260711 - SHORTLY BEFORE THE FIRST OF OUR THREE BERLIN WUHLHEIDE CONCERTS YESTERDAY, SIMON WAS TAKEN ILL - HIS SON EDEN SHIFTED SIDEWAYS TO SAVE THE SHOW - UNFORTUNATELY SIMON IS STILL NOT WELL ENOUGH TO PLAY, SO EDEN WILL BE FILLING THE BASS BREACH AGAIN TONIGHT 1/2

THANK YOU AGAIN BERLIN - WÚNDERBAR SIMON STILL RECOVERING SO NIGHT 3 WILL BE ANOTHER 5 SHOW ONWARDS X 📷 Aaron Law

Five years ago, an experiment at the south pole detected a neutrino 500 trillion times as energetic as visible light. Now we've spotted the likely source: the "Shadow Blaster" galaxy, a staggering 11 billion light years away. 🔭🧪 noirlab.edu/public/news/...

The moon is now an exceedingly thin crescent, an "old" #moon near the sunrise point. Can you still see it? Look in the east as dawn is breaking. Read about the night sky here: buff.ly/Z5AdNkN

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Final boarding call to get your name on board the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope! Today, June 12th, is the final day! If a lovebird can fly on board, so can you! my.nasa.gov/specialevent...

Sea of Greens 🥬 😎👍 Wordle 1,849 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Lucinda Williams performed this song last night, she rocked! Here is her official video of her song: “The World’s Gone Wrong” (she has had a stroke and is recovering, her voice is strong and her message is fierce, beautiful!) ♥️ youtu.be/IPmHs8hDOvI

“Because something is happening here, But ya' don't know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?” Bob Dylan

THE GALILEO HAS LANDED! We're going to be at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY on Sept 18, 19, & 20 for the dedication of the Shuttlecraft Galileo display, featuring the unveiling of the Galileo mockup, used in the original series. startrektour.com

Was about to buy two more of my favorite HomeKit buttons only to find they don't exist anymore! I have yet to find another thread, USB-C rechargeable button that doesn't require a hub. If you know of one send it to me 🙏🏼

The Moon and the Pleiades from this morning. 0143UT 11 July 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon

Underneath the hood 🌿 Monkshood blooming in a willow thicket at Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir today #nativeplants

“Fading light and lines”

Rainbird. 🪶

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

A male Baltimore Oriole flying along the edge of the woods. 🖤🧡

FOLKS, WE DID IT! 2 years after planning, 20 days after hatching, possibly a dozen trips and terabytes of shoot age that fell shoot, i finally got the pied billed grebelings in focal range. I'll post video once I get home. 🪶 🐣

“Because something is happening here, But ya' don't know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?” Bob Dylan

For all of Earth, the #moon is now a thin waning crescent, rising only shortly before sunup. Watch for it in the dawn, glowing with #earthshine. For more sky events, visit EarthSky’s night sky guide at: buff.ly/Z5AdNkN

Starts With A Bang podcast #131 – The baryon life cycle The Universe was born with just hydrogen and helium for atoms: insufficient for making complex molecules, rocky planets, and life. So how did we get from there to here? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #podcast

#Waning #Crescent #Moon Daylight version, taken 17 minutes after the previous image. Date: 2026 07 11 Time: 03:21:37 UTC Altitude: 24° 21' Distance: 360 402 km Phase: 15% Nikon Z8 Skywatcher 200P Exposure: f/5.9, 1/40s, ISO-100 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography

Instagram automatically opted all public profiles into its new feature that lets users create AI images based on their photos How to opt out: 1️⃣ Go to your profile 2️⃣ Click the 3 bars in the top right 3️⃣ Scroll down to ‘Sharing and reuse’ 4️⃣ Turn off for both Posts & Reels

“It’s the only animal that sticks to magnets,” Dr. Chen said. When the snails are exposed to air, he added, “they rust.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/c...

I took this picture with the equipment I plan to use for the Solar Eclipse. Celestron Travelscope 70 telescope and Canon EOS 1200D camera. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

12 July is the last day to get on board (Ok, Virtually!) the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope! my.nasa.gov/specialevent...

For approximately 3 years I have been promising to rerecord the outdated lectures in my (exceedingly free) online Science of the Solar System course. I JUST FINISHED TODAY. Give me a week or so to get it all posted. Please clap, but, better, check it out [when I post]

Best part: You can now search the posts of people you follow!!

"Molting...is...SO ITCHY!" Diary of a Juvie Scrub Jay #birds #becurious

#Waning #Crescent #Moon Date: 2026 07 09 Time: 03:27:05 UTC Altitude: 26° 17' Distance: 369 081 km Phase: 36% Nikon Z8 Skywatcher 200P Exposure: f/5.9, 1/50s, ISO-100 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

[P] Like Andy Warhol predicted, in the future everyone will have talked to Mitch McConnell on the phone for twenty minutes.

“On Sunday July 3rd, 2016 @carolekingofficial.bsky.social Carole King and her band performed the album Tapestry in its entirety, live for the first time to an audience of 65,000 in London's Hyde Park.” youtu.be/HOs9iFWgXUg

I've just been looking (again) some of the imagery from Artemis II. Shots like this are wonderful beyond words.

First week of July.

I caught an Indigo Bunting singing a lovely song on the tip of a tall red cedar tree. 1/3 🪶

One of my favourite flowers is blooming right now and I have a patch right on the edge of my yard. - showy lady slippers 🌿

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

This photo includes every single living human being at the time (July 21, 1969), except for astronaut Michael Collins, who took the picture.

Is laughter contagious? 🦠 Later this month, I'll join the Theater of Public Policy to discuss the latest in infectious disease. This unique event uses humor to take the pressure off of serious conversations. 📅 Come ready to learn and laugh on 7/28: https://bit.ly/4wsotRa

#Petunias shot this morning in the East Oregon neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GardenPlantsGoneWild

Thrilled to see Hot Type featured by @blackwells.bsky.social. Blackwell's is my booklover's secret, where I can buy UK releases often head of US release, usuallyat a discount, with no shipping cost. And Blackwell's Oxford is my book paradise. Preorder here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

One of the weekend's more remarkable sky photos wasn't of the fireworks. This image captured both the northern lights + the rare glow of t'storm sprites near Winchester early Saturday AM. More on this extraordinary pairing: www.capitalweather.com/rare-sprites... Photo by Nathan Sottung

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Never considered this, but of course!

#OTD Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter, 1955

‼️ Whopper of a heat dome coming, and that’s no exaggeration! In all aspects: size, longevity, and especially intensity this will be extreme. The heat dome should shatter all-time records for upper level pressure in the N Plains. Actual Temps in Montana, Wyoming, North/ South Dakota could hit 110° 1/

Good morning! 🪶

03:01 on Monday July 6th, over the Philippine Sea

LSST Celebration Cake at Rubin Observatory noirlab.edu/public/image...