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Bonfire night tonight so we've got loud music playing all around the house to try and block the noise from the fireworks as our dog is terrified of them, it usually works very well!
Such a stunning photo! ππ
A green heron catches the light just right in the marsh just after sunrise. #birds
As is traditional on October 31st, I present my greatest ever Halloween costume triumph: Watson as Cardinal Woofsley.
For #FossilFriday, walking with dinosaurs ~100 million years too late at the Davenport Ranch dinosaur tracksite (1st documented in 1940), near Bandera TX on a @geosociety.bsky.social pre-meeting field trip just 2 weeks ago. Tracks show evidence of herding sauropods & big theropods. π§ͺπͺ¨βοΈπ¦π¦πΎ #ichnology
Carnivorous βdeath ballβ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
Good luck, fingers crossed you get clear skies!
Here is what pulsating aurora looks like in real-time, not sped up.
A view of a river at sunset. By combining many exposures I have multiple images for single birds flying through the scene, making the appearance of trails. One bird flies in an arc across the scene close to the camera and the sunlight can be seen shining through its tail feathers.
Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone
Discovery of 8,000-year-old settlement is 'mind-blowing.' π§ͺ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Comet Lemmon imaged again tonight from Kielder Star Camp... Seestar S50
12 days until #OreCup!
We start at 00:00 UTC on Monday November 3, with each match running 24 hours.
Any early favs?
Foto des Kometen C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) mit blΓ€ulichem Gasschweif und gelblichem, gekrΓΌmmtem Staubschweif. Aufgenommen am 19. Oktober 2025 mit einer Spiegelreflexkamera bei 135 mm Brennweite, Summenbild aus 192 Einzelaufnahmen mit je 10 s Belichtung.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) taken on 19 October from the roof of our garage at 135 mm focal length (stack of 192 10s-subs). Despite thin clouds and streetlights between the comet and me, the gas & dust tails are clearly visible in different colors. Brings back memories of Hale-Bopp #astrophotography
Green comet above centre. Floodlight post and tree to its left.
Comet A6 Lemmon from this morning. 0525 22 October 2025. π π§ͺ π¨ #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #ThePhotoHour #MoonHour
Awesome! I haven't managed to see it yet, I've been plagued by clouds!
What a wonderful gift, I'm sure it will get a lot of use!
In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are β literally β fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
Green comet at centre with faint tail above.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). 10 October 2025. π π§ͺ π¨ #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Fantastic capture, the greenish colour really shows up vividly!
Hello, everyone! In case you have not completed our survey on space weather forecasting, please do so by the end of the week.
bit.ly/aurora-chase...
#heliophysics
#MinCup25 Two hours to go and hematite's falling behind! You might think it's just big & blocky & boring, but check out these #hematite feathers and vote wisely!
www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4...
A gibbous Dione from Voyager 1. The upper portion is out of the frame.
Dione, moon of Saturn, from Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980. The wispy trailing hemisphere can be seen on the left-hand side.
Good luck! Fingers crossed for clear skies π
Absolutely amazing, huge congratulations to everyone who has worked on this!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...