Ugh, I miss AO3.

Meteorite hunters subsequently recovered pieces from the northern-China fireball, including one that weighed nearly 20 kilograms. 🧪 www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202611/10/...

China Space Watch@chinaspace.bsky.social · yesterday

🌏🌌🪨 More views of the spectacular fireball meteor which lit up northern China's skies on 6 November, captured on Dash Cams and CCTV across multiple provinces. Fragments have since been recovered near Shijiazhuang, Hebei, with preliminary estimates suggesting up to 100kg of meteorite material.

Perhaps Marvel should have pivoted away from movies and stuck to TV series.

Hey, dear astro friends. When should we expect the first science images from the Roman Space Telescope? I'm planning the 2027 planetarium show schedule, and I'm thinking of a Roman/Rubin survey telescope show. Any insight would be appreciated! 🔭 #astro

So there’s a whole folder of cleared for public consumption Dragonfly I&T photos I can post 👀

Just a pretty, unnamed, 1-kilometer crater in the flood plains of Chryse Planitia. Imaged in enhanced color by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in September. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

WE JUST GOT EMERGENCY TIME ON THE MEERKAT RADIO TELESCOPE TO LOOK TOMORROW AT THE CLOSEST SUPERNOVA IA IN OVER A DECADE!!! 🤩🥳📡 SN2026ahvu happened Nov 2 in NGC 1433, ~9Mpc (46mil light years) from us. Observations should probe the innermost regions around the SN and may reveal why it exploded! 🔭🧪

😢 NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-Entered Atmosphere science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/...

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-Entered Atmosphere - NASA Science

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, almost 22 years after launch. At launch, Swift was a first-of-its-kind

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This spacecraft🤳selfie from deep space shows the top deck of ESA's Hera asteroid mission & the sticker with Hera's newly-named🦖dinosaur mascot - meet Chicxu! www.esa.int/articles/abo...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up of the Didymos binary asteroid system! 🛰️🪨🪨 www.esa.int/articles/abo...

Mars may not be geologically dead after all. 🔴 Our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected hydrogen chloride above volcanic fissures in the Alba Mons region, which scientists suggest could be linked to dormant volcanic activity beneath the surface. Read more: new.esa.int/articles/new...

Fold SpaceX into NASA, ditch their environmental irresponsibility and poor labor conditions, and keep the cool shit that works. And de-orbit all the Starlink satellites.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

What's your most ridiculous, newly emboldened political demand? (Absurd answers only.)

Palpable sense of relief amongst students today.

Refreshing electionresults.sos.ca.gov over and over again. Nothing reported yet.

Breaking: James Talarico has defeated Ken Paxton in the race for U.S. Senate. He has become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in Texas since 1994 and the first of his party elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since 1988. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/talarico-defeats-paxton/

Incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee:

Rep. Robert Garcia@robertgarcia.house.gov · last wk.

LAWYER UP.

The Swift space telescope is predicted to re-enter the atmosphere on November 4, UTC 09:57 ± 6h. It's been in orbit for 22 years. But it's already dead, as NASA stopped operations on October 23rd. 🧪 🔭 #SpaceJunk

NASA’s Swift Mission Ends Ahead of Re-Entry - NASA Science

NASA’s Swift has concluded operations, leaving behind a legacy of innovation and a treasure trove of science observations.

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Hey California, polls close exactly one hour from right now! You've still got time to cast your ballot, but you must be in line before the polls close: https://www.nokings.org/vote-plan?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible&SQF_MEDIUM=bluesky

I'm still paranoid about CA elections. Some of us are old enough to remember more GOP governors than DEM governors, and the Democratic party is waaaaaay too complacent here.

we've long known that Mars dust is much finer (in terms of particle size, not "fiiiiiine") than Earth dust, and this new study reinforces how dangerous that is to us. Mars is not Earth 2.0. It's Mars 1.0, its own world that evolved either with no life or co-evolved with life that can handle it.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.

The dust of Mars is “small enough to penetrate deep into pulmonary alveoli, bypass the blood–brain barrier, and threaten vital organs.” Hmm oh well. I guess we’d better phase out coal, oil, and “natural gas” after all. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We got Winnie two years ago today. She is very good.

Today marks two years since we adopted Winnie. Such a goody, sweet girl.

Happy Halloween. 15 asteroids passed closer than the Moon this month. All but one of them were discovered this month. 🔭 #astro

Astrophotographer and teacher Brendan Larsen spent 2 hours taking 578 photos of one section of sky in New Zealand to see how satellites are changing our night skies. These shocking images reveal their impact

Photo of 14,000 satellite trails shows how busy space is becoming | New Scientist

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In honor of Sir Patrick Stewart 🫡🔭 I took a picture of Keid, the Home of Vulcan 🖖 This star is also known as 40 Eridani (home of Rocky from Project Hail Mary). The star is in the middle of the pic Thanks for inspiring us all 🙏 Taken with an 11" Celestron located in the Canary Islands.

Friends! If you want to put your name on Dragonfly and send it to Titan boy do I have good news for you! my.nasa.gov/specialevent...

I am lucky that I saw Patrick Stewart perform his solo "A Christmas Carol" twice many, many years ago when I was an undergraduate. I remember sitting in the theater and feeling as if I was witnessing something magical. Forever grateful for that feeling.

Farewell, captain.

Just got a message from a witness in DC that a large plane flew extremely close to the ground a few minutes ago and scared the shit out of people. “Flashbacks to 9/11,” they said. AFP White House reporter Danny Kemp confirms it was a stunt for the WH halloween party and posted this video on X:

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AO3 Status@status.archiveofourown.org · 2w ago

[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has ...