Richard J. Bartlett
@astronomywriter.bsky.social
🌘Freelance writer, former columnist for Astronomy magazine and author of books for astronomers. 🌒Pro human, slightly sarcastic but mostly harmless 🌊 https://tinyurl.com/rjbamazon-us https://tinyurl.com/rjb-hps
☄️ ☄️ On August 12-13, one of the best meteoric and astronomical event of the year will happen: the Perseids meteor shower will peak! To be sure not to miss anything, please read: www.imo.net/viewing-the-...
Viewing the Perseids in 2025 | IMO
Comet Dust Each July and August the Earth encounters debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This comet has an orbit of 133 years and last entered the inner solar system in 1992. Even though ...
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In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the SCOTUS determined that unmarried individuals have the same right to access contraceptives as married couples. New article: embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisens... #sciencecommunication #encyclopedia #contraceptives #science
I wrote this :-) #astronomy #space #science #news #ngihtsky #stargazing www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu...
What's in the Sky This Month | August 2025 Sky Guide
Dim Mars is now only visible for a short time in the evening twilight, and appears low over the western horizon, with a slender crescent Moon beside it on the...
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I wrote this! www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu... #astronomy #space #science #stargazing #meteors #shootingstars #nightsky
Southern Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower: Everything You Need To Know | High Point Scientific
The Southern delta Aquariids is a major meteor shower, active from around July 18th to August 12th, with its maximum typically occurring on the night of July...
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Good morning, @abgradcon.bsky.social ! There's one more chance to chat with our human resources representative today. Stop by and chat with her this afternoon between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., scan our QR code, and you'll be entered to win a SETI Institute t-shirt. 🧪 #AbGradCon2025 #Astro4Life
A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...
Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla. You read that right. The American Fascist Party at work.
#NASARoman will soon make particular types of gravitational lenses far more common, pinpointing over 160,000 of them. (To date, we only know of hundreds.) A team plans to study these objects to refine our studies of dark matter: bit.ly/3SyNJDy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724). Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast. publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast.
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🧵 Here is a cosmic delight: LBN 867, dubbed the Raspberry Nebula although its overall structure is more like an onion! In fact, this fascinating H II region, located in the constellation Orion, contains three different objects within its structure! ➡️ noirlab.edu/public/image... 🔭 🧪 #science
Definitely worth backing. When We Were Apollo was great :-) #space #spaceflight #apollo #Moon #NASA #Kickstarter #exploration www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...
Erased For Space
A documentary film uncovering the hidden, human cost of America’s moonshot.
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I wrote this :D #astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #nightsky www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu...
What's in the Sky This Month | June 2025 Sky Guide
Uranus is lost in the Sun’s glare, but if you have an unobstructed view towards the west-northwest, you may be able to see Jupiter very low over the horizon during the first few days of the month.
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Wait for it! A nurse shark parts a school of shiny jack crevalles 🩺🦈🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #jackcrevalle #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #jacks #shiny #staghorn #elkhorn #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity
Watch as the familiar pattern of the Taurus constellation distorts into a whole new perspective, when revealed in three dimensions! 🔭 ☄️
The Shape of Taurus in Three Dimensions
YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute
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Good reviews sell books... if you enjoyed Rosemary's book (or any other) please leave a review :-)
Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · last yr.A request: If you purchased THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, and you feel like leaving a review at the site where you bought it from, or on Goodreads, that would really help me out. I'm so glad y'all are enjoying it.
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in the neighboring Small Magellanic Cloud are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer to Earth move towards the northeast, while more distant stars move southwest. 🌌🔭🦛
Stretched in a cross pattern: Our neighboring galaxy is pulled in two axes, new evidence indicates
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), are moving in opposing directions along two distinct ...
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Not to mention the amateur astronomers... and frankly everyone, so you can look up and admire the stars
Scott “Kostenki 11” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · last yr.without prompting, i read this to the tune of “deep in the heart of texas” and now you can too
In 1989, a team at STScI published the Guide Star Catalog to aid in accurately pointing the telescope. Collecting data from stars and other targets requires knowledge of their precise location in the sky, such as the stars near the Whirlpool Galaxy: bit.ly/4lk1nHR 🔭 🧪
A bit frustrated that we're finally getting clear nights when the moon is almost 90% full, I used a lens instead of a scope and worked on asterisms. This is the Sickle in Leo. It forms the head of the lion. The bright star at the bottom is Regulus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
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