'People assume that my position is that we can't go to space or explore the Moon. Far from it. I just think the Moon is too important to approach with a narrow western patriarchal, capitalist eye'.
🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci #WomenInSTEM
🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci #WomenInSTEM
A feminist map of the Moon
What if we made a feminist map of the Moon? This is a question I posed on Bluesky in October 2024. To me, the question, methods and results ...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
'People assume that my position is that we can't go to space or explore the Moon. Far from it. I just think the Moon is too important to approach with a narrow western patriarchal, capitalist eye'.
🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci #WomenInSTEM
🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci #WomenInSTEM
Any planetary scientists want to help me out with Avi's latest?
avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-...
3I/ATLAS has apparently passed his new totally-made-up test for being a spacecraft. I don't think anyone is surprised it's still in one piece but we're way outside my (and his) expertise here.
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avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-...
3I/ATLAS has apparently passed his new totally-made-up test for being a spacecraft. I don't think anyone is surprised it's still in one piece but we're way outside my (and his) expertise here.
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3I/ATLAS is Still a Single Body with a Sunward Anti-Tail After Perihelion!
Breaking News: The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS did not break up near the Sun.
avi-loeb.medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
20 years ago today, our first mission to Venus was launched 🎉
#VenusExpress gave us a unique global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour and paved the way to #ESAEnvision.
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#planetsci
#VenusExpress gave us a unique global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour and paved the way to #ESAEnvision.
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#planetsci
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
20 years ago today, our first mission to Venus was launched 🎉
#VenusExpress gave us a unique global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour and paved the way to #ESAEnvision.
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#planetsci
#VenusExpress gave us a unique global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour and paved the way to #ESAEnvision.
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#planetsci
Blue Origin New Glenn 2 scrubbed due to weather.
Keep your eyes peeled!
It will carry ESCAPADE to Mars!!
The 5th NASA SIMPLEX low-cost science mission.
Let's go #ESCAPADE!!
🔭🧪 #planetsci
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
Keep your eyes peeled!
It will carry ESCAPADE to Mars!!
The 5th NASA SIMPLEX low-cost science mission.
Let's go #ESCAPADE!!
🔭🧪 #planetsci
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
NG-2 | Missions | Blue Origin
www.blueorigin.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Blue Origin New Glenn 2 scrubbed due to weather.
Keep your eyes peeled!
It will carry ESCAPADE to Mars!!
The 5th NASA SIMPLEX low-cost science mission.
Let's go #ESCAPADE!!
🔭🧪 #planetsci
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
Keep your eyes peeled!
It will carry ESCAPADE to Mars!!
The 5th NASA SIMPLEX low-cost science mission.
Let's go #ESCAPADE!!
🔭🧪 #planetsci
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
This year we are living an incredible display of #Taurids2025 because the Earth has crossed the 7:2 resonant swarm. Almost ten nights now exhibiting amazing fireballs. Here is one of the brightest events recorded over #Spain, but just check the list below🤩👇
#2PEncke #PeriodicCometsDecay
#PlanetSci
#2PEncke #PeriodicCometsDecay
#PlanetSci
GIGANTE #TÁURIDA SUR #SPMN101125B SOBRE #VALÈNCIA HOY a las 0h30m41s TUC (1h30 CET). Con una tremenda fulguración la registró Cèsar Guasch @MeteoSantMateu desde Sant Mateu, #Castelló/#Castellón. Nos deja maravillados con su estela. Al listado🤩🌠 @ice-csic.bsky.social
🔖 www.ice.csic.es/news/citizen...
🔖 www.ice.csic.es/news/citizen...
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This year we are living an incredible display of #Taurids2025 because the Earth has crossed the 7:2 resonant swarm. Almost ten nights now exhibiting amazing fireballs. Here is one of the brightest events recorded over #Spain, but just check the list below🤩👇
#2PEncke #PeriodicCometsDecay
#PlanetSci
#2PEncke #PeriodicCometsDecay
#PlanetSci
New Glenn will go up in a couple hours!!!! #planetsci 🧪
"NG-2 Update: We are scheduled to launch Thursday, November 13, with a launch window from 2:57 PM – 4:25 PM EST / 19:57 – 21:25 UTC. The live webcast starts at T-20 minutes."
"NG-2 Update: We are scheduled to launch Thursday, November 13, with a launch window from 2:57 PM – 4:25 PM EST / 19:57 – 21:25 UTC. The live webcast starts at T-20 minutes."
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New Glenn will go up in a couple hours!!!! #planetsci 🧪
"NG-2 Update: We are scheduled to launch Thursday, November 13, with a launch window from 2:57 PM – 4:25 PM EST / 19:57 – 21:25 UTC. The live webcast starts at T-20 minutes."
"NG-2 Update: We are scheduled to launch Thursday, November 13, with a launch window from 2:57 PM – 4:25 PM EST / 19:57 – 21:25 UTC. The live webcast starts at T-20 minutes."
Back in 2018, three adventurers, Bepi, Mio and MTM, started their extraordinary journey to Mercury, a planet of extremes and mysteries.
Rewatch episode one of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... and get ready for the next episode soon 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
Rewatch episode one of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... and get ready for the next episode soon 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Back in 2018, three adventurers, Bepi, Mio and MTM, started their extraordinary journey to Mercury, a planet of extremes and mysteries.
Rewatch episode one of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... and get ready for the next episode soon 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
Rewatch episode one of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... and get ready for the next episode soon 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
On Oct 20th I imaged comet C/2025 R2, nice fuzzy streak with only 2 mins of integration. I heard yesterday that there was a fragmentation event and wanted to try to check it for myself. It was definitely much fainter, integrated for 5 mins total. The COBS light curve helps a lot. #Planetsci
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
On Oct 20th I imaged comet C/2025 R2, nice fuzzy streak with only 2 mins of integration. I heard yesterday that there was a fragmentation event and wanted to try to check it for myself. It was definitely much fainter, integrated for 5 mins total. The COBS light curve helps a lot. #Planetsci
Isn't it extraordinary that the Yutu-2 rover is the only moving thing on the Moon's surface? Still going after seven years, on the far side. Would it make a psychological difference if we knew it was trundling along on the side facing us? #PlanetSci
Yutu-2 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Isn't it extraordinary that the Yutu-2 rover is the only moving thing on the Moon's surface? Still going after seven years, on the far side. Would it make a psychological difference if we knew it was trundling along on the side facing us? #PlanetSci
In mid-Dec. 2020, a Great Conjunction occured: Saturn & Jupiter appeared only 0.1 degrees apart.
Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...
🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci
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Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...
🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci
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November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In mid-Dec. 2020, a Great Conjunction occured: Saturn & Jupiter appeared only 0.1 degrees apart.
Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...
🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci
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Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.
➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...
🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci
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What is space archaeology? 🏺 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
Space Archaeology
link.springer.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What is space archaeology? 🏺 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
This was a really cool way to highlight the images of the moon taken by the Apollo astronauts.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And I learned a few unexpected facts:
"During their camera training, it became evident that Armstrong had a better eye than Buzz Aldrin."
#planetsci
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And I learned a few unexpected facts:
"During their camera training, it became evident that Armstrong had a better eye than Buzz Aldrin."
#planetsci
How NASA’s Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth
No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated.
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This was a really cool way to highlight the images of the moon taken by the Apollo astronauts.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And I learned a few unexpected facts:
"During their camera training, it became evident that Armstrong had a better eye than Buzz Aldrin."
#planetsci
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And I learned a few unexpected facts:
"During their camera training, it became evident that Armstrong had a better eye than Buzz Aldrin."
#planetsci
Eight lessons from island archaeology to optimise success in refining (1) targets for space colonisation and (2) the composition and behaviour of the colonist group.
🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci #SpaceArchaeology
🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci #SpaceArchaeology
How to Successfully Colonize Space: Lessons from Island Archaeology,
Humans will soon attempt to colonize astronomical bodies within, and perhaps eventually beyond, our solar system. This is intrinsically dangerous, and…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Eight lessons from island archaeology to optimise success in refining (1) targets for space colonisation and (2) the composition and behaviour of the colonist group.
🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci #SpaceArchaeology
🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci #SpaceArchaeology
Sometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy
nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
NASA group launches defense probe to protect Earth from Manhattan-size comet
A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting an alloy not seen in nature and exhibiting other strange behaviors.
nypost.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Sometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy
nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
I worry about the environmental impacts of lunar activity on the Moon itself, but there are also impacts on the Earth.
The best time to deal with this is right now, before any damage is locked int
(Too bad this article is behind a paywall.)
#planetsci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The best time to deal with this is right now, before any damage is locked int
(Too bad this article is behind a paywall.)
#planetsci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The environmental burden of building on the Moon - Nature Astronomy
Lunar construction is advancing rapidly, yet its environmental implications on Earth remain largely overlooked. Emissions, material scarcity, and supply chain impacts associated with lunar development...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I worry about the environmental impacts of lunar activity on the Moon itself, but there are also impacts on the Earth.
The best time to deal with this is right now, before any damage is locked int
(Too bad this article is behind a paywall.)
#planetsci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The best time to deal with this is right now, before any damage is locked int
(Too bad this article is behind a paywall.)
#planetsci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In @science.org Expert Voices, @e-astronomer.bsky.social discusses the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently passing through the Solar System. Where did it come from, and why is it exciting?
Spoiler: it’s not aliens.
☄️ #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spoiler: it’s not aliens.
☄️ #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interstellar visitors: Smoking and nonsmoking
As a third interstellar visitor, the comet 3I/ATLAS, has entered the Solar System, there is a huge community effort underway to study it.
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In @science.org Expert Voices, @e-astronomer.bsky.social discusses the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently passing through the Solar System. Where did it come from, and why is it exciting?
Spoiler: it’s not aliens.
☄️ #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spoiler: it’s not aliens.
☄️ #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Chinese found meteoritic dust on the far side of the moon and its composition argues that more water-rich asteroids may have hit the Earth early on than previously expected. Cool!
I'm not an expert, but it seems to warrant more lunar far side sampling.
#planetsci 🧪
phys.org/news/2025-10...
I'm not an expert, but it seems to warrant more lunar far side sampling.
#planetsci 🧪
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Dust from far side of the moon could reveal more about origin of water in our solar system
Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.
phys.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Chinese found meteoritic dust on the far side of the moon and its composition argues that more water-rich asteroids may have hit the Earth early on than previously expected. Cool!
I'm not an expert, but it seems to warrant more lunar far side sampling.
#planetsci 🧪
phys.org/news/2025-10...
I'm not an expert, but it seems to warrant more lunar far side sampling.
#planetsci 🧪
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Quelles sont les découvertes faites ces derniers mois par les rovers martiens Curiosity et Perseverance ?
Réponse dans la conférence que j'ai donné en visio au club d'astronomie d'Eybens (38) en mai dernier👇
youtu.be/ClFq-ygfs94
🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
Réponse dans la conférence que j'ai donné en visio au club d'astronomie d'Eybens (38) en mai dernier👇
youtu.be/ClFq-ygfs94
🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
Les dernières découvertes des rovers Curiosity et Perseverance
YouTube video by Thomas Appéré
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Quelles sont les découvertes faites ces derniers mois par les rovers martiens Curiosity et Perseverance ?
Réponse dans la conférence que j'ai donné en visio au club d'astronomie d'Eybens (38) en mai dernier👇
youtu.be/ClFq-ygfs94
🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
Réponse dans la conférence que j'ai donné en visio au club d'astronomie d'Eybens (38) en mai dernier👇
youtu.be/ClFq-ygfs94
🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
Active landslides on the Moon: academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-... -> Research discover new landslides formed since 2009 on the Moon, recognizing endogenic moonquakes rather than new impacts are the primary trigger: www.eurekalert.org/news-release... -> www.astronomy.com/science/moon...
Active landslides on the Moon
Change detection conducted in the youngest, topographically steepest, and theoretically most unstable regions on the lunar surface revealed a large number
academic.oup.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Technology developed at MSSL heading for space to search for life on Mars. #astrobiology #planetsci 🔭
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Surrey-made technology heading for space to search for life on Mars
Founded in 1966, the laboratory sits in a Victorian mansion in 30 acres in the Surrey Hills.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Technology developed at MSSL heading for space to search for life on Mars. #astrobiology #planetsci 🔭
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Martian Memories
The Junda striations captured by Curiosity
Feb. 19, 2014 (Sol 548); Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
The Junda striations captured by Curiosity
Feb. 19, 2014 (Sol 548); Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Martian Memories
The Junda striations captured by Curiosity
Feb. 19, 2014 (Sol 548); Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
The Junda striations captured by Curiosity
Feb. 19, 2014 (Sol 548); Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪 #PlanetSci #Mars
I explain you the best way to find naked-eye #comet #C3025A6 #Lemmon, now a +4 magnitude circumpolar object for northern latitudes. An outreach article in #Conversation_E platform that can be easily and automatically translated to your favourite language. Enjoy it!
#PlanetSci
#PlanetSci
CÓMO VER EL COMETA LEMMON, YA DISTINGUIBLE A SIMPLE VISTA es el nuevo artículo divulgativo del astrofísico @joseptrigo.bsky.social @ice-csic.bsky.social @csic.es @ieec.cat. Explica como cualquiera puede intentar ver desde este fin de semana el cometa #Lemmon🤩☄️👌
➡️ theconversation.com/como-ver-el-...
➡️ theconversation.com/como-ver-el-...
October 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I explain you the best way to find naked-eye #comet #C3025A6 #Lemmon, now a +4 magnitude circumpolar object for northern latitudes. An outreach article in #Conversation_E platform that can be easily and automatically translated to your favourite language. Enjoy it!
#PlanetSci
#PlanetSci
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Admire this fascinating view of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, obtained thanks to a refined montage of images taken by New Horizons during its flyby in early 2007.
➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1...
Image credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/GSFC
🔭 🧪 #science #planetsci
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Admire this fascinating view of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, obtained thanks to a refined montage of images taken by New Horizons during its flyby in early 2007.
➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1...
Image credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/GSFC
🔭 🧪 #science #planetsci
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October 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Admire this fascinating view of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, obtained thanks to a refined montage of images taken by New Horizons during its flyby in early 2007.
➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1...
Image credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/GSFC
🔭 🧪 #science #planetsci
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Admire this fascinating view of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, obtained thanks to a refined montage of images taken by New Horizons during its flyby in early 2007.
➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1...
Image credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/GSFC
🔭 🧪 #science #planetsci
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☄️ #planetsci
An analysis of martian dust devils shows the planet’s near-surface horizontal winds are stronger than previously thought.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/48ux7Gc
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/48ux7Gc
October 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
☄️ #planetsci
Let's go Mars LightShip!
🧪🔭 #planetsci
🧪🔭 #planetsci
Oxford’s BEBOP thermal camera has been selected for ESA's 2032 Mars mission! It'll provide critical weather data to boost the safety of future robotic and human explorers. Read the full article: Link in bio or visit https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-instrument-lined-esa-mars-mission
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Let's go Mars LightShip!
🧪🔭 #planetsci
🧪🔭 #planetsci