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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 13h

A rare appearance of one of my own paintings imaginatively titled ‘Eyes in the Ground’ (1995, oils on canvas)

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 1d

Fall colors starting. 🍂🍁🪾 #art #nature #hiking #fall #photography

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Welcome to interesting times @wlcm2int-times.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan Borland, a former U.S. Air Force member and intelligence-community whistleblower, says he was exposed to briefings and photographic evidence of a “Tic Tac”-shaped craft allegedly recovered during an archaeological dig.

New Borland clip in comments.

www.liberationtimes.com/home/former-...

Former Air Force Insider: Intelligence Personnel Were Shown Images of an Ancient, ‘Tic Tac’ UFO — Liberation Times | Reimagining Old News

Borland says he was shown briefings/photos of an alleged ‘Tic Tac’ craft from an archaeological dig.

www.liberationtimes.com

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 2d

A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 4d

More beautiful mushrooms. 🍄‍🟫 #art #nature #hiking #forest #photo #photography #mushrooms #walk

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 6d

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Deep Space: Methane Hurricane’ (2025, acrylics on canvas board)

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 6d

Found some beautiful mushrooms on my evening walk yesterday. 🍄‍🟫 #art #nature #hiking #photography #photo #plants #mushrooms

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Welcome to interesting times @wlcm2int-times.bsky.social · 9d

A group of people is running things in the shadows, without any formal legitimacy. Who are these folks? Who knows. But they feel free to appropriate budgets for national security reasons, bypassing traditional chains of command.

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ESO @eso.org · 16d

Appearing as a flying bird, SU Aur, a star much younger & more massive than the Sun, is surrounded by a giant planet-forming disc.

The unique shape is likely the outcome of a collision between the star and a huge cloud of gas and dust. 🔭

Blue, swirling structures of gas and dust around a star and set against a dark background.

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ESO @eso.org · 21d

The Flame Nebula steals the spotlight in this image 🔥, but it’s not the only gem on display!

You can also see the Horsehead Nebula (lower right), and the bright, bluish star to the right, which is one of the trio forming Orion's Belt. 🔭

A nebula glowing in shades of orange and white. To the right, a bright bluish star shines prominently. The entire scene is rich with glowing gas, wispy interstellar dust, and scattered stars of various colours and brightness.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 21d

Steve R Dodd ‘Exo-Planet 2’ (2024) (acrylics on canvas board)

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 21d

Just outside of Heber-Overgaard, Arizona.

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 21d

Found some Petroglyphs depicting what appears to be portals and non human beings. #art #painting #history #nhi #uap #ufo #ufosky

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 22d

"Alanzo And The Cactus Witch", by Mark Rogers. #art #painting #nhi #uap #drawing #occult #ufosky

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 24d

This is what the surface of a comet looks like.

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 24d

Visited the Travis Walton phone booth in Heber-Overgaard yesterday. #art #painting #nhi #uap #ufo #ufosky

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Brian @brianpaulmarcum.bsky.social · 25d

Another #adventure into the #forest. #art #horizon #photography #hiking #nature #exploration #life #bluesky

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 26d

For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star.

It looks like a painting.

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ESO @eso.org · 28d

A fine example of a reflection nebula.

The ultraviolet radiation from the stars that illuminate Messier 78 is not intense enough to ionise the gas to make it glow — its dust particles simply reflect the starlight that falls on them. 🔭

A glowing, cloud-like structure with a central blue region surrounded by swirling dark dust lanes and reddish-brown gas. Numerous stars are scattered throughout the scene.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 28d

This is a photo of a rock called Cheyava Falls on Mars that *might* host an alien biosignature.

Those small, white spots surrounded by thin, darker halos are termed "leopard spots"—and on Earth are characteristic of chemical reactions caused by microbes.

You know how we'd find out for sure?

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Welcome to interesting times @wlcm2int-times.bsky.social · 29d

New video released by Eric Burlison during the UAP hearing.

An orb is traveling in a straight line, gets hit by a missile fired by a drone (note: determination it was a threat) aaaaanndd...

nothing, the object reacts more like a plasma than a solid object and *continues to fly*.