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a Vampyronassa has caught a lone Siriella and uses its arms to bring the helpless crustacean to its beak, both animals are illuminated by a light coming from the camera Vampyronassa is an extinct relative of living vampire squids, however, it was an active predator unlike its living planktivorous relatives. to aid in hunting it had two longer arms with cirri situated only at the end with a single row of suckers between, the rest of the arms had cirri all the way down with a single row of suckers down the length of each arm Siriella is a still living genus of crustacean that looks similar to krill, species of Siriella existed in La Voulte-sur-Rhône, the lagerstätte where Vampyronassa is found in

a female Allodesmus has caught an adult slender mola (Ranzania laevis) and proceeds to play with the helpless fish Allodesmus is an extinct pinniped (the group that contains seals, sealions, walruses etc.) with an uncertain relation to the other groups, they possessed some sexual dimorphism with males having larger canines to fight other males the slender mola (Ranzania laevis) is a still living species of sunfish that are more gracile than their larger relatives as their name suggests

a Papiliomaris uses a raptorial feeding appendage to hold onto a filament from a large macroalgae to stabalise itself in the water column as organic particles rush around it, it holds its antennae up into the water to sense for danger and prey alike Papiliomaris is an enigmatic animal who's relationship to other invertebrates was only recently discussed, in previous years it was known as the 'butterfly animal' or the 'Waukesha butterfly animal' due to its butterfly-like appearance from a dorsal view. it possessed large eyes, a bivalved carapace six pairs of limbs with cetae all along their length, and a large abdomen with many spines along the edge, the identity of its first appendages were deamed antennae by the authors of the paper that described the animal, however, many interpret them as raptorial feeding appendages due to their morphology, further study is needed to determine the exact nature of this unique animal's anatomy

a Pterodactylus flies close to the shoreline as a large wave comes crashing in Pterodactylus is one of the most well known pterosaurs (flying reptiles that used bat-like skin membranes to fly), often mistakingly called 'a pterodactyl'. they possessed a long rigid neck with a long beak filled with teeth, as well as soft tissue crests on their head most likely used for some form of social signalling

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Vampyronassa (i drew mine eating a Siriella), Allodesmus (i drew mine playing with a slender mola), Papiliomaris, and Pterodactylus

#paleoart #sciart #alttext

(Pioneer 10 montage): Approach sequence montage of Jupiter from Pioneer 10, December 1973. Reconstructed colour from red/blue scans; shows crescent phases and cloud details. First close-up colour images from space. Public domain, NASA/Ames.

(Pioneer 11 single shot): Full-disk colour view of Jupiter from Pioneer 11, taken 760,000 km away during approach, December 1974. Red/blue scans with synthetic green; exquisite detail on belts and zones. Public domain, NASA/Ames (processed Ted Stryk).

1973-74: Pioneer 10 & 11 deliver the first close-up colour views of Jupiter. The probes had no true camera, just a spinning Imaging Photopolarimeter scanning through red and blue filters.
Images:
Pioneer 10 montage, Dec 1973
Pioneer 11 full-disk from 760,000 km, Dec 1974
#AstroHistory #Jupiter

Pioneer launched as low-cost pathfinders to test the asteroid belt & Jupiter’s radiation before the Voyager “Grand Tour” missions. On board: magnetometer, plasma analyser, cosmic-ray telescope, UV/IR photometers, trapped-radiation detector,Imaging Photopolarimeter.
#AstroHistory

Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54375128834/sizes/o/ (See licence below) Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Check out the original with the martian background distorted here: flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY. The camera scanning the satellite caused the original view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moved by. Colourised image created using data processed from archives.esac.esa.int/psa Mission: ESA Mars Express Orbit 22608 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2021-11-22 22:51 Product IDs: HM608_0000_BL3 HM608_0000_ND3 Notes: Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int. This is a single shot on HM608_0000_BL3, not a composite image, although the background has been resized to reduce distortion (see above original) and the details on Phobos are merged with the second filter HM608_0000_ND3, shot during the same observation. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Phobos over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph

An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. The quantity and diversity of marine reptile and amphibian fossils show that these groups had already radiated into complex oceanic ecosystems by ~249 million years ago.

An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI

SETI Live record button logo. Text: Where Water Boils the Sky with Beth Johnson and Artem Aguichine. Background: Artist's depiction of a steam world with hot swirls of gas in the clouds and its star in the background. Inset: Photos of Beth Johnson and Artem Aguichine.

Next #SETILive: Where Water Boils the Sky
TODAY, 13 November, 2:30 pm PST

Today, @planetarypan.bsky.social talks with Artem Aguichine (UCSC) about his new research modeling the interiors and atmospheres of steam worlds—a class of water-rich sub-Neptunes that could dominate our galaxy. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe - National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy...

NEW: Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy using the ALMA telescope. 🌡️📡

#RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #ALMA

The Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's first probe to Venus, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 04:33 CET on 9 November 2005 (pic: ESA/Starsem-S. Corvaja)

Artist impression of Venus Express in orbit around the planet Venus

#OTD 2️⃣0️⃣ years ago: 9 November 2005, launch of ESA's Venus Express, Europe's first spacecraft to #Venus. The mission ended in 2014 after eight years of operation around our nearest planetary neighbour 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int

November issue: Review led by Holly Jones exploring the role of seabird populations in marine and island ecosystems. 🧪🌎
Web link: go.nature.com/47Tan0u
Readcube: rdcu.be/ePwIY

STScI has three goals: 1) to excel in the science operations of NASA's current and future astrophysics missions; 2) to advance astronomical research, archives, and tools for scientific discovery; and 3) to make astronomical information accessible to all: https://www.stsci.edu/ 🔭 🧪

ISS in Real Time Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

😎 This is cool 👇 Explore 25 years on the International Space Station. This multimedia project replays every day of the past 25 years on board and consists entirely of historical mission material. By @benfeist.bsky.social and David Charney.
issinrealtime.org

A bright sunny day over a field with rows of solar panels stretching back to the edge of the clearing.

Want good news on the climate front? The world is making immense strides in harnessing solar energy. Some of the leaders might surprise you (we see you, Texas!) This week, author @billmckibben.bsky.social on our sunnier future on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪

Listen bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sol...

[Thread] Do you know the story of the V-19 Torrent starfighter, introduced in Clone Wars (2003-2005)?

This anniversary is an opportunity for a short thread on a ship... whose creator didn't even know that he would see his design used in animated series... 😌
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars started 22 years ago today.

And it was great. It actually reconciled me with Star Wars. Still available on Disney+.

The sizes of shark species show that mathematical rules constrain evolution. www.quantamagazine.org/shark-data-s...

Here's my Kangaroo making a little tour around Furry Black Light, a furry convention in Paris :)
Kangaroo suit by Etereshop
Video by Yotie

Song: La Panthere Cosmique · Jean-Jacques Perrey · Louis Delacour

New Republic Defender-class cruiser, art by Benjamin Last, and three X-wings

Ahsoka (2023): The Vesper, New Republic Defender-class cruiser, art by Benjamin Last

[Thread] From Return of the Jedi (1983) to #Ahsoka (2023): Concept art never dies.

Here are two unused concepts of a Mon Calamari Rebel cruiser by Joe Johnston for Return of the Jedi. These were the forerunners of what would become the Mon Calamari cruiser designs. 1/4

Assembled from raw uncalibrated infrared, green, and ultraviolet filtered images (IR3, GRN, UV3). NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

Dione - November 26 2016 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/PvNdqa

SETI Live record button logo. Text: TRAPPIST-1 e Revealed with Moiya McTier, Néstor Espinoza, and Ana Glidden. Background: Artist's impression of TRAPPIST-1 e and its star. Inset: Photos of Néstor Espinoza and Ana Glidden.

Next #SETILive: TRAPPIST‑1 e Revealed
TODAY, 6 November, 10 am PST

Join @goastromo.bsky.social, Néstor Espinoza (STScI), and @ana-glidden.bsky.social for a deep dive into the latest JWST observations of TRAPPIST‑1 e, a tantalizing Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

A paper in Nature Astronomy reports an extreme flare seen from a supermassive black hole that is 30 times brighter than similar events and was first detected in 2018. The most likely cause is the shredding of a star of 30 solar masses or more. go.nature.com/3WIGmLN 🔭 🧪

“Sera……” #speakerofgod

D&D Animated: It's A Miracle! 🤣🦊

#dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

Aquarium hijinks provide the strongest evidence yet that sharks love to play.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Lqps1Y

Thor Ragnarok (2017): The Commodore, the Warsong & the Torana on planet Sakaar, art by Laurent Ben-Mimoun

Love these Foudles! Looks like Kayla has got some growing and expanding to do to match Fouine's new size.

View of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The moon is 3/4 lit from the left-hand side. The surface is mottled in yellow, green, gray, and orange due to the constantly erupting volcanoes.

#PPOD: This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Oh cool, it’s been a long time since I have seen Fouine’s old Mienshao form. I wonder what her Smeargle assistant Gimmick is in non-Pokemon form?

Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg