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Introducing our new (FREE!) book “Captured Societies in Southeast Europe,” from Central European University Press/Amsterdam University Press

Just telling you a little bit about our new book. And sharing a link where you can download it FREE.
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Illustration of the Juice spacecraft seen in space, at Jupiter. Text reads 'Juice needs you'.

@obs-paris-psl.bsky.social is calling all amateur astronomers to help out!

You will need both a good telescope 🔭 and a CCD camera to be able to observe this occultation.

If we've caught your attention, head over to this website for more details: https://f.mtr.cool/rbtnogwoum 3/3

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One Book

INTRODUCING: Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One.

This incendiary tome is part cultural journal, part development diary, part exclusive game reveal. Built by firestarters, for firestarters.

summereternal.com/anthology

Earth’s oldest crater found! It’s in Australia and it’s REALLY old

Earth's oldest crater found!

[Normally, Thursday issues of my newsletter are for paid subscribers, but this was so cool I put the story above the paywall. Enjoy!]

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-s-ol...

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Total Lunar Eclipse on September 7–8, 2025 – Where and When to See Total lunar eclipse on September 7–8, 2025: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

There's going to be a total lunar eclipse Sunday night! It's centered over central Asia, so the Americas won't see it.

www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

We looked for an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1d using JWST, but we didn't see any atmospheric absorption.

So TRAPPIST-1d is quite different from Earth, despite lying just inside the habitable zone. The planet is either:

➡️ A bare rock.
➡️ Very cloudy.
➡️ Has a thin, Mars-like atmosphere.

#Exoplanets 🔭

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

This is a solar eclipse.

Seen from the surface of Mars by the Perseverance rover in 2022.

That moon is the little space potato Phobos. And you can even see sunspots!

NASA MARS 2020 Perseverance Rover at Jezero, Sol 1,500 [10th May, 2025] (1/2) On the 1,500th Martian day of the mission, with the latest sample in the bag, Perseverance captures a celebratory selfie. 1/2 - Looking down at the sample hole SHERLOC-WATSON Camera SRLC07021 Ca...

On the 1,500th Martian day of the mission, with the latest sample in the bag, NASA Perseverance captures a celebratory selfie at Jezero.

1/2 - Looking down at the sample hole.

SHERLOC-WATSON Camera
Site 73, Drive 0
📷 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer

Selfie image of Perseverance Rover taken on Sol 1500 (May 10, 2025) at Pine Pond on Mars, using the SHERLOC-WATSON camera. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/martiandennis

Postcard from Mars: Perseverance Rover posed for a selfie after completing the latest sampling activities on Sol 1500 (May 10, 2025) and commemorating over 1,500 days on Mars.

After reporting the news, games media must now grapple with what the call to boycott Xbox means for us. I wrote about why we must and how we can orient games writing towards liberation. Games nor words alone will save us, but we can as individuals express solidarity and possibility in all we do.

What’s Going On Inside Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon? | Quanta Magazine Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons.

A recent flyby of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io reveals just how little we know about geologically active moons. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/whats-going-...

An artist’s impression showing the orbits of two stars around each other, as well as the orbit of a planet around them. The planet’s orbit is tilted at a 90-degree angle to the stars’ orbits.

Our VLT has found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars.

This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair 😲

Discover more: www.eso.org/public/news/...

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Illustration by ESO/L. Calçada

Alt-text: Looking straight down at the cracked and partly broken rock surface, patches of which have retained some of the dark rock coating that is common to Jezero despite millennia of erosion. A shallow circular depression has been abraded into it, parts of the surface of the rock around the abrasion rim have broken off during the process. There is scattered granular debris and dust from the operation.

Zoomed in a bit closer.

Zoomed in a bit more still.

NASA Mars2020 Perseverance rover at Jezero crater, sol 1473 (12-April-2025):
WATSON camera close ups of the result of the latest rock abrasion activity.
📷 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer

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A ridge and a distant terrain of dunes and hills. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

A view of a ridge and the world outside of Jezero Crater taken tosol (1477) by the Mars Perseverance Rover.

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The things Jupiter is capable of never ceases to amaze me. JunoCam has been such a blessing

space photo

sky photo with trees

space photo

sun with visible sunspots

Check out these astro photos — all taken by participants at the 2024 International Astronomical Youth Camp in Klingenthal, Germany! They can be very proud of their work :-)

🔭🎢 #astrophotography #astroedu #EduSky

NCIS JWST: Analyzing The Aftermath of The Bullet Cluster’s Collision BANG! That's the sound of a new study of the Bullet Cluster that digs deep into where the system's dark matter is and what properties it may have.

From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : BANG! That’s the sound of a new study of the Bullet Cluster that digs deep into where the system’s dark matter is and what properties it may have. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/15/jwst-bullet-cluster/

A comet with a slim long tail and a condensed head set against a starry sky.

C/2025 F2 (SWAN) this morning by Norbert Mrozek, Germany. Brightness stuck around 8.5 mag.
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🔭☄️ #CometWatch

Marvellous Clavius with its internal arc of diminishing sized craters crossing its floor. This crater is great for testing the resolution of the scope and quality of the seeing

Only just got round to processing a lot of data I managed to capture on the 9th March, which had some really steady seeing.

A shot of probably my favourite crater to image, Clavius in the southern highlands
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Manite mi se patetike gdje se međusobno grle “fesovi”, “šajkače” i “hidžabi”, ovo je the fotka za studentskog skupa u Novom Pazaru

One star cluster please! Thank you!＼(^o^)／

A grainy, black and white image of a galaxy. The galaxy's stars and gas form a patchy, loose, two-armed spiral with a central bar. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

Image of Arp 2, also known as UGC 10310, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966).

In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Low surface brightness. It is a barred Magellanic spiral galaxy.
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Fighting for a world with more howls 🐺

38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen. 39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions 40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs. 41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there. They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

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