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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 55m

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 4h

Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time
eos.org/research-spo... - EOS

Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time - Eos

Until recently, this type of zigzag shape—formed by energetic rearrangement of magnetic field lines—had been seen only near the Sun.

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 20h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h

Trump’s Gaza deal may bring a welcome pause to years of bloodshed — but let’s be clear: one ceasefire doesn’t make him a peacemaker.
While he chases a Nobel Prize abroad, he’s been stoking violence at home.
Peace isn’t a brand. It’s a character test.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The "Peacemaker" Who Thrives on Chaos

Trump’s Gaza deal may earn him applause — but his record of stoking violence at home shows he’s no champion of peace.

open.substack.com

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 17h

Wurde der Post vom US-Präsidenten nur freigegeben oder persönlich verfasst?
apnews.com/article/trum...
AP photos show Rubio’s urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 20h

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings

Saturn's rings have been a mystery for a long time.

We now know they're under 200 million years old, and an idea from 2022 just might explain their origin, and a whole lot more.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#saturn #space #astro

400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn's rings

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn's rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

bigthink.com

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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 18h

Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -> Optical gyroscope detects Earth’s rotation with the highest precision yet: physicsworld.com/a/optical-gy...

Gyroscope measurements of the precession and nutation of Earth’s axis

Inertial rotation sensing with a ring laser gyroscope provides the precession and nutation motion of Earth with high accuracy.

www.science.org

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T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 17h

Our Great, Noble and Puissant President. So what if he’s too confused even to cheat at golf anymore—he promised to Make America White Again, didn’t he?

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 17h

AP photos show Rubio’s urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal
apnews.com/article/trum... - AP News

Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 23h

So the posts by realDonaldTrump are by an anonymous ghostwriter?
x.com/evanvucci/st...

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! It looks like Avi Loeb silently edited his Medium post about the Perseverance Navcam images, after being called out for his wrong interpretation.
While he previously claimed the image was of 3I/Atlas, he now says the claim came from "social media". 🔭

A paragraph about the Navcam image that claimed the image is of 3I/Atlas was edited to say "This was claimed on social media to be an image" of the comet

A paragraph that previously only mentioned the object creating the source could be much closer to the camera than Atlas was extended with a speculation that it could be one of the Martian moons.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days
wire.auburn.edu/content/cosa... - Auburn University

Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days
wire.auburn.edu/content/cosa... - Auburn University

COSAM researchers race from discovery to paper in just days

Auburn physicists Shawn Oset and Zexi Xing helped lead an international effort to study 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object. In just days, their team moved from first observation to a p...

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS phys.org/news/2025-10... - by Auburn University

Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was ...

phys.org

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

Der StZ-Artikel ist hinter Paywall - Mehr:
www.parkschuetzer.de/statements/2...

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 1d

🌡️ The September 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the third-warmest September globally, with an average surface air temperature of 16.11°C — 1.47°C above estimated pre-industrial levels. Global average sea surface temperature reached 20.72°C, the 3rd-highest on record for September.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

Friedenskonferenz
Blick hinter die Kulissen von Häberle und Pfleiderer
www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/FJHJ3MX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UApJ...

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · 1d

We need to cut lifestyle carbon footprint by 85% within the next decade to stay within the the 1.5°C target by 2035 . No country is there yet. So how do we do it?

Read "A Climate for Sufficiency," the new 1.5 Degree Lifestyles report from the Hot or Cool Institute: vist.ly/49ppw

Colourful graphic with text: The Lifestyle Carbon Footprint. Bar chart shows 7.1 tonnes per person (where we are) vs 1.1 tonnes (where we should be). No country is yet on track to meet the 1.5c target.

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Observatoire de Paris - PSL @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social · 2d

Dans la nuit du 13 au 14 octobre 2025, Ganymède — le plus grand satellite de Jupiter — occultera une étoile de magnitude 7. Un phénomène rare et passionnant !
👇 observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/une-occultat...
@science.esa.int @academiesciences.bsky.social @astropierre.com

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 1d

Verspätete Flüge, geschlossene Museen, dreckige Parktoiletten: Nach gut einer Woche spüren viele Amerikaner die ersten Folgen des Shutdowns. Derweil will die Trump-Regierung 750.000 Beamten die Gehälter für die Zeit des Zwangsurlaubs streichen und viele ganz entlassen. www.rnd.de/politik/shut...

Wo US-Bürger den Shutdown spüren

Verspätete Flüge, geschlossene Museen, dreckige Parktoiletten: Nach gut einer Woche spüren viele Amerikaner die ersten Folgen des Shutdowns. Derweil will die Trump-Regierung rund 750.000 Beamten die G...

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Dan Farber @dfarber1950.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's "compact" with universities is a dire threat to free speech and academic freedom. It will also pressure universities to shy away from teaching and research relating to climate change and renewable energy. Here's a detailed explainer.
legal-planet.org/2025/10/08/a...

The Compact for Censorship - Legal Planet

The Administration released a “Compact” with universities late last week that threatens free speech - including on climate change.

legal-planet.org

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 2d

OB-Wahlkämpfer Wolfgang Schuster zu Stuttgart21 am 14.9.1996
"Wir brauchen dringend Bauinvestitionen...
Wir Stuttgarter sind auf alle Fälle die Gewinner"
youtu.be/zEgbZthjhbQ

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Werner Sauerborn @wernerborn.bsky.social · 2d

VfB-Spiel, letzter Tag Wasen, Rückreiseverkehr nach Brückentagen: Chaos im Stuttgarter Bahnhof, blockierte Bahnsteige ..Menetekel für Stuttgart 21 mit halb so viel, teils zugestellten Bahn steigen und ohne sichere Fluchtwege! PM des Aktionsbündnisses: kopfbahnhof-21.de/pressemittei...

Menetekel Stuttgart21 (Pressemitteilung) - Kopfbahnhof 21

(hier diese Pressemitteilung als pdf-Datei) Menschenstaus auf Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof am Wochenende Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, 5.10., 15 h, Bahnsteig zwischen Gleis 7 und 8 Als unheilvollen Ausblick auf...

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 2d

'Satellite Swarm Zoom'

A star trail image made with a time-lapse image sequence photographed by Jonny Kim from ISS. Each image was restored, remastered then retimed using frame interpolation for a short film. These new frames allowed for a simulated long exposure photograph.

Stars and satellites glowing in long exposure streaks of light as ISS orbits Earth.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 2d

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon has been wowing early morning astrophotographers, and it’s about to go on to its encore dusk apparition in mid-October, joining Comet R2 SWAN in the evening sky. Here’s our latest post for @universetoday.com on what to expect: www.universetoday.com/articles/com...

Comet A6 Lemmon's Encore October Evening Show

October 2025 may provide a memorable sky scene, as Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon puts on an encore appearance at dusk. The comet joins Comet R2 SWAN, which slides 0.26 Astronomical Units (AU) past Earth on O...

www.universetoday.com

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