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Daniel Pomarède
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Cosmographer at Univ. Paris-Saclay | mapping the Universe | co-discoverer of Laniakea (our home supercluster of galaxies), Hoʻoleilana, and some other (very) large scale structures 📖 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2038-0488 ▶️ https://vimeo.com/pomarede
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · Nov 16
Martian robot spinning her turret!

A video sequence captured by the Perseverance rover using her Right Mastcam-Z science Camera on Jan. 27, 2024 (Sol 1044). The full sequence, accelerated here, actually took 3 minutes.
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 15h
#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Jenga Moon

Credit: Mike Carroll

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭
A telephoto snapshot of the almost full moon rising above a conspicuous skyscraper in New York city, taken on October 5, 2025. The 56 Leonard Street skyscraper, is also known as the Jenga Tower, as it indeed is reminiscent of a pile of stacked blocks of a Jenga game.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 5h
three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 10h
From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: In this long-exposure photo of Gemini North (½ of the International Gemini Observatory), the streaks of light to the left are satellites crossing the sky, identifiable by the breaks in the star trails. #astronomy

Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard
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Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 10h
ESA's Plato exoplanet-hunting spacecraft is fully assembled, ready to begin a year of testing in the runup to its December 2026 launch: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final ke...
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Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 10h
Oh neat! Both Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express observed comet 3I/ATLAS. (Or at least attempted to; Mars Express' max exposure duration was too short for it to be visible. Still, a null result is a result!) Amazing that Mars Express is still doing science. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS
Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars. 
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Lloyd Chéry @lloydchery.bsky.social · 13h
Un beau numéro arrive avec Naoki Urasawa, John McTiernan et Shintaro Kago en guest stars. Sortie le 19 novembre !
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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 4d
I have restarted work on the GE NEP crewed Mars mission post. After all the turmoil this past month, it's like meeting with an old friend.

My goal is to finish the post by Halloween.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 20h
Perseverance Sol 1647, going uphill on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social
🗺️ science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

#Mars 🧪🔭
A Martian landscape with rover tracks. A Martian landscape with rover tracks. A map of the rim of Jezero Crater and environs, showing the path followed by the rover and its current position.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13h
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 13h
has your scientific work been cut? @nytimes.com wants to hear from you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
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Sky & Telescope @skyandtelescope.bsky.social · 14h
Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
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Palomar's First Woman Director Leads Historic Observatory to New Era in Transient Astronomy
Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 15h
#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Jenga Moon

Credit: Mike Carroll

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭
A telephoto snapshot of the almost full moon rising above a conspicuous skyscraper in New York city, taken on October 5, 2025. The 56 Leonard Street skyscraper, is also known as the Jenga Tower, as it indeed is reminiscent of a pile of stacked blocks of a Jenga game.
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Cat O'Connell-Cooper @mars-cat.bsky.social · 15h
MSL Curiosity sol_4680 - Mastcam mosaic of the drive direction, looking across the boxworks unit.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
(thanks to @paulhammond1.bsky.social )
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Cat O'Connell-Cooper @mars-cat.bsky.social · 16h
MSL Curiosity_sol 4680: mastcam workspace, rover stats and maps, plus navcam mosaic of the landscape around us, and a mastcam mosaic of the road ahead in the drive direction (thanks to @paulhammond1.bsky.social )
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ESO @eso.org · 16h
Meet NGC 1232!

This galaxy lies some 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Its central areas contain older, reddish stars, while the spiral arms are populated by young, blue stars and many star-forming regions 🔭 

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9845d/

📷 ESO
A face-on spiral galaxy set against a dark star field. A bright golden core radiates at the centre, while blue spiral arms sparkle with stars and patches of white light, forming a pinwheel shape.
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Julia richard - auteurice @juliarichard.bsky.social · 17h
📆📌 Retrouvez-moi du vendredi 10 au dimanche 12 octobre en dédicaces à la Fête du livre de Saint-Etienne... avec une ✨avant-première✨ de ma novella de science-fiction (DÉS)INCARNATIONS, à paraître le 30 octobre chez les éditions Timelapse !
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d
For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 19h
Une astrophysicienne de l'Irfu reçoit le prix 2025 Jeunes Talents L'Oréal-Unesco pour les Femmes et la Science

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Une astrophysicienne de l'Irfu reçoit le prix 2025 Jeunes Talents L'Oréal-Unesco pour les Femmes et la Science
La Fondation L’Oréal, en partenariat avec la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO et l’Académie des sciences, récompense chaque année 35 femmes scientifiques talentueuses au niveau doctorat et...
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 20h
Perseverance Sol 1647, going uphill on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social
🗺️ science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

#Mars 🧪🔭
A Martian landscape with rover tracks. A Martian landscape with rover tracks. A map of the rim of Jezero Crater and environs, showing the path followed by the rover and its current position.
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Foteini Oikonomou @astro-foteini.bsky.social · 21h
Researchers’ Night at NTNU last Friday! Our group brought a 3D-printed mini-array of Auger surface detectors and talked to high school students about cosmic rays and black holes.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d
#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula

Credit: Nevenka Blagovic Horvat & Miroslav Horvat

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭
Located only 8,000 light years away, the Wizard nebula, featured here, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star-forming region spans 100 about light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · 1d
Golden hour hits different above 2600 meters. ✨🌅

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory basks in that sunset ✨glow✨ at its site on Cerro Pachón. And with over 300 clear nights on average per year here, that's a lot of sunset basking we get to do! 🔭🧪
Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome reflecting orange and golden sunset light atop its rocky mountain site. Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome atop its rocky mountain site, with the golden glow of sunset over the rolling peaks in the distance. Large boot-shaped observatory on a rocky mountain peak during a vibrant sunset with layered mountain ranges in the background. Drone shot of a massive teal telescope within an observatory's dome with a vertical opening, surrounded by winding mountain roads and dry terrain.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d
This new catalogue of dust devils gives us a much clearer picture of the Red Planet’s weather and climate.

But besides pure science, it will also be useful for planning future missions, like dealing with the irksome dust that settles on the solar panels of our robotic rovers.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d
🆕Researchers combed through images from ESA's #MarsExpress & #ExoMars spacecraft to find 1039 swirling dust devils 🌪️

Using these dust devils to track raging winds on Mars, their findings include that the strongest winds blow much faster than we thought!

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🧪 ☄️
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d
European Space Agency inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia

🔭🧪 @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int @esa.int
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
European Space Agency inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia
The European Space Agency (ESA) has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System with the inauguration of a new 35-m diameter d...
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