAS canteen! This is the “Comet Interceptor” mission in Lego! The mission has a mothership developed by ESA and two small probes, one by ESA and one by JAXA. The plan is to take images from a bunch of angles of a long period comet (from the Oort Cloud, baby!).
Photograph showing a canteen table with the corners of three light green dinner trays showing. In the centre is a Lego model of a spacecraft with two small probes sitting beside it.
June 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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science.esa.int
#ESAGaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way.

The mission has shown us that its central bar is more inclined with respect to the Sun than previously thought.

Discover the best map we currently have of #OurGalaxy, seen edge-on, thanks to Gaia 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line.
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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nwhyte.bsky.social
Exceptional deconstruction of NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon. A disaster waiting to happen, if it ever actually gets under way.

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The Lunacy of Artemis
For the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon.
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May 20, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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science.esa.int
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a near-infrared view of the Sombrero Galaxy, thanks to the #NIRCam instrument on board. At the centre of the iconic galaxy are thousands of globular clusters ✨ glowing with near-infrared light.

Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/sombr...

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Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, brownish yellowish disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). Mottled dark brown patches rim the edge of the disk and are particularly prominent where they cross directly in front of the galaxy. The galaxy’s center glows white and extends above and below the disk. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. At the bottom right, there is a particularly bright foreground star with Webb’s signature diffraction spikes.
June 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
I've seen a lot of video of the recent Etna eruption that panicked visitors. Here's a somewhat different perspective on it: from spaaaaaaace!

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Mount Etna erupts
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on 2 June 2025 when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe's largest active volcano.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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london.gov.uk
As the world’s first National Park City, it’s great to see a new green haven taking shape in the heart of London.

The transformation of Grosvenor Square will blend beauty and biodiversity, helping wildlife thrive and giving Londoners space to reconnect with nature.
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Grosvenor Square to close for a year to allow for a major makeover
The large Grosvenor Square in central London is to close from next week to allow for a major makeover of the square, replacing the plain lawn with a richer and more diverse layout.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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eso.org
The Moon is peering over the shoulder of one of the antennas of ALMA, spread out atop the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile 📡 🌕

ALMA's antennas observe the cool Universe using wavelengths between infrared radiation and radio waves.

Read more: www.eso.org/public/image...

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📷 Y. Villalon/ESO
The enormous white dish of an antenna is visible in the centre of the image. It’s held up by a large stand, and four beams come from the top, bottom and sides of the dish to meet in the middle of the huge antenna. The sky behind it is completely free of clouds. Just to the right of the dish, the Moon is faintly visible.
June 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Nature presents us with 80 "octaves" of light, of which humans can see exactly 1.
Bringing the other 79 octaves into view has taken two centuries of effort, but it has transformed our ability to sense our place in the cosmic order. My new Aeon essay: 🧪🔭
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This is a mosaic of the images covering the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), part of its All-Sky Data Release. The sky can be thought of as a sphere that surrounds us in three dimensions. To make a map of the sky, astronomers project it into two dimensions. Many different methods can be used to project a spherical surface into a 2-D map. The projection used in this image of the sky, called Aitoff, takes the 3-D sky sphere and slices open one hemisphere, and then flattens the whole thing out into an oval shape. In the mosaic, the Milky Way Galaxy runs horizontally across this map. The Milky Way is shaped like a disk and our solar system is located in that disk about two-thirds of the way out from the center. So we see the Milky Way as a band running through the sky. As we look toward the center of the galaxy, we are looking through more of the disk than when we are looking at large angles away from the center, and you can see a noticeable increase in stars (colored blue-green) toward the center of the image.
June 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM