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Check out the premiere of the new series, Ocean State: Rhode Island’s Wild Coast! Save The Bay is proud to be a conservation partner on this project, with staff featured in Episode One: Secrets of the Seagrass. Watch the premiere airing Jan 9 at 8 pm on Ocean State Media WSBE and streaming on PBS!

The Evening Sky Map is a 2-page monthly publication that features an all-sky map of the night sky, a calendar of celestial events, and a list of celestial objects visible to the naked eye, binoculars and telescopes.

🌟 The November 2025 edition of The Evening Sky Map is ready for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features a Sky Calendar and easy-to-use sky maps for the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as equatorial regions. Please share, and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭
#stargazing #space

Westport Astronomical Society logo with starry galaxy background promoting a lecture titled 'The Life Cycle of Matter through Stars' by Iman Behbehani, CUNY, on October 21, 2025 at 8:00pm.

🚨 Speaker Update! 🚨 The government shutdown moved Naveen Vetcha to January, but we welcome CUNY’s Iman Behbehani this Tuesday, Oct 21 at 8 PM! Join us online for “The Life Cycle of Matter through Stars,” as Iman explores Betelgeuse on Zoom & YouTube: was-ct.org/events/im...

#WestportObservatory

Fast-moving asteroid found in Sun’s glare Meet 2025 SC79, which has the second-fastest unique asteroid orbit in the Solar System. It orbits the Sun in just 128 days!

Carnegie Science: Fast-Moving Asteroid Found in Sun’s Glare carnegiescience.edu/news/fast-mo...

The Evening Sky Map is a 2-page monthly publication that features an all-sky map of the night sky, a calendar of celestial events, and a list of celestial objects visible to the naked eye, binoculars and telescopes.

🌟 The October 2025 edition of The Evening Sky Map is ready for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features a Sky Calendar and easy-to-use sky maps for the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as equatorial regions. Please share, and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭
#stargazing

Photo of ESA deep space antenna in Spain with Venus and Jupiter labelled in the night sky

Flyby success! ESA's Juice spacecraft passed Venus at 07:28 CEST on 31 August.

This photo shows our deep-space antenna in Spain in communication with Juice during the flyby.

Juice’s current location, Venus, and its destination, Jupiter, are both visible in the sky ❤️

A view of Narragansett Bay, with a moored sailboat and kayaker in the foreground, Jamestown Bridge in the distance.

Close up photo of a wave breaking over a rock at the shore of Narragansett Bay.

A tree and its shadow on a grassy field, with a lot of sky visible through the branches.

A tree that appears to be leaning with the wind, silhouetted against a clear sky with small cumulous clouds in the distance.

Some sights from Rocky Point State Park

Seeking recommendations on books or articles discussing the natural world in New England in the 1770s & 1780s. Thank you! 🍂🍁📙

What causes the cosmic flashes that we see in the sky? What will the new Rubin Observatory observe when it begins operation in a few months? Join us for a 30-minute lecture about the cosmic fireworks and astronomical transients, followed by telescopes.
outreach.astro.caltech.edu

Dr. Bob slide in front of the Amazon Space Station for the talk tonight 7/15 at 8 pm

Join the Zoom and YouTube talk with Dr. Bob Dempsey, Director of Flight Operations / New Shepard, Blue Origin. Dr. Bob is talking to us at 8 pm tonight (7/15) about Private Spaceflight in the era of "New Space". lnkd.in/gJdS-WFB
#WestportAstronomicalSociety #Lecture #NASA #Amazon #BlueOrigin

I've been happily using Flickr Pro since 2008. Yeah, I should pare down my collection a bit, but I'm too lazy to do that.

NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA Science Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.

NASA: Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson science.nasa.gov/blogs/lucy/2...

It's an inverse gibbous. 🌛

10 Iconic Photographs of Vera Rubin We’re highlighting 10 iconic photographs from the Vera Rubin Photograph Collection.

From a homemade telescope to dark matter discoveries—Vera Rubin reshaped our view of the universe. ✨

We’re sharing 10 iconic photos from the newly digitized Carnegie archives that capture her life, legacy, and love of science. 🧵
#VeraRubin #WomenInSTEM

🔗 carnegiescience.edu/news/10-icon...

What can we learn from our neighbors? 🌌

Our closest spiral galaxy, Messier 31 (M31), sometimes referred to as the Andromeda galaxy, is about 2.5 million light years away. Due to their similar structures, astronomers study M31 to understand our own Milky Way! 🔭 🧪

Great 🧵 about the importance of astronomical data archives and the role amateurs can play. Kudos to @astrafoxen.bsky.social and all others involved! 🔭

🚨 It’s TODAY! 🚨
WAS 50th Anniversary Open House is on from 1–7 PM at Westport Observatory!
Solar & lunar viewing, space games, talks, prizes, food & more. Free & open to all!
🔗 was-ct.org/events/50th/
#WAS50 #WestportAstronomicalSociety #WestportCT

First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook We’re nearly ready to #CaptureTheCosmos! Join the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team on June 23, 2025 at 11am US EDT as they reveal the first incredible ...

T-7 days! We're getting so close to the reveal of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images 🤩#RubinFirstLook

Get ready for your first preview of how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🎬🔭🧪

🗓️: June 23, 2025
⌚️: 11am US EDT
🔗: ls.st/rubin-first-...

NASA’s PUNCH Releases Its First Images of Huge Eruptions from Sun - NASA Science NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission has released its first images of large solar eruptions called coronal mass ejections,

NASA: PUNCH Releases Its First Images of Huge Eruptions from Sun science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/... #AAS246

Advocacy Action Center The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

Friends, if you care about saving NASA science from the White House's proposed cuts—and I know you do—then sign this @planetarysociety.bsky.social petition.

It closes in two days.

Sign it!

www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

That's cool. Which PN was it? That resolution sounds close to the venerable SBIG ST-6 camera.

1993J was my first SN, and the first astronomical event I kept up with via the internet. Fun times downloading the AAVSO chart, observing it in the 10-inch SCT I had at the time, and comparing it with the hot new tech of CCD images other amateurs were capturing of it.

Just wonderful. Now the whole web/software UI world is going to go mad for rounded corners again. Haven't we done this already?

Upper panel shows a golden-hued view of the surface of our Sun: Texas-sized solar convection cells known as granules are the result of curtain-like sheets of magnetic fields that ripple and shift like fabric blowing in the wind. As light from the hot granule walls passes through these magnetic “curtains,” the interaction produces a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness that traces variations in the underlying magnetic field. Lower panel: the same image has been processed to highlight the striations that separate the granules. THe precision of the Inouye telescope reveals structures on the scale of just 20 km (12.4 miles) on the Sun's surface!

Remarkable new image of the Sun's surface from the @NSF Inouye Solar Telescope 🌞 🔭 ! The lower panel has been processed to reveal fine detail: linear features are just 20 km (12.5 miles) across! Managed by @NatSolarObs and @AURADC for NSF. Full story: nso.edu/press-releas...

Monthly Roundup: A Deep View of Planet-Forming Disks with ALMA Introducing exoALMA: a survey of 15 large, bright protoplanetary disks that has revealed gas structures that point to potential planet formation.

Introducing exoALMA: a survey of 15 large, bright protoplanetary disks that has revealed gas structures that point to potential planet formation. aasnova.org/2025/05/28/m... 🔭🧪

🌟 The June 2025 edition of The Evening Sky Map is now available for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF includes a Sky Calendar and user-friendly sky maps for the northern & southern hemispheres, and for equatorial regions. Please share, and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭
#astronomy #stargazing

Astonishing new videos of the Sun show coronal "rain" in (pink-tinted) hydrogen-alpha light. Obtained with advanced adaptive optics research supported by NSF, the National Solar Observatory, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Details and more videos in the link in the first comment below.

S&S in search of 'disappearing darkness' Simon & Schuster acquires an exploration of the night sky from award-winning travel writer and 'dark sky' advocate, Megan Eaves-Egenes

I'm thrilled to announce that my book, NIGHTFARING – a travel memoir exploring darkness and the night sky – will be published in Jan 2026 by Simon & Schuster (UK) and Grand Central (US). www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Astro-history buffs: the usually-closed King's Observatory in London will be open from 9 Jun-17 Jul. Located along the Thames in Richmond, it was commissioned in 1769 for King George III and has the oldest telescope cupola in the world. 🔭 You must book in advance: www.visit.kingsobservatory.co.uk

Very cool. Is this a regular tour the public can take? Did you get to see the TBM? Supposedly they can't disassemble and extract them so they leave them in place somewhere off the main tunnel.