Paraspirifer #paleoart #brachiopod #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt

From the GARgantuan to the handheld! Over the past 8 months we’ve encountered our largest gar (Alligator Gar in October) to one of the smallest (Shortnose Gar, today). My hand for “scale.”

Yes, they really pushed a 350-ton telescope by hand 🤯 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s 8.4m telescope is so precisely balanced that staff can move it just by pushing. That balancing reduces strain on the drive motors and helps with smoothly tracking objects across the night sky 🌌 🔭🧪

You've seen Euclid's dazzling image of the Milky Way’s crowded heart. Now explore it yourself. Zoom in, zoom out, go wherever your curiosity takes you 🤩 – in #ESAsky 👇 sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

My favorite planet, such an unabashed diva Wasatch Mountains, Utah, just now right out of the phone with no edits

#Roman Totally awesome timelapse of the Pegasus barge arriving at Launch Complex 39 turn basin at Kennedy Space Center and offloading NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Credits: NASA/Frank Michaux images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... 🧪🔭

Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

Here's another one, Eumolpus asclepiadeus.

chasing these led me deep into the woods and I got a little lost and so basically I think these count as fairies

Stentor, a pleasant single-celled animal

guess who got lost in the freakingeth backrooms

#AAS248 was jam-packed with great scientific content. STScI staff was able to talk about our work on NASA’s current and future astrophysical flagship missions, as well as our open access to high-quality, multi-mission archival data. Credit: J. Barrientes/STScI.

The recovery of the Lake Erie water snake is an awesome story of how outreach can increase support for less-cuddly endangered species blog.nature.org/2017/01/23/r...

If you're going to spend a decade mapping the Universe, you'd better pick a good spot! 🔭🧪 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory sits atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, where dark skies, dry air, high elevation, and 300+ clear nights per year mean great conditions for exploring the cosmos. 🌌✨

One observatory to explore them all. 🔭🧪 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory was built to help answer questions across four main science areas: 🧐 Dark matter and dark energy 🌎 Our Solar System 🌌 The Milky Way and its neighbors ☄️ The changing sky

Up close: Ariane 6 rocket liftoff 🚀 This is what the most powerful rocket launch in European history looks – and sounds – like from just 141 metres from the launch pad, 17 June 2026. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

From NASA Perseverance has completed the ultimate off-trail, off-world marathon! The rover surpassed a total distance of 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) on the Red Planet on June 14 while exploring intriguing, ancient terrain to the west of Jezero Crater. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

Before / After firing Artemis II Earthset Bowl #sciart

Working on something a few people have requested 👀

From NASA Venus is seen next to the crescent Moon, before the start of occultation, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, from the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The Moon occulted, or passed in front of, Venus for the first of three time this year. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

You guys…just now…sound on 😱 #invertebrate #bugsky

But what if 3D

Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.

(3/3) Sound's up. The Artemis III mission will launch crew in the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.

Astronomers are excited to use the upcoming #NASARoman’s surveys of the night sky to pick interesting objects to follow up on with Hubble and #NASAWebb in detail, demonstrating how the observatories will work together. Credit: D. Kirshenblat/STScI.

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST SN 2024aecx: A Gateway to Understanding Massive Star Deaths, Cosmic Dust and Binary Systems #NGC3521 2026-06-05 Shahbandeh, Melissa MIRI 2100 1500 770 NIRCAM 444 356 335 300 250 187 150 115 90 70 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

Tianwen-2 launched just over a year ago and is expected to perform a burn tomorrow (June 7) Beijing time, setting up a rendezvous with the small, rapidly-spinning asteroid Kamo'oalewa.

I really want to fix that feather

Indigo bunting hunting. 📸 #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Moonlight sonata. I took one of my favorite photos last night. While looking for a scissortail, this eastern meadowlark perched itself atop a nearby tree and sang a beautiful song just long enough for me to position it directly in front of the nearly-full Moon. #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

Plumadraco bankoorum - a new Creatceous bird

🐛 A total of eight millipede species, including four recorded in Guizhou Province for the first time, were identified within the Chishui Alsophila National Nature Reserve. 🔬 Two species entirely new to science were also discovered and described in the following study: doi.org/10.3897/zse.102.185791

New blog post! A sequel to an earlier one - nudibranch hunting in Southern California. Two years of my best observations with some natural history info about each of the species I've encountered. #tidepooling 🦑🦀

🐛 The first record of a Rhopalomeris pill millipede in China has been established after a new species was discovered in the Dinghushan National Nature Reserve. 📖 Access the full study to find out more: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1280.190182 #millipede #newspecies

Some species may disappear before we even know they exist. Researchers described a new genus and species of millipede from a tiny rainforest fragment in Madagascar, an ecosystem smaller than many city parks, yet home to unique endemic life. #LIBresearch © Golles et al., CC BY 4.0 1/3

Report of science results from the International Space Station for 2025 go.nasa.gov/4u06HTM

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

I wanted to work on a foggy forest landscape, but it wasn't turning out quite how I wanted. I found a cool semi-inverted value scheme that made this a lot more interesting in my opinion. Daily drawing 2432. #landscapeart #digitalart

New in the shop: #Voyager socks 🛰 It feels like I've been wanting to make these for almost as long as Voyager has been in space (48 years lol!) Featuring the spacecraft, the #GoldenRecord, and their trajectories past the outer planets 🤩 🔗 sciencesocks.co/prod...#Voyager#GoldenRecord,🔭🐡🧪🎨

A sea elephant (heteropod). Such a strange and enchanting creature. It is technically a type of swimming snail.

The Center for Water Policy’s Cami Armendariz won “Best Short Video” in the 2026 Planet Forward Storyfest for her video “Bringing Back the Giants: Sturgeon Restoration in the Milwaukee River Watershed.” Congratulations Cami! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhHf...

Ep. 3 of “A Natural History of Limpets” is out! Here I show how these animals are not just evolutionary marvels and biomechanical fortresses, but keystone species of rocky shores, and how they helped define the basic principles of ecology as a scientific field 👇

Today the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaborations released our fifth catalogue of Gravitational Wave Transients. This is extra exciting for us here at @unlv.edu as the flagship publication (dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P260015...) was led by Leo Tsukada, a postdoctoral research fellow at the @ncfa.bsky.social.

From NASA Need help finding the right NASA Earth science data for your work? Join us on Wednesday, May 27 for a quick walkthrough of data Pathfinders — topic-based pages that connect users to relevant data, tools, tutorials, and resources: go.nasa.gov/4dKBJsO

The JPL one is done!

JWST data hint at a Neptune MOONPOCALYPSE!!! ICE GIANT SYSTEMS FTW! ❤️🔵