Chris Foss, 1972

FOX: “We learned why the Iranians are eager to sign on to this deal — Iran will be able to start selling oil again on the global marketplace… and nobody is disputing they’ll have access to a $300 BILLION fund.”

New Ukrainian large underwater drone, Sea Trident SL-1000 -> www.hisutton.com/Ukraine-UUV-...

Step inside the tunnels below our Paranal Observatory. They connect the VLT Unit Telescopes to the control building from where they are operated.  Each tunnel carries power and network cables, as well as pipes that channel liquid to cool various systems inside each UT.  1/2 🧵👇 🔭 🧪

Over 20 years ago I provided this painting as cover art to David Drake's 'Master of the Cauldron'. It remained in the studio, surfacing every few years to see if inspiration for a repaint/retouch had taken hold. 20+ years late, I now present to you.. Medusa's Garden 27" x 48" Oil on Panel 2005-2026

Art by Eddie Jones for The Fall of the Tower by Samuel Delany (1973)

Ihr wolltet es so: Wir sprechen über FCAS - aber auch über die Thukydides Falle. Diesmal ist also von Praxis zu Theorie alles dabei. Quasi the best of Sicherheitspod! Jetzt hören! sicherheitspod.de/2026/06/16/f...

Folge #109 ist online! Jetzt im Podcatcher eurer Wahl!

1:55:54 AM on Monday, June 15, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

Still the best thing on the planet…

Silly geography trivia: technically, the EU's largest national park is in South America thanks to French Guiana. Source: buff.ly/mviYysi

Precisely.

🔭 Longmore 8: The Hamster Wheel Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Mazlin, Parker, Forman, Magill, Hanson Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260617

Some of Steve R Dodd’s 1970s and 80s space art

RIP Special Effects master Brian Johnson (1939 - 2026). Some of the movies / TV Johnson worked on.

Battlestar Galactica vehicles by Mattel (1978). Vehicle box art by Otto Kuhni.

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

🔭 The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant Image Credit & Copyright: Data acquisition: Sy Ming Wong; Processing: Guangyan Gao Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260611

New Copernicus Sentinel-3 SLSTR Processing Baselines (PB), released today: SL__L1_.005.00.00, for L1 Radiances & Brightness Temperatures (RBT) bit.ly/4vdJqie. SL__SST.004.00.01, for L2 SST/IST bit.ly/3PD0LlE. AOD_NRT.003.02.00 for L2 aerosol product bit.ly/4e0AOoh

#apod 2026-06-11 The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant Image Credit: Data acquisition: Sy Ming Wong; Processing: Guangyan Gao Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260611.html#apod

Earth during the Silurian Period circa 430 million years ago. The plants (they are not flowers) are called cooksonia, and were one of the first widespread land plants. The tall things (8m or 25ft) are prototaxites. Notbody is sure what they were, but may have been fungi. #sciart #blender #paleoart

This map shows annual truck traffic on European main roads, colored by route distance. The map gives a sense of on which corridors the long distance traffic travels and how far the infrastructure interdependencies within the network road reach. Source: buff.ly/TyeZr2D HT Jakob Rogstadius

10:39:36 PM on Monday, June 8, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

Blaming Dassault for FCAS’s failure is fashionable - and Dassault and Eric Trappier certainly share part of the blame! But it’s too easy to pretend it was all them. My comments in the long France24 Spotlight interview from last night.

🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák & Martin Mašek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences) ap260608

Mit vielen Grüßen aus dem Jahr 1981: Raumschiff Nr. 4 ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/sci...

Art by Polish artist Wojciech Kazimierz “Wojtek” Siudmak (born 1942)

Realized I had not shared this awesome commission executed and released last year for the special edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's acclaimed 'Children of Time' from Orbit Books! I had kept the news under wraps as Orbit did their PR thing.. Children of Time 24" x 36" Oil on Panel 2025

Nächste Woche nehmen wir die nächste Folge auf - jetzt schnell noch die aktuelle Folge hören! sicherheitspod.de/2026/05/15/f...

Heute kommt noch was. 😁

Mit vielen Grüßen aus dem Jahr 1981: Raumschiff Nr. 4 ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/sci...

🔭 The Vela Supernova Remnant Image Credit & Copyright: José Mtanous ap260602

Es ist schon witzig, dass Merz das alte "Reißt euch mal zusammen" und "Da muss man durch" beschwört, damit alle mal mehr leisten - um dann rumzuweinen, dass er sooo viel ertragen muss. Aber wenn man sich dann noch klar macht, wie seine Referenzen über ihn denken würden, wird es doppelt witzig.

Space art! Because, well, space.

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.

One of the bests artists ever, deserves at least one drawing in the national gallery

Space Art Bild des Monats Juni 2026: Harte Strahlung ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/ast...

According to Politico, the Trump administration may cancel planned Tomahawk missile sales to Germany because it fears the move could anger Russia. Europe's largest economy wants to strengthen its defenses against an aggressive, expansionist Russia,

Can’t be repeated enough👇🏽 Just so insane

Lensed quasar Image date: 26 January 2017, 16:00 RXJ1131-1231 is among the five best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright arc (left) and creates a total of four images — three of which can be seen within the arc. Credi...

Moebius

Kristine Kathryn Rusch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rusch_... was born on this day, so here's some related magazine art (Artist: Donato Giancola, Jael, Shutterstock and Donato Giancola):

He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Hätte man mir vor 35 Jahren gesagt, dass ich 2026 nicht nur Metallica immer und überall hören kann, sondern auch Konzertvideos ohne Ende 24/7 zur Verfügung habe UND dass Metallica IMMER noch eine der größten Bands der Welt sein würden - ich hätte vor Lachen meine CD in meine Frufoo fallen lassen.

Robert J Hogan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hogan_... was born on this day, so here are some of the 1936/1937 covers to those 'G-8 and his Battle Aces' issues where he wrote the cover story (Artist: Frederick Blakeslee):

Space Art Bild des Monats Juni 2026: Harte Strahlung ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/ast...

Ups www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

🔭 Eagle Nebula Pillars in Infrared from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing: Luis Romero Ventura ap260531

Had a tremendous time with @comixaction.com at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social's postcard party making notes for Mamdani asking him to keep "A.i." out of the public schools. Here's the postcard I sent!