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Astropotamus πŸ”­πŸ¦›

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✨Time Traveling podcaster exploring the Star River - where ancient history meets astrophysics. Join me for a drink and a deep conversation about our connection to the infinite. You’re already in the River. 🍷 Listen: https://astropotamus.com/star-river

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This was one of my popular episodes, quickly reaching the "most downloaded" status for the month. #SetiAstro πŸŒŒπŸŽ™οΈπŸ”­πŸ¦›

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The Software Behind the Stars: Seti Astro's Frank Marek - The bar's been set fairly low for entry to get in there. β­πŸŽ™πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸ¦› #Astronomy #Podcasts

The very first episode ever of The Star River Podcast! Join my inaugural guest, @eggstronomer.bsky.social and find out what all we talked about that came true! πŸ₯šπŸŽ™οΈπŸ”­πŸ¦›

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From the archives: The Egg Hunter: Artemis Missions & Fighting Science Misinformation with Katja Lindblom - From Angry Astronomers to Cosmic Ponies: Finding Our Place in the Current πŸŽ™πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸ¦› #Astronomy #Podcasts

This episode contains my first ever scientific scoop and I had to make sure I didn't go live until they had published! πŸŽ™οΈπŸ”­πŸ¦›

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From the archives: How to See the Surface of a Star: New Mexico’s Secret Super-Telescope with Professor Michelle Creech-Eakman - How the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer captures deep space at sub-milliarcsecond resolution. β­πŸŽ™πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸ¦› #Astronomy #Podcasts

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People often ask which telescope I use for astrophotography. So I thought I'd share a bit about my gear. I have a wide-field refractor and a Schmidt–Cassegrain. In a future post, I will also share my underwater camera rig. #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eck #photography

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Live stacked Saturn from last night. The seeing conditions were horrendous but still got something. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #saturn

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I have been working on visualizing the appearance of proposed space mirrors on the night skies. As the beam approaches it appears as a column of light emerging from the darkness. At the beam center of a 600 km high 54 m. mirror the reflection gives a light similar to that of 38 Full Moons, 9.5 Lux.

I can't wait for this one to do it's thing! πŸˆ΄πŸ¦›πŸ”­

And Lift Off! A glorious launch of #MMX, the start of an amazingly awesome 5 yr round trip to Mars' moon Phobos. 1yr to get there, 3yrs exploration landing on the surface (twice), then 1yr to get home with the bounty (2tbls of Phobos dust), arriving in the Australian outback in 2031! πŸ₯³πŸ”­πŸ§ͺπŸ›°οΈπŸš€

NGC 7822, The Question Mark Nebula. I feel like it's been forever since I've imaged, and I'm pleased with how this one came out. This is the central region of what I hope to be 3x3 mosaic by the time I'm done. πŸŒŒπŸ”­πŸ¦›

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Depending on your time zone, it's International Archaeology Day! Space archaeology is an increasingly important strand of archaeological theory and practice. To find out more, consult my handy bibliography. πŸ§ͺ πŸ”­ 🏺

zoharesque.blogspot.comBibliography: Space Archaeology and HeritageI update this bibliography as new material is published, but it is not exhaustive. Please let me know what I'm missing. This is about space...

I always said "If you can invent a way to put more minutes in the day, you'll be a bajillionaire." I guess The General Conference on Weights and Measures is VERY SLOWLY trying to do just that! βŒšπŸ”­πŸ¦›

EarthSky@earthskyscience.bsky.social

No more leap seconds! Timekeeping is officially changing. Starting May 20, 2027, the international time standard will no longer use #leapseconds to keep it aligned with Earth’s rotation. What's that mean for you? Find out at: buff.ly/aeyE68h πŸ“Έ Pexels/ Stas Knop..

#Astrophotography is both easy and hard.

Ali@ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

You can hear Dr Heymans on The Star River Podcast in a few weeks! πŸŽ™οΈπŸ”­πŸ¦›

A truly epic day at Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium talking with 600 primary school kids for "Ask the Astronomer Royal Anything"! Aliens; black holes; how did the Earth, Sun, Galaxy form?; how did it all begin?; how will it all end? I do so love my job. πŸ₯°πŸ”­πŸŽ’ πŸ“·: Robin Mair

A haunted house where every room has several telescopes with expansive views of the sky through 100% perfectly clear crystal ceilings but you live in Western New York where the days are beautiful and the nights are cloudy. And it snows a lot.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social

A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses