The Pinwheel Galaxy The Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 101, located in the constellation Ursa Major, is a stunning face-on spiral galaxy about 21 million light-years from us. With its grand design and striking spiral arms, M10...

✨🖖 To those #DeepTime listeners, 👾 our signals would feel like a message from a forgotten youth. A civilization standing at the edge of a cliff, unsure whether the next step leads to collapse or to ...

Read my full story at com.xipteras.org/Astroimaging...

The Universe Has An Expiration Date (And It’s Terrifying) Ever feel like your Monday is dragging? Wait until you hear what the Sun has planned for your retirement. 🌌 In this pulse-pounding episode, we’re ditching the small talk to explore the ultimate 'eviction notice' for humanity. We are diving deep into the inevitable dissolution of our cosmic home, tracing the terrifying yet awe-inspiring journey from the Sun’s final breath to the literal Heat Death of the Universe. It’s the ultimate spoiler alert for the end of everything. Is it controversial to say we’re living on borrowed time? Perhaps. But as the Sun exhausts its hydrogen, it won't just fade away—it will transform into a monstrous Red Giant, consuming the inner planets in a fiery embrace. ☀️🔥 We break down the violent thermal pulses and orbital instabilities that will turn our solar system into a chaotic cosmic graveyard before our star collapses into a cold, fading white dwarf. Inside this episode, we explore: - The Solar Apocalypse: How the Sun’s expansion will rewrite the laws of our planetary neighborhood. - Galactic Grudge Match: The impending collision with the Andromeda Galaxy and what it means for the remaining celestial bodies. - The Black Hole Buffet: The fate of solar remnants as they drift toward a supermassive black hole. - The Final Silence: Understanding Maximum Entropy—the state where all matter disintegrates and the capacity for change is extinguished forever. This isn't just a science lecture; it’s a perspective-shattering look at cosmic evolution and space science that makes your daily drama feel... well, microscopic. 🛸 Whether you’re a science geek or just someone who wonders 'what if,' this deep dive into astrophysics and entropy is a must-listen. 🚀 Ready to face the end of the world? Hit play now to journey into the dark! If this episode blew your mind, share it with a friend and subscribe for more mind-bending cosmic insights!  

📣 New Podcast! "The Universe Has An Expiration Date (And It’s Terrifying)" on @Spreaker #andromedacollision #astronomy #blackhole #cosmicdeath #cosmichorror #darkera #deeptime #existentialdread #futureofearth #galacticcannibalism #heatdeath #jwst #maximumentropy #physics #redgiant #stardeath

The Cocoon Galaxy Located in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, the Cocoon Galaxy (NGC 4490) and its smaller companion (NGC 4485) present one of the most dynamic and violently beautiful examples of galactic ...

Get a cup of coffee and enjoy reading the full story on my website: com.xipteras.org/Astronomy/Ga... #astronomy #deeptime

Sub Rosa Aeternitatis Innumerable as those Forgotten souls lost to Plague, siege, fire, and Famine - Latent-nesting in Earth’s Dendrons and ganglia - Rosa canina Erupts into a rash of Remembrance at Ascension Day’s approach. Believer legions – Salmon-flaked, stamen-plaid - Flush out hedgerows, sidings, Badlands in an Ambush of callow, Blushed fervour: Spring-loaded for Mouths aghast, aflame with Prophecies anew at Pentecost, spoken in scorched Tongues that Swell into meat-ripe hips as the Season eases into Equinox. Young Irish poet, Rose upon a Rood around his Neck, sees eternal beauty Impaled upon the crux of the World, the Rose partaking in Creation’s agonies - the Divine shifting into Immanence. Ephemeral, yet constant, with Ever-recurring cycles of Birth, death, renewal Embedded in Deep-Time Dynamics: Rosa canina - French-pink, flesh-hipped Transcendence. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2022 Image of Dogrose (Rosa canina) bloom in May/June

🙏 @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #InBloom

#poetry / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022

Out all day - will catch up

#RosaCanina #Easter #Pentecost #Mysticism #Yeats #DeepTime #Flowersky

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Join us today for session 3 of our #online lecture series on the #Anthropocene!

With VAN member Alexis Rider @univie.ac.at
"A Melting #Fossil: Seeing #Ice and Making #DeepTime in the Early Anthropocene"

🔹Tuesday, March 24 at 5pm CET
🌐 Online via Zoom

anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...

📡 🌌 If planets orbit some of the stars within the galaxy M101, then any distant listeners 👽 would begin to receive our signals more than 21 million years from now. What reaches them would not be who we are—but ... x.com/xipteras/sta... 👽👽 #DeepTime

#Astrophotography #DeepTime #NoPolitics ✨🔭🌌🌍

First, explore my galleries on xipteras.com which are open to everyone as a way of giving back to you, dear friends, the online community that has supported me for decades.

Pointy Dolomite mountains

It’s weird to think that one day all this will be a flat, rocky plateau. #DeepTime

Deep Time rock strata. Quote says: “What is the history of things to come? What will be our future fossils?”- Robert MacFarlane”

Detail of Deep Time. Stormy blue sky, green grass, roots and rock strata

#blueskyartshow #horizontal

“Deep Time” art quilt.
7’X2’.

“What is the history of things to come? What will be our future fossils?”- Robert MacFarlane

#artquilt #quiltsky #deeptime #collagequilt

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Meanwhile, on Earth:
Sediment records another moment of time.

#DeepTime #EarthArchive

When My Observatory Burned On fire, grief, and time

When my observatory burned, my daughter said it was beautiful.

She wasn’t wrong.

#astronomy #astrophotography #grief #deeptime

Kilmory, West Ardnamurchan.

“The shore is not a boundary, but a meeting place.”

Part 25 of Spiorad Àird nam Murchan is now live.

'The Edge of the Sea - Oir na Mara'

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2026/2/...

Join me at the edge.

#Ardnamurchan #SpioradAirdNamMurchan #Writing #Photography #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

Es gibt Rätselfossilien, von denen ich noch nichts wusste? Was verheimlicht ihr mir noch alles?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusFSJSiOCQ

#paleontology #zoology #DeepTime #Carboniferous #H #Y

‘After the ice age, after the fire’

IanRichardson from ‘Deep Time 1’ our first poetic anthology inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

www.blackboughpoetry.com/deep-time-pr...

#poetry #anthropocene #deeptime

More than 100 million years ago, this place was covered by a warm ancient sea.

Today, we walk its shoreline in search of the creatures it left behind — giant ammonites, sea urchins, shark teeth, and quiet reminders of deep time.

#fossilhunting #paleontology #deeptime #cretaceous #naturelovers

New addition to my fossil collection—100 million years ago, a single gust of wind stirred an ancient forest... and for one fleeting moment, chaos was captured in flowing tree sap.

(Purchased from @amberbugs on TikTok)
#Amber #fossil #DeepTime #AncientForest
#Natura|History

Next in our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": Caroline Winterer on "Catastrophe and #DeepTime." 🌀

🗓️ Mar 3, 2026 (14:00 CET)
📍 Harnack Haus, Berlin

🔗 buff.ly/pQqWD9C

#HistSci #USHistory

From Fragment to Future: A Medieval Frame Re-born - more about this building here: 👉 rmbconservation.co.uk/news-posts/f... #heritage #buildingconservation #timberframe #oak #history #deeptime

Meanwhile, on Earth:
A desert wind smooths sharp edges from ancient rock.

#DeepTime #DesertLife

Karine Polwart's song Siccar Point. #DeepTime www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWO...

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Little Timmy’s Long Nap: An 11-Year-Old’s Fossil Find in Wyoming | PEP UNLIMITED LLC Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was exploring Bureau of Land Management–managed land with his grandparents, Patti and Tom Patterson, when something unusual caught his eye.

Little Timmy’s Long Nap: An 11-Year-Old’s Fossil Find in Wyoming
pepunlimited.com/adventure/11...

#FossilFind #YoungExplorer #Rockhounding #Wyoming #PublicLands #Paleontology #BLM #AncientLife #TurtleFossil #ScienceDiscovery #KidsInScience #NaturalHistory #Museum #FieldWork #DeepTime #PepUnlimited

Fascinating!

“In geology, you don’t absolutely prove. You eliminate other possibilities.”

Help protect #PublicLands. Follow High Country News and support their reporting.

#impact #geology #meteorites ⛏️ #grandcanyon #deeptime #science #naturalhistory #earthscience #arizona #space #crater #STEM

The monument links ancient astronomical observation and architecture to modernity. It contrasts the deep time thinking of ancient builders with today's fast-paced construction and constant distractions, a powerful reminder of enduring purpose. #DeepTime 4/5

Meet the oldest rock in the West - High Country News An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

This is a great article by Marcia Bjornerud about the ancient rocks in Wyoming. #geology #EarthSciences #DeepTime www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

The art of taking the very, very long view of time - BBC Reel

#OldRockDay

"Paterson's work helps to make the long view of #DeepTime a little bit easier to comprehend – as well as providing clarity and urgency about the role that our generation is playing within it."

www.bbc.com/reel/playlis...

a spiral of land showing the evolution of life in deep time.

I’m writing a book about deep time that treats life and Earth as a single evolving system. From star formation to microbes, animals and humans, each act sets the stage for the next. Most of the story happened long before us — and it still shapes our lives today. tinyurl.com/2apyvzzz #DeepTime

Earth on a Planetary Timeline – James Good's Blog

As more challenges play out on geological and planetary timescales, I’m wondering if our way of numbering years helps us think clearly about context and scale. Would a planet-anchored system help?

#DeepTime #PlanetaryBoundaries

jamesgood.blog/earth-on-a-p...

@kateraworth.bsky.social

Earth on a Planetary Timeline – James Good's Blog

I've been thinking about how we communicate #DeepTime. Here's a short blog exploring what it looks like to place human history on a single, planet-anchored timeline, without affecting civil calendars.

jamesgood.blog/earth-on-a-p...

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social @adamrutherford.bsky.social

Non-Religious Calendar for a Multi-Planet Civilisation – James Good's Blog

It's nearly time to wish everyone a happy new year, but what year is it really... on a planetary timescale?

jamesgood.blog/non-religiou...

#DeepTime #LongTermThinking #BigHistory #SystemsThinking #PlanetaryEra