Earth's heat to power 10,000 homes in renewable energy first for UK. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And we're off! My most favourite telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory, has turned on its public alert stream and boy, were there a lot of changes in the Universe last night. More coming: ~7 million a night 😮: exploding stars, belching black holes, asteroids cruising through the solar system. 🤗🔭🧪

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Happy 39th anniversary to an astronomical revolution: the light from the explosion of Supernova 1987A reaching Earth! Here's what I wrote about JWST observations of this event. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/truly-weir... 🔭 🧪

Wow! Worth a watch.

'She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”' #ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wow, that's cool! Note that New Horizons flew past Pluto so rapidly it only got really detailed images of one side, hence the fuzzy parts.

Wow! 😮

After sunset, around 18:00 UT on 20 February, it might be possible to spot the 11% lit #Moon in a line with Saturn, Mercury and Venus low in the west-southwest. This will be a tricky one too see due to the faintness and low height of the planets. The Moon should be a nice sight though. #Astronomy

WE HAVE THE FIRST VERTICAL VIEW OF URANUS’S IONOSPHERE FROM JWST!!!! LOOK AT THOSE AURORAS!!

Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience

This is Awesome!! Well done Sam! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See those two dots with arrows pointing to them? They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away. These are directly imaged exoplanets.

100% this! Technology is just a means to an end, not the end in itself. The best solutions are those that solve actual problems. Better technology can make those solutions cheaper, or more efficient, but they aren't a solution all by themselves. Tech is the bricks that solutions are made of.

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social FYI: I've done it!! I've emailed, and had a positive response back about my idea for an observatory. Won't say any more in public, but I just wanted to thank you for the inspiration and encouraging me to finally act. Cheers!

Roses are red Sunflowers are tall Sweep the midterms Then impeach them all

Today's Sun in white light. 14 February 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

A crescent view of Earth seen through the lunar module window of the outbound Apollo 15 mission in late July 1971. Along with the thinly illuminated Earth, the camera picked up a lot of sun glare on the thick window glass. flic.kr/p/2rW2tui

Luke Skywalker, drawn ✏️ by me in 5B pencil only. Drawn on 8"x12" paper, 2018. I don't care what anyone says, his character is perfect as a cynical, new, beardy Yoda for the sequels. Fight me. #TillysArt [1/3...]

Here's one of the awesome gifts I received for my birthday.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

🌙 On this day in Jodrell’s history... In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express newspaper. 📸: JBO / UoM

A new sodium-sulfur chemistry more than doubles the voltage of these batteries and could make them mainstream in applications from cars to electronics.

@bhaalspawn.bsky.social Are you OK? You've been conspicuously quiet since your birthday. Or are you just really hungover? 🤣

Trump is going to DEMOLISH THE KENNEDY CENTER!! Just as he demolished the east wing of the White House. The replacement will likely be a gaudy, gilded monstrosity.

This brought a tear to my eye - in a good way. It's a reminder that there are still good people in the world, despite all the recent evidence to the contrary.

Yes, it’s astonishing that Kristi Noem still has her job after the deaths, lies, and failures on her watch. But the American people have the final say when it comes to holding this entire administration - from the president on down - accountable for its cruelty and corruption.

@bhaalspawn.bsky.social Happy Birthday!! 🎁🎉🎈🍾🎂🍰 May all your missions be accomplished, and all your enemies be fragged / turned into appropriately diminutive animals.😊

My favorite fun fact is that Dragonfly literally cannot fly on Earth. And if it tried, the rotors would basically immediately overheat.

Ad astra Challenger crew. 40 years.

One of my children just successfully defended their viva!! First doctor in the family !!! So proud 😊

Europe hit a historic milestone as EV sales surpassed gas cars for the first time, despite geopolitical headwinds. insideevs.com/news/785541/...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Come on!! We can do it!! It's not too late to turn the tide on global warming and reduce the number of catastrophic weather events. You know ... like it was when I was a kid. When "100 year events" really were, and not every other year instead.

I concur with this sentiment. I finally realised my life-long dream of having a really good stereo system (built by me) a few years ago, and my only regret is that I didn't do it earlier. On some tracks, it's like having the artist in the room with you.

Finally, the NRA has woken up. Never thought I'd ever agree with anything coming from them, but apparently it took the state murder of a peaceful gun owner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, in the UK ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, in Europe ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

I feel seen .... 😳

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Nice message❤️

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Well isn't this just dandy! (heavy sarcasm) America is fast becoming a problem not just for its own people, but everyone on the planet .. sigh ... 😞 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...