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canyonbirds.bsky.social

@canyonbirds.bsky.social

The Colorado Plateau and its countless wonders are my #FavoriteThings
#BlueSkyArtShow
#backpacking

December 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Wet Tribe

@wettribe.bsky.social

Today, we celebrate one of our ocean heroes, Jacques Cousteau, who inspired us to love and save the ocean. Pictured: The founder’s cherished original Cousteau Society decal. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #JacquesCousteauDay #CousteauSociety #Calypso

June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Romek66

@romek66.bsky.social

#MountainMonday

walking down to Hidden Lake, nestled
between Reynolds Mountain (left)
and the prominent Bearhat Mountain (right)

Glacier National Park, Montana
August 2025
#hiking #GlacierNP #mountains #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyMonday

December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Silverlark Media

@silverlarkmedia.bsky.social

Tis the season... 😬

December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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Ian Riddler Photography

@ianriddler.bsky.social

The Wall of Light

The Flat Earthers are wrong.
At the Edge of the World, there's no sudden drop, or barrier of Ice.

There's the Wall. Pulsating, Twisting. Blinding.
Heaven help the Mortal who dares approach, for there is no return.

#Twizel, #NZ

#Aurora #FlatEarth #EastCoastKin #Scape #TheEdge

December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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LaffingKat

@laffingkat.bsky.social

Here's another fun bird call, volume up!

julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · 27d

Good morning/day. Here’s your wake up call, courtesy of a sandhill crane.

#birds #wildlife #nature #birder

December 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Ron McIntyre

@ronmac11.bsky.social

Collared trogon.
#birdoftheday
#stripes
#birds

A brightly coloured bird with black and white stripes on its tail,redbreast white collar and green throat. It’s dark face contrasting with yellow bill.

December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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Mike Pach

@3peaksphoto.bsky.social

10-frame panorama from 11/11/25 on the eastern plains of Colorado. The meteor is from another shot #photography #astrophotography #stars #Colorado #nightskyphotography #photographersofbluesky #weareroamers #auroraborealis #northernlights #photographersunited #nightsky #starry #milkyway #panophotos

10-frame panorama from 11/11/25 on the eastern plains of Colorado. The meteor is from another frame within a different sequence.

December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM

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Alan H

@alan678.bsky.social

One more for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes Hope you all enjoy your day wherever you are in the world. Take care and see you soon. Remember to support each other. Get on the BOTD feed, like a few and repost if you admire the capture. It’s a community. 😊 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

A small Coal Tit perched on a leafy stem, seen from behind with its head turned slightly left. The bird has a black cap, white cheeks, olive-green upperparts, and soft beige underparts. Its neatly patterned grey wings show bright white wing bars. The background is a smooth, blurred green, making the bird stand out sharply.

December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM

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Vox 🇺🇸

@voxrox.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#Stripes

This is a tough theme. Here's an Asian Emerald #Cuckoo. They're known for their green feathers on their backs & wings & striped underparts. The females have light orange crowns & thinly striped faces
(Like this one).

#Birds #Wildlife
#Birding
#Photography

A color photo of an Asian Emerald Cuckoo, perched on a branch. It has distictive striped feathers on it's face & chest, a subtle orange crown with emerald green feathers on it's back and wings.
📷 Arijit Mahata

December 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM

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Jessý Potato

@markdownhandsup.bsky.social

I'm going through my back-catalog of aurora pics for my upcoming side quest website, and still in awe of some of the light shows we've gotten over the past two years during this solar maximum cycle.

This was from mid April in Iceland this year. #northernlights

#theothermidnightsun (science joke)

December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Nature Nomad

@naturecompass.bsky.social

Incredible Aurora display from last night over Vestrahorn, near Höfn, Iceland 🇮🇸

November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Steve Ingraham

@lightshedder.bsky.social

Eastern Bluebird in the rare sun. #Kennebunk #Maine 11/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotograpy #Point’nShootNature

November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM

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Nature Nomad

@naturecompass.bsky.social

Beautiful blue aurora in Malangen, Norway 💙💙💙

November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

SNR J0509.5-6731 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2heTvq9

A supernova remnant with a smooth outer shell in hydrogen emission, and a clumpy inner x-ray shell. The hydrogen emission is shown here in red, while the clumpy x-ray emission is shown in blues, greens, and pinks.

I almost didn't finish this, because what I was doing was almost exactly the same as had already been done beautifully, and I try not to redo things. It ended up quite interesting however when I realized there were multiple frames from different years that could be used to show the expansion of the bubble over time. An animation of that is here: flic.kr/p/2heWSpn

Hubble proposals used:
The Proper Motion of Supernova Remnant E0509-67.5
Single-Degenerate or Double-Degenerate? The Case for a Third Epoch Observation of the Confirmed Ia Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5
A Search for Surviving Companions of Type Ia Supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Hubble Heritage 2.0

Chandra data:
Red: .10-.70 keV
Green: .70-1.0 keV
Blue: 1.00-5.00 keV
(Obs IDs 776, 7635, 8554)

Hubble data:
Red screen: ACS/WFC F658N
Red: WFC3/UVIS F814W
Green: WFC3/UVIS F555W
Blue: WFC3/UVIS F475W

North is up.

November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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LaffingKat

@laffingkat.bsky.social

Here's a close-up of a male mallard. #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM

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Amy Gann

@amygann.bsky.social

A slightly perplexed black necked crane for the #birdoftheday theme of #headshot.

#birds #crane #portrait #nature #wildlife #photography #protectnature #EastCoastKin

A close up of a black necked crane with its head slightly tilted

November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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mitchseaver.bsky.social

@mitchseaver.bsky.social

Sunset - Southeast Alaska

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #nature #clouds #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #seascape
#BlueSkyArtShow #Stunday #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #Alaska #sunset #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Inside Passage sunset - Southeast Alaska

November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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Paul Macklin

@mathcancer.bsky.social

Pleiades (Messier 45), 2025 edition.

This gorgeous reflection nebula is high

This combines 36 hours of imaging on a 115mm triplet across 2024 and 2025, taken from my Indiana backyard. 🔭🧪

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Pleiades (Messier 45). An incredible reflection nebula, with the blue light of hot-burning stars reflected by interstellar gas.

This image combines 36 hours of imaging taken from my Indiana backyard in Nov 2024 and Nov 2025.

November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Wildlife Nomads

@wildlifenomads.bsky.social

Meet the Zanzibar Red Colobus. Found nowhere else on Earth except on this island, and there are fewer than 6,000 left in the world.

This primate has declined by over 50% in recent decades due to habitat loss and hunting.

#monkey #animals #wildlife #nature #photo #tanzania #africa

November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM

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Vox 🇺🇸

@voxrox.bsky.social

I'll end today with a photo of a peaceful #scape. This area is known as Superstitious Mountains in #Arizona.

I acknowledge everyone's courage, connection & unity to endure uncertainty w/dignity. 💞 🌊

#Photography
#Landscape
#Nature #Plants