Feeling the intense heat? We break down the science of the "heat dome" and its undeniable link to climate change. Learn why it's happening and what we can do. www.freeastroscience.com/2025/06/why-...

An InPerson event at the Science Gallery, Bengaluru, India: 28 June 2025 Registration link: sci560.scigalleryblr.org/programmes?p... #astro #astronomy

The Right to Science: by the International Science Council: council.science/events/the-r...

This is maybe worth a shot... never too late? @kvijayraghavan.bsky.social Assessing research in India. A panel discussion at 3 pm (IST), today (6 June). Register and join online: bit.ly/RRA-in-India

From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...

Moon dust 'rarer than gold' arrives in UK from China. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

!!! new on work led by U.C. Berkeley postdoc, Yuhan Yao 🦖 incl. comments from @gymleadererica.bsky.social et al. "Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found 'Space Jaws.'" 🧪🔭☄️ #womeninSTEM #highenergyastro science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: It’s day 3 of Black Hole Week! ✨ We’re highlighting the Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab. Gemini North found the closest black hole to 🌎, 10x more massive than the ☀️. Go to noirlab.edu/public/produ..., print, and enjoy! #astronomy

Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz answers the who, what, where, when and why of exoplanets in this episode coming from ESA Education 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Wr... 🧪 🔭

Imagine! A Dark Sky protector advocating from Dubai, no less!!! Just like amidst the darkest of darkness a bright spot can always be found, "amidst the brightest of areas Dark Sky Defenders can be found..." so says the protector.... @astro @astronomy @astrophotography youtu.be/Q8n-qUtjDls?...

It was the ZERO SHADOW moment in my town! Lucky to be within ±23° lattitude!!.... [This moment doesnt get much publicity globally - because its only us tropics people that see it -most twitterrati are clearly outside this zone!😜😜] (1/4) #astro #astronomy @fcain.universetoday.com @starstryder.space

A brave attempt at visualisation of the construct is cool, and the construct sounds cool too but will we ever know if thats what it is? Well written as always by Clara Moskowitz @clarakm.bsky.social #blackholes #astrophyiscs #astronomy

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

A new post is up “Balancing Light and Dark: IES Recommended Light Levels for Safety, Astronomy, and Environmental Harmony” I tried merge IES lighting practises with IDAs aim to reduce light pollution, be kind if you find an error, let me know be for you jump on me! 😉 #lightpollution #astro

Starting sooon... This week's special Tuesday recording of Astronomy Cast. We're looking at the Swift telescopes multiwavelength science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXEO...

If this isnt an erudite spot-on stright-from-the-heart ringing-truer-than-true lamp lighter, not just to cool astrophysics things but to life itself, I dont know what is... thank you Fraser Cain! @fcain.universetoday.com

🔭 The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, S. Crowe (UVA), J. Bally (CU), R. Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), I. Heywood (Oxford) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25041...

🔭 Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25041...

🔭 The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Image Credit & Copyright: Infrared: NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope; Visible: Oliver Czernetz, Siding Spring Obs. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25042...

This was going to be really cool - that was obvious from the start..... #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmos @bot.astronomy.blue signup

Birds ARE dinosaurs and "birdbrain" is actually a compliment!! ..... for #birders and #naturelovers and everyone else too...

An absolutely evocative visual explainer of what a "survey telescope" does and will do!! - a Big Eye photographing AND tracking in time, SUCH a large chunk of the cosmos!!!

NASA on Pettit, on the other site: "According to NASA officials at the landing site, @Astro_Pettit is doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth. ... " (1/2)

Remember neutrinos? -the most common & lightest particle in our universe and we float in a sea of them always (a 100 trillion passing through each of us every second, most of them from our Sun - we dont notice of course and of course they cause no harm!!).(1/3) @thewire.in @labhopping.bsky.social

Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory using the world’s largest digital camera! 🔭🧪 After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making! With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️ 🧵

If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. How do you solve it? 🧪 #physics www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/expl...

And this is @arstechnica.com Ars Technica's bottom line: "Anyway, I decided that Ars Technica should sit this one out. If Bezos wanted to send his fiancée and some friends into space, that was his business. We had other things to cover."👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

The episode highlights the risks of deploying AI models in customer-facing roles without proper safeguards and transparency.

ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (Jul 24, 2014) Hubble reveals galaxy cluster MCS J0416.1–2403, featuring lensed images of distant galaxies, crucial for studying mass distribution. esahubble.org/images/heic1416b/

Today began with sad news of the passing of Sandra Harding (UCLA). Dr Harding was part of my learning journey in STS while I was a postdoc at UCLA. Everyone should read at least one of her articles to honour her .

With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years. Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to NASA. Just sayin'.

Splashing Headlines across our planet say extra-terrestrial life has been discovered by #jwst - but what has actually been seen? (1/5) @jwstobserver.bsky.social @setiinstitute.bsky.social

First images from the Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low)! Taken with only 1,024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, and it's already looking good :) #RadioAstronomy

Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it! youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

Nice history of the "bold imaginative leaps" that birthed quantum mechanics by @philipcball.bsky.social for World Quantum Day physics.aps.org/articles/v18...