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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 5h

Europeans need to hold their nose and do what it takes to support Ukraine, even if it means effectively buying US military aid. But this is a pretty pathetic look for NATO and Rutte. www.politico.eu/article/pres...

Pressure mounts on NATO allies to go all-in on Trump arms scheme for Ukraine

A majority of NATO countries have joined the PURL scheme, and the rest are under pressure “to put your money where your mouth is.”

www.politico.eu

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 6h

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... – Mother Jones

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) @dlr-de.bsky.social · 7h

✈️🚫 Kleine Drohnen – großer Aufwand
Das DLR hat erstmals analysiert, wie stark der Luftverkehr 2024 durch unautorisierte Drohnenflüge beeinträchtigt wurde.
➡️ 118 gemeldete Störfälle
➡️ 9 komplette Betriebseinstellungen mit ≈ 500.000 € Schaden
Mehr Infos und unsere Empfehlung: s.dlr.de/drohnenflge-...

Einschränkungen durch Drohnen an deutschen Flughäfen 2024

Die jüngsten Vorfälle in Skandinavien und am Flughafen München, bei denen der Flugbetrieb für mehrere Stunden unterbrochen und zahlreiche Flüge gestrichen oder umgeleitet werden mussten, zeigen die we...

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 9h

Meteorologists are raising alarms that cuts made to weather balloon launches early in Trump's term may have directly contributed to poor forecasts of the catastrophic storm that recently hit western Alaska.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Map of weather balloon launches sites in Alaska showing location that have been disabled or reduced in service.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 10h

A new attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe
From kinetic gasses to an exponentially expanding universe
phys.org/news/2025-10...
arxiv.org/abs/2504.08062

From kinetic gasses to an exponentially expanding universe

We investigate the gravitational field of a kinetic gas beyond its usual derivation from the second moment of the one-particle distribution function (1PDF), that serves as energy-momentum tensor in th...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 16h

Tonight's look at #Comet R2 SWAN through the Dwarf3 - seems a touch fainter.

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 19h

So ... a judge has paused this. Paused - not halted. "Trump admin federal job cuts likely to be ‘north of 10,000,’ Vought says" www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t... #NASA #NASAStrong #DareMightyThings

Trump admin federal job cuts likely to be 'north of 10,000,' Vought says

President Donald Trump has vowed to target only “Democrat Agencies” for permanent staffing cuts amid the government shutdown.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 20h

If President Trump gets his way with federal radiation limits, "the new standard could allow four out of five people exposed over a 70-year lifetime to develop a cancer they would not otherwise get," write Daniel Hirsch, Haakon Williams, and Cameron Kuta.

President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety

If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate…

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 20h

Wild. One Attosecond is to a second, what a second is to the age of the Universe: theconversation.com/our-team-of-...

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Super short X-ray pulses help scientists study materials at the atomic level. Researchers found that certain lasing effects can make these pulses even shorter.

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 22h

Hier der Link: www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

Der Geruch der Apokalypse: Wie Trump die Gewaltspirale zu Hause weiterdreht

Donald Trump behauptet, US-Städte würden von kriminellen Ausländern und linken Randalierern belagert. Als Antwort schickt er immer mehr maskierte Bundespolizisten und Militär. In Chicago und Portland ...

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 1d

Vizekanzler Lars Klingbeil äußert sich vor dem Weißen Haus zum Visa-Entzug von Filmemacher Sixtus. Nennt dessen Post zu Kirk „geschmacklos“. Betont auf RND-Frage aber: „Ich halte die Meinungsfreiheit für ein hohes Gut und finde, dass wir auf beiden Seiten alles dafür tun sollen sie tu erhalten.“

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” news.mit.edu/2025/geologi... - MIT News

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”

Scientists have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal impact irreversibly altered the primitive planet’s composition and prod...

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Deirdre @flowinguphill.bsky.social · 1d

Welp. The Arctic now has a shipping route. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK

A Chinese container ship has completed a pioneering journey through the Arctic to a UK port, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, cutting in half the usual transit time for the electric vehicles and solar panels aboard destined for Europe.

www.reuters.com

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · Aug 9

Dracula's Chivito 🧛‍♂️🥪 is an edge-on protoplanetary disk discovered in 2024. #Hubble image.🛰️🔭

The name was chosen because some of the authors of the discovery paper are from Transylvania 🇷🇴 and Uruguay 🇺🇾.

Link to my image processing: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr...

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 1d

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech
apnews.com/article/trum... - AP News

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 2d

It’s great to see old observations come to light. A recent study cites 2 Arabic texts that may refer to accounts of two well-known galactic supernovae: 1 in 1006 AD and another in 1181 AD. Here’s our latest post on the fascinating study for @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/ara...

Arab Scholars May Have Noted the Supernovae of 1006 and 1181

It’s great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what’s known about historic astronomical events, but they can describe what early observers actually...

www.universetoday.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 2d

While the war has been raging in Gaza, the right-wing Netanyahu government has been doing everything short of formal annexation to extend Israeli control over the West Bank—and it might well have done the formal annexation if Trump had not blocked it. wapo.st/3W5yhAx

Opinion | Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace

“A new Middle East” will require sacrifices that Israelis and Palestinians show no sign of making.

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Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · 2d

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on Oct 14 06:20 CEST from #Stuttgart
to the right of Mizar/Alcor in the Big Dipper
Stack 5 * 5 sec f=22mm ISO 1600 f/4.4
Live maps: theskylive.com/c2025a6-info

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 2d

“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 2d

Some screencaps of the #Starship reentry during test #11.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 2d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 2d

SpaceX completed the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first and second stages landed exactly as planned.
- I did launch coverage on Bloomberg Radio audio: soundcloud.com/keith-cowing...
- I was on Deutsche Welle TV to do landing coverage audio: soundcloud.com/keith-cowing...

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 3d

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/s... #NASA #SpaceX #Artemis

Is NASA losing the moon race? All eyes are on the megarocket launching Monday for answers | CNN

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 7d

Mars - Cloudy Arsia Mons - CNSA Tianwen-1 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qLGDnY

Credit
Image Processing: Andrea Luck
Raw Image Copyright: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC

Image created using data processed from moon.bao.ac.cn/

Mission: CNSA Tianwen 1
Time: 2022-02-07T20:41:19.967000Z
Longitude:-117.848291
Latitude:-10.298203
Altitude: 688 km
File name: HX1-Or_GRAS_MoRIC-F-0001_SCI_N_20220207204119_20220207204119_00866.2C

Credit
Image Processing: Andrea Luck
Raw Image Copyright: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC

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