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Sisters Jordan and Kit (@kitirving) cohost this #podcast featuring #astronomy & ret-cons(tellations) of #mythology. Season 3: Into the Wild is afoot!

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The Air & Space Museum we visited really crushed the captions!

Back in Season 2, we did episodes on both:

🔭 the #astronomy in the #constellation Cassiopeia where this supernova remnant is located […]

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A wall display in an air and space museum shows a square image of a colorful supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A, with swirling clouds of red, blue, yellow, and green against a black, star-filled background. Beneath the image, white text reads, “Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her,” with a credit line: “Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.” The display is mounted on a metallic, perforated wall with blue accent lighting running horizontally behind it.
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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#goals for my next #spacegym (see: https://www.tumblr.com/starrytimepod/705821030963363840/a-space-themed-gym-part-1 for details) project!

#astrophotography #Space #museum #art #Science #astronomy
A large, open gallery space with a curved wall covered in tall vertical panels showing images of space. From left to right, the panels depict the Moon, Saturn with its rings, a vivid nebula, a glowing planetary nebula, a dense star field, and a spiral galaxy. The floor is smooth and dark, reflecting the colors of the images, and the ceiling above is high and black with visible lights.
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Super busy today, but just have to quickly share that this morning, I woke up at a friend's house, under a skylight, and was delighted to see stars above me for nearly the first time this whole BC trip (lots of clouds here)!

And literally 10 seconds later, I saw a fucking Starlink train! […]
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January 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Also seen at the air and space museum visit -- GIANT SPIDER CRAB! 🦀

This, of course, reminded me of our episode on the #zodiac #constellation Cancer where Jordan taught me about how evolution keeps producing #crabs (or more formally carcinisation) 🦀 🦀 🦀 […]

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A museum exhibit displaying a preserved giant spider crab mounted against a dark, futuristic-looking wall. The crab has a small central body and extremely long, thin reddish legs spread wide, emphasizing its large span. Below it is an informational sign labeled “Giant Spider Crab,” with a diagram comparing the crab’s leg span to a human height and text inviting visitors to compare their hand size to the crab’s claw. Colored lighting in blue and green illuminates the display, and the floor beneath appears green, resembling turf.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Spotted this spread of #StarTrek memorabilia while adventuring at an air and space museum w Jordan... I'm fully in love with this calendar with a STAR DATE!

#scifi #startrek #Space
Interior view of a cluttered room corner in a museum exhibit stylized to be from the 1960s. On a green wall, a light blue wall-mounted corded telephone hangs beneath a vintage Star Trek calendar with a picture of one of the starships. Below, a wooden desk holds small objects: two black phasers, scattered magazines or comic books, and three Star Trek figurines posed together wearing bright red, brown, and blue uniforms. A white ceramic mug printed with Star Trek imagery sits nearby. Behind the desk are two small chalkboards leaning against the wall. A decorative hanging lamp with a twisted cord descends from above, adding warm ambient light to the scene.
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Today for #mythologymonday -- that time Odysseus introduced himself as "Nobody" before blinding the cyclops Polyphemus thereby allowing his escape as Polyphemus claimed "Nobody" had blinded him!

#mythology #greekmythology #greekmyth #odysseus #odyssey

📷 […]

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Interior museum photograph of a large white marble sculpture (The blinding of Polyphemus, a reconstruction from the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga) group displayed on a low platform beneath skylights. At the center is a large cyclops reclining backward on a rocky base, his body twisted and tense, one arm hanging downward. Several other smaller figures surround him: to the left, two figures strain forward, stabbing with long poles; to the right, a smaller youthful figure stands with one arm extended toward the central cyclops.
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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In #JapaneseFolklore there is a #yokai known as tenome, which means 'eyes on hands.' It is believed that they may be the vengeful ghosts of blind men who were robbed and murdered. Tenome take the form of an old man whose face has no eyes but who has an eye on each of his palms.
#MythologyMonday
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A bald man with no eyes wearing a white robe stumbles through long grass with his hands outstretched. On the palm of each hand is an eyeball.
January 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Was reminded of this #headline today & just had to smdh at it again...

📷 / gift link :https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/female-spacewalk-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.gfXS.RqArU8BTfUSC&smid=url-share

#astronomy #Astrodon #womeninstem […]

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Screenshot of a NY Times headline. Black text on a white background. At the top center is the stylized "The New York Times" header. Below the headline "First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit."
January 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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I have not updated my Starlink numbers in a while, and great flying fuckballs, is it ever bad. We are now up to 9,422 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 14,046 total active satellites.

1,446 Starlinks have reentered and added their 500-1500kg of computers, batteries, solar panels, and […]
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January 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Full moon rising - two views from the mountains of southern New Mexico.

Which do you like better, and why?

#moon #newmexico #photography #astrophotography #telephoto #fullmoon #moonrise
A tightly cropped photo of the full moon rising. It has not yet risen above a tangle of bare branches. Distant conifers, slightly out of focus, bracket the moon and catch the last rays before the sun sets. The sky is blue and cloudless. A few minutes later the full moon has almost cleared the tallest distant conifers, which are slightly blurred. The moon's maria and rays from impact craters are more striking now that the sky and foreground are getting darker.
January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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The Silver Sliver or Outer Limits Galaxy, NGC 891, about 30 million light years away. This is what our galaxy would look like from edge on.
#astrophotography #seestar #ngc891
A pretty big edge on galaxy against a starfield
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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A bit more #astrophotography with the #dwarf3

8h on the Andromeda galaxy and 3h on the Triangulum galaxy
The Andromeda galaxy a grand spiral galaxy about 2.4 million light years away. It is hurtling towards as and will probably crash into our galaxy in a billion or so years. With 8h exposure from my very light polluted garden, so you now see dust lanes and detail of the spiral. The Triangulum galaxy, a face on spiral galaxy, but quite a faint one. In this image it's a misty patch amid the starts with hinds of a spiral structure. It needs more time and a bigger telescope really.
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Arp 281: The Whale Galaxy NGC 4631 with its dwarf companion NGC 4627 above it. About 30 million light years away.
#astrophotography #seestar #ngc4631
A large, slightly warped galaxy with the ball of a small galaxy above it
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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Doing some research for a future episode & came across this epic sculpture of Echidna!

Whose is she??

She Viper.

Flesh Eater.

Solo cave-dweller.

Partner of Typhon.

Mother of Monsters!

📷 […]

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Outdoor photograph of a weathered stone sculpture depicting Echidna, the mythological half-woman, half-serpent figure. The sculpture shows a nude female torso with wavy hair and a calm, forward-facing expression, transitioning into a long, coiled serpent body with carved scales and a curled tail. One arm is broken off. The sculpture lies low to the ground on a moss-covered surface and is surrounded by dense green trees and foliage. Echidna is a sculpture created in 1555 by Pirro Ligorio.
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Happy new year, Myth Lovers! Our first theme of 2026 is BLINDNESS & VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. Tell us a myth that features blind characters, visual impairment, or blinding, and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. If joining from #bluesky: follow @ap.brid […]

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Indian painting of a blindfolded Gandhari with maid-servants. Gandhari is the queen of the Kuru Kingdom. Her husband is Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Kuru, and in a symbolic gesture of solidarity, she voluntarily blindfolds herself for life.
January 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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a periodic reminder in loving memory of Tycho Brahe -- it's always worth it to leave the party to pee!

Relatedly -- mind your nose whenever dueling!

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Hand-coloredHistorical book illustration showing an author’s portrait from Stellarum octavi orbis inerrantium accurata restitutio (1598). A middle-aged man (Tycho Brahe) with a short beard and mustache faces forward, wearing a dark cap with a white feather, a high ruffled collar, and layered dark and pink garments with a gold chain. He is framed by an architectural arch decorated with colorful heraldic shields and coats of arms arranged around the border. Latin text appears in a panel beneath the portra.it
January 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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shine on!

This is AG Carinae aka HD 94910 a Luminous Blue Variable star that will one day become a become Wolf-Rayet star.

📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/potw1439a/

#hubble #esa #astrophotography #astronomy #Astrodon #Space #Science #nasa
Hubble Space Telescope image of an extremely bright central star (AG Carinae) in the center, appearing as a white glowing point with four long, cross-shaped diffraction spikes extending diagonally across the image. Surrounding the star is a circular, cloud-like nebula with layered colors—bluish and purplish wisps mixed with reddish-orange bands—forming a halo around the center. Small, faint white stars are scattered in the dark background of space.
January 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Welcome to 2026! This is N44F -- a 35-LY diameter emission nebula shaped by stellar winds!

📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/heic0413a/

#astrophotography #Astrodon #astronomy #hubble #esa #nasa #Space #Science #newyear
Image of N44F, a glowing nebula and bubble-shaped cloud of gas and dust. A bright yellow-orange cavity appears on the left, edged by thin, wispy filaments that stretch into darker reddish-brown clouds across the rest of the image. Numerous small white stars are scattered throughout the scene. The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
January 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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time for my favorite #NYE tradition -- Star Trek #TNG w BoP!

I hope y'all get to celebrate in the way you most enjoy 🎆 🥂 🥳

#nye #newyearseve #nye2025 #newyearseve2025 #startrek #startrektng #tng
A TV showing a scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, featuring Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Picard (Patrick Stewart) looking to the side in their red and black uniforms. In the far left corner is a teal chair with a white pillow.
January 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Bright moon, but I'm not letting it stop me enjoying one of the few clear nights this month.

I've got the dwarf3 out looking at Andromeda - M31.

#astrophotography
screenshot of my phone with various UI controls around the edge, and a photo of the Andromeda galaxy in the middle. It's just a bright fuzzy sausage at the moment, but will become more defined with more integrated exposures.
December 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Before we end this year - this is my #astrophotography wrapped for 2025 🤩

https://adfr.io/wrapped/2025/

#astrophoto #Astrodon #wrapped2025
Wrapped 2025
My year in astrophotography - 2025
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December 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Here we have the "Champagne Cluster," which is two galaxy clusters in the process of merging

Is it giving you #nye vibes???

📷 :https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/champagne/

#astrophotography #Space #champagne #galaxies #Astrodon #astronomy #chandra #xray #nasa
From source linked in toot: The cluster appears here as a large collection of brilliant white lights, each a distinct galaxy. A neon purple cloud stretches across the cluster's crowded core. Many of the hundred-plus galaxies in the cluster are in two clumps of galaxies towards the top and bottom of center. Some are encircled by a faint glowing haze, while a few foreground stars gleam with diffraction spikes. Some of the smaller galaxies are tinted blue, orange, or red, and some appear more oblong than round, suggesting spiral shapes viewed edge-on. The neon purple cloud sits at the heart of the image, surrounding the most densely-packed part of the cluster. This cloud, which spreads vertically across the cluster, is multimillion-degree gas observed by Chandra. The two clumps of observable galaxies, and the spread of superheated gas, reveal that the Champagne Cluster is in fact two clusters in the process of colliding. With the two clusters of sparkling light clinking together, and the auspicious discovery date, astronomers have dubbed the merged cosmic structure "The Champagne Cluster".
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Posted by Science and #astronomy Full Moon of 2026
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Sh2-155 – The Cave Nebula

An active star-forming region in Cepheus, about 2,400 light-years away. Dense foreground dust carves a “cave” into glowing hydrogen gas, shaped by intense UV radiation from young, massive stars. A faint but deeply structured object […]

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December 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The Rosette Nebula as seen from my driveway. From a few years ago.

#astrophotography
A approximately round space nebula that looks a bit like a donut, in reds, oranges, yellows and blues.
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM