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Christian Ready
@christianready.bsky.social
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Astronomer, Vegan, Deadhead, creator of Launch Pad Astronomy on YouTube (https://youtube.com/@launchpadastro) Astronomy professor at Towson University. A little bit further than I’ve gone before.
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The only thing better than flying through Saturn’s rings is taking others with you for the ride. Great turnout tonight at Towson Univeristy’s #Planetarium!
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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hollyrambleonrose.bsky.social
So sad to hear of Ms Donna Jean's passing.
Way down in the south of France
All the ladies want to dance.
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
christianready.bsky.social
Wait what??? Rest in Peace, beautiful Donna 🥲
therealcavey.bsky.social Grateful Fred⚡Play Dead @therealcavey.bsky.social · 15d
Oh friends, I've just heard our Donna has left the stage 😢⚡🌹
The music never stops Deadheads 💔

Donna Jean Godchaux McKay
8/22/47 - 11/3/25

#DonnaJean

youtu.be/X4WvB9DTutc?...
Donna Jean Godchaux McKay singing at a Grateful Dead Show
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
christianready.bsky.social
What he said.
palomarskies.bsky.social Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 17d
Standard Time forever, please.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 17d
Love it or hate it, many will turn their clocks back on Sunday. The debate — whether or not to make daylight saving time permanent — continues. n.pr/4okDSzv
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
christianready.bsky.social
I'm in shock. Pierre Robert was the nicest person ever on the radio. I haven't felt quite like this since Jerry Garcia died.

Sending love to the @933wmmr.bsky.social family.

Rock in peace, Pierre.

wmmr.com/2025/10/29/p...
Pierre Robert, Philadelphia Radio Icon and Friend, Has Passed Away
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Pierre Robert, a beloved radio legend and friend.
wmmr.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
christianready.bsky.social
Wow!
andrealuck.bsky.social Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 23d
Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY

Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
Image of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a whitish north polar region, vivid blue-greenish atmosphere and a few whitish elongated storms visible around the pole. The planet is surrounded by clearly defined ring system set against the black background of space.
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
christianready.bsky.social
Another sold out show at the Towson University #planetarium. It doesn’t hurt that it’s also free of charge :)
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
christianready.bsky.social
Neil Young is an American hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9A...
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Video)
YouTube video by neilyoungchannel
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September 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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deschscoveries.bsky.social
Guys, I was wrong. Avi Loeb is an artistic genius.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
Stairways to Heaven
Mea culpa. I was wrong. Like Rolling Stone’s John Mendelsohn panning Led Zeppelin’s debut album, I couldn’t recognize it at first. Now I…
medium.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
christianready.bsky.social
That’s my Hunny! Happy Anniversary!
jsmithready.bsky.social Jeri Smith-Ready @jsmithready.bsky.social · Jun 24
In an attempt to fan the tiny yet fierce flames of sincerity that exist on Bluesky, I would like to wish @christianready.bsky.social a very Happy 31st Anniversary!

( ˘ ³˘)♥
June 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
christianready.bsky.social
Woah! This is gonna be GOOD!
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 23
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
So…

People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?

Oh, my sweet summer children.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Dying @xkcd.com xkcd.com
Exoplanet System
xkcd.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
christianready.bsky.social
If I could I would (h/t @jsmithready.bsky.social )
jsmithready.bsky.social Jeri Smith-Ready @jsmithready.bsky.social · Jun 13
Towsonians want to know why @christianready.bsky.social isn't offering this at his plane*arium.
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 13
Interactive Planetarium Exhibit Offers Guests Chance To Touch Live Protostar theonion.com/interac...
June 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
christianready.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
No ICE in Carroll County!
More details:   Elsy Berrios, a mother and Westminster resident, was violently taken into ICE custody by two agents (one of them masked) on March 31, 2025 in Westminster, MD. The agents did not ...
sign.moveon.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
On this Memorial Day, let's remember that this is what all Nazis deserve.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYT...
Swastika Blow up, Hakenkreuzsprengung
YouTube video by Domi Ru
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May 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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jsmithready.bsky.social
We are NEVER going to shut up about this. #NovaNation
May 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
For. The. People.
April 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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robstaeger.bsky.social
Happy Superman Day!

Tomorrow looks like it'll be Superman Day too.
Comic book splash page of Superman smashing through a nazi warplane. Art by Joe Staton.
April 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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jsmithready.bsky.social
Does Canada, perchance, need novelists and astronomy professors and cats?
April 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
christianready.bsky.social
Teaching lab while listening to @lisampmunoz.bsky.social giving the Hill-Lopes talk on Women in Science. Very cool stuff 👍
April 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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jsmithready.bsky.social
Emergency baby sloth livestream for those who need it today

www.youtube.com/live/g_L1Ay8...
Sloth TV powered by EXPLORE.org
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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April 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA
YouTube video by R
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April 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM