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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4d

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist & philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. 🧪🐡👩‍🔬🎢🧮 #histsci She taught herself mathematics using books in her father's library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre & Gauss, 🧵1

Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4d

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 6d

For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.

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The Web Optimist @weboptimist.bsky.social · 5d

I don't wanna party like it's 1999.

I wanna grocery shop like it's 1999.

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Infinite Skies 🇨🇦 @space-truckin.bsky.social · 7d

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon.

Happy to finally capture this one.
From my location it was tough to get a good view.
I set my alarm for 4am and took my rig and dog out in the back of the field that is our yard just as the comet climbed above the tree line.
🔭 @astrophotography

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 7d

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?”

Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭

Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection

A diagram shows arrows radiating from a central point, indicating directions, with lots of white disks (stars) surrounding the central point.

An etching of Hans Olbers. He wears a heavy coat, vest, and high collared white shirt. His wispy hair is receding.

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Elemental Wanderer @satx210lady.bsky.social · 7d

We have had #maxthedog for 138 days. He’s grown from 60lbs to 80lbs. I’m impressed this pup has evolved from an abandoned, abused animal to a loving companion. He is still learning. Here’s to the volunteers that foster animals. One of my adopted dogs inspired us to continue the fire. #fosterdogs

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

Mooney time.

A few images taken on the 8th just before packing up and retiring.
This one is the terminator around Petavius, a crater with a superb fault running across its floor.
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Crater Petavius on the Eastern terminator, the line separating lunar night and day

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 8d

Tomorrow it is world space week on Guildford high Street! Join us from 10-4 for space, science, planets, galaxies, stars and satellites! I can't wait ☄️🌕👽🌟🛰️🛸👩🏻‍🚀🧪🔭

an astronaut in a space suit is flying through space

Alt: an astronaut in a space suit is flying through space

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 9d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 9d

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.
We are made of starstuff."

— Carl Sagan. Cosmos (1980).

Image source➡️ imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/10sep08...

🔭 🧪 #science

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The image is an artist's illustration of one model of the bright gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B.
The explosion appears highly beamed into two bipolar jets, with a narrow inner jet (white) surrounded by a wider outer jet (green).

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Elemental Wanderer @satx210lady.bsky.social · 14d

I absolutely love my Saturday’s with my crew. #rescuedogsrock #dogweekend #familydog #hapoydogs #redheeler #brindle #dogmom

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

Next #SETILive: Space Weather Alert
Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 2:30 pm PDT

Heliophysicist Dr. Becca Robinson joins host Simon Steel to explain what coronal holes are, how they form, and what their impacts mean for both our technology and our understanding of the Sun. 🧪 🔭

WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/P9Xk2M4

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Elemental Wanderer @satx210lady.bsky.social · 17d

Happy October 2025!
#octobersky #autumn #thebeltofvenus #pinkskies #iamascientist

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monika4.bsky.social @monika4.bsky.social · 21d

#GreenSat
Foggy morning in the forest 🤍😊💚
after a cold, windy and rainy week.

Have a pleasant weekend everyone 🦋✨

Forest with different types of trees. Most leaves are green, just a few yellow and orange; sky and background foggy.

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Mumford and Mom 💙 @mumford-and-mom.bsky.social · 21d

Morning meditations 🧘‍♀️. Pescadero Beach, CA. #california #coastalviews #beach #hiking #nature #travel #photography #nationalparks

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Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 21d

Come out on the sanctuary with us this weekend as we say goodbye to summer & get important jobs sorted!

Meet Andy the Shepherd, who tells us all about wildlife, the land & conservation 🦋

Please subscribe, it’s free!

youtu.be/beo0OSIU0Cg?...

#sheep #horses #rescueanimals #animalsanctuary #animals