#PPOD: This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. These observations were made by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and include both visible and ultraviolet data. 🧪 🔭 Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky

Dr. Ariel Graykowski is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on the astronomy of small bodies, working with citizen scientists to monitor cometary activity through the Unistellar Network. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#PPOD: Toward the middle of 2012, a long-standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space, producing an energetic coronal mass ejection. The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever-changing magnetic field, and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: Toward the middle of 2012, a long-standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space, producing an energetic coronal mass ejection. The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever-changing magnetic field, and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO 🧪 🔭

Utilizing state-of-the-art spectroscopic analyses and in situ measurements from various #Mars missions, researchers have illuminated the mineralogical composition and formation processes of iron-bearing sulfate compounds. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: scienmag.com/ferric-hydro...

TV news interview with astronaut Shawna Pandya, Bill Diamond (President and CEO, SETI Institute), and James Arvanitakis (Forest Research Foundation) on Western Australia Channel 7 news while attending an event at the Western Australia Museum. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 youtu.be/Pr7jFCldfjM

#PPOD: These Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Sept. 8, 2022. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

On Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, at 7 pm (PT), Dr. Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: "The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Surveying the Universe" in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College in Los Altos (see directions at link below). 🧪 🔭 #bayarea

Science writer @maryroach.bsky.social joins us on @bipisci.bsky.social to give us a tour of the past and present of where to go and what to use when body parts fail. Her new book is “Replaceable You”. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/spa...

#PPOD: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet. 🧪 🔭

#ICYMI: Are we close to discovering life beyond Earth? Dr. Martin Dominik isn't certain, but he thinks we should be prepared to handle the consequences of finding that life. He spoke with Dr. Franck Marchis in this week's #SETILive. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/cULB0k2... 🧪 🔭

SETI Live recently hosted York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré, whose latest research examines molten rocky exoplanets that orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces remain at temperatures hot enough to keep rock in a liquid state. 🧪 🔭 Learn more:

Dr. Ian Weaver earned his PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard University, where he studied the atmospheres of planets around other stars. He currently serves as the Education Lead for Unistellar, which provides community outreach support for the NASA Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission. 🧪

The durability of forever chemicals comes from replacing hydrogen atoms with fluorine atoms in an eight-carbon chain. The strong carbon-fluorine bond does not break down easily. Why that’s a problem for our health on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 Listen here: buff.ly/HrU8NJN

www.seti.org/news/seti-ai... This year marks the inaugural launch of the Cosmic Chronicles Literary Award, and it has been thrilling to witness the global enthusiasm for this new initiative. Submissions have come in from around the world and from a wide range of voices: 🐡

#PPOD: A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae, the site of a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Credit: STScI, NASA, Jon Morse 🧪

Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University, where her research focused on the impacts of the last deglaciation on the Black and Marmara Seas. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens

Next #SETILive: When We Find Life TODAY, 18 September, 11:00 am PDT @allplanets.bsky.social welcomes Martin Dominik, one of the authors of a new white paper on the societal, political, and philosophical challenges we’ll face once alien life is confirmed. 🧪 🔭 WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/cULB0k2...

#PPOD: Lying inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this Herbig–Haro object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away. 🧪 🔭

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal Planetarium in Canada. 🧪 🔭 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/small-a...

How do we find new trans-Neptunian objects, given that they are small and distant? Astronomer Dr. Rosemary E. Pike explains the necessary observations taken before, during, and after the expected place in the sky. Listen to the latest #SETILive #podcast: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

PPOD: The Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface ever recorded. The image, produced by the National Solar Observatory, reveals a turbulent, "boiling" pattern of gas covering our star. Credit: Inouye Solar Telescope, NSO, AURA, NSF 🧪 🔭

www.nasa.gov/general/nasa... The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Taejin Park, Lydia Schweitzer, and Rachel Morgan. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Under the tropical skies of Puerto Rico, a new observatory joined the @laserseti.bsky.social Network, expanding the SETI Institute’s ability to search for technosignatures. The project will scan the heavens for fleeting flashes of light. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/laserse...

#PPOD: NASA’s JWST captured this sparkling scene of star birth in an image released on Sept. 4, 2025. Called Pismis 24, this young star cluster resides in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. 🧪 🔭

SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is one of the few telescopes in the world dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Each day, this extraordinary instrument maps cosmic phenomena and collects more than 2 terabytes of data... 🧪 🔭

Scientists have found forever chemicals everywhere on the planet, including in the blood of nearly every living being. What happens when the federal agency tasked with regulating the chemicals loses its authority and muscle to do so, on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 Listen: buff.ly/HrU8NJN

#PPOD: This photograph of Earth and the Moon was taken by the JANUS camera onboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). It was taken on September 9, 2024, as Juice sailed off towards Venus following its lunar-Earth flyby. Credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS; Acknowledgments: Livio Agostini 🧪 🔭

A new study led by ETH Zurich fellow @aaffholder.bsky.social examines whether Titan's subsurface ocean could support life. His findings suggest that if life exists there, it may persist only in extremely small amounts, making detection a formidable challenge. 🧪 🔭 Learn more:

#ICYMI: On #SETILive, Beth discussed molten exoplanets with planetary scientist Charles-Édouard Boukaré and learned what they can reveal about the composition and even formation of these fascinating worlds. Watch the entire conversation: youtube.com/live/9dRYXdz... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

@chenoachem.bsky.social is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens

Project CETI is decoding whale communication. Find out how these efforts might help the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We hear the story of chattering cetaceans and “Animal Alphabets” on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ani...

Each summer, we invite a select group of undergraduate students to participate in its Research Experience for Undergraduates program. As part of the program, students participate in several off-site field trips. In July, the students spent a week at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Yesterday at #EPSCDPS2025: Cuk et al., "Dynamics and Fate of the Past Martian Rings" - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... Discussing models of Phobos as the most recent state of a ring-moon cycle around Mars. @setiinstitute.bsky.social

#PPOD: From the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, @vrubinobs.bsky.social reaches for the "Milky Road" above. The new facility will spend a decade creating the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a cosmic history that will capture every visible change in the southern sky. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Heliophysicist and science communicator Dr. Becca Robinson is a “curious and driven researcher” who has worked on projects worldwide, from drilling ice cores on Icelandic glaciers to analyzing solar MHD simulations. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #Heliophysics #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens

HOT. MOLTEN. EXOPLANETS. Next #SETILive: Worlds of Fire TODAY, 11 September, 2:30 pm PDT Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré (York University) as they dive into new research on molten rocky exoplanets—worlds so hot that their surfaces are oceans of magma. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#PPOD: The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing by Gerald Eichstädt 🧪 🔭

In the past decades, Mars exploration has offered repeated evidence of Mars’ habitability, and tantalizing but inconclusive hints that the Red Planet may once have hosted life. None of these findings, however, could confirm that life was ever present on Mars. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

"As we enter the 'Age of AI,' robotics and AI are making strides to achieve the first artificial humans," SETI Institute planetary scientist Pascal Lee said, "androids given the same physical traits and mobility as humans and equipped with artificial general intelligence (AGI)." 🧪

We're back! In our latest #SETILive podcast, Simon Steel spoke with a team of scientists about the discovery of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what types of observations we can expect going forward. Listen to the full episode: www.seti.org/seti-live/ 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

We dive deeper into our latest telescope installation in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 with @setiinstitute.bsky.social Keeping watch over the busy Caribbean skies, this node brings us one step closer to mapping all the sky, all the time. Read more 👉 www.skymapper.io/blog-skymapp...

Join our crew for deals & space nerd updates (~2x/month): lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/8P7gnTl Plus cool collabs with @planetarysociety.bsky.social @setiinstitute.bsky.social. Not spam, just good stuff.

PRESS RELEASE: www.seti.org/news/perseve... Perseverance Rover Uncovers Clues to Ancient Martian Chemistry New findings suggest chemical reactions involving minerals, water, and possibly organic material could have created energy-rich environments on early Mars. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#PPOD: Saturn viewed at infrared wavelengths, as imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2014. The hexagon at the top represents a giant jet stream, approximately 29,000 to 30,000 km wide, with sides approximately 14,500 km long. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SSI, CICLOPS; Processing: Maksim Kakitsev 🧪

This special edition of SETI Live featured SETI Institute postdoctoral researcher Dr. Lauren Sgro, outreach manager for the LaserSETI project, in conversation with @profabelmendez.bsky.social, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Arecibo. 🧪 🔭

#ICYMI: Last week, @planetarypan.bksy.social interviewed @aaffholder.bsky.social about measuring the potential biomass that might exist in the subsurface oceans of Saturn's moon, Titan. While some of the research was based on hypotheses, empirical data also needed to be taken into consideration. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Petr Pokorný showed the @setiinstitute.bsky.social / @unistellar.bsky.social citizen-science network in action: precise stellar occultations (incl. main-belt asteroid Oersted) and NEO light curves—distributed observers, pro-grade results. 🔭 #Asteroids #Occultations #CitizenScience

Ariel Graykowski presented LUSTER - a small-aperture lunar telescope with a @setiinstitute.bsky.social / @unistellar.bsky.social -heritage data pipeline. Imagine lunar nodes plugging into @skymapper.bsky.social. The things that constant Moon-side coverage could unlock!🌕 #EPSCDPS25 #Astronomy

#PPOD: Many Martian dunes are known to be covered unevenly with carbon dioxide (dry ice) frost, creating patterns of light and dark areas. Carbon dioxide doesn’t melt; instead, it sublimates, directly turning into a gas. Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA; Processing: Włodek Głażewski 🧪 🔭