Just got my tentative schedule for @dragoncon.org Space Track. Counting the Live Astronomy events (y'all come!) I'm down for 20 hours of programming. The Con may come when I am too old for this, but it will not be this Con! (Let it not be this Con). But I may be calling Waymos between hotels.

💫 The August 2026 edition of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) is now available for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features easy-to-use sky maps for the northern & southern hemispheres and equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the night sky! 🔭 #stargazing #space #nightsky

Just had my first expeerience shopping at an Ikea store. I have some kind of genetic predisposition toward Mid-Century Modern and they are close enough. (It also seems fitting that there is a secondhand Lego exchange next door. That must be how youngsters are prepared to someday assemble Ikea)

Large scale human collaboration is as beautiful as the cosmos itself (Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science astronomy project where people classify galaxies, started in 2007 and still going!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_... #astrosky

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Submitting abstract for ASP meeting "celebrating 250 years of astronomy in the United States". It seems oddly fitting that co-presenters include one from the US in the US, one from the UK in the US, one from the US in the UK, and one oscillating between US and UK. So we kind of got over it.

Hey, Judy started wth some of my SARA data for this one!

Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social · last mo.

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) Coma with Subtraction Model - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jrHQjn

And the Pegasus-XL launch of the Swift Boost Mission has unfortunately been delayed again due to unfavorable weather. The next launch attempt is now scheduled for tomorrow, July 2nd, at 09:09 UTC.

Lukas C. H.@gewoonlukas.bsky.social · last mo.

Unfortunately the Pegasus-XL launch of the Swift Boost Mission was scrubbed due to unfavorable weater conditions. The next launch attempt is tomorrow at 09:43 UTC.

NASA says today's Pegasus XL launch of the Swift reboost mission was scrubbed because of weather, and has been rescheduled for tomorrow. science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/...

Launch of Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Scrubs Due to Weather - NASA Science

The launch of Katalyst Space’s LINK designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory, was postponed Tuesday due to unfavorable weather conditions.

science.nasa.gov

💫 The July 2026 edition of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) is now available for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features easy-to-use sky maps for the northern & southern hemispheres and equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭 #stargazing #space #starmap

Today's oddity while organizing Dropbox file trees - from the Space 1986 exhibition in Utrecht, a life-size outline of a Saturn V attached to the 112m cathedral tower (Domtoren).

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

Younger Son (in aviation security) introduced me to a very particular kind of Easter egg. Airline flight numbers are not always sequential or random. American Airlines 420 goes from DFW to - Denver. Lufthansa has 2222 to Toulouse (which works only in English).

So cool. Some features are moving outward at good fractions of c, some are not (standing shocks??)

Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️@melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jet of the elliptical galaxy M87. Images were aligned with point sources within the galaxy. 2002 to 2025. 23 years #Hubble ACS & WFC3 (filter: F606W) from these programs: archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... & archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea...

Today, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope leaves NASA Goddard for the Port of Baltimore to begin its journey to the Kennedy Space Center. This August, Roman will launch into space, broadening our understanding of our solar system & universe. Excited to see it on the move!

Things showing up while organizing assorted Dropboix directories: from a UK visit in 2008, hiking up to the Whte Horse (you know, in White Horse Vale). I get asked for directions a lot, but these all lined up even when I did not have a lab coat or clipboard.

Help scientists find clumps of star-forming regions in galaxies with the @galaxyzoo.org project Clump Scout II on @zooniverse.bsky.social! 1/3 🔭 🧪 #CitizenScience

To blockly go...

Just when anonymous comments on FB have me thinking social media are on life support, quality content like this is a ray of hope.

Kelly Weinersmith@weinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In A City on Mars, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and I tell the story of how Frank Borman attempted to go 2 weeks without pooping because he really did want to poop in a small space with his fellow astronaut. I hadn't realized just how small the spacecraft was,... (½)

Ah. That kind of week. We just got the answer to "will the garbage and recycling pickup crews try a second time if their route was blocked by a SWAT team serving a warrant four doors down?" (Thanks, city employees!)

Reasons to continue Hubble operations in the era of JWST, Rubin, Roman... one of the white papers from the community. arxiv.org/abs/2410.011...

We Must Preserve Hubble given its Unique Complementarity to Webb, Roman, and Euclid

We present compelling arguments -- focusing on galaxy science -- for preserving the main imagers and operational modes of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for as long as is technically feasible, to as...

arxiv.org

💫 The June 2026 edition of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) is now available for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features easy-to-use sky maps for the northern & southern hemispheres and equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭 #stargazing #space #starmap

Would you like to rummage data from the Euclid space telescope, and uncover cosmic nurseries where stars like our Sun are born? We're delighted to announce our new @ec-euclid.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo Clump Scout 2 🧪🔭 www.zooniverse.org/projects/hug...

Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Correct machine predictions to reveal the shapes of stellar nurseries!

zooniverse.org

Finishing "Archaeology from Space" by @indyfromspace.bsky.social, I was tickled to see a two-paragraph shoutout to @galaxyzoo.org in the lead-in to their global archaeological program. The Earth and the Universe are both big places, but all together we can grok them more fully.

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

Launching today - a first project with @vrubinobs.bsky.social and @galaxyzoo. Dive in quickly - these galaxies won't last long. 🔭

Hmm. Every HST proposal I was part of is listed as having a PDF problem preventing its processing. Since they were submitted from different institutions, I am forced to conclude it's a problem at STScI, or even intrusion?

Things I just learned from a Zoom team meeting: some US universities have outsourced their IT support and security, and it's even a worse idea than it sounds.

Martin Weisskopf, who helped shape modern X-ray astronomy and was the Chandra Project Scientist for many years, died last week at the age of 84. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that people write letters of support to sustain the mission. www.berryhillfh.com/obituaries/m...

Martin Charles Weisskopf Obituary May 2, 2026 - Berryhill Funeral Home & Crematory

View Martin Charles Weisskopf's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

berryhillfh.com

Hubble image of Arp 297, also known as NGC 5754 and NGC 5752. The pair's interactions created kinked arms in NGC 5754 (the large spiral galaxy) and the blue star clusters in the core of NGC 5752 (the smaller galaxy). Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage team, W. Keel Source