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Diego Ortega
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🛰️🪐Space engineer
📷🦕🐦Amateur photographer, paleoartist and naturalist
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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · Feb 1
¡Hola!😄 I am Diego Ortega, a space engineer and amateur photographer, naturalist and paleoartist. Here are my threads, grouped by topic⬇️

¡Hola!😄 Soy Diego Ortega, ingeniero espacial y fotógrafo, naturalista y paleoartista aficionado. Aquí están mis hilos, agrupados por temática⬇️
Me in the Norwegian highlands, summer 2023 Photo of a male Tenerife lizard (Gallotia galloti), one of my favourite animals Drawing of a pair of Kunpengopterus, a Jurassic flying reptile. One of my favourite artworks to date Photo of ESTEC, an European Space Agency centre in the Netherlands where I worked
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🦌The town of Nara, located south of Kyoto, was once the capital of Japan. Nowadays, the city is famous for its huge numbers of sika deer, which are locally revered and roam freely in the city park and its surroundings
#Japan #Nara #deer #photography
Female sika deer (Cervus nippon) in the streets of Nara park Young male deer standing next to a stone lantern Male sika deer laying on the grass Female sika deer
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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NOIRLab image of the week

A Green Flash Flight

As the photographer Petr Horálek photoshoots the sunset Green Flash from Cerro Pachón, he serendipitously captures a soaring airplane against the fading sunlight. 🔭🧪

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As the evening Sun fades from the viewpoint on Cerro Pachón, a green light peeks through. This phenomenon is known as a green flash, or green rim. The green is a result of atmospheric refraction as the Earth’s atmosphere separates white sunlight into its constituent wavelengths. Although a green rim is present at every sunset, there’s a good chance that you’ve never noticed it! It’s too thin to be seen by the naked eye, and only lasts a handful of seconds as the Sun slips past the horizon. Photography and videography are the best ways to capture the rare appearance of this atmospheric effect. While not a natural phenomenon, this image also serendipitously captures a soaring airplane against the fading sunlight. This sunset was captured from Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Cerro Pachón is home to several telescopes operated by NOIRLab including the SOAR Telescope, a part of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab; Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the NSF; and NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is jointly funded by the NSF and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE/SC). Petr Horálek, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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After the launch of MS-29, uh, something went wrong with part of the pad having somehow fallen in the flame trench.

And well, it's the only pad that Russia has capable of flying Soyuz or Progress, which is a bit of a problem (especially for station).
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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josefaschbacher.esa.int
22.1 billion euros subscribed.
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.

A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial
The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...
www.esa.int
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Stay strong, Hong Kong
A blue magpie holding a blooming bauhinia flower
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#Orquídeas terrestres de la penísula ibérica con flores de curiosas formas (y estrategias)
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November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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📡 ¡Noticias interestelares! Quería compartiros que desde ayer ya está disponible la nueva web que hemos hecho Salva, Antonio y yo sobre la maqueta de la sonda Voyager, donde estará toda la información, galerías, exposiciones, etc. www.sondavoyager.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Despegó la Soyuz MS-28
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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This Ross's Gull was painted from a long staying bird in Galway a few winters' back. I was fortunate to see it 3 times, and it was my third at that very location. This, and many more original artworks are available on my website www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
1st winter Ross's Gull from Salthill in Galway.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Roscosmos has launched the Soyuz MS-28 mission onboard a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Onboard were Two Roscosmos Cosmonauts as well as a NASA Astronaut heading for a six month mission aboard the International Space Station.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🐠🪸Apart from the main walkthrough through the Pacific Ocean, there are smaller exhibits, some temporary, about specific creatures or habitats: jellyfish, coral reefs, Artic waters, etc.
For a list of exhibits and species: www.kaiyukan.com/about/exhibi...
#Japan #Osaka #aquarium #fish #photography
Sea nettle jellyfish (Chrysaora sp.) Small corals in a tank Spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) Parrotfish
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🦀🐧Surrounding the central tank there are several tanks and exhibits that represent different habitats in the Pacific Ocean, from the tropics to the poles. There are also some freshwater areas, representing the rivers of Japan and tropical South America
#Japan #Osaka #aquarium #fish #photography
Japan Deep tank, with Japanese giant spider crabs (Macrocheira kaempferi) and some fish Bigfin reef squids (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) Various penguins at the Antartica exhibit California sealion (Zalophus californianus)
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🦈🐟The Osaka aquarium, located in the city port, is the 2nd largest of Japan. Its enormous central tank, representing the open Pacific Ocean, contains many large fish, including 2 whale sharks
#Japan #Osaka #aquarium #fish #photography
Osaka aquarium building Osaka port at sunset Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and visitors at Osaka aquarium Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) and visitors at Osaka aquarium
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Gentoo penguin with chick,
Watercolour painting.

#Penguin #GentooPenguin #Birds #BirdsArt #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #Painting #BirdsWallArt #ArtPrints #BirdsGiftIdea
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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A Speckled Orbweaver!
This gorgeous little garden friend is only about 1cm across.
#spiders #invertebrates
Photograph of a small green orbweaver spider in the centre of its web against a black background. The Spider has a bright green abdomen with a slighlty darker green cephalothorax and legs. Its abdomen is speckled with cream and brown dots, and the tips of its legs grade to red.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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josefaschbacher.esa.int
Ministers and high-level representatives from across Europe and from Canada kicked-off @esa.int’s Council at Ministerial level in Bremen yesterday to define the Agency’s budget and programmatic priorities for the coming 3 years–decisions that will shape Europe’s role in space for the decade ahead.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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A herd of reindeer notice a steppe lion, but she's not interested in hunting right now.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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ieo.es
El #IEO_CSIC desarrolla nuevas técnicas para restaurar las praderas de Cymodocea nodosa del Mar Menor 🌊

Los avances incluyen sistemas de siembra biodegradables y ensayos sobre el impacto de contaminantes 🌾

➡️ goo.su/IDCW7G
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age promo card, Woolly mammoths. Giant kangaroo Procoptodon from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age. Homotherium serum from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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🦈🐟The Osaka aquarium, located in the city port, is the 2nd largest of Japan. Its enormous central tank, representing the open Pacific Ocean, contains many large fish, including 2 whale sharks
#Japan #Osaka #aquarium #fish #photography
Osaka aquarium building Osaka port at sunset Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and visitors at Osaka aquarium Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) and visitors at Osaka aquarium
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🏯 A visit to Osaka castle, an impressive fortress. Inside the main tower there is a museum, dedicated to Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#Japan #Osaka #photography
Main tower of Osaka castle Outer walls of the fortress Inner moat and walls View from the top of the castle's tower
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🌆The centre of Osaka: an inmense concrete jungle, full of skyscrapers, neon lights and delicious food!
#Japan #Osaka #photography
Skyline of Osaka Buildings and Statue of Liberty in Amerikamura Octopus 3D sign in Dotombori Neon signs in Dotombori
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🌲The town of Kōya is surrounded by mountains covered in forests. Small shrines can be found in the woods
The area is also full of insects and other invertebrates, here a small sample
#Japan #Koyasan #bugs #photography
Shrine in next to a fores path Conifer forest Stick insect on a tombstone Mantis on a wall
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🪦In Mount Kōya one can find Okunoin, the largest cemetery of Japan, where giant conifers stand next to thousands of tombs and a mausoleum. The place is also infamous for its revisionism in memorials to Japanese soldiers and officials during WW2
#Japan #Koyasan #photography
Stone lanterns in the cemetery Meditating statue Tall trees in the cemetery One building of Kukai's mausoleum
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM