What a launch.

Rocket Lab’s HASTE mission “Bubbles” lifted off successfully at 9:36 PM ET from Wallops.

📸 Micah Pieczarka for NSF

For a change of pace, here's a photo I took of the North America Nebula last night with my Dwarf 3 smart telescope (2nd time I've been able to use it)... #Astronomy

Initial conditions:
m1=21.7 m2=54.3 m3=84.8 (solar masses)
v1x=4.63 v1y=2.33 v2x=0.756 v2y=5.35 v3x=-5.846 v3y=4.539 (km/s)
x1=-16.0 y1=17.0 x2=-1.0 y2=31.0 x3=-16.0 y3=-26.0 (AU from center)
Music: Battlestar Sonatica (BSG) – McCreary

Lyra's Song does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

ST:III Search for Spock - Fleet transport ship, Klingon Warship, and Klingon Fighter by Russel 1983

STAR TREK TIMELINES book cover (not final)

After a year+ of work, I can finally, excitedly, announce I co-wrote the forthcoming STAR TREK TIMELINES from publisher DK with fellow authors @kellifitzwrites.bsky.social @dattico.bsky.social and Michael Dismuke. Comes out in November 2026 and is available for pre-order now! #startrek #LLAP

Watch: Nana Visitor Returns As Major Kira In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short Major Kira is in command of the USS Defiant.

Watch: Nana Visitor Returns As Major Kira In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short https://bit.ly/41MXv9G

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This one.
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okay, I think im on the right track.

I know. I got up early on Christmas day to watch the launch live.

A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows: Russell) must help She-Ra (Kelly LeBrock) stop Hordak (Christopher Lloyd) from using an alien shapeshifter to conquer Etheria. 7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min. After the sudden disappearance of the 20th century NASA probe, Voyager 6, Enterprise returns to the Sol system to investigate. Porthos is suspicious of Hoshi's new cat, Richelieu. Musical guest: American Hi-Fi. [SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Science Fiction; 2 hrs. “Unicorn Punks From Planet Midnight.” Billy Idol.

#StarTrekENT "From A Small, Distant World"

After the sudden disappearance of the 20th century NASA probe, Voyager 6, Enterprise returns to the Sol system to investigate. Porthos is suspicious of Hoshi's new cat, Richelieu. Musical guest: American Hi-Fi.

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Day of the Dead” - Reactor A religious ceremony allows the dead to return to the station for a final visit...

On @reactorsff.bsky.social it's the first B5 episode not written by J. Michael Straczynski since season 2, and it's problematic on several levels, though it does have Penn & Teller. The BABYLON 5 Rewatch lives through the "Day of the Dead."

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Looking forward to seeing Star Wars (1977) unaltered next year.

Until then, we have Disney Plus, at least, but it's a hell of a compromise. I really believe all the whiplash inducing Frankensteining has hurt the original trilogy much more than people realize.

#FilmSky📽️

#StarTrekDS9 S05E08: Things Past. Odo, Sisko, Dax, and Garak are found comatose in their runabout. While unconscious they are trapped as Bajorans on Terok Nor during the occupation and are accused of the attemping to assassinate Gul Dukat. Rating 4/10. #StarTrek #TrekSky

#OTD 21 April 1995, launch of ESA’s second remote sensing satellite ERS-2 🛰️ on Ariane 4 flight V72 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... @esaearth.esa.int @cnes.fr

🚨 Voyager 1 now only has two instruments still operating

• One that listens to plasma waves and one that measures magnetic fields — the rest have been turned off to conserve power

• It's been flying through space for almost 49 years

I'm getting FASATrek vibes from this.

Here we have wide field view of the compact blue dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, and its epic central starburst. It is something like a smaller, but slightly closer version of M82. Though NGC 5253 is less famous than M82 I still find it to be quite interesting—visually stunning, even. An image I submitted yesterday shows a very high resolution close-up of the core: flic.kr/p/WMcktQ While this galaxy has been previously processed, I thought it would be better if some older narrowband WFPC2 were used to show off its H-alpha emissions, which are now seen clearly here as a bright pink cloud emanating from around the central area of the galaxy. I tried not to overprocess these clouds, but some might say I have. Still, others may say I didn't take it far enough, because it certainly could be pushed even further. In the upper right and lower left corners are blank areas. I did not want to crop large sections of the galaxy and background off, so I filled these blank areas with a simple noise pattern so that they would not be distracting. H-alpha coverage is incomplete, but close enough that it does not appear to be missing much. Data from the following two proposals was used. I used mosaics from the LEGUS page, as well as the mosaics from the HLA because some parts of the chip gaps in the LEGUS mosaics did not look very good. The Discrete X-ray Source Population in NGC~5253, our nearest post-starburst galaxy WFPC2 Mapping of Dust Obscuration and Stellar Populations in Starburst Galaxie...

NGC 5253 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/XUfZ4v

I watched Space 1999 and enjoyed it but never got totally into it, but the station set design was absolutely stupendous.

The cover is a large spaceship in space above a green planet, caught at just the moment when a setting or rising sun will cause lens flare.

JR Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy. I'm late to the party but, yes, this is excellent. The joy of good SF is an author with such imagination that you leave the book feeling your mind has been expanded. 600 pages is a lot but that said I read the last 150 in one sitting, I was so gripped.

a space shuttle is being launched with smoke coming out of it Alt: a space shuttle is being launched with smoke coming out of it

Happy Tuesday y'all

I've found myself dreaming more and more of humanity's progress in space exploration. I haven't felt this positive about it since the days of the Space Shuttle 😌 The next two years are going to be tremendous assuming Blue Origin or SpaceX can hold up their ends 🤭

Take care 🫡🫡

A starship design

A starship design

A drop shuttle design

An orbital space station design

Some of my digital sketches of spaceship and space station designs I've done for my Mothership TTRPG campaign. Drawn in Ibis Paint X on a Samsung Galaxy tab 10FE tablet.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)
Episode 25 - Colony Drop
12:07.682

Star Trek's 6 TV & Movie Eras Explained What was the best era of Star Trek?

60 years, and we all have our favorite eras of #StarTrek. 🖖

For me, the TOS-movie era.

Push Back On NASA Mars Mission Cuts Push Back On NASA Mars Mission Cuts

"Push Back On NASA Mars Mission Cuts" -
nasawatch.com/congress/pus...
"We respectfully urge the Committee to provide funding for NASA’s Mars exploration efforts by providing at least $400 million in FY 2027 to the Mars Future Mission program." #NASA #Mars #Astrogeology #astrobiology"

Battlestar Galactica Landing Bay model test - 60FPS YouTube video by Peter Hirschberg Projects

@gmd3d.bsky.social

Hey G! looks like someone is following in your footsteps!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWov...

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Central star in Bug Nebula found
Image date: 2 December 2009, 10:00


An elusive, very hot star at the centre of one of the most well-known and spectacular planetary nebulae has been directly detected. Using the brand-new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in six narrow band filters, researchers from the...

I prefer the corridor look in the TOS-era movies. This is too white & bright.

Do yourself a favour - develop your own crewed launch system because Trump is trying to gut NASA's Artemis programme and NASA space science.