Feast your eyes on this glorious new JWST image - LOOK AT ALL THOSE GALAXIES 🤩 This is galaxy cluster MACS J1149, and there's a lot going on here. Almost every point of light is not a star, but a *galaxy* containing hundreds of billions of stars!

The night sky looks steady. It's not. 💥 In the night sky, asteroids drift. Stars pulse and flicker. Distant galaxies flare when something dramatic like a supernova is happening inside them. The Universe is constantly changing, even when our eyes can’t see it. 🔭🧪☄️

glowy sword calum belongs to @enderesting.bsky.social #art #knight

YEAAAH CONGRATS TO SINNERS

*laugh* a FASCINATING observation of this sea cucumber, Paracaudina from Australia doing.. something. Blowing bubbles? A great big "WHAT?" #echinoday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

From NASA This ring of green and blue is from phytoplankton—tiny photosynthetic organisms that can be seen from space when their numbers explode. Such blooms are common near New Zealand’s Chatham Islands because of the shape of the seafloor in that area. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

A breathtaking look at a dying star. This new image of the Helix Nebula is just in from JWST. We've never seen this level of detail, as the star's remains stream back out to interstellar space. Our Sun will look something like this 7 billion years from now. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

From NASA - Loud and clear: Curiosity and Perseverance are both back in touch with Earth following solar conjunction. They’re beginning to downlink data collected while the Sun was blocking the signal path between us and the Red Planet. Keep up with the latest at science.nasa.gov/mars/

This incredibly cool new research shows that the first really big large organism on land was not a giant fungus, as many gave hypothesized. It was so chemically different from fungi that the authors propose "this enigmatic organism is best assigned to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage."

glowy sword calum belongs to @enderesting.bsky.social #art #knight

ESA is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected at 18:09 UTC on 18 January 2026. Aurora were observed over Europe last night and continued high levels of space weather activity are anticipated over the coming days. www.esa.int/Space_Safety... @esaspaceweather.esa.int

Back from vacation - just released today: new intricacies of the Helix Nebula revealed by JWST! 🤩 This image shows new details of what happens to stars like our Sun when they near the end of their lives. Our own Sun could someday put on a spectacle like this! More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Great aurora visible in Dwingeloo yesterday!

Lovely plate patterns from this isocrinid stalked crinoid- NOT a fossil but dang! sure looks like a "living fossil"!! Skeletons are calcium carbonate. #echinoday

Space Telescope Science Institute staff got a glimpse of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as nears completion in the cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. 🔭 #NASARoman

Very on brand for this Taiwan outer islands community: "Nearly 2,300 people took part Sunday in a Penghu County road race that offered a one-kilogram grouper to each runner who crossed the finish line." 🐡🦑🧪 Via Focus Taiwan: focustaiwan.tw/society/2026...

⚠️ rare bird sighting ⚠️

beebees

Good morning from the cormorant factory! We're a couple weeks off from seeing newborn dinosaurs, and in the meantime these dishonorably besmirched allies will be building the important infrastructure, both physical and uhh....extra physical... to keep the cormorant society thriving! 🪶 🧵

The artist is SeeNam Handcraft. the studio first wanted him to make just the sails, but he insisted the head and body be included. The dinos must be able to compete for attention with other reptiles seen around Bangkok. "We are rarely impressed by python slithering in front of us"

When you look at that bright point of light this evening, think of the Jovian fleet. #Juno (2016) is there right now, peering beneath the cloudy veil. #EuropaClipper (2030) and #ESAJuice (2031) are sailing through interplanetary space with a mission to explore Jupiter's ocean moons. (Credit: ESA)

#NASAWebb researchers found iron-rich dust and complex carbon molecules in Sextans A, a nearby galaxy with similar properties to those in the early universe. Why the finding is surprising: https://news.stsci.edu/4st0ccz #AAS247 🔭

Astronomers using #NASAWebb have found a small sample of tiny galaxies that don’t fit existing categories, comparing them to the odd duck of biology, the platypus. Discover these “platypus galaxies” with Webb: https://news.stsci.edu/4qamfDq #AAS247 🔭

Whew, we've made it to the last day of #AAS247 and we're thriving! By "thriving," we mean we've had more coffee than water this week, but we've also had fruitful discussions with colleagues from around the world! Here's our conference survival kit* ☕️ *peer-reviewed by fellow astronomers 🔭🧪☄️

#NASARoman was the name of the game at #AAS247 this week. From the NASA Hyperwall to conference town halls, STScI scientists explained how the observatory will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.

ostracods are pleasant and gregarious creatures

D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)

On New Years Day at the #southpole, there is a ceremony to move the geographic South Pole (since the ice underneath the station moves about 10-meters per year) and a reveal of a new marker on top of the Pole. See some pics by Anjali from this years ceremony. #Antarctica @NSF

📣 Scientists using Hubble have uncovered a new type of astronomical object!  This starless, dark-matter-dominated cloud is a relic from the early Universe, a failed galaxy. Read more 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble 🔭 🧪

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

get yourself a weather satellite that looks at you like this 🥰

hopefully I am capturing the majesty of the silver carp here

looking up space probes again, found out that the farthest ones have moved enough for some stars to realign www.forbes.com/sites/starts...

thank you for believing in the intersection of science + art and me happy new year 💚✨ #artvsartist2025

Check it out, I found a sandworm from Arrakis in my leaf litter from southern Virginia. (It's a snipe fly larva in the family Rhagionidae.) Check out those beautiful silver tracheal tubes!

art summary for 2025 haven't really been posting here tbh template can be found here: bsky.app/profile/taxk... #artsummary #artsummary2025

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

And that’s a wrap on 2025 @garlab.bsky.social! GARgantuan thanks to our students, collaborators, and friends for their ongoing work and support of our freshwater conservation efforts!

Happy Holidays! The #Christmas Day picture from the @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole station! Picture by Michael Rayne. #Antarctica #southpole

I know so little about dinoflagellates dude. what even are these

My yearly Christmas JWST art🎄 #spacecraftgijinka #telescopegijinka

Found an incredible specimen of the Moth Urchin Fungus (Akanthomyces aculeatus) today in a hemlock ravine! Who doesn’t appreciate a good insect pathogen? #FungiFriends

Whatever you're celebrating today (or if you're not celebrating at all), please enjoy this GIFt of firefly light from the archives of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, v. 3, pt. 2 (1880-86). biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580274.

Thread of my Christmas gingerbreads 🌌⬇️

One year since NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-setting closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, coming within 3.8M miles of the solar surface. Designed, built, and operated by APL, the spacecraft continues delivering groundbreaking results. https://jhuapl.link/089

Day 24 and last of #Crustmas: Festive terrestrial isopods Happy holidays to all of you from the Museum en Voie d'Illumination exhibition from 2022 at the MNHN Paris