Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

Oh yeah! I remember when they did that for Venezuela!

This is disturbing news. Cut staff. Raise fees. Remove reservation systems. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

For this #WaterfallWednesday I've got a nice little falls in the #ColumbiaGorge called Fairy Falls! This was a really fun snowy hike. This falls spits a lot, so there's lots of waterfall kisses on the lens. #📷 #Waterfall #Snow #Hiking #Oregon #EastCoastKin #Nature

Another late entry for ya'll. Category is... #RockinTuesday! "Hold that pose for me!" This bird was not moved by the wave. #📷 #Ocean #Wave #Rock #Seagull The gull was a pro, and knew that the wave was not anywhere near to even splashing it. A fearless "SlayGull". 💃

It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?

Oh, and Jolly Good President's Day, no not this current one... Also, I've never had presidents day off. 😤

I kinda skipped #Stunday, just because I don't like to be rushed. I arrived home & jumped into doing chores after a photo safari So here it is this evening instead! This scene drew my eye while high above Zion National Park's valley. #📷 #Zion #NationalParks #Sandstone #Geology #Trees #Cliffs #Utah

I saw a BOBCAT today! I'm going to be buzzing about this for a while... 🤩

If not this, then wut???

The Vandenberg launch of February 14th, 2026 was optimally timed for illumination of the initial as well as the lingering plume. Tonight this plume underwent intriguing looping and stretching as Earths shadow passed across it with reds, golds and blues dominating the last lighting here and there.

ICE observers in Minnesota are skeptical about the White House's claims of a federal drawdown. But they have noticed in recent weeks a shift from aggressive street sweeps in Minneapolis to instead target people in the suburbs or quietly waiting in unmarked vehicles of residential areas.

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To prepare for some baby seal scooting, here are 5 minutes of the 15% Crescent moon scooting across the sky.

It's incredibly corrosive to the ability of agencies (and society at large) to operate if the executive branch can simply decide to ignore Congress. Having reliable processes is essential to operations of bureaucracies, but Vought et al. don't care. And it's outrageous.

Okay, one last bonus #Scape for the day! This was from the lower left pocket of Oregon, near The Pillars or Rome. I stopped there after driving all night to capture the Pillars at dawn, but the night sky had me busy too! Here's #Orion over an ashen hill. #📷 #Stars #Astro #ECK #EasternOregon #Sirius

Hey! Tomorrow (Saturday Feb 14) at 11:15 Eastern US time I'll be talking to my friend, author/videoer John Green on the annual Project for Awesome livestream, raising money for great charities! You can get perks through donating, including meteorites I've sent them. See here: projectforawesome.com

It's #Scape day! Here's a nice cloud drama day high above the #ColumbiaRiver in #Oregon. I love this vantage for the way the river winds below. #EastCoastKin #📷 #ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #Clouds #ColumbiaGorge #River #Water #Sky

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I rarely do this one, but here goes! #AllAglow I present you with the 5 Ton Bronze chandelier in the Washington State Legislative Building in Olympia! It's lit with 200 lights and was made by Tiffany of New York. Installed in 1928. #UrbanGaze #PalacesAndGardens #Photography #EastCoastKin #📷

Saw a Crescent Moon It rose, and was gone too soon Meet again, we will #ECK #Moon #CrescentMoon #🌘 #lunar #📷 #haiku

Just looking online a ran across this John Romita drawing of the classical music trio Conan & the Barbarians. 👍

This website has the juice.

Another moment of top-down chill from the rocky coast of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island #Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland

🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?) File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space. The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇

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When I got back to the car from this trek my nostrils were on fire. At first I thought it was because it was so cold… then realized the safety had come off my bear spray, making this officially the second time I’ve bear maced myself 🙃 . . . .

🧵1/8 Reposting this thread on #KatherineJohnson —perfect timing for the International Day of Women & Girls in Science on #Februar11, and right in the heart of #BlackHistoryMonth. Her story just blows me away every time, showing how one person's grit ... #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #WomenInScience 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

A frozen surprise for #WaterfallWednesday! This is Deep Creek Falls, and it's probably the only waterfall for a long way. This is along a stretch of old highway 140 in SE Oregon. #📷 #Waterfall #scape #EasternOregon

Well, this is terrible news. Leach Botanical Garden just laid off a whole lot of people and they are going to run out of money next month. #pdx www.opb.org/article/2026...

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the announcement of our first detection! Back in 2016, excitement was building with everyone getting into the spirit with #ChirpForLIGO (thank you @astrokatie.com!) Reminisce with this supercut www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzi... #GW10Years ⚛️🧪🔭

Not so such a warm fuzzy from creepy surveillance company "Ring".

The universe is always saying that everything can be beautiful if we'd just let it. From NASA: This is the clearest image yet of the Egg Nebula, showing a light show around a rapidly dying star. It offers a rare opportunity to test theories of late-stage stellar evolution: go.nasa.gov/4bGzbfP

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

This is happening every day in our nation.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

I can't let this #SuperbOwl slip by without celebrating Team #Owl! Here's a couple, the first two are much, much younger than the second one. The two on an old power pole usually keep me company at my dark sky site while I'm at the telescope. Even their young come visit! The 2nd though... /🧵 #GHO

This is joyous

🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.

The Grand Canyon = Stunning! Perfect for #Stunday! Here's a monochromatic treatment from near Cape Royal. I have to keep reminding myself that the peaks inside the canyon are entire mountains! #GrandCanyon #scape #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #📷 #WestCoastKin #Photography

Just dying for breath 😆 Bananaaaaa 🍌

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "My swear barrel is full, again. F**k."