Richard J. Bartlett
banner
astronomywriter.bsky.social
Richard J. Bartlett
@astronomywriter.bsky.social
🌘Freelance writer, former columnist for Astronomy magazine and author of books for astronomers. 🌒Pro human, slightly sarcastic but mostly harmless 🌊

https://tinyurl.com/rjbamazon-us
https://tinyurl.com/rjb-hps
Pinned
I'm putting this out there again in the hopes that someone can help.

Does anyone have need of a line editor or proof reader (for copy or for books) - work has been scarce recently.

I also write about #astronomy, if anyone has need of that...

Please share, comment or DM me...
I really detest ChINOs
August 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
😂
"I'm a very stable genius!"
August 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
☄️ ☄️ On August 12-13, one of the best meteoric and astronomical event of the year will happen: the Perseids meteor shower will peak!
To be sure not to miss anything, please read: www.imo.net/viewing-the-...
Viewing the Perseids in 2025 | IMO
Comet Dust Each July and August the Earth encounters debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This comet has an orbit of 133 years and last entered the inner solar system in 1992. Even though ...
www.imo.net
August 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
🇺🇲
July 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the SCOTUS determined that unmarried individuals have the same right to access contraceptives as married couples. New article: embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisens...

#sciencecommunication #encyclopedia #contraceptives #science
August 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
All of this.
July 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
Good morning, @abgradcon.bsky.social‬ !

There's one more chance to chat with our human resources representative today. Stop by and chat with her this afternoon between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., scan our QR code, and you'll be entered to win a SETI Institute t-shirt. 🧪

#AbGradCon2025 #Astro4Life
June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...
June 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla.

You read that right.

The American Fascist Party at work.
June 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
#NASARoman will soon make particular types of gravitational lenses far more common, pinpointing over 160,000 of them. (To date, we only know of hundreds.) A team plans to study these objects to refine our studies of dark matter: bit.ly/3SyNJDy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
June 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724). Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast. publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast.
publicdomainreview.org
June 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
🧵
Here is a cosmic delight: LBN 867, dubbed the Raspberry Nebula although its overall structure is more like an onion!

In fact, this fascinating H II region, located in the constellation Orion, contains three different objects within its structure!

➡️ noirlab.edu/public/image...

🔭 🧪 #science
June 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Captions, anyone? Just cos?
June 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
Watch as the familiar pattern of the Taurus constellation distorts into a whole new perspective, when revealed in three dimensions! 🔭 ☄️
The Shape of Taurus in Three Dimensions
YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute
youtu.be
May 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
May 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Richard J. Bartlett
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good reviews sell books... if you enjoyed Rosemary's book (or any other) please leave a review :-)
A request: If you purchased THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, and you feel like leaving a review at the site where you bought it from, or on Goodreads, that would really help me out. I'm so glad y'all are enjoying it.
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM