Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Moon Cave: The Hanger’ (2025, acrylics on canvas board)

Ossoff: The America first president who said he would end foreign wars to put America first and focus on America's working class. Instead, now he says, it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare. Now he says all we can afford is war.

Ossoff: He promised the golden age. Inflation's higher than when Trump took office. Unemployment's higher than when Trump took office, and consumer sentiments at its worst in 70 years.

Ossoff: The president promised to fight for the working class and end foreign wars. Instead, he cut your healthcare to give the rich another tax break and last week yet more Americans were wounded in a war no one voted for and no one can explain

Ossoff: While you pay more for everything, Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. He forced out that Republican, the one who made him release the Epstein files. That is true commitment to the cover-up.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

Artistic rendering of a Black Hole. ⚫️ #art #nature #science #space

It mightn't look like much. But this little red dot is a supermassive black hole about 50 million times more massive than the Sun, its light dating to just 700 million years after the Big Bang—when the Universe was just 5% its current age. It is insane to me that we can see this far back.

Researchers have made the first direct mass measurement of a black hole in the early universe using #NASAWebb. The supermassive black hole in Abell2744-QSO1 seems to predate its galaxy and may have formed within the first second after the big bang: https://news.stsci.edu/4uwvH5Z

This is what a (partial) solar eclipse looks like from space. Look closely and you can see the mountains along the Moon's edge.

On this slightly longer clip, a white object transits the sky on the right. What is that?

This is a newly processed view of the largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. It's 21 km tall. It's as wide as Arizona. Metropolitan LA fits inside its summit caldera. Its basal cliff is 7 km high. And it started to grow ~3.5 billion years ago but has lavas only 2 million years old.

The second wave of #uap files were just released from the Pentagon. Most of the data confirms much of what we've already seen and knew. Mostly orbs/sentient plasma, in proximity to the water or military assets, an interest in nuclear energy. Origin, intent and capabilities unclear. #nhi #ufo #ufosky

🔭 A Collision of Galaxy Clusters Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/C. Watson et al.; Optical: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk and P. Edmonds Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260521

The NSA just released hundreds of pages of previously secret UAP records after a FOIA appeal by Disclosure Foundation. The records include radar tracking, visual sightings, and reports involving unidentified objects. Read the release: disclosure.org/nsa-top-secr...

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

First new Steve R Dodd painting for 2026! ‘The Moon: South Pole’ (2026, acrylics)

🔭 R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet Image Credit & Copyright: Chester Hall-Fernandez ap260515

For your Monday, here's one of the JWST Deep Field images. This is a portion of the sky about one-fifth the size of a full Moon. And it contains THOUSANDS of galaxies—some of which extend back to when the Universe was a couple of billion years old. The redder a galaxy, the farther away it is.

The most compelling of the videos released by the Pentagon today, in my opinion. Comparatively clear and shows the relative size and speed of the object in relation to the horizon. #uap #science #nhi #ufo #ufosky

One of the more intriguing images in the first batch of releases thus far; a triangular formation of lights photographed from the surface of the moon by Apollo 17 in 1972. #uap #science #nhi #ufo #ufosky

A top 10 favourite book cover, art by Dean Ellis for As On A Darkling Plain by Ben Bova (Dell, 1974)

The search for aliens levels up: New observatories and AI are poised to turbocharge the hunt for intelligent life. www.astronomy.com/features/the... 🧪 🔭

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Every so often I like to look at the JWST deep field images—like this one, from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. This is part of the sky known as GOODS-South. Every six-pointed feature is a star in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. And there's about 32,000 of them here.

Following Roman’s launch, both #NASAWebb and #NASARoman will have an almost unobstructed view of the whole sky—and low temperatures to keep their instruments cool—at the second Lagrange Point: https://science.nasa.gov/roman-and-webb/

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

Art by Dave Dorman for Star Wars Dark Empire 2 (Dark Horse, 1992)

This is a composite image of a planetary system that's still growing. This is what the Solar System looked like when the planets were being born.

Artemis II on the far side, taken by NASA. #art #science #photography

HOLY SHIT

I can't stop staring at these photos. This is what Earthset looks like—our homeworld setting behind the Moon. And compare the dark, cratered surface of the Moon to the blue oceans and swirling clouds on our own planet. If there's a starker illustration of our lifegiving world, I've yet to see it.

This is haunting. More from yesterday's solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II crew. The Sun's corona is faintly visible emerging from behind the Moon. And, at lower left, Venus.

Oh my. This is what the Artemis II astronauts saw yesterday when the Moon eclipsed the Sun. #NoWords #ShouldHaveSentAPoet

Watch 1 minute and 50 seconds of the Artemis II launch from the Orion capsule, including booster separation and adapter panel jettison... ...set to "No Time for Caution" from the Interstellar score.

Another arresting photo of our home planet from the Artemis II crew. This one was taken by Reid Wiseman after the translunar injection burn. The image is inverted relative to how we normally see Earth; the landmass at centre is Australia, and New Zealand is to its left. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Oh my. It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off. Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

Astronomers have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars. The new list prioritizes worlds that are both potentially habitable and observable, marking a shift from discovering planets to strategically studying them. 🧪 🔭 Read more: www.seti.org/news/we-fina...

This new #JWST image of Saturn is AWESOME

#PPOD: Saturn's fourth-largest moon, Dione, can be seen through the haze of the planet's largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 22, 2011, with the planet and its rings in the background. The north polar hood is visible on Titan here... 🧪 🔭

‘The Big Generator’ by John Harris (2000)

When scientists recently trained Hubble on Comet K1, they got a big surprise—the comet was breaking apart! The odds of that happening while Hubble watched are … well, astronomical: https://news.stsci.edu/3OXyAx3

Take a journey through space to one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. Hubble joined ESA’s Euclid space telescope to create a new image of this nebula. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA.

Early concept art for Alien by Ron Cobb (1977)

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

Found some Bracket Mushrooms yesterday. #art #nature #fungifriends

#PPOD: This beautiful image shows a swirling region of bright clouds in the wake of a cyclonic storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. On the left, you can see the turbulent, blue-tinted pole, while on the right, the polar clouds give way to the pinker belts and zones of Jupiter’s mid-latitudes. 🧪 🔭