Jon Marcus
@jmcrapola.bsky.social
1) Biz side of tech, 2) Writer of unmade film scripts - who do I have to screw to fund a film? Author of books & great stories. Lover of irony & satire. Science enthusiast. Typo expert.
Located in The Angels. Raised by wolves in the Garden State.
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Located in The Angels. Raised by wolves in the Garden State.
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Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae are these stunning bipolar jets approx 19 light years long. In comparison the distance from the Sun to Neptune is 4.2 light HOURS long. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae are these stunning bipolar jets approx 19 light years long. In comparison the distance from the Sun to Neptune is 4.2 light HOURS long. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
Not a comet. This is the planet Mercury and the tail is bc it’s so close to the Sun that the Sun is pushing Mercury’s atmosphere away. Details at today’s spaceweather.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Not a comet. This is the planet Mercury and the tail is bc it’s so close to the Sun that the Sun is pushing Mercury’s atmosphere away. Details at today’s spaceweather.com
Why is this galaxy so messy? The gravity from the smaller one to the right messed it up. Info at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Why is this galaxy so messy? The gravity from the smaller one to the right messed it up. Info at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
Pickleball? Are you fricking kidding me? No. No matter how old, fat or flabby I get, I won’t play pseudo-tennis with giant ping pong paddles and a green plastic wiffle ball. NO!!!
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Pickleball? Are you fricking kidding me? No. No matter how old, fat or flabby I get, I won’t play pseudo-tennis with giant ping pong paddles and a green plastic wiffle ball. NO!!!
Rocket launch. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25101...
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Rocket launch. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25101...
Impact crater seen from space. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25101...
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Impact crater seen from space. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25101...
The Wizard Nebula. Info at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Wizard Nebula. Info at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
Sunset from here in October.
December 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sunset from here in October.
Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies. Hundreds of galaxies. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies. Hundreds of galaxies. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
Pluto at night. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Pluto at night. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25100...
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team I when I send a link to a post as a text, it makes a background trying to match the average color. I wish you would stop that. In doing that, it took a nice photo and made it ugly. Just use a black background.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team I when I send a link to a post as a text, it makes a background trying to match the average color. I wish you would stop that. In doing that, it took a nice photo and made it ugly. Just use a black background.
You can see stars are forming in this dark nebula / glob of space dust / molecular cloud. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25103...
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You can see stars are forming in this dark nebula / glob of space dust / molecular cloud. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25103...
Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way. Photo taken in China. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way. Photo taken in China. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
100,000 stars in a ball. M15 globular cluster can be seen with binoculars. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
100,000 stars in a ball. M15 globular cluster can be seen with binoculars. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Portrait of Galaxy NGC 1055. The fuzz around it is probably a gravitational disruption of a smaller galaxy or evidence of a merging in the past. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Portrait of Galaxy NGC 1055. The fuzz around it is probably a gravitational disruption of a smaller galaxy or evidence of a merging in the past. Details at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Beautiful shot of the Andromeda galaxy. Headed our way. Photo by Dan Monk.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Beautiful shot of the Andromeda galaxy. Headed our way. Photo by Dan Monk.
I called a woman I know today and got the response text “I’m at the doctor’s office.” Something tells me 99% of the women out there use it as an excuse to the point that they enter it as one of their response texts in their phones.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I called a woman I know today and got the response text “I’m at the doctor’s office.” Something tells me 99% of the women out there use it as an excuse to the point that they enter it as one of their response texts in their phones.
Auroras seen from a plane over Canada. Details at spaceweather.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Auroras seen from a plane over Canada. Details at spaceweather.com
Malibu Pt. Dume Nature Preserve
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Malibu Pt. Dume Nature Preserve
Comet breaking up. Details at today’s spaceweather.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Comet breaking up. Details at today’s spaceweather.com