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Reymond Aguinaldo
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Space, science and wonder. Personal account. Views and opinions my own. Socials: @mondinspace
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Reymond Aguinaldo @mondinspace.bsky.social · Jul 13
The #PaleBlueDot captures the fragility and beauty of our planet. Taken from billions of miles away, it shows #Earth as a tiny speck of light, suspended in the vast expanse of space. It is a humbling reminder of our place in the universe, and a call to cherish and protect our home.
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gutenberg.org
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?

"Blues came before jazz, but their stories are deeply connected. The Delta blues inspired New Orleans jazz and shaped modern music."

www.thecollector.com/what-came-fi...

#music
Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet.
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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planetdr.bsky.social
It’s snowing!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mondinspace.bsky.social
10/10 naming convention.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h
Get yourself a cup of coffee and try a Sunday round of Shuffalo, our anagram game. Can you make a longer word with each new letter? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/syVN87
Play Shuffalo: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Today's Nab

#pigeonSky 🪶
A photo of a blue bar feral pigeon with pearl eyes, stood outside on a window sill, looking at the viewer
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
mondinspace.bsky.social
"Pain colonizes her, quickly replaces what was ... with more and more of itself, and its advance is so forceful, its jagged contours so distinct, that she can't help imagining it as an entity with a life of its own."

The Hours, Michael Cunningham
A photo of a left hand holding a paperback novel titled "THE HOURS" by Michael Cunningham. The cover is dark with black-and-white images of drooping flowers (tulips) and scattered petals. There is a gold circular emblem on the upper right side that says "WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE." A small, dark magnetic bookmark is clipped onto the top edge of the book's pages. The background is dim and out of focus, showing a person's leg and foot, relaxing indoors.
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.
p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Panel 1. A worm wriggles along watched by a human. It asks: "What are you doing?" Panels 2 to 5. Scientist "I'm studying you. I'm a biologist. Just carry on as if I'm not here." Worm "I feel self-conscious now... What was I doing when you got here?" Scientist "Just wriggling along" Worm "Shall I go back to doing that?" Scientist "I suppose so." Panel 6. The worm is wriggling again. Both the worm and scientist are thinking: "This feels weird now..."
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
mondinspace.bsky.social
Happy Sun-day! ☀️
peterlewis55.bsky.social Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 4h
It's a Sunday Sun Day!
Sunspot region AR4274 is back! The region that caused multiple X-class solar flares earlier this month (giving us an aurora show) has survived its trip around the far side of the Sun with a new number AR4294
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
From spaceweather.com: Sunspot region 4274 seems to have survived its trip around the far side of the Sun and it has actually grown to a sunspot region with an impressive cluster of sunspots both large and small. We might be looking at two different regions but it is hard to tell them apart at the moment so it has been assigned one number for now: 4294
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
Stunning first M31 Jenny! 🔭 🧪
ladyastrojenny.bsky.social Jenny Winder she/her @ladyastrojenny.bsky.social · 1d
Our first image of M31 using Seestar S50 (an early Christmas present to ourselves) That’ll do!
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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astrobin.com
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Animation of Uranus , saison 2024/2025" by Georges

www.astrobin.com/1m61qq/

#astrophotography
Animation of Uranus , saison 2024/2025
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Panel 1. A character holding a mobile phone. Ping! An alert arrives: "Your order has been received!" (Image of happy-looking book) Panel 2. Ping! "Your item has been dispatched!" (Image of happy-looking van, driving along) Panel 3. Ping! "Your package has been delivered!" (Image of happy-looking box on doorstep) Panel 4. Ping! "Your book has been neglected: left on the shelf, unread and forgotten, gathering dust for several months." (Image of unhappy-looking book, dusty and covered with cobwebs, accompanied by a spider) Panel 5. The character looks sad and guilty about the unread book. Panel 6. Ping! "Your order has been received!" (Image of new, happy-looking book)
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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science.esa.int
For over a decade, #ESAGaia mapped our galaxy with stunning precision, rewriting the story of the Milky Way 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

While Gaia no longer collects new data, its scientific mission is far from over! Upcoming are the Gaia Data Release 4 and the final legacy catalogue. 🔭
Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way
www.esa.int
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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newscientist.com
To make quantum computers more efficient and reliable, some of their basic components must be constantly reused – several quantum computer designs can now do just that
Quantum computers that recycle their qubits can limit errors
To make quantum computers more efficient and reliable, some of their basic components must be constantly reused – several quantum computer designs can now do just that
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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johndebes.bsky.social
At a time when folks can’t seem to trust any information, it’s nice to find an easy DIY confirmation of reality. Also fun with math and geometry!
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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iflscience.com
🚨 Exclusive Interview 🚨
@esa.int

"We Will Build The Gateway": Lunar Gateway’s Future Has Been Rocky – But ESA Confirms It’s A Go

www.iflscience.com/we-will-buil...
"We Will Build The Gateway": Lunar Gateway’s Future Has Been Rocky – But ESA Confirms It’s A Go
The Trump Administration's proposed budget put the project on the chopping block, but ESA has confirmed its commitment to the first international space station to orbit the Moon.
www.iflscience.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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liber-ray.bsky.social
Check out the full description and link to the digital images below:
www.ria.ie/collections/...
Stowe Missal - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS D ii 3 (Cat. No. 1238) A.D. 792-803
www.ria.ie
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
JADES-GS-z14-0 is one of the most distant galaxies ever observed using the James Webb Space Telescope. According to a recent study, it may have a "dark star" at its core. That is, if dark stars actually exist: buff.ly/8pOGELL
Science Friday's Picture of the Week: An image of the JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy, one of the most distant galaxies ever observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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royalsociety.org
The Royal Society's Paul Instrument Fund is still open for applications. This scheme is for scientists in the UK who want to design and construct a novel instrument to measure novel phenomena in the physical sciences. #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/paul-instrument/
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Stone and Sky - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2j6jC3f
Near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah on May 25, 2020
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

Credit: Lin Zixuan ([email protected]), Tsinghua University

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭
An image featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early this month, showing not only a white dust tail trailing off to the right but its blue solar wind-distorted ion tail trailing off to the left. Far in the distance on the left is the magnificent central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, featuring dark dust, red nebula, and including billions of Sun-like stars. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is already fading as it heads back into the outer Solar System, while the Himalayan mountains will gradually erode over the next billion years. The Milky Way Galaxy, though, will live on - forming new mountains and comets - for many billions of years into the future.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool.

www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Screenshot for the many hidden worlds of quantum mechanics -- just the title and some evocative spheres floating around
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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iflscience.com
Have We Finally "Seen" Dark Matter? Galactic Gamma-Ray Halo May Be First Direct Evidence Of Universe’s Invisible "Glue"

www.iflscience.com/have-we-fina...
Did Scientists Just "See" Dark Matter For The First Time?
What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that make it up.
www.iflscience.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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space.com
#otd in #space: In 2011, NASA's #curiosity #rover is launched to #mars.

Read more about Curiosity's mission and discoveries. www.space.com/39251-on-thi...

#spacehistory #onthisdayinspace #onthisday #history #science #spacescience #astronomy #astronomyfacts #astronomylovers #historyfacts
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
Moments after the Big Bang, clusters of exotic particles could have collapsed to form bizarre objects called cannibal stars and boson stars. These could have then collapsed to form primordial black holes – say physicists at SISSA. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/LLCJ50Xy7GN
Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe? – Physics World
Objects formed by exotic particles could have created primordial black holes
ow.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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astroalysa.bsky.social
Here's the full video for anyone who'd like to watch:

youtu.be/mPFFUWPXAFs?...
Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!
YouTube video by PBS Space Time
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
mondinspace.bsky.social
Awesome. ✨
astroalysa.bsky.social Dr. Alysa Orbits (Obertas) @astroalysa.bsky.social · 4d
Omgomg my gif demonstrating using the doppler/radial velocity method for detecting exoplanets was used in the latest PBS Space Time!!!!! 🤩
Screenshot of PBS Space Time video titled "Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!" Image shows four panels. Upper left is a top-down perspective of a planet orbiting a star, showing both orbiting the centre of gravity of the pair (showing the "wobble" of the star). Bottom left is an edge-on perspective of the same pair. Upper right is a graph showing the edge-on speed of the star (which follows a sinusoidal curve). Bottom right is a depiction of the star's spectrum, showing dark absorption lines which move due to the doppler effect (which is how the edge-on speed of the star is determined).
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM