North Atlantic Hominid
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Hazard and risk wrangler, author of unread reports.
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Planetary Science Institute
about 19 hours ago
Happy Friday! This week's
#PlanetaryPet
is Fable. She is sweet and cuddly unless she is on patrol of her royal domain where she barks at coyotes, off-leash dogs, and noisy children. Fable lives with PSI Senior Scientist Jamie Molaro, who ranks Fable’s barking as “top of her class.”
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Adriana Horstman
3 days ago
Seen on our walk today. Hello turtle! 🐢
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US National Gemini Office
4 days ago
This timelapse captures the first light of day washing over the summit of Maunakea, where some of the world’s most advanced telescopes spend their nights exploring the Universe.
#astronomy
@keckobservatory.bsky.social
📸 International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/S. Goebel
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Dealing with the heat of summer year after year has me wanting to live underground.
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ESO
11 days ago
Taken before the completion of the observatory in 2013, this image succeeded in capturing the feeling of solitude experienced at the ALMA site, 5000 metres above sea level in the Chilean Andes. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1252a/ 🔭
#flashback
📷 ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
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FYI: There's a better book that already used the title "Communion".
12 days ago
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Here's hoping the Deep Synoptic Array becomes a movie star like its older OVRO siblings.
12 days ago
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities
12 days ago
🌍 Did you know the greenest place on Earth depends on one of the most barren? The Amazon rainforest is kept alive by dust from the Sahara Desert — blown clear across the Atlantic Ocean. A thread on one of the planet's strangest connections.
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The Cannon Film Guide
14 days ago
In case you need to reform the ninja empire, there’s an appropriate telephone available for sale in northern Connecticut.
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US National Gemini Office
17 days ago
What’s it like to be a telescope working the night shift? This time-lapse movie documents several hours of observations during the propagation of the laser beam of the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System at Gemini South in Chile.
#astronomy
📹: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes
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Dang, take a breath y'all!
add a skeleton here at some point
19 days ago
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South Pole Telescope
19 days ago
A picture of SPT and DSL from winterover Michel last week, with the moon starting to set. Even with the moon up and the red night vision lights on, you can still see the
#aurora
southern lights. @NSF @doescience
#Antarctica
#southpole
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO
22 days ago
#RadioImageoftheWeek
In the 1970s, the NSF Very Large Array was still under construction. In this aerial photo, a completed 25-meter antenna is being tested on the Master Pad and a headless antenna awaits a dish inside the Antenna Assembly Building, aka "the Barn." 📸 Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO
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Stuff like this is genuinely cool.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Jessica Christian
23 days ago
Nesting swallows, snaking waterways, low-flying planes, great egrets and stringy, orange, parasitic plants. Baylands Nature Preserve has something for everyone. Always love working on these stories with
@peterhartlaub.bsky.social
🦆
@sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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South Pole Telescope
25 days ago
Only a few weeks away from mid-winter, during the solstice on June-21. Weather has been unseasonably warm at
#southpole
, getting as high as -42 deg Fahrenheit last week. Here is a pic from winterover Michel, of SPT and DSL, lit by the moonlight. @NSF @doescience
#Antarctica
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Jessica Christian
26 days ago
Marshland texture study 🌾
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North Atlantic Hominid
US National Gemini Office
30 days ago
From
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
: The constellation Gemini shares its name with the International Gemini Observatory telescopes in Hawai‘i and Chile. These twin 8.1-meter observatories give astronomers access to the entire sky.
#astronomy
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🐋🐋🐋
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Jessica Christian
about 1 month ago
The wildfire prevention goats are out in full force at King Estate Open Space Preserve 🐐
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Adriana Horstman
about 1 month ago
Hello dragonfly :)
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North Atlantic Hominid
US National Gemini Office
about 1 month ago
Every couple of years, Flamingos-2 comes down for a little maintenance break. This instrument at the Gemini South telescope is spending a few weeks in the lab for cryocooler replacement and component checks.
#astronomy
📷 Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/S. Olivares
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All shapes and sizes
about 1 month ago
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Cold days and cruise ships
about 1 month ago
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Adriana Horstman
about 1 month ago
Hello ladybug :) 🐞
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North Atlantic Hominid
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO
about 1 month ago
Photos from our Astrophotography Workshop on 4/18/2026. The ngVLA prototype looks pretty ✨stellar✨ under all those stars! 📸 1: Alin Sosnovici 📸 2: Vlad Rebek 📸 3: Scott Broadwell 📸 4: Lilla Hangay
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
about 1 month ago
When the dome opens, the night sky is the star of the show! 🌌 Inside NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, the 8.4m telescope sits under an enormous dome. The open slit might seem too narrow, but it’s all we need to protect the telescope while giving full access to the sky. 🔭🧪
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Jessica Christian
about 1 month ago
A gray whale feeds off the shores of Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay Thursday, May 21
@sfchronicle.com
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We have a parade
about 1 month ago
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Sorry everyone but this is pretty much just an iceberg appreciation account now.
about 1 month ago
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Harbor housekeeping
about 1 month ago
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North Atlantic Hominid
Event Horizon Telescope
about 1 month ago
On set in Sierra Negra, where the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) has been gathering data for the M87 Movie. Perched in front of Pico de Orizaba, the LMT sits in one of the most extreme, high-altitude observing sites on Earth.
#M87MOVIE
Photo Credit: Andrés Valle
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Yo VIP, let's kick it.
about 1 month ago
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Jessica Christian
about 1 month ago
Today’s camera roll 🌞
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Arctic Dreams
about 1 month ago
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North Atlantic Hominid
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
about 1 month ago
And...LIFT 💪 Our summit team at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory recently installed the 4th of 6 giant light-wind screens. 🔭🧪 These massive screens help block stray light and shield the telescope from winds when the dome is open — an important part of capturing sharp, clean images! 🌌
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North Atlantic Hominid
US National Gemini Office
about 1 month ago
Crepuscular rays are seen here at dusk over the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab.
#astronomy
@vrubinobs.bsky.social
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
📷: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek
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North Atlantic Hominid
US National Gemini Office
about 2 months ago
From
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
: This timelapse image shows the telescope’s Laser Guide Star in action. Gemini North is one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab.
#astronomy
📷: Gemini/AURA/Joy Pollard
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Event Horizon Telescope
about 2 months ago
Timelapse of the IRAM 30-meter Telescope on Pico Veleta during a typical night of EHT observations. With its large collecting area and wide-angle optics, it’s one of the most sensitive single dishes in the array. Now filming:
#M87Movie
Video credit: Manuel Castillo-Fraile / IRAM 30m
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North Atlantic Hominid
ESO
about 2 months ago
Unlike in almost every way, the subjects of this image — ALMA antennas and a trio of vicuñas — are linked by their extremely hostile home environment, high up in the Andes. Discover how they withstand the harsh local conditions:
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2619a/
🔭 🧪 📷 S. Otarola/ESO
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Adriana Horstman
about 2 months ago
The bears are awake 🐻
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Jessica Christian
about 2 months ago
I offer up a Benji for your morning scroll.
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Jessica Christian
about 2 months ago
Recent house views 🏡
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Jessica Christian
about 2 months ago
Some Pier 39 snaps while on Chonkers watch for
@sfchronicle.com
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Mood indigo
about 2 months ago
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North Atlantic Hominid
Event Horizon Telescope
about 2 months ago
Roll camera at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Chile. At high altitude with supplemental oxygen, the maintenance crew keeps 66 antennas operating as one system. Every dataset depends on the global network and the teams on the ground.
#M87MOVIE
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North Atlantic Hominid
ESO
about 2 months ago
Why go to a laser show if you work at our VLT? 😎 The lasers create ‘fake stars’ used to measure the turbulence in the atmosphere. Observations are then corrected in real time with a special deformable mirror to obtain sharp images from the ground. 🔭
#flashback
📷 M. Lefranc/ESO
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North Atlantic Hominid
US National Gemini Office
about 2 months ago
From
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
: Two telescopes, one mission to explore the sky. From Hawai‘i to Chile, the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab, can see almost the entire sky.
#astronomy
📷: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Kwon O Chul (Gemini South, on left) P. Horálek (Gemini North)
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South Pole Telescope
about 2 months ago
Roughly 6 weeks after $Sunset and we are in the darkest time of winter, here is a photo from winterover Michel of a nearly fully moon over the SPT this weekend! Observing weather has been great recently, with consistently dry clear skies
#southpole
#Antarctica
@NSF @doescience
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