Turtles in the C & O canal, DC

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3: #ThroughTheNight - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Third Piano Concerto Petra Somlai plays Beethoven's third concerto for the piano with Concerto Stella Matutina. ▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds

Last night at 1:32 AM, the NOAA-21 satellite captured an image of the aurora over eastern North America. The auroral oval was extended, and during substorms, there were brief views of the northern lights from as far south as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri.

HiRISE 3D: Pitted Cones in Aurorae Chaos What we have here are possible mud or igneous volcanoes. Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_089107_1720_ESP_088540_1720_RED NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

IT'S PUMPKIN SEASON, BETCHES

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

2 space agencies, 2 epic missions, 1 in-coming asteroid, and 1 sweet logo! A joint launch for the ESA Ramses and JAXA DESTINY+ missions onboard the JAXA H3 is under consideration 🚀🛰️🛰️ Both missions will observe asteroid Apophis which will NOT HIT THE EARTH but make a close approach in 2029.

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

All eyes on #3I/ATLAS ☄️ Our Mars Express & ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will observe the comet around its closest approach to Mars on 3 October 2025, when 3I/ATLAS will be around 30 million km from the red planet. Stay tuned and follow esa.int/3IATLAS 🔭🧪

I love giving tours. What I wouldn't give to do a tour of the US Capitol. I do tours several times a week of Riordan Mansion State Historic Park, and I used to do tours of Lowell Observatory and USGS Astrogeology - but the Capitol - can't imagine anything more cool than that.

Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

This is a masterclass in seeking every possible type of relief for a violation of your federal constitutional rights by a federal officer. Injunctive relief, APA, state tort law, Westfall Act, FTCA, Bivens—it’s all in there. Our friends at @ij.org really know what they’re doing.

The government is shut down, but they can't stop me from posting stuff here. At Mars this weekend, it's all eyes on the skies. NASA's robotic explorers – in orbit and on the ground – will attempt observations when Comet 3I/ATLAS cruises past the Red Planet on Oct 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQH...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could soon be seen by spacecraft at Mars, Jupiter and the Sun ☑️ www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/comet-3... ☑️ arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768 NASA has confirmed that Curiosity, Perseverance and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will attempt to observe 3I/ATLAS. #3IATLAS 🧪🔭

let the gourd times roll

Happy Spooky Season!!!

Working families with ACA health care cannot afford for their health insurance costs to more than DOUBLE. The Trump administration needs to fund the government and fix this health care crisis NOW. Tell Congress: get to work and put working people first! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

"ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

Many of you may remember Bill Anders #Apollo8 picture of Earth rise. #JAXA captures that moment in time with a HD video on September 30, 2008. contactlight.de forallmankind.de

HiPOD: A Layered Mesa in Deuteronilus Mensae The objective of this observation is to examine a layered mesa in a small crater. The mesa appears to be higher than the crater rim. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076393_2230 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Some sunspots this afternoon on the first day of October.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising. Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

The lava fountains have returned to Kīlauea. Whatch it live: www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

The view is even better on camera 3. www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Seismic data from the #NASA #InSight mission reveal a solid inner core at the center of Mars. Story by @javibar.bsky.social eos.org/articles/sci...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends time and space. Except for New Comic Book Day! #interstellar #marvel #ncbd #dccomics #batman #starwars #xmen #imagecomics #boomstudios #spidermannoir #batgirl

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3: #ThroughTheNight - Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra play Bach, Mozart and Poulenc. ▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4673 drive. flic.kr/p/2rwvtm8

Dem messaging right now should be this, loud and clear: "The GOP would rather shut down the government than let the American people have affordable healthcare." On repeat and everywhere.

This evening's lovely big (and very low) Moon sails on the last day of September - ally-ally-oh! Also, can you see the 'Eyes' of Clavius? It only lasts a few hours. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

HiRISE 3D: Alluvial Fan and Light-Toned Deposits in Coprates Catena From the science rationale: Any evidence for playas? How did the basin evolve? Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_089187_1655_ESP_089121_1655_RED NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!

Our message to the Trump administration is clear: Fund the government. Fix the health care crisis. Put working people first.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

📸🔭 October promises to be spectacular for comets: ☄️ C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will reach magnitude 3–2 and be visible to the naked eye in dark skies. ☄️ C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will shine in binoculars, with long ion tails in photos. We’ll keep following them day by day on these feeds so you don’t miss the show ✨

Stars in our galaxy make a stadium wave, Gaia finds 🙌 Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles 🌀 But #ESAGaia has just revealed that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

A large storm in Jupiter’s mid northern latitudes seen by the Juno spacecraft on April 15, 2021 during Perijove 33. flic.kr/p/2kUxGVP

I finally have clear skies so this morning I am up before sunrise to catch Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). 🔭

Sunday's 41% illuminated Moon in the waxing crescent phase. 🔭

“In order to create those fractures (seen on Ariel's surface), you have to have either a really thin ice on a really big ocean, or a higher eccentricity and a smaller ocean. But either way, we need an ocean to be able to create the fractures that we are seeing on Ariel’s surface.”🧪🔭 buff.ly/S0y6BDN

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me). www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

HiPOD: Future Travels in East Coprates Chasma From the science rationale: “We are exploring rotorcraft mission concepts that would explore geology in Coprates Canyon. This concept may require traverse between the Valles Marineris floor and the plateau.” https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076396_1640