Happy anniversary to Journey to the Seventh Planet! This sci-fi adventure was released on this day in 1962. In the film, space explorers encounter a one-eyed monster in a cave on Uranus.
No, really. That's actually what happens.
#scifi #spaceopera
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A lot of authors do preorders, but today I’m introducing post-orders! That’s right, for the first time ever, you can buy a book after it’s release date!
Wow, what will they think of next?
"The risk of harm coming to anyone on Earth is low — approximately 1 in 4,200."
I'll be carrying an umbrella anyway, just in case.
Concept art for The Fifth Element, Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi cult classic movie starring Bruce Willis (the cab driver) and Milla Jovivich (the woman who quite literally fell into his life.) My main takeaway from this pic is, “Why the hell didn’t the raccoon make it to the final film?”
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The Replacement Stargate being put in place at the SGC
The Atlantis Expedition arriving at Atlantis through the Stargate
Goa'uld Gliders flying around an Offworld Stargate
The Stargate aboard the Destiny
Here, Have some Stargates to help continue to cleanse your Bluesky Timeline. #StargateSG1 #StargateAtlantis #StargateUniverse #Stargate
The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures - #Astronomy - phys.org/news/2026-03...
Happy birthday to Oscar Isaac! Oscar went to space in Dune: Part One as Duke Leto Atreides, and in several Star Wars films as Poe Dameron. He was also in the alien encounter film Annihilation (2018).
He's such an amazing actor that they named the award you get for being a good actor after him!
I think the Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow is about soldiers in reentry suits, but I haven't actually read it.
Fantastic concept art for The Expanse!
#spaceopera #scifiart #expanse
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A bit of both, I think!
Three astronauts in blue jumpsuits float through or work in the cramped quarters of a space station with CCCP on its side. A blue Earth is below and to the right of them.
Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! Here's a crossection of the Mir space station, by Pierre Mion.
Reentry suit. Man, imagine the view as you fall towards Earth!
#scifiart #spaceopera
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A vintage comic book. Space Adventures Presents: Space Trip To The Moon. A banner says "Now! Man's First Trip To The Moon!" The image shows the moon and planets in the background, and an astronaut in a yellow spacesuit with what looks like rock climbing equipment on his belt floating towards another astronaut far in the distance.
Yup, that's how it happened. Buzz Aldrin grabbed his rock climbing equipment and flew to the moon! Super accurate science right here.
This view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of a monster star. It is about the star AG Carinae. The image showcases the details of the ionised hydrogen and ionised nitrogen emissions from the nebula (seen here in red). The blue demonstrates the contrasting appearance of the distribution of the dust that shines of reflected stellar light. Astronomers believe that the dust bubbles and filaments formed within and were shaped by powerful stellar wind . The star is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust — a nebula — that is shaped by the powerful winds emanating from the star. The nebula is about five light-years wide, equal to the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
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#Hubble celebrated its 31st anniversary with this impressive view of AG Carinae, a luminous blue variable (LBV) 20,000 ly away in the constellation Carina.
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt 🔭 🧪 ⚛️
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#universe #space #astronomy #stellarastro #science 1/3
forgot to post this one as well. cruise liner arriving at a spaceport
Ooh! Beautiful work!
Frank Oz reminiscing about Flash Gordon. Some great art in this video. Fun stuff!
#spaceopera #flashgordon
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Aliens in New Florida banner that says Book release is August 6th 2026 with Carmenloup.com and a drawing of Rawr, lizardly alien type, with Mick, sexy in any gender rough and tumble type.
There's Aliens in New Florida! You might recognize these two from Tarot in Space, or you might not. Their designs have changed. Finally, the planets suit will make sense! As much sense as anything I do ever makes, at least. www.carmenloup.com/aliens-in-ne...
Misty, bluish-white gas nearly fills this image. A few scattered stars shine through the gas. To the bottom left and just near a bright star, a dark cloud of dust interrupts the glowing, nebulous landscape.
Ring Nebula. Viewed like a distorted donut, an inner circular nebula region glows in dark blue shades with faint stars viewed within. It's surrounded by a ring of bright teal, then an outer ring of reddish-orange. Black space with distant, faint stars fills the background.
Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle or shark fin extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes.
Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.
space is hauntingly beautiful.
The Wrecking Squad-a ragtag found family crew are forced into searching for a long lost ship and its deadly cargo. #scifibooks #sciencefiction books2read.com/wreckingsquad/
A static-covered television with the words "How can a VHS tape doom humanity? Read before it's too late." Next to it is a copy of the science fiction short story collection The Doom Tapes by D.N. Schmidt.
Looking for weird? Try these science fiction stories:
* A poker game with parasites from another dimension.
* A waitress at a space truck stop battles a monstrous meatloaf.
* A conman has a plan to steal three miles of space rock.
And many more!
#booksky #sff 📚🪐
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Enjoy the sci-fi book saga that's hit #1 in its category! Join the crew of Project Orpheus!
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After the space battle
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Happy 70th anniversary to one of my favorite space opera films, Forbidden Planet! The film starred Leslie Nielsen, who would later be more known for his comedic roles in the Naked Gun films.
But to me, the real star is Robby the Robot. How cool is that costume design?
#spaceopera #movies
The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
RELEASED TOMORROW!
A traumatised bounty hunter. A betrayed pirate queen. An ambitious politician. Can they somehow work together to save the human race? Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social and available through all good booksellers.
A field filled with stars and covered by clouds of gas and dust. In the centre, a thick column of dark black dust blocks light from stars that light it up from behind. More clouds behind those stars are illuminated in pale colours. Complex, layered filaments of red dust lie to the left and right. Blue, white and gold stars in various sizes can be seen around, within and through the colourful layers of dust.
The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space.
Against star-studded black space, an orange nebula surrounds a star.
Misty, bluish-white gas nearly fills this image. A few scattered stars shine through the gas. To the bottom left and just near a bright star, a dark cloud of dust interrupts the glowing, nebulous landscape.
the world is making me sad again and i need some space from it all.
Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail
Another great space station!
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Nice space station!
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IC 434, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.
In 1995, I spent the equivalent of about $3000 in today's dollars to get a Schmidt Cassegrain telescope & film camera with dreams of astrophotography. Spent MANY hours to net a few barely useful prints of the Moon.
Last year I spent $500 on a Seestar and captured this last night after an hour.
