These two images aren't much to look at, but I wanted to point out that Uranus and Neptune really don't look very different. It's been an accident and miscommunication/misinterpretation by the press during VGR2 flybys that Uranus was noticeably green and Neptune was dark blue. flic.kr/p/J8aWsJ

Ice Giants in September 2015

Approximately natural color Hubble telescope views of Uranus (left) and Neptune. The same WFC3 filter combinations (F657N, F547M and F467M) were processed in an identical manner, retaining the relativ...

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Wildberries. Tula region. Pure art 🔥

Wow, my raw image (uncalibrated) mosaic of Iapetus from Cassini's only close encounter in 2007 is still the leading thumbnail for the moon on Wikipedia. It may not be precisely geometrically correct, but I'm pretty proud of it nonetheless. (1/2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus...

Iapetus (moon) - Wikipedia

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Why would they even do this in the first place? For chrissakes, we're living in a post-reality world that is messed up enough already 🤦‍♂️

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...

Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey

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Cassini wide-angle camera RGB view of Titan in Saturn's shadow taken on 2009-11-30. A certain Dave Bowman could have made a comment about the number of stars visible. Full quality image available at flic.kr/p/8HmgV9

For no particular reason whatsoever.

Kaitlin Kal Lee🤍@kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 5d ago

As a pure boost stage, Superheavy V3 is definitely a beast. Even if the ultimate goal of full reusability of the Starship program doesn't pan out, a booster with this much oomph should not be dismissed for other purposes IMHO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG7Q...

Starship Flight 13 launch 4k - TF-13

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What a fucking prick.

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk is horrifically dishonest here. He says zero people died because of his decimation of USAID and there was no harm done because the Gates Foundation and MacKenzie Scott had loads of money they could have used to replace the US funds—and if they didn't, they are to blame. Such rubbish.

This is... VERY not good.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

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

So I'm looking at Venus and the Moon getting low on the horizon right now, and I get the most convincing proof that the human eye has that infamous blind spot. Looking through my left eye at Venus, the Moon literally disappears unless I look away in any direction. Wild.

Must be fun to have a YT channel with over 1 M subscribers, all about reactions to other people's work and no original content by yourself.

Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera mosaic of Saturn's rings taken on September 9, 2007. Full resolution (15000 x 1700 pixels) and more details at link below. flic.kr/p/4Z46Ws

Huge Ring Vista [updated]

This large swath of the entire main ring system was taken by Cassini's narrow-angle camera on September 9, 2007, just a couple of hours before the only close Iapetus flyby in the mission. It was part ...

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And now for some less depressing stuff. NASA JPL video on Psyche's Mars flyby 🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gni...

NASA’s Psyche Mission Just Flew By Mars: Here’s What We Learned

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Cartoon by @hickeycartoons.bsky.social.

This is not Belgium disrespecting the USA national team, this is a well-deserved mockery of Trump and his corruptive meddling in the FIFA World Cup. Not that FIFA wasn't corrupt af even before this, but it wasn't quite as blatant up until now.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Belgian soccer team trolled Donald Trump by mimicking his “jerk-off” dance.

So Balogun's red card ruling was overturned. What a fucking joke #FIFA is. Go, Belgium! Get super pissed and give them hell.

Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...

Andrew Jones@andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · last mo.

Tianwen-2 sample return mission is expected to arrive at the near Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa tomorrow (July 4) at a distance of ~20 kilometres. Hopefully we'll also see the first images of the asteroid very soon. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/97RjX0XCVs...

Endless lines to gas stations. Electricity grid under Ukrainian assault. FAFO. Crimea river.

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · last mo.

Ukrainian drone forces released a video showing successful strikes against 16 different electrical substations in Russian-occupied Crimea in Ukraine. The sheer number of Ukrainian drones alone appears to make it impossible for the Russian air defense to cope with the situation.

Mad props to a brilliant scientist ☢️🧪

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · last mo.

Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

While Russians strike civilian infrastrucutre, whether it's by design or just their awful missile guidance, Ukrainians are continuing their "long range sanctions" campaign on oil production assets. As they say in Russia these days: бензина нет.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · last mo.

More videos show the aftermath of the Ukrainian drone strike on oil infrastructure at the Port of St. Petersburg.

I like how around 2:00 into the video the ground resolution from Eagle (left pane) starts beating LRO's telescopic views from around 50 km altitude, taken decades later. It's almost as if those guys got real close to the lunar surface back in the day? #Apollo11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKXw...

Apollo 11 Descent: Film and LRO Imagery

YouTube video by NASA Video

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Putin's Russia: a glorified gas station with nukes. Now with not so much gas.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · last mo.

Aerial view of a 4.3km long queue at a gas station in the Zabaykalsky Krai of Russia. The same as in the attached video from the ground.

Ah, the memories...

European Space History@eurospacehistory.bsky.social · last mo.

#OTD 1 July 2004 (30 June US time), the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn, the first to do so. This is the first image of the planet's rings received after orbit insertion. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @carolynporco.bsky.social @cmundell.esa.int @science.esa.int

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

🦩🔥

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · last mo.

The moment of one of the powerful FP-5 Flamingo strikes on Russia's Titan-Barrikady defense plant in Volgograd. Reports indicate three separate impacts across the facility.

🔥Overnight launch of Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles targeting the Titan-Barrikady defense plant in Volgograd, Russia's key missile industry plants.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · last mo.

FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles en route to the Russian Titan-Barrikady defense plant in Volgograd.

Seasons changing on Saturn: www.planetary.org/space-images... h/t to @planetarysociety.bsky.social for reminding me of this composite. Originally included in their post www.planetary.org/articles/sol...

Saturn at three different seasons

Cassini arrived at Saturn just past the southern summer solstice; by 2009, it had witnessed the equinox. These three views of Saturn were captured by…

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