Mick Hyde
@mickhyde.bsky.social
Guitarist / Political / Astrospacenut / Photographer / Gamer / Woke / DEI / 2 x cancer. Photos - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickhyde Blog - https://astromick.blogspot.com/ ALSJ contributor - https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/
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The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright enough to reopen a forgotten corner of lunar science
A Cold War-era robot's forgotten mirror just became a window into the Moon's past, decades after everyone stopped looking.
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It would be lovely to be able to put on a jumper again. At least in the evening That’s all.
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Crazy Thingss on Instagram: "今夜、Vは「Vogue World: Hollywood」で観客席からライブパフォーマンスを楽しみました。自身もファッションアイコンとして知られるVは、まるでランウェイからそのまま現れたかのような、洗練されたスタイルで登場しました。✨ #VogueWorld #V #Taehyung #FashionMoment #RunwayStyle"
11K likes, 510 comments - crazyy_thingss77 on July 24, 2026: "今夜、Vは「Vogue World: Hollywood」で観客席からライブパフォーマンスを楽しみました。自身もファッションアイコンとして知られるVは、まるでランウェイからそのまま現れたかのような、洗練されたスタイルで登場しました。✨ #VogueWorld #V #Taeh...
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Voyager 2 flew so far below the plane of the solar system after Neptune that only one antenna on Earth can still send it commands, a 70-metre dish outside Canberra, which went offline for eleven months of repairs in 2020 while the spacecraft flew on in silence. share.google/WwO96LaSulIA...
Voyager 2 flew so far below the plane of the solar system after Neptune that only one antenna on Earth can still send it commands, a 70-metre dish outside Canberra, which went offline for eleven month...
A single Australian telescope holds humanity's only conversation with a spacecraft that left Neptune decades ago—until Earth's repair needs force an impossible silence.
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Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall #FilmNoir THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
I can’t believe these arrests are still happening - the new PM could end this utterly absurd proscription if he chose. As Jonathon Porritt says - trying to save lives is not terrorism. Exposing this government’s complicity in genocide is not terrorism
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
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Kenyan footprints shed light on prehistoric human cousin Paranthropus
Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are providing new insight into the size and behavior of a species in the human evolutionary lineage that was the l...
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The rock hammer and lunar core tube bit that Alan Bean first used to collect samples of the moon before becoming part of his tools he used to impart texture to the lunar surface in his paintings have now been sold at auction.
Astronaut Alan Bean's moon artifacts-turned-artist's tools 'hammer' in $1M at auction
The unusual tools that an astronaut-turned-artist famously used to infuse not just what it felt to walk on the moon, but pieces of the moon itself, have now commanded auction results higher than some ...
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NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference - NASA share.google/hqxsxQRqyh28...
NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference - NASA
Editor's note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the spacewalk on Thursday, Aug. 6.
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I quote-post this while sitting on a hard, miserable chair in my home office while my cat snoozes on my extremely comfortable padded office chair two feet behind me.
Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · last wk.
Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test, because everything smelted after that date carries a faint trace of the bomb era in its structure. share.google/1IuterBOurBD...
Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test, because everything smelted after that date carries a faint trace...
A quirk of nuclear physics: the most sensitive instruments for detecting radiation depend on salvaged shipwrecks from before the atomic age, and that irreplaceable supply is running out.
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When light recedes, that is when the dunes come alive, a harmony of shapes, textures and patterns. Creations that we could not have predicted, and often not imagined. Sossusvlei, Namibia. #bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #landscape #travel #art
☕️ Time for some coffee (and maybe some gossip) at Marny's Cafe. They'll also freeze your fish. #FilmNoir Out of the Past (1947)
