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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 14 - Spacecraft

Yeah. There’s more. Sixth one up #NewHorizons at #Pluto | #spaceArt #sciArt

Poster of New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto with Charon behind it.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 14: Spacecraft

Featuring, Orion. More specifically the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, which the crew has named, Integrity.

#sciart #spaceart #Artemis #space

Illustration of the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, Integrity, in blue at the center of a patch-style illustration. Surrounding Orion is a circle with the word “Integrity” filling the space both above and below the spacecraft within the circle.

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of feelings that are more than words

(I guess, in a way, #paleoart)

A digital drawing, few simple drawings on a dark background. From top to the bottom, it starts with half of the Earth seen with its continents being placed like in the Middle Ordovician. Below it is a line, showing a process of life - from one little star, to dividing cells, to an embryo (it's all different creatures - fish, dog, tadpole, and a human).
Then, series of little drawings, showing different stages of life in different things. A plant emerging from the soil, a larvae, baby birds with their bright open mouths, pregnant horse with a star on its belly, very old human, and a dry plant in a pot with a leaf falling from it.
A fossil of a crinoid can be seen on the background, in some places nicely preserved, in some - scattered around, with segments seen as little stars.
The text on the picture says: "Let sunshine touch the memory of me again"

Following the previous part of it, from top to the bottom: mammal bones scattered around, a fossil of a trilobite on a rock, human remains, a piece of a fossilized plant, little drawing of an ammonite, a part of a thylacine seen in a little square, and in a square next to it - plate with fossilized fish, being shattered.
Below them is a line - an ornitomimus running forward, its fossilized remains, and on the right - same remains, but scattered around in little pieces.
The text goes through the drawing, saying "I will remain. I will remain. I will remain"
The first phrase is written normally, the second is written fast. The last one is poorly written by my left hand, without looking at the screen.

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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 2d

First plane of the 2025-2026 Austral summer season landed at #southpole today! Pic by SPT winterover Sim Bash. This flight is an KBA flight Bassler plane, which is just transiting through @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole, on its way to an Italian base. #Antarctica @UChicago

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 2d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 12: Eclipse

Three eclipses, one graphic. From top to bottom: Lunar Eclipse, Solar Eclipse, and Annular Eclipse

#sciart #spaceart #eclipse #illustration

Illustration featuring three diagrams of the different types of eclipses. Top: Lunar Eclipse, Middle: Solar Eclipse, Bottom: Annular Eclipse. Surrounded by a pattern of blue, green, and yellow rectangles.

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 3d

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

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Xenon (comms open!) @xenonb.bsky.social · 5d

New Mega Man OCs: Ibuki, Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2!
They are inspired by JAXA satellites
#MegaMan #oc

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 5d

🐟 This month we’re celebrating National Seafood Month with a recovery success story–Pacific bluefin tuna is making a comeback! Historically, this iconic species suffered from overfishing but has made a dramatic turnaround thanks to global cooperation among countries around the Pacific.

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 6d

More wasps from Sichuan! This time we describe a new rose gall found on a protected endemic rose from China. We named the gall wasp Diplolepis nezha and its ichneumonid parasitoid Orthopelma aobing, after characters from the Chinese legend/popular animated film.

mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ne Zha, with its head replaced by Diplolepis nezha

Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ao Bing, with its head replaced by Orthopelma aobing

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 7d

Columbia University's Kishalay De spoke about efforts toward conducting an all-sky survey of infrared variability, and gave an overview of upcoming infrared surveys, including the first look into the high redshift dusty universe with #NASARoman, today at STScI. 🔭 🧪

A man stands at a lectern, taking about astronomy to an audience in a auditorium. On the screen are images of the Hubble, Webb and Roman space telescopes.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 8d

Today's #spacetoberchallenge subject is "Space Agency". This patch commemorates a rare convergence of three space agency probes on Mars in the same month in 2021: NASA, China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency. I hope such convergences are more commonplace in the future.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 8d

Moonrise over Salt Lake City

The full moon rises in hazy skies over tall mountains. In the foreground, city lights carpet the valley floor. Photo: Bill Dunford

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 8d

Ping

xkcd.com/3150/

4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 9d

Today, Percy checks out the calibration target of her SHERLOC instrument, including a slice of a Martian meteorite and five spacesuit materials.

ℹ️ science.nasa.gov/resource/she...
ℹ️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nas...

#Mars 0ct. 6, 2025 - Sol 1645
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

The calibration target with, at left, five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they degrade. The first sample at top is polycarbonate for use in a helmet visor; inscribed with the address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it doubles as a geochache for the public. Other materials in the left row, from top: Vectran; Ortho-Fabric; Teflon; coated Teflon. Right row, from top: aluminum gallium nitride on sapphire; a quartz diffuser; a slice of Martian meteorite; a maze for testing laser intensity; a separate aluminum gallium nitride on sapphire with different properties.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 8d

One of the amazing things about this mission is that we took a piece of rock lost from Mars millions of years ago, found out of place on our Earth, and we BROUGHT IT HOME 🪨😊

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 9d

Today, Percy checks out the calibration target of her SHERLOC instrument, including a slice of a Martian meteorite and five spacesuit materials.

ℹ️ science.nasa.gov/resource/she...
ℹ️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nas...

#Mars 0ct. 6, 2025 - Sol 1645
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 8d

The world is full of fear. It also has this. I hope you can find a little where you are, in one way or another.

Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah this evening

Colorful autumn aspens and green pines in late afternoon light on a mountainside in Utah. I hope you have new, better dreams. Photo: Bill Dunford

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 11d

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 9d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 2: Planets. I just completed the new @planetarysociety.bsky.social membership shirt, but why not a shout out there to the outgoing membership design.

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 10d

Redwood canopy recovery, five years after a crown fire. 🌲🔥 #CZULightningComplex

Green dense canopy, very tall trees, blackened tree trunk of redwood trees.

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ciil 🦭 @ciil.bsky.social · 10d

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

comic of seal being self conscious abt sucking but evil ominous aggro positive seal screams at her that actually its cooler to try and flop than not try and not flop. seal screams AT LEAST I DID IT BROOOO

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 10d

thing on the floor

I am pointing at a large brown Narceus millipede on a paper towel

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 12d

Tomorrow is International Observe the Moon Night. Find an event near you and activities to do with kids — or just look up! moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-...

A gibbous moon rises over rocky mountain peaks at sunset. Photo: Bill Dunford

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 12d

Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social

Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) | Zootaxa

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 12d

Today some of NASA's Mars fleet is observing Comet 3I/Atlas. This is something their instruments aren't really designed to do, but fingers crossed some useful data comes down. (Won't be able to post anything until after the shutdown.) Simulated view in "Eyes on the Solar System" go.nasa.gov/4goaV2t

Screenshot of online app showing a simulated view of a comet nucleus, with the orbit of Mars in the background.

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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · 12d

Introducing one of the newest species of millipedes, the colorful Apheloria uwharrie, from the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina. More about this species and others in its genus is in our revision in Zootaxa — www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Four color morphs of the millipede species Apheloria uwharrie. One has three yellow spots, two have red stripes, and one has two yellow spots.

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