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a simple farmer in the void

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Cat @timesnewfishcat.bsky.social · Nov 11
been making a comic since the start of the year :3 it's a small town mystery
thistlecliffe.tumblr.com
#comic #webcomic
A cliff rises above the forest with the crescent moon in the sky. At the base of the cliff, the lights of a town turn on at dusk.
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mossworm.bsky.social
bryologists please keep your eyes out for the legendary American Moss Shrimp, probably about 1 mm long and looking something like this
"Although members of the Cyprididae occur in North America, thus far terrestrial representatives seem to be undocumented. Nevertheless, Paul Davison (pers. comm. 31 May 2014) reports them from dripping cliffs (Figure 6) among algae and suspects they could inhabit bryophytes under similar conditions. Bryologists should watch for them! " Cypria ophthalmica is a tiny pinkish brown ostracod, a small crustacean almost entirely contained in a bivalved shell. its eye is visible through a thin portion of its shell
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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athanaca.bsky.social
Orangie Robin.
🤤🤲🍊

#robin #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #originalart #birdwatching #animalart
Illustration of Daurian Redstart
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
3/3

Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck

Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
The image is divided into four sections, each showing one of the gas giants against a black background. Top left: Jupiter. It appears as a large, round sphere with horizontal bands in shades of brown, tan, and white. A bright white oval storm sits on the lower right side. A faint ring is visible alongside Europa, one of its satellites, which appears very bright with a star-shaped artifact. Top right: Saturn. It has a pale beige surface with soft horizontal shading. Surrounding it is a wide, bright ring system tilted diagonally. The rings look thin and sharply defined, with multiple subtle bands of light and dark. Bottom left: Uranus. It appears as a smooth blue-green sphere with some whitish circular clouds around the pole that is facing the observer. Surrounding it is a bright circular ring system made up of thin white lines. The rings form a bright, symmetrical halo around the planet. Bottom right: Neptune. It is a blue sphere with slightly brighter and darker circular features on its atmosphere. It also has a thin ring system, dimmer and less defined than Uranus’s in this image, appearing as a faint double oval around the planet. Each planet has its name printed below it in white capital letters.
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
What does the fox say?🦊

Today, we’re showing off our favorite pictures of culpeo foxes we’ve spotted around Cerro Pachón, home of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory. 📸

💡Fun fact: While these little guys look like foxes (and are called foxes), they’re actually more closely related to wolves and jackals!🔭
A fox sitting on dry grass illuminated by warm, golden sunset light in a rocky terrain. A fox resting on rocky ground near a large astronomical observatory dome under clear blue sky. Silhouette of a fox resting on the ground near a guardrail with the bright setting sun shining in a clear sky. A lone fox sitting on dry, cracked desert ground with sparse vegetation in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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drkatfish.bsky.social
Travel from the comfort of your own home this #25DaysofFishmas as we explore fishes from all across the US each day in December. Best part? No sleeping on air mattresses in guest rooms!

The road trip kicks off with fishes from the southeastern US on Monday Dec. 1!
A map of the United States split into 4 differently-colored regions; clockwise from top right: Northwest, Northeast/Great Lakes, Southeast, and Southwest
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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loamlizzard.bsky.social
Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.

#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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stsci.edu
The nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests—a shake test and an intense sound blast—to ensure its successful launch: go.nasa.gov/4ooRM2L #NASARoman 🔭 🧪
Roman Space Telescope's instrument package being moved by a crane inside a cleanroom facility. The package is wrapped in protective silver material and mounted on a large platform.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
I don't know why this idea is suddenly flaring up online so early, but yeah, this time next year, Voyager 1 will be one light-DAY away – meaning it will take light a whole 24 hours to travel between Earth and the spacecraft. For comparison: Mars is a few light MINUTES from Earth!
Artist rendering of a Voyager spacecraft moving through stylized blue gas and stars in deep space.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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xkcd.com
Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/
Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

science.nasa.gov/solar-system
Rendering of NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the north pole of Saturn. Selfie photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover showing the rover next to layered sandstone rocks on the surface of Mars Rendering of the NASA's Juno spacecraft above the colorful, swirling clouds of Jupiter
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
timesnewfishcat.bsky.social
just finished playing a game of #maleghast
panel 1: calcinea pointing their white cane: in the name of carcenkarrion, I'll punish you! panel 2: an off-screen explosion of black goo and bone, while vatra and clemet (fighting over clemet's sword) stare on panel 3: a giant bone mech on their hands and knees, trying to catch their breath as the others watch: hold on give me a second panel 4: the bone mech striking the sailor moon pose with a gun text: Bang X]
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
please look at tubercle burrowing crayfish with me. photo by Jo Khan
tubercle burrowing crayfish, found in Australia, is dark-orange colored and has an extremely small face
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiRISE Image of Exocomet 3I/ATLAS!

On 2 October 2025, MRO turned away from Mars to image 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system!

https://www.uahirise.org/releases/3i-atlas/
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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francinefox.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
The morning lake
was smooth as a mirror.

A few angels were even seen
flying down

just after dawn
to check themselves out.

— Billy Collins
A glassy smooth lake reflects a night sky glowing with green and red auroras. Barker Reservoir, Utah. Photo: Bill Dunford
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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operations.esa.int
☀️ Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

Last week, Earth was hit by a large solar storm. The event provided an opportunity for multiple ESA missions, whether orbiting Earth or far into deep space, to collect radiation data, which is now being analysed.

www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
On the cover of Nature Astronomy: Thirty years of new worlds

The orrery on the cover displays the amazing variety of planets and planetary systems we have discovered outside our Solar System. 🧪🔭 @natastron.nature.com

Image: Ethan Kruse. Design: Bethany Vukomanovic
www.nature.com/natastron/vo...
The cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated November 2025, Volume 9, issue 11. This issue celebrates the 30th anniversary of the detection of the very first exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star.
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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science.esa.int
Space adventurers Bepi, Mio and MTM have just one year to go until they reach Mercury. What have they been up to since their journey began in 2018?
Watch episode 2 of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 youtu.be/41EdqhlH3PQ 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
The epic adventures of BepiColombo | Part 2: It’s a long way to Mercury
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
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November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
The 54-mile-long Talimena Scenic Drive passes over the Ouachita mountains and winds through the Ouachita national forest in southeast Oklahoma. While beautiful any time of the year, it comes alive in the fall with vibrant foliage. This video showcases some of my favorite views on Nov 6. #Oklahoma
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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astroryan.bsky.social
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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entomemeology.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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astraughnomer.bsky.social
This should be interesting 👀☄️ Mark your calendars for 3pm EST Wed.! www.nasa.gov/news-release...
NASA to Share Comet 3I/ATLAS Images From Spacecraft, Telescopes - NASA
NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s
www.nasa.gov
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
#PPOD: Saturn is seen here through the lens of NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a ring plane crossing in February 2005. The picture reveals the razor-thin ring plane in blue, atmospheric bands in gold, and moons Dione and Enceladus as slight "bumps" in the rings. 🧪 🔭
Image of Saturn as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. The planet is lit from the bottom right, with the shadow of the rings in the upper hemisphere. The rings themselves are a very thin line, seen in blue, across the face of the planet in the middle. The planets cloud bands are shown in shades of gold. The moons Dione (left) and Enceladus (right) appear as bumps in the rings.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM