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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · 12h

Wasn't expecting Kpop Demon Hunters Chili at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's chili cook-off today.

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AkaSci @akasci.bsky.social · 9d

An intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Vantor (formerly Maxar) Constellation.
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1. The NISAR image taken by one of the WorldView Legion satellites
2. Same image with vector info showing orientation of NISAR relative to its imaging targets.
Source: Vantor

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · 7d

Good turnout for #NoKings march in Santa Cruz California.

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · 21d

Shooting through a little marine layer to #observethemoon from Santa Cruz California.

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · 21d

“Missed it by that much”

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · 29d

Vid of @spacejammie.bsky.social showing off cool Burning Man Informal Outreach projects youtu.be/dkGPpcjIsN8?...

Science Outreach at the Burning Man Art Festival (Jamie Molaro, 09/17/2025)

YouTube video by Planetary Science Institute

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · Sep 23

Also, join Candy for a discussion on JunoCam on the PSI-produced show CosmoQuest After Hours. This one is titled "JunoCam: Seeing Jupiter through the eyes of multitudes" and it airs Friday, Sept. 26 at 11am MST/2pm EDT. 🔭 🧪

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Xenomythology with Jason Batt

In this episode of CosmoQuest After Hours, we introduce you to Dr Candy Hansen, a Senior Scientist at the co-leader of the JunoCam investigation payload on t...

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 31

Tour of the Texas dark skies telescope ranch starfront.space www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktd...

A Tour of Starfront Observatories!

YouTube video by Bray Falls

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sorry Marc. Hugs.

Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 3

Maybe 12VDC out of generator to a sine wave inverter.

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Tory Bruno @torybruno.bsky.social · Aug 3

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The Burn Sequence Episode 3: Jeff Armstrong

YouTube video by United Launch Alliance

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 3

Congrats to JPL radar peeps and everyone responsible for REASON instrument and creation of radargram captured during Europa Clipper March 1 Mars flyby. Strip image at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... REASON (open access) paper at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Damn, B." deserves a follow on the off chance it's a Buffy/Faith reference.

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Aug 1

+1 to Anthropic for naming their agentic AI infra Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) which non-coincidentally also stands for Master-Control-Program, the protagonist in Tron. EOL

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · Jul 30

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

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Judy Schmidt @geckzilla.bsky.social · Jul 25

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

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A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.

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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · Jul 21

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-sh...

NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation.

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jul 20

Happy Moon Day. First photo of a human taken from surface of another world. Buzz Aldrin egressing from Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle on 7/20/1969. Full Rez at flic.kr/p/2gDbHUn

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jul 20

Since JunoCam hasn't been feeling well for the last two perijove passes, here's a rewind back to Perijove 1, August 2016. Image JNCE_2016240_00C06160 acquired 2016-08-27T11:59 from altitude 73,009 km.

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Jason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · Jul 18

Animated gif of Juno/JIRAM 3.5-micron observations of Io from December 27, 2024. This gif covers roughly 45 minutes of time as Juno passed Io at a distance of 74,444 km. The eruption at West Illyrikon was so intense that it saturated the detector and caused internal reflections within JIRAM's optics

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jul 12

Now hear me out - interstellar spacecraft the size of a comet, covered in solid volatile fuel, with reflective panels for controlled heating and thrust during a close stellar flyby, falling from one system next...

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jul 9

Texas dark skies telescope ranch (from x.com/astrofalls/s... )

Many remotely accessible amateur owned telescopes in row of buildings with slide-over roofs.

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jun 24

Of late he's given a number of explosive demonstrations.

Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jun 23

First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory press conference live at www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...

First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook

YouTube video by Rubin Observatory

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Brian Swift @bswift.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you for your service.