A little aurora & Milky Way combo from last night. Not too shabby for far southern Oklahoma, eh? #photography

Is there a word in the English language that both conveys extreme joy and excitement for something, as well as deep utter jealousy? Usage: “I am _____________ that millions people around the world got to experience and will experience the aurora, but sadly, I did not!” Photos look amazing!

Detour Road, North Wangaratta. #AuroraAustralis #Aurora

Clear skies here and I am due north of one of the ANZAC bridge pillars, so I was hoping the aurora would be a nice backlight against this …. But alas! Sydney’s light pollution is probably too much for the faint aurora! Please ramp up to a G9 so we can all bath in the happiness.

AURORA ALREADY BEING PHOTOGRAPHED FROM BLUE MOUNTAINS (Sydney latitude) Go to a dark sky location and start imaging!

Geeeez, my brain sometimes convinces itself it has done something when in reality it has not. This should read: Macquarie Uni. Adjunct Fellow Stuart Ryder.

Oh! I almost forgot! Yesterday, Tommy from our team brought in his Central Bearded Dragon named Rocky who was extremely cute and had a resting grumpy face. These guys are like Chameleons— they can slightly change their colours to suit the surroundings of their habitat. We have the best fauna! 🦎

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

Aurora in the woods!

It’s for sale as a poster in their redbubble store.

Twin Cities aurora tonight is directly overhead and in overdrive!

My entire timeline rn.

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

godDAMN

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Besides the #aurora, the other thing that solar flares and CMEs do is cause the upper layers of the atmosphere to 'puff up' which then increases the risk of atmospheric drag for the space vermin, and that brings them down. I hope it eats lots of Starlink satellites!

Aurora borealis from Longmont, Colorado.

There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere. ❤️☀️ The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

Thank you to everyone using alt-text in their #aurora images! Please try and put yours in there too - I often will repost the alt-text ones. Can be something as simple as: "auroral display of red and green shades in the night sky"

AMAZEBALLS! #aurora

If you live anywhere north the 35th parallel and have clear skies, go outside and look north right now! #aurora

If you live in the green and red zones and have clear skies, you should go outside now and take a camera and do some long exposures, but also, just look up and marvel! That's the Earth shielding you from harmful radiation that the Sun is belching out!

Near the Utah/Wyoming border now

It’s a beautiful night

Oh yes. The green is here too!

I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Excuse me everyone, but I heard there was a solar flare storm and I am here to solve all your human problems" Image by Macquarie Uni. Adjunct Fellow from School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (our school!). Shared with permission.

Geeeez! The scale of that last X-class flare from the Sun, is belting us with solar cosmic rays! Spoke with my neighbour (lead scientists at Australia's Space Weather Service) and he said it packed ~500 MeV protons! So strong, they've reached ground level at Mawson station! 🤯 📸 BoM SWS 🔭🧪

Oh! I almost forgot! Yesterday, Tommy from our team brought in his Central Bearded Dragon named Rocky who was extremely cute and had a resting grumpy face. These guys are like Chameleons— they can slightly change their colours to suit the surroundings of their habitat. We have the best fauna! 🦎

Let me tell you, our officially-not-an-X-ray-telescope #ESAEuclid did notice this flare. Very much so. A gazillion cosmic ray hits, plus a shadow of hardware where the instruments aren't fully X-ray shielded. I mean this was the 39th (?) strongest flare in 30 years.

Whoa. The scale of this thing. That blast wave radiating away from the flare location is impressive. Esp. when you think about the size of the Earth in comparison. It’s so very near that we live so close to a star and can watch its behaviour and activity. A star and it’s just right there!

😎 This is cool 👇 Explore 25 years on the International Space Station. This multimedia project replays every day of the past 25 years on board and consists entirely of historical mission material. By @benfeist.bsky.social and David Charney. issinrealtime.org

Heads up, folks! Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol. Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe. But there might be .. AURORAS!

Far out, almost half a century old today! Was three when it came out. Music video was such a big influence on me (from its slight horror theme, and dance routine) that by the time I was around seven I had a MJ red leather jacket and could do the Thriller dance. Don't remember this single cover!

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lol ….. He looks dead. (I mean on the outside, we already know he has no soul in there, beneath those cold dead eyes and no reflection when he passes any mirrors. Throw holy water on him just in case.)

LAUGHS IN MAGNETAR

Btw — is it just me or is @bsky.app iOS struggling with image uploads? It seems to lag and reject for me and then I see the photo actually uploaded. Extremely annoying.

Hot town, summer in the city …. #Sydney Run views from earlier this morning. And the shin splints are subsiding — body is getting used to the running again! FTW

I am 💀💀💀😂😂😂 [image alt-text: screenshot of Twitter ad from Blinkist that shows a picture of Musk and Twitter post that says: “when he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath LA, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.”]

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Having, all the money in the world — and turning out like the guy people point and laugh at. This is giving me so much joy!

Everyone on BlueSky to Nate Silver:

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 There’s a constant concept that Muslim people hate queer people and want us dead. And sure, yes, there is a small fraction of extremists. But apples for apples there’s probably more queer hating white evangelical extremists. I love how Mamdani has publicly broken their brains on this.

Looooooooool — fantastic news to wake to! Queer friends in the US — find where she lives and have a mini PRIDE street party outside her house to remind her that she is nothing but a loser, and will always amount to nothing more than this. And make it extra extra gay to really push her buttons.

Awesome! 🔭

1/ Milestone achieved by the VLTI upgrade GRAVITY+: a laser has been installed at each of the previously unequipped VLT Unit Telescopes. This will dramatically enhance the VLTI observing power. Discover more with #ChasingStarlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzK1B3VU1L8 🔭 🧪

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 There’s a constant concept that Muslim people hate queer people and want us dead. And sure, yes, there is a small fraction of extremists. But apples for apples there’s probably more queer hating white evangelical extremists. I love how Mamdani has publicly broken their brains on this.