Image of Earth bisected by the terminator line. The terminator divides Earth\u2019s surface diagonally, shrouding the top left half in darkness. Earth\u2019s illuminated surface is mostly blue and covered in swirling white clouds. Credit: NASA

Image of crescent Earth. Against the blackness of space, the shining blue and white of Earth appears like a smile. Credit: NASA

Image of Earth from the Artemis II mission. Earth fills the bottom half of the image, its surface covered in blue water and swirling white clouds. Earth\u2019s limb is a blue glow against the curvature of Earth. Credit: NASA

Image of Earth from the Artemis II mission. Earth fills the top half of the image. Through the gaps in white cloud cover, green and brown land masses are visible, as is blue water. Credit: NASA

WE HAVE NEW IMAGES OF EARTH FROM ARTEMIS II!!!

LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR PLANET IS!! HAPPY EARTH DAY!

It's a snip from another platform. A man sleeps while an huge crab looms over him. Captions say "Don't worry you are not alone" and "We've hired a crab to watch over you". The comment on the post is "Crab Museum takes no responsibility for it smashing your flat to bits in search of tidbits of algae, whale flesh, or a simple good time. Frankly, we're as baffled as you are.

Why isn't Margate's Crab Museum on Bluesky?

We need answers. 🦀

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Traybake with white icing and grey iced inscription (Oscan language written in the Greek alphabet)

British #Epigraphy society conference #cake reveal: a new Oscan inscription from the sanctuary of Rossano di Vaglio, recording restoration work by a magistrate called Nimzis Sadiries, son of Nimzis.

Publication: works.hcommons.org/records/h8cy...

@durhamclassics.bsky.social #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Pope on plane to Angola: "A certain narrative has taken hold—one that is not entirely accurate-due to the political situation that arose when, on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made certain statements regarding me.... Much of what has been written since then is nothing more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. An example is the important address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on April 16. That speech had been prepared two weeks earlier—well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet, it was interpreted as if I were attempting to engage in a renewed debate with the President —something that is not in my interest at all."

huge portions of media think they’re the refs in a Vatican VS White House MMA fight and they’re delusional. this is a one-sided beef where the Pope says something sensible like “war is bad” or “we should not bomb schoolchildren” and all the hit dogs on Capitol Hill and Fox News lose their marbles.

The photograph, taken within a museum setting, depicts two remarkably well-preserved Roman barrels of substantial size. They appear largely complete, with the exception of their upper sections.

XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.🧵1/2

📷me

🏺 #archaeology

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope

🚨URGENT 🚨The Senate could vote strip protections from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters as soon as this afternoon. ​

Demand that your Senators protect the Boundary Waters from permanent and irreparable mining pollution. ​

​Call (202) 224-3121: Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140

News is rough these days. Take this as a reminder that it doesn’t have to be.

hoping jd vance comes here to negotiate a stronger brexit so we can end up back in the eu

ORBÁN CONCEDED

Anna Fisher speaking on the NEAF stage with a photo of her and her very young (18 months) daughter in matching flight suits.

Watching Anna Fisher speak at NEAF, she was the first mom in space. Gave birth to her daughter on a Friday and was present the following Monday at 8am for the Shuttle mission meeting.

Women have superpowers and I will not hear otherwise.

A striking Hellenistic/#Roman glass bowl, made about 2100-2200 years ago. It has an almost hypnotic blue, green, & clear spiral pattern #AncientBlueSky

The Artemis II crew is doing a press conference about their historic Moon mission but most importantly Rise is there! www.youtube.com/live/DYY4nnf...

The Artemis II landing module splashing down in the ocean. Three large parachutes are attached, all round with red and white stripes.

A bunch of Tunnock’s tea cakes, each in its foil wrapper with trademark red and white striped pattern.

Rest of the world: “Hooray, the astronauts splashed down safely”

Every British person ever: “TUNNOCKS TEACAKES”

#ArtemisII

Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) YouTube video by UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture

Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC). Dr Brendan O’Neill and some of our MSc in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture students draw out some of the iron they made themselves from bog ore, to make knives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKss...

Ancient golden helmet recovered more than a year after Dutch heist The helmet and three golden bracelets were stolen in January 2025, but one bracelet is yet to be found.

Oh, and that's finally some good news! - The golden Geto-Dacian #Coțofenești helmet, stolen during a raid on #DrentsMuseum in #Assen, the Netherlands, last year has been recovered!

🏺 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Shittification of Things continues....

Interior of a church with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

WORK WITH US: ReACH Research Officer

We are looking to hire a new member of staff to help deliver Research in Action on Church Heritage (ReACH), our partnership project with @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social.

Find out more and apply before 11:59 PM on 3 May 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/work-wi...

Calling all my fellow #StarWars buds! Help me take some underprivileged kids to see The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen! RT/Share/Donate if you can: @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @swholocron.bsky.social @starwarsexplained.com @theswu.bsky.social @ethansacks.bsky.social

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Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.

Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Earth behind the Moon

Awesome image from Artemis.
Big!

Students’ artwork on display at Pier Arts Centre The artwork of two of the MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology students is on show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, until April 18.

The artwork of two of the MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology students is on show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, until April 18.

Ancient Roman bathhouse filled with water

Remains of an Ancient Roman bathhouse

Ancient Roman public toilets

Set of Ancient Roman medical instruments

Today is #WorldHealthDay. Although #AncientRomans loved their baths, dipping in one was not always advised. 1st century AD writer Celsus states that bathing with an open wound can easily lead to gangrene. Instead, one should only lightly scrub body parts away from the wound. Baths will have to wait!

earthset, as captured by the artemis ii crew on their lunar flyby

the moon eclipsing the sun, as captured by the artemis ii crew on a lunar flyby

solar eclipse emergence, as captured by the artemis ii crew

a view of the orientale basin in the moon, as captured by the artemis ii crew

utterly unprepared for the wave of emotions that hit me after seeing these photos. good lord. there are not enough words

images.nasa.gov