Cone nebula | Christmas tree (NGC2264) - This is still a work in progress. I’ve been imaging this nebula for about three weeks, fitting it in between unstable weather and other projects running in parallel. This is the emission signal mostly due to ionized hydrogen (Hɑ) >>> 🔭 #Astrophotography

Happy Birthday David Bowie, born this day in 1947. His 26th and final album "Blackstar" (★) was released on this day in 2016. David Bowie would pass away just a couple of days later. Rest in Peace.

Keep breathing, thats the key

you guys look at this very purple mushroom i saw 🙂 (possibly cortinarius purpureocapitatus or another cortinarius sp)

Well. Who needs a good night’s rest

We shouldn’t leaf this alone as I romaine of the view it was ok cos it was very funny

Lots of bad news in the world, but today I donated to kidneykids.org.nz Is there something small you could do?

I was told we would be going to be living on Mars back in 2023?

A new book traces a wide array of natural pigment recipes from the ancient world to today. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/gold...

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

people still give a fuck about Valentine's Day? In this economy?

My main question for today is how do chefs crisp up the coconut shavings so nicely in desserts

When i was doing a PhD, i went from a (US) size 2 to a 12 because stress makes me gain weight that’s extremely difficult to shift but go off i guess, Miller

There’s more than 24 hours in some days; I think this Tuesday has been at least 36-48 hours long so far

When u tie your italian boyfriend Antonio up for fun do u rig a toni

Hmmm what does this remind me of

Having a lot of feelings about cattle class on planes mainly why do airlines nd aerospace hate us so much

Nope

I’m not a big fan most reality tv. Bake Off is one of the few series I’ve watched regularly

Fuck it. It's not Friday, but I'm going to share fossils. This is Porocrinus, an echinoderm from the Ordovician Maquoketa formation near Eldorado, Iowa. The arms are missing, but the calyx is very unique.

Having that amazing moment again of eating enough food and the enormous sense of wellbeing that arises from having three square meals and being astonished by it again

This delicate sponge has a remarkably clever survival strategy.🪝✨️⁠ ⁠ Most sponges filter small plankton and bacteria from the water and pump them through their bodies. But the harp sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) uses small hooks along its vertical branches to trap and eat larger prey.

Nowhere to watch cricket and I’m in Aotearoa wtf

BIG BETELGEUSE 🤝 little betelgeuse 🌏: "BLOW UP, ALREADY!"

Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026

Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window https://theonion.com/publishers-break-down-door-as-george-r-r-martin-escapes-through-bathroom-window/

Amazing images from the Rubin observatory displayed tonight at #AAS247 in Phoenix, at the Arizona Science Center. This is the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae first light image projected on a planetarium dome.

I have ao many hut i cant rememeber any right now

Archosaur Dominance

I told you they were dinosaurs

Already miss my dog

@rami.spaceaustralia.com Hey Rami, sending you DM query

S'pretty out (Excuse fuzzy phone photo, it's also unjustly cold out)

Whats going on

@jpdanner.com what up homie

Well, the plane was late and there’s not enough time to make it to Tāmaki Makarau and back so. Anyway, nice to be back, NZ, I’ve missed you

The Blue Lias

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey Auckland, is that Korean chicken place still open?!!

Bye for now, Melbourne

Virgin Australia was the only gate lounge with the cricket

Take your christmas trees down!

Im not ready to go home

The Air New Zealand website is wobbly and unreliable

ZY^2= X^3-Z^2X+Z^3 A gift made for a friend who moved away for school, a kitty on an elliptic curve on a projective plane

I’m Im out of tiramisu

I seem to be unable to make a decent cuppa any more

"Book Series in Order" is a gem of a website. www.bookseriesinorder.com

Went to a museum and they got these really pretty sculpture of the dinosaurs found in Thailand, so I drew them ;w; #berensart2026 #paleoart