Northern pygmy owl [📸 Bucci Photography] Original post

Frog and Toad hurried outside. They ran around the corner of Frog's house to make sure that spring had come again.

Coming out in the rain for a drink #snail

#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography

Western bluebird #birds picture saturation/colors not modified, it was really that blue

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Breathtaking photos are coming down to Earth from NASA’s historic Artemis II mission, after its four astronauts flew around the far side of the Moon yesterday. Prepare to be dazzled. go.nature.com/3O4xRdm

I was shooting directly into the sun, unfortunately so my aim got worse as the #bird flew away #LargeBirdsInFlight #birdsky posted for today’s theme

Here's a pair of Lesser Black Backed Gulls, which cover the Alt Theme from Today's #BirdOfTheDay which is 'Gulls. I'm off to sort through some more of last weeks photos, i will be be back later to go through more of today's contributions. #birds #ECK #CanonR5mkii #photography @rspb.bsky.social

Sometimes you gotta just slow down #snails #snailsky

That’s a strange fruit for this tree #moon #flowersky

Watermelon #flowersky

I’m not even sure what this thing is #flowersky

🧪 Andy Howell (my advisor!) was the primary science consultant for #ProjectHailMary by Andy Weir. Here's his video explaining the #science behind the #sciencefiction! Featuring interviews with real #astronauts and #AndyWeir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kyC...

Life is better when you have a #friend

The Snow Fairy: Japan's Cutest Bird Weighs Only 8 Grams 🐦❄️

A #lizard is just a #friend you haven’t made yet!

I was so focused on Venus, I almost missed the #moon #crescent

Symmetry and chaos, with #Venus at the exact center of it all

🧪Our paper is on the cover of @nature.com today! We discovered a brand new kind of signal in space--a supernova that chirped! We tied the signal back to the birth of a magnetar deep below the supernova, powering it from within. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Supernovae are bright. This one is EXTRA bright. Why?! It's hard to study what's behind these super-bright cosmic explosions, but a wobble in the signal from this one gave it away🧪🔭 Here's the story from me with funky 90s graphics from the fab @danjfox.bsky.social With🙏to @drjrfarah.bsky.social

Spotted this little guy near the lagoon #mushrooms #mushroomsky #mushroommonday

Thanks to @hannahdevlin.bsky.social from @theguardian.com for the article about our first ever #BlackHole 🔭🧪 movie campaign 🎬 with the @ehtelescope.bsky.social, coming soon to a telescope near you! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

🧪Keep an eye on the sky in 2026! David and I are two astrophysicists and have put together a big list of astro events to watch in 2026, including eclipses, elongations, and meteor showers. Mark your calendars! (or check out our PDF space calendar in the description!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZdn...

@alan678.bsky.social #birdoftheday theme is #branchingout, here is a Merlin and red tailed hawk in Goleta from the last few days! #birds #birdsky

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #branchingout birds on branches, the alternative is #waders wading birds . Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

It’s that time of year, I present Duck Butt. #birds #birdsky #birdbutts #birdoftheday

A sassy Santa Barbara Merlin gives me a haughty look from 500 ft away. #Birds #BirdSky #nature #wildlife #photography

Find out more about the work of Dr Kazunori Akiyama, who will join @heriotwattuni.bsky.social to create the first ever 3D films of black holes using AI: www.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

⭐️✨🔭Please help us get the message out about the 7th annual international ASPIRE program at @api.uva.nl. This summer 2026 school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. Applications are due 17 Dec! ⭐️✨🔭

Thankful.

A duck in the little pond behind my house at 300mm #birds

🧪Due to the Gifford Fires, there was a lot of smoke in the air and the moon looked as red as a lunar eclipse! I got this shot using my EOST6 hooked up to my 6SE. This isn’t over saturated; the moon was really that red! What do you this kind of moon should be called? I was thinking of "Ember Moon".

1.5yrs of progress imaging the moon. What have I learned? -Don't be afraid of multiple exposures to achieve HDR. -Clouds can be your friends, not just a nuisance. -Capture what you saw, not what you wish you saw. -Limit glow to taste. #moon #lunar #astrophotography #photography #progress

🧪 David and I are astrophysicists, and we put together a review of the paper reporting the detection of DMS/DMDS on K2-18b. We walk through the paper figures and methods and cover how these kinds of measurements are made and what it implies for the search for life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK9B...

🧪We published a paper exploring the ability of a black hole's photon ring to measure how fast the BH is spinning, using the kinds of images we hope to make with BHEX. One cool result was tools (e.g., below) to measure the geometry of the PR. Read our study here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

🧪 Have you seen Ashton Hall's viral and bizarre morning routine, which includes a pool dive where he appears to start a dive at 7:36am and touch the water 4 min later? We asked: how high would he need to jump to actually take 4 min to land in the water? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdvn...

🧪 I captured last night's total lunar eclipse! I used a Celestron 6SE and a EOS T6 Rebel DSLR to capture the moon at different phases during the eclipse. For the partial eclipse, I exposed the moon 3 times for the red, lit, and middle part, and then composited it in procreate to show all the light!

🧪I caught the full Mars occultation by the Moon last night! I used the same techniques I describe in previous posts to make these composites showing the full scale of the Moon in comparison to Mars. I also made a timelapse of the entire event, see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUO... #Mars #Moon

🧪sunspots on the sun during a solar storm! I took this image with my S50 50mm APO, with some light post processing. The sunspots visible here are the source of the huge CME/solar storm a few weeks ago that caused aurorae at unusually low latitudes. #space #sun #solar #storm #aurora