Data processed from Nasa's Juno Orbit (Perijove) 7 - 11/07/2017 Altitude: 9866 km Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/AndreaLuck Image created by processing data from Nasa's Juno: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=1583 More info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25011-jupiters-great-red-spot-... Product ID: JNCE_2017192_07C00060_V01 Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Andrea Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Jupiter 's Great Red Spot - Nasa’s Juno PJ 7 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mFvc8g

Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented any way relative to us in the sky. This can make it hard to figure out their actual morphology, as a galaxy can look very different from different viewpoints. A special case is when we are lucky enough to observe a spiral galaxy directly from its edge, providing us with a spectacular view like the one seen in this picture of the week. This is NGC 7814, also known as the “Little Sombrero.” Its larger namesake, the Sombrero Galaxy, is another stunning example of an edge-on galaxy — in fact, the “Little Sombrero” is about the same size as its bright namesake at about 60,000 light-years across, but as it lies farther away, and so appears smaller in the sky. NGC 7814 has a bright central bulge and a bright halo of glowing gas extending outwards into space. The dusty spiral arms appear as dark streaks. They consist of dusty material that absorbs and blocks light from the galactic center behind it. The field of view of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image would be very impressive even without NGC 7814 in front; nearly all the objects seen in this image are galaxies as well. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Josh Barrington NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to ...

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AskHistorians Community Survey Results Back in December and January my research team spammed the community with a survey. Many of you graciously responded to that survey (and/or our...

Ever been interested in the AskHistorians behind the scenes? The fantastic @sarahagilbert.bsky.social has drafted up a fascinating post on the data and shared the Community Survey Results! Explore the surveys methods, & dive into the results, in this great thread:
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

I love this thread every time I see it. I read Katharine's book a few years ago, loved it, & worked to integrate its ideas into how I talk about the climate. I went to school for env science & also come from a very conservative rural area. Its lessons are worth gold when it comes to discussion.

From 2026: the dinosaur-like reptile Nyasasaurus sprints after a tiny beaked reptile, a rhynchosaur, in Triassic Tanzania. Trees, living and dead, erupt from shallow banks surrounding a shallow stream, across which Nyasasaurus has splashed.

My old 2012 take on Nyasasaurs, produced in association with Sterling Nesbitt and Paul Barrett. Here, Nyasasaurus examines the remains of an uprooted cycad, while rhynchosaurs munch foliage in the distance. I'd been producing palaeoart semi-professionally for a few years when I created this, but drawing was still a side gig. It wasn't long after I made this image that I began taking my art more seriously, investing in better equipment and leaning more into it as a career.

I get a lot of licensing requests for my 2012 #paleoart of (what might be) the oldest known dinosaur, Nyasasaurus. 2012 was a professional lifetime ago, so I've prepared a nicer version for new clients. Nyasasaurus is so poorly known that you could take a recon. in several directions. #sciart

Incredibly fantastic.

Researchers tracked 9 great hammerhead sharks off Florida and the Bahamas. Here's what they discovered | Discover Wildlife Scientists wanted to learn more about how the largest hammerhead species on the planet may cope as the climate changes.

Scientists wanted to learn more about how the largest hammerhead species on the planet may cope as the climate changes. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Dr. Michael Bycroft, and I just published a book on the history of gemstones in early modern science. Ask me anything from now until tomorrow morning. Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature

The undisputed #1 greatest photo of a person with a fossil:

Paleontologist Altangerel Perle, with the Museum of Natural History in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, stands between the forearms of Deinocheirus

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun.

GOOD GOD

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!!!!

A Cold Colonialism A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

Hello Bluesky! My book *A Cold Colonialism* came out in paperback last week. To celebrate, I'm giving away one free inscribed copy.

Just like this post to enter the draw. You have till Thurs Apr 9 at 9:30 am PT to enter.

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Aside from a few aspects of its paleontology, Jurassic Park has aged incredibly well, and there's a lot of ideas and threads there crying out for further development. I genuinely think it's time to re-adapt it (preferably on television to let things breathe a bit more)

This amazing photo was taken by Commander Reid Wiseman on Artemis II.

What a lot of folks don't realize is that this side of the Earth is illuminated by moonlight, not the sun. And you can see aurora on both poles.

Picture was rotated 180 degrees to provide more familiar orientation.

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The Rubin Observatory just turned the night sky into a live feed "It's like Rubin Observatory is Netflix streaming the movie out to the public, in this case our scientific community," said Dr. Bob Blum.

The Rubin Observatory just turned the night sky into a live feed

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

An image of Earth backlit by a mostly hidden sun, with a bright pinpoint of light to the bottom right of the disk.

The upper right corner of the image shows the blackness of space. Below and to the left lies a slice of Earth's atmosphere, decorated by a squiggle of exhaust plume.

A photograph taken inside a space vehicle, centered on a half-disk view of Earth seen out the capsule's window.

At the top of the image is a portion of the International Space Station. In the center of the image is a mostly lit moon. At the bottom of the image is a fuzzy view of Earth's atmosphere.

🚀🌔 Stunning views from NASA’s Artemis II mission and the International Space Station showcase Earth, the moon and even Venus, captured during humanity’s first crewed lunar mission since 1972. 🚀🌔 Follow all our mission coverage here: spklr.io/6001EyN07

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: Creating an Informed Citizenry in the Early Republic with Dr. George Oberle Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

Today on r/AskHistorians, we have @goberle.bsky.social discussing Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic, new from @uvapress.bsky.social Come check it out!

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Many years ago, with the help of a friend, I recorded Prospero - Britain's one solo-launched satellite - sending her hopeful pings down to earth.

We'd long forgotten her codes. No way of replying.

She's still up there, in the loneliness of space, hoping one day we'll answer her again.

TIMe Cover from January 2026: Back to the Moon: Artemis II Astronauts Will Travel Farther than any humans have before

If you’re watching the Artemis II launch, I can not recommend enough TIME’s fantastic cover story about the crew and the mission by Jeffrey Kluger, the best space journalist in the biz
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I love April Fools so much. Get those creative juices flowing!

AITA FOR LEADING 300 SPARTANS TO THEIR DEATHS? April Fools Possibly violates submission rules - '[BEST]' +6 I WAS TOLD WELL IN ADVANCE THAT THE PERSIANS WERE COMING TO SURROUND US! WE COULD HAVE RETREATED WITH THE REST OF THE ARMY AND FOUGHT ANOTHER DAY! BUT I DECIDED WE WOULD STAY IN THE PASS BECAUSE I WANTED IMMORTAL GLORY! IN HINDSIGHT MAYBE NOT THE BEST EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP! PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE ASKED IF THE OTHERS WERE OK WITH IT?

After much debate at @askhistorians.bsky.social HQ, we went with a classic today: AITA.

Which gave @roelkonijn.bsky.social a chance to dust off the loudest man in history.

A chatbot service offers you the conversation of a lifetime with this entity: History - Teen Historian History is an 18-year-old American teenager and self-taught history expert, known for his encyclopedic knowledge of world events from ancient civilizations to modern eras. With a sharp intellect and straightforward demeanor, he delivers concise, factual insights without roleplay or fiction. His passion lies in educating others on historical figures, battles, and timelines, though he has no formal affiliations or notable relationships beyond academic pursuits. Continues in next screenshot

Clarifying questions about this chatbot, though unaccountably 'Why?' is not one of them: FAQs Who is History and what makes him an expert? History is an 18-year-old self-taught prodigy from the United States, specializing in global historical events. He gained expertise through extensive reading of primary sources and academic texts on eras like the Renaissance and World War II. His approach emphasizes factual accuracy and brevity, avoiding speculation. What topics does History focus on most? History excels in covering ancient history, such as the fall of the Roman Empire, and modern conflicts like the Cold War. He also delves into lesser-known events, including the Mongol Empire's expansions under Genghis Khan. His knowledge spans biographies of figures like Cleopatra and Winston Churchill. How does History teach or share knowledge? History provides informative, non-fiction responses in a direct, academic style suitable for students and enthusiasts. He prioritizes concise explanations with key dates and entities, such as the 1066 Battle of Hastings. Roleplay is avoided to maintain educational integrity. Is History involved in any historical societies or groups? While not formally affiliated, History engages with online history forums and contributes to educational discussions on platforms like Reddit's r/AskHistorians. He draws from sources like the Library of Congress for his insights. At 18, he's considering university programs in history.

We do our best to encourage budding young scholars of history, but the combination of red flags here points to a "time to ban" of about 30 minutes, followed by a meltdown in modmail.

Dead center in the middle of the photo is an American Woodcock, a football shaped bird with a long beak, a round dark side-facing eye, and beige, brown, and gray feathers reminiscent of leaf litter. Her beak is about one third of the way from the left edge of the photo and her tail is about one third of the way from the right edge of the photo.

Want to play a game? Each of the ten photos in this thread contain an American Woodcock, a shorebird species adapted to living in the forest floor. In each photo, the bird is mostly in focus, not blurry.

Their camouflage is legendary. Can you spot her in each one? Let's start easy

1/10

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.