“#Melbourne based #astronomers say the object was unlikely to a meteor, but #SpaceJunk. #MonashUniversity Associate Professor #MichaelBrown identified the object as #Starlink satellite 5103.”

Oligarch externalities raining down to earth 🌏 ☄️

#Elonovitch / #Melbourne / #skies <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/bright-light-seen-in-victorian-skies-not-meteor-but-space-debris/106298226>

Through a cosmic lens: Hubble and #JWST reveal a stunning Einstein ring: https://zorz.it/BKLSV

#SoumyadeepMukherjee #SpacePhotography #astronomers #HubbleSpaceTelescope #EllipticalGalaxy #SpiralGalaxy #CosmicLens #MilkyWay #EinsteinRing

A new hunt for an #Earth analog begins
The #TerraHuntingExperiment will monitor dozens of sunlike #stars with enough precision to detect Earth twins
Over the last three decades, #astronomers have discovered more than 6,000 #planets outside our #solarsystem — yet none that look just like home. That might be about to change.
A new #telescope project kicked off in the #CanaryIslands in mid-December is tasked with one main objective: to find an Earth twin.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-analog-terra-hunting-experiment

Asteroid Behaving Strangely
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=asteroid-behaving-strangely
An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast
#international #astronomers #discovered #strangely

Astronomers may have already spotted the 'Great Comet of 2026' — and it could soon be visible to the naked eye
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=astronomers-may-have-already-spotted-the-great-comet-of-2026-and-it-could-soon-be-visible-to-the-naked-eye
Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in
#astronomers #visible #already #spotted

To those who celebrate, may you receive the gift of wisdom. Blessings at #Epiphany.

Sally Bosken told me all #astronomers had to have a #starofbethlehem speech ready. Thanks to her, I do.

#calendar #timekeeping #seasonoflight #12daysofchristmas #astronomy #histsci
detail from "Mary and Child, surrounded by angels" by "Master of Sant'Apollinare", photograph by N. A. Thune (CC-BY-SA 2.5), courtesy Wikimedia Commons

#Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway #galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.
#Astronomy #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/astr01062601.html

a periodic reminder in loving memory of Tycho Brahe -- it's always worth it to leave the party to pee!

Relatedly -- mind your nose whenever dueling!

📷 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#/media/File:Tycho_Brahe_-_Stellarum_octavi_orbis_inerrantium_accurata_restitutio,_1598._Author's_portrait_(Tycho_Brahe_portrait,_cropped).jpg

#history #Astronomy #astronomers #AstroDon #advice #TychoBrahe

#Astronomers detect rare 'free floating' #exoplanet 10,000 light-years from #Earth

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/astronomers-detect-rare-free-floating-exoplanet-10-000-light-years-from-earth

#Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a #Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results

https://futurism.com/space/astronomers-star-splitting-half

Two-thirds of #galaxies 🌌 rotate clockwise 🔁. Either our entire #universe exists in a black hole, or #astronomers have been measuring the universe’s expansion incorrectly 🙈 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-that-most-galaxies-rotate-clockwise-180986224

#astronomy #JWST

🚀✨ "Space Enthusiast Discovers Groundbreaking Concept: Planning! 🤯 Now, lost #astronomers everywhere can finally stop shooting Andromeda like it's going out of style. Thanks, Karl, for the revolutionary idea of thinking ahead! 🧠👏"
https://astroimagery.com/techniques/imaging/astrophotography-target-planner/ #SpaceEnthusiast #GroundbreakingConcept #Planning #KarlRevolutionaryIdea #HackerNews #ngated

#Astronomers Discover One of the Largest Rotating Structures Ever Seen in the #Universe

https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-discover-one-of-the-largest-rotating-structures-ever-seen-in-the-universe/

#Sunlight ☀️ on-demand : #ReflectOrbital has applied for a government license to launch an 18 by 18 meters mirror 🪩 to space next year. The company plans to operate a constellation of more than 4,000 #solar reflectors by 📆 2030 https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/this-companys-plan-to-launch-4-000-massive-space-mirrors-has-scientists-alarmed-from-an-astronomical-perspective-thats-pretty-catastrophic

@royalastrosoc and #Astronomers aren't amused

Cosmography archives

Nêbuleuses découvertes par différens Astronomes, que M. Messier a cherchées inutilement.

Connoissance des Temps, ou Connoissance des Mouvemens Célestes, Pour l'Année bissextile 1784, pp 268-269.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6514280n

#Cosmography #CosmographyArchives #Messier #nebulae #ConnoissancedesTemps #astronomy #astrodon #archives #history #HistoryOfScience #Hevelius #LaCaille #Cassini #Flamsteed #astronmer #astronomers #science

Here's to hoping none of the astronomers I know ever see this

cc: @sundogplanets

#Hubble #JWST #Telescope #Astronomer #Astronomers
#aviation #airplane #safety #RedTag

#Dadjoke #Dadjokes #humor

What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life
The detection of the molecule #phosphine in a #browndwarf’s atmosphere may help #astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way,a molecule that on this planet is produced by living things.
This discovery is not life, the astronomers say. Any life as we know it would be impossible to sustain in such an environment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/science/brown-dwarf-phosphine-life.html
https://archive.ph/7nyuM

Stars, photographed above my first home in Pennwood, Mifflintown. 1982. #stars #sky #skyphotography #photography #starphotography #photographer #photographers #timer #timelapse #starfield #starfields #astronomy #astronomer #astronomers #observation #1980s #pennwood #mifflin

#Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy using the ALMA telescope. The #galaxy is glowing intensely in superheated cosmic dust while forming stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way.
#Astronomy #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/astr11122501.html

#Astronomers
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