Aurora / northern lights tonight are rivaling the best I’ve ever seen. This was during the 7:00 pm hour from southern Wisconsin 🔭

Seeing some colorful northern lights right now from near Madison, Wisconsin. #aurora 🔭

Curious to know what we’ll learn about that Mars rock in this press conference that we didn’t already know…

I’m jealous of all of you who saw the strange spiral in the night sky last night. Here are some images and an explanation of what it was. 🔭 earthsky.org/space/strang...

All of us bringing tiny bits of the lost trees into our lungs. A walking gravesite. Literally carrying the death of the forest around in us.

A tornado hit my mom’s street today. You can hear the fear in her voice. My parents were fine, though! #wiwx #tornado

I was golfing horribly last week and then something put it all in perspective to show me that things could be worse. (When you see it…) #golf

Did something just hit Saturn? Possibly! 🔭 earthsky.org/space/did-sp...

Another day of storms in Wisconsin. Plus fireflies. #wiwx

I love this spiral galaxy that looks like a golfer. Which galaxy in Vera Rubin’s Sky Viewer is your fave? 🔭

The hue of tonight’s Strawberry Moon is courtesy of Canadian wildfires. It’s low on the southern horizon all night. Lowest moon in decades. 🔭

Hail just now in Middleton, WI #wiwx

I had ChatGPT make my sister’s cat into a person.

“Let’s do this!” I hollered and then proceeded to not, in fact, do it.

Quote post with a picture you took in a national park. Glacier National Park, Montana, summer of 2024.

Visiting the Mall of Mexico in the Twin Cities today.

Last week it was 1-in-83 odds. Yesterday it was 1-in-53 odds. And today it’s down to 1-in-43 odds. Let’s go!!! 🔭 🌎☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43 earthsky.org/space/astero...

What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe 🔭 (Yet why do I find it a pleasant daydream?) earthsky.org/space/what-i...

Wordle 1,324 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have waited years for this day. Time to think of a new starting word!

“The announcement came during a press conference Saturday morning, August 24, 2024. … Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now scheduled to return to Earth in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon 9 crew capsule.” Don’t allow them to gaslight you. 🔭 earthsky.org/spaceflight/...

New asteroid is a 3 on the Torino scale. And it might stay there for a while… ☄️🔭 earthsky.org/space/astero...

Ever since visiting the southernmost point in the continental US, I’ve wanted to visit the actual southernmost point in the US. This month I was able to do just that. youtube.com/watch?v=0vcC...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Remember the mini-moon we had last fall? Turns out it likely really was a mini piece of the moon ejected during a past impact. 🔭 earthsky.org/space/earth-...

Just in case you were wondering! Lock in!

Saturday’s sunset from the southernmost point in the U.S. 🌎 #KaLae #Hawaii

I saw my first fogbow! And then I saw another one! Haleakala is a special place. ❤️🌋

Sun halo today with a glimpse of the circumzenithal arc at the very top. 🔭 One of the good things to come out of cold winter days. ❤️☀️❄️

We got ourselves a G4 geomagnetic storm at the moment with a Kp8. Quite a bang to start the new year! 🔭 Of course it’s daylight and cloudy where I live so… 🤷‍♀️

2024 was an incredible year for stargazers. 🔭

I read and listened to 111 books this year. Some 5 star reads in that stack. #booksky

Happy Winter Solstice to 90% of you! Happy Summer Solstice to the rest. ❄️☀️ 🔭

this is teaching me that a lot of yall need to look at the stars more. the bright light to the w/sw after sunset is venus. jupiter is currently hanging out somewhere near the moon. you can see orion pretty much every night. castor and pollux are really bright also.

Some of the "drones" in former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's video were found to be stars in the constellation Orion - NYT

Saddened to learn that Laurie Allen Klein, the illustrator of my children’s picture book Solar System Forecast, recently died of lung cancer. She was a fantastic, prolific artist: www.goodreads.com/author/list/...

Four times in the past week Daichi Fujii has caught meteors hitting the moon. Could these be Geminids? 🔭 earthsky.org/space/are-ge...

Check out these jaw-dropping southern and northern lights images. #aurora 🔭 earthsky.org/todays-image...

Circumzenithal arc … achievement unlocked! 🔓 Every time I see a sun dog I look above the sun for the circumzenithal arc, and I finally spotted one!

☄️🚨‼️Incoming! For only the 11th time ever (and 4th time this year) we’ve spotted an asteroid before it hits Earth. 🔭

Recently finished reading The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. Really good post-apocalyptic book, but I don’t remember the last time I had so much anxiety while reading! 📚 #books #reading

A pair of recent photos, 20 minutes apart. The Belt of Venus appears at sunset. 🔭

… and it’s about to blow up! 🔭 earthsky.org/space/first-...

I can’t get enough books lately. I want to read and listen to books every free moment. Books, BOOKS, BOOOOKS!

Took a walk through a swamp this morning. Saw 2 gators, a raccoon, a great blue heron, a belted kingfisher, a red-shouldered hawk and fresh panther scat. 😆

I had long wanted to visit Antelope Canyon, and I finally got the chance this summer. It was beautiful. Outside the canyon it was brutally hot but inside it was cool and peaceful/ youtube.com/shorts/TH3eb...

Galileo says hello. #CatsofBlueSky 🔭🐈

Hello! *taps microphone* Is this thing on? We're here! And we can't wait to share the universe with you. 🔭⭐🌌🌘🧪

Check out this view of Earth and the moon, and then picture all the other planets in the solar system wedged between us. Love a good visual of Earth from space 🔭🧪 earthsky.org/todays-image...

What do you see? 2 domes? 2 craters? Or a dome and a crater? earthsky.org/space/the-cr...

Is Jupiter the most beautiful planet? I kinda think so… 🔭 earthsky.org/todays-image...