Taken with our VLT over a period of four years, these images show the rotating disc of gas & dust around the young star AB Aurigae. Features like “twists” signal the places where #exoplanets could be forming 🪐 More: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/ 🔭 🧪 📹 ESO/A. Boccaletti et al.

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

≡ stripes (2) #art #animalart #digitalart #animals

≡ stripes 🦓 🌼 #art #animalart #digitalart #animals

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spring trip to the zoo #art #digitalart #animalart

the artistic process

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

From NASA: Got something weighing you down? Shake it off (like Curiosity)! The Martian explorer unintentionally picked up a rock while drilling a recent sample, but the team was able to dislodge it by having the rover move its robotic arm and vibrate the drill until the rock fell off. 1/2

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏 To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space. Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform. Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut 📹 Sen

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear 🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman 📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

Splashdown! Welcome home, Integrity.

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Some stars/planets identified

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

We are so, so small. #Artemis

i've heard it's gonna be someone's birthday today in 900+ years 🥳 #aloy #art #digitalart #fanart #hfw #horizonforbiddenwest #horizonzerodawn

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*

first vi painting of the year. #art #digitalart #fanart #arcane #arcanevi #arcanefanart

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in CONTROL Resonant, a thrilling action-adventure RPG. Watch the announcement trailer: youtu.be/WhQm-ExRz60 CONTROL Resonant is out in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac. #CONTROLResonant

autumn visitors. eurasian nuthatch, eurasian blue tit. #art #digitalart #birds #birdart #nature #sciart

a moment undisturbed #caitvi #arcanefanart #caitlynkiramman #vi #arcanevi #arcane #fanart

hallowheeeeeeeeeee #art #digitalart #halloween #halloweenart #pumpkin

aloy. #art #digitalart #hfw #horizonforbiddenwest #horizonzerodawn

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

"go ahead and roll #criticalrole #criticalrolecampaign4 #criticalrolefanart #cr4 #art

you are now afflicted with: Breaking News (curse) every time you check social media, receive 2d6 psychic damage and take -2 to all WIS and CHA rolls for 1 hour

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

A very hungry planet! 🪐 What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets 📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps. Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people" Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

✨💌USEFUL LINKS FOR ARTISTS🎨🍊: A 200+ link spreadsheet of some of the best references and websites out there, for free on google sheets! This blew up on twitter ages ago, and I just went through and tested all the links and added more. send to ya buds <3 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature. Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.