Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄🎅❄️⛄️

Wild … a weird lemon-shaped exoplanet with helium and carbon atmosphere, orbiting a pulsar! 🍋🌌👀 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Just completed another trip around the sun! 🙂🚀☀️🎂🎉

Saw these cool Christmas stilt walkers today. At night, the costumes light up and “glow.” 😲

Big wind and rain storm here last night. My patio umbrella, folded up for winter and with a heavy cement base, blew right over with a big thud! Now it’s sunny again. 😲💨🌧️☀️

But of course, just before the Epstein files get released … 😒🙄

Uranus and Neptune Might Be Rock Giants www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...

Interesting billboards for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming 2026 UFO film (not officially named yet). This way, it looks kind of like both an alien face and a bird. But if you turn the image upside down, it looks more like a human face. Cool! 👽👀 #UFOs #StevenSpielberg

Albany Receives Major Gift to Advance Scientific Research on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena #UAP www.albany.edu/news-center/...

'No easy explanation': Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light www.livescience.com/space/extrat...

'Don’t look up?' - Why it is past time for serious holistic research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena #UAP www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/11/2...

Interesting update about sub-Neptune TOI-270 d. Latest analysis is consistent with a Hycean world with water ocean, but not proven yet. Also tentative detection of dimethyl sulfide (2.1-2.5 sigma), reminiscent of the controversial K2-18 b. astrobiology.com/2025/11/the-... arxiv.org/abs/2511.13830

"Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six years." www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/s...

Did Mars once have a larger moon? 👀 eos.org/articles/sed...

2 more good articles - in Astronomy and Scientific American - about the unexplained 1950s transient flashes seen in astronomical photographic plates from Palomar Observatory. #transients 🌌🤔 www.astronomy.com/science/did-... www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...

(1/3) Interesting update by astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch on the controversy over whether the Viking landers did or didn't detect microbial life on Mars in the late 1970s. Early results were positive, but later said to be erroneous after no organics found in the samples. Viking did find ...

My article for @earthskyscience.bsky.social about the odd transient flashes - hypothesized to be objects orbiting Earth & coinciding with nuclear tests/UAP in 2 new peer-reviewed papers - seen in Palomar photographic plates from early 1950s, before the 1st satellites. 🤔 earthsky.org/earth/transi...

There’s a new article on Phys.org about the 1950s astronomical flashing #transients, making the case that they are unlikely to be the result of plate defects or atmospheric debris from the nuclear bomb testing. #UAP 🤔 phys.org/news/2025-10...

Interesting! 2 new papers from Beatriz Villarroel et al now peer-reviewed and published in Scientific Reports and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Unusual transient points of light near Earth seen in pre-Sputnik (early 1950s) astronomical plates. 🤔 www.su.se/english/news...

I love symphonic metal/rock music, but somehow missed The Rock Orchestra until now (which started in 2020)! A rotating collective of musicians combining classical, rock and metal music with gothic visuals. This cover of Zombie by The Cranberries, with Erin Fox, is amazing. 😲 youtu.be/6VyMZ976u4s?...

Interesting article from @gilster.bsky.social at Centauri Dreams about how the newly discovered characteristics of the Wow! Signal could be consistent with power beaming (using electromagnetic beams to transmit power long-distance) instead of communication. 🤔 www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/09/22/b...

Had a dream last night that I was seeing live close-up video of 3I/ATLAS. It was a huge sphere with many little tubes or nozzles around its middle. They started emitting a lot of vapor or gas of some kind. And then a larger one shaped like a horn did the same thing. 🤷‍♂️😯

Interesting … 🤔 www.cpp.edu/news/content...

Happy Birthday, @genejm1017.bsky.social! 🙂🎂🚀

Um, I thought the rapture was supposed to happen today … did I miss it? 😬😅

Is there a rocky planet more massive than Mercury in the far outer solar system? 🤔 eos.org/articles/a-s...

NASA has now cataloged more than 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! With over 8,000 additional candidates awaiting confirmation. And watch a new video about it from @earthskyscience.bsky.social! 🌌 www.nasa.gov/universe/exo... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm4w...

Great article from Nathalie Cabrol (@bluedot721.bsky.social) about the discovery of possible signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. A good, balanced overview of the current evidence. 👍🦠 www.seti.org/news/mars-di...

In regards to the exciting but still-potential discovery of evidence for ancient microbial life on #Mars, if I have to choose between random internet “experts” and the nearly 90 scientists listed in the peer-reviewed paper, I’m going to go with the scientists actually involved.

NASA's press release about the Sapphire Canyon sample obtained by the Perseverance rover in July 2024. It's the rock with the "leopard spots" and "poppy seeds" spots that *might* be evidence of ancient microbial life. The paper is now peer-reviewed. 🦠 www.nasa.gov/news-release...

I really didn’t like what Charlie Kirk stood for. BUT, murdering him was not the answer! He now has a grieving wife and young kids. There’s way too much violence as it is in this world. I see some cheering his death and MAGA declaring “war.” This madness has to end, but I know it probably won’t.

The NASA Mars press briefing on Wednesday is about the same rock sampled in July 2024 with the “leopard spots” and “poppy seeds” markings on it. Those were identified as potential biosignatures, so the briefing on Wednesday will be an update on that apparently. 🤔😯

I love these creatures, the blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii). 😊

I wish the people who think that the Webb space telescope images of #31/ATLAS are fake or intentionally made low resolution would take the time to find out how the telescope actually works, what cameras are used, its primary purposes, etc. Ugh. 😒🤦‍♂️

New #SETI paper using ESO HARPS data to search for possible laser emissions. 🤔 “This leaves 3 final candidates which currently defy the prosaic explanations examined thus far, show no indication of a terrestrial origin and therefore warrant further investigation.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.08628

Psyche spacecraft sees Earth and the moon from afar! 🌎🌕🛰️

Uranus now has 29 known moons! earthsky.org/space/new-mo...

"The finding supports theories that this intriguing dwarf planet, which is the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may have once had conditions suitable to support single-celled lifeforms." 🦠 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-ce...

This is an interesting art piece in Coal Harbour, on the edge of downtown here in Vancouver, called Aerodynamic Forms in Space. 🚀✈️

Finished my Sherlock Holmes jigsaw puzzle. This was a fun one. 🧩🕵️‍♂️

Another interesting Mars rock that the Perseverance rover saw on August 5, 2025 (Martian sol 1585). Kind of looks like a dumbo octopus or a helmet. And it's covered in many small spherical nodules. Concretions? 😉🐙🪖 mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

TRAPPIST-1 update from the Webb space telescope: Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d could have an extremely thin atmosphere like Mars, an atmosphere with very thick, high-altitude clouds like Venus or no atmosphere at all. 🤔 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

New evidence for a gas giant exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A in the Alpha Centauri system of 3 stars, only 4 light-years away. Proxima Centauri has 2 known confirmed planets, close to Earth and smaller than Earth in size, and a 3rd larger candidate. 😯 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Curiosity rover on Mars sees 2 little rocks shaped like coral. #Curiosity #Mars 😯 www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26... www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26...

"Building on those tasks, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s NDAA draft includes requirements that would require Northcom and NORAD to alert AARO and Congress about any time they intercept a potential UAP." #UAP defensescoop.com/2025/07/29/u...

#UAP www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Forgot to post these before. Vancouver International Jazz Festival downtown, June 22, 2025. 🙂🎷🎶 #jazz #music More (26 photos): www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/...

Some interesting rocks that the #Curiosity rover recently came across on #Mars, on June 13, 2025. They are on a mountain slope in the distance. Honeycomb-like textures that kind of look like snakeskin. 😉🤔 See also this new video from Mars Guy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGzZ...

Happy Canada Day! 🙂🇨🇦

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