Richard J. Bartlett

Richard J. Bartlett

@astronomywriter.bsky.social

🌘Freelance writer, former columnist for Astronomy magazine and author of books for astronomers. 🌒Pro human, slightly sarcastic but mostly harmless 🌊 https://tinyurl.com/rjbamazon-us https://tinyurl.com/rjb-hps

715 Followers 1,023 Following 768 Posts Joined Oct 2024
6 months ago

True, but they keep doing it anyway because this is the Land of Do As You Please

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7 months ago

I really detest ChINOs

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7 months ago

THIS! I can't stand ChINOs

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7 months ago

Trump's America doing what Trump's America does best - exploiting the vulnerable to make a shit ton of money

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😂
"I'm a very stable genius!"

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Viewing the Perseids in 2025 | IMO Comet Dust Each July and August the Earth encounters debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This comet has an orbit of 133 years and last entered the inner solar system in 1992. Even though ...

☄️ ☄️ On August 12-13, one of the best meteoric and astronomical event of the year will happen: the Perseids meteor shower will peak!
To be sure not to miss anything, please read: www.imo.net/viewing-the-...

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🇺🇲

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7 months ago

Yes, it's called Roblox

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In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the SCOTUS determined that unmarried individuals have the same right to access contraceptives as married couples. New article: embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisens...

#sciencecommunication #encyclopedia #contraceptives #science

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7 months ago

Wow. I never realized how backward this country was. And I've been living here for 20 years now

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What's in the Sky This Month | August 2025 Sky Guide Dim Mars is now only visible for a short time in the evening twilight, and appears low over the western horizon, with a slender crescent Moon beside it on the...

I wrote this :-)

#astronomy #space #science #news #ngihtsky #stargazing

www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu...

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7 months ago

Not old, TALENTED - and congratulations!!

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7 months ago

Honestly, I have no idea... I'm an amateur astronomer, so the science behind this is beyond me LOL

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All of this.

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8 months ago

Somebody needs to invent a portable fridge. You know, one you can actually walk around in. Think of it - you'd stay cool, plus you'll have access to all the cold drinks and sandwich making materials you need. *butter knife not included

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Southern Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower: Everything You Need To Know | High Point Scientific The Southern delta Aquariids is a major meteor shower, active from around July 18th to August 12th, with its maximum typically occurring on the night of July...

I wrote this!

www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu...

#astronomy #space #science #stargazing #meteors #shootingstars #nightsky

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9 months ago

Any remote positions? :D

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9 months ago
Text: AbGradCon, come meet us! Meet our representative! Thursday and Friday, 2 - 5 pm. AbGradCon 2025 logo featuring an outline of the Flatirons rock formation under a planet and star-filled sky. SETI Institute logo.

Good morning, @abgradcon.bsky.social‬ !

There's one more chance to chat with our human resources representative today. Stop by and chat with her this afternoon between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., scan our QR code, and you'll be entered to win a SETI Institute t-shirt. 🧪

#AbGradCon2025 #Astro4Life

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9 months ago

First rule of a dictatorship - eliminate the opposition

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9 months ago
NEW: FBI LA statement to 
@FoxNews
 re: Senator Padilla

"During a press conference today held at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, Senator Alex Padilla was detained by members of the U.S. Secret Service assigned to Secretary Noem’s detail when he became disruptive while formal remarks were being delivered. Secret Service Agents were assisted by FBI Police who are in Los Angeles at this time.  Senator Padilla did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin.  Senator Padilla was subsequently positively identified and released."

A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...

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9 months ago

Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla.

You read that right.

The American Fascist Party at work.

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Graphic labeled, Simulations of Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in a Roman Space Telescope Image, shows a simulated Roman Space Telescope image within the detectors of its Wide Field Instrument at center as a 3-by-6 array of squares. Within each square are a range of white pinpoints against a black background, some slightly larger than others, but all tiny. There are four pullouts from the main image, shown as four boxes, two in a column at left and two at right. Each pullout shows a magnified view of the tiny dot it points to. All four pullouts show simulated gravitational lenses, which look like a thick white dot at center surrounded by fuzzy, slightly incomplete circles that are semi-transparent.

#NASARoman will soon make particular types of gravitational lenses far more common, pinpointing over 160,000 of them. (To date, we only know of hundreds.) A team plans to study these objects to refine our studies of dark matter: bit.ly/3SyNJDy 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast.

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724). Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast. publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...

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9 months ago

I was going to say "it's crazy that people believed this was real" and yet, here we are...

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The image features the Raspberry Nebula (LBN 867), located in the constellation of Orion. Imagine a vast cosmic cloud stretching into space, with a complex structure that resembles an onion due to its multiple layers. At its center shines a bright star, HD 34989, which emits an intense light, similar in brightness to the planet Uranus as seen from Earth, creating a bright focal point in the heart of the nebula. The nebula itself has a vivid red glow, like a scarlet bloom, due to the ionization of hydrogen gas glowing under the influence of the central star. Around HD 34989, a thin halo of blue-white light can be seen, a delicate reflection of starlight on interstellar dust, forming the reflection nebula vdB 38. This bluish halo contrasts with the dominant red, adding a cooler, more nuanced touch of color. The overall image is a mix of bright red hues and hints of pale blue, with the central star standing out like a bright beacon in a sea of ​​cosmic clouds.

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Here is a cosmic delight: LBN 867, dubbed the Raspberry Nebula although its overall structure is more like an onion!

In fact, this fascinating H II region, located in the constellation Orion, contains three different objects within its structure!

➡️ noirlab.edu/public/image...

🔭 🧪 #science

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Captions, anyone? Just cos?

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9 months ago

Happy birthday!!

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9 months ago
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Erased For Space A documentary film uncovering the hidden, human cost of America’s moonshot.

Definitely worth backing. When We Were Apollo was great :-)

#space #spaceflight #apollo #Moon #NASA #Kickstarter #exploration

www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

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What's in the Sky This Month | June 2025 Sky Guide Uranus is lost in the Sun’s glare, but if you have an unobstructed view towards the west-northwest, you may be able to see Jupiter very low over the horizon during the first few days of the month.

I wrote this :D

#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #nightsky

www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hu...

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