David Blanchflower BSc

Just bc I'm a nerd and bc our days of the week were named after gods who also have planets named after them...

I'm gonna do a daily thread on book about the corresponding planet!

Today is Monday which is MOON-DAY. So here are some amazing books on the Moon for sale 🌝

#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
#BookSky 📚💙

Could a powerful geomagnetic storm be the reason 8,000 Victorian homes suddenly lost power in January this year?

@rami.spaceaustralia.com chats with Dr Richard Marshall from BoM Space Weather about the risks of solar storms.

www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/eart...

📸 NASA SVS

#SpaceAustralia

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Before 6am 😉

Bela Lugosi said it best😉

Pub round the corner😉

This how I access Bsky

Sleep well early Paulette 😴

I've just been outside. Perfect for the creatures of the night, not astronomers though. 🔭 🧪

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!

Tomorrow morning the Waning Gibbous Moon will appear close to Antares (Alpha Scorpii). Look due south at 5am. 🔭 🧪

He sounds a "right" one, Laurence. I'd avoid him like the plague.

I'm trying to choose a textbook about galaxies & cosmology for 2nd year astronomy majors.. any recommendations?

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Meteorite impact. 🔭 🧪

Cerberus!

🚨 UPDATE: fireball over Europe – 8 March 2026

At 18:55 CET on Sunday, 8 March, a very bright fireball streaked across the skies of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, glowing for around six seconds before fragmenting. 🧪🔭

🎥 Allsky7

Stadium lights pose health risk, campaigner warns The chair of DarkSky UK says special lights growing turf at football grounds can harm human health.

Stadium lights pose health risk, campaigner claims. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Need a cat sitter, Elizabeth 🐈😉

Sleep well Paulette 😴

But will need to translate Geordie, bonny lad😉

Reports of a bright fireball today over Germany / Benelux / France, apparently also some small meteorite impacts vrtnws.be/p.vLe8jPDyR

I've just looked outside. When I was at the match last night, clear sky. Tonight thick cloud. I reckon next time Newcastle play at home I'll pretend to go, bound to be clear. 😉 🔭 🧪

Rare albino wallaby born at Wiltshire rescue centre Staff at Little Zoo near Bradford-on-Avon say they need the public to help name the wallaby.

Rare albino wallaby born at rescue centre. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Orion nebula looking pink with bright stars around it.

This week in March 2023 I captured the Great Orion Nebula. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Unexplored deep-water worlds in Caribbean revealed for the first time Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

Spectacular images reveal unique sea creatures and corals off Caribbean islands. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Newcastle lost 3-1. I'm very disappointed but Man City played well and fully deserved their win.

Sitting in the stadium. Can see Jupiter from my seat. Easy to spot despite the stadium lights. 🔭 🧪

I'm at the ground. Five police horses passed, lit up like Christmas trees.

Thanks emma 🙂