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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

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I imported my old Twitter posts into bsky, which put the same date on all of them.

This is such an amazing tradition from amazing people... my family celebrates Christmas and Chanukah, and many years ago, we decided we'd give only books at Chanukah. It's so beautiful and thoughtful to be handed a book and have quiet time to read it.

Putting this out there again, in the hopes someone can help... does anyone have need of a copy editor / proof reader, or (ideally) anyone in need of astronomical content?

Work has been light recently... and I'm trying to look for more...

#writing #editing #astronomy

Okay folks, I'm not one for begging... but I will if I have to LOL Does anyone know of anyone who might have need of a copy editor / proof reader, or (ideally) anyone in need of astronomical content?

Work has been light recently... and I'm trying to look for more...
#writing #editing #astronomy

US folks: After the program ended a couple months ago, you can now get free Covid-19 tests from the US government again, by way of the post office.

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This here really illustrates how much about the world (or maybe just the Internet) sucks these days. I'm a big beer fan. I've logged nearly 1000 distinct beers on Untappd. In 2022, I tried 56 different styles of beer this year, which is six more than last year. Yet, I need (1/2)

Speaking of the #Moon moving from night to night, tonight we'll see the Moon has moved eastward and is now about halfway between two bright stars: Orange-red #Betelgeuse in #Orion the hunter and golden yellow #Capella in #Auriga, the charioteer.

This is about smack in the (1/2)

A friend asked what the big deal of last night's #Moon-#Mars dance was. One thing is it gave us a chance to actually see the Moon moving along in its orbit. It's usually just "Yep, there's the Moon" and then the next night it's moved to another part of the sky. But here (1/2)

If, though, your skies are clear. #LookUp and find the full-ish #Moon. It'll be right alongside the planet #Mars: the "Infested with Robots" one. When I say "right alongside," I mean it.

What's that? Can't find Mars? That's because in some parts of North Africa, Europe, (1/2)

Another cool space thing, another cool space thing clouded out. The astronomers and meteorologists really need to start scheduling their things differently.

Happy holidays, everyone! It's time for the #Moon's primary phases for December 2022!

Full Moon: December 8
Last Quarter: December 16
New Moon: December 23
First Quarter: December 30#space #astronomy #lookup

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Happy Holidays! It's time for the #Moon's primary phases for December 2022!

Full Moon: December 8
Last Quarter: December 16
New Moon: December 23
First Quarter: December 30

#space #astronomy #lookUp

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NASA's #Artemis-I, launch got me thinking about #Mars and the #Apollo missions. Here's my new article for @ExaminerMedia. This month, we talk about Artemis, Apollo, and looking into our own future. I hope you like it.

#astronomy #space #lookup

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Thanksgiving stars: spend this year's holiday with Orion Spend Thanksgiving 2021 with the constellation Orion and track the stars' motion across the sky, with our guide by US naked-eye astronomer Scott Levine.

Thanksgiving can be tough. But! We can watch #Orion join the night outside while the chaos and mayhem go on inside.

Here's an article I did for @skyatnightmag a while back. I hope you like and #LookUp this week! Happy #Thanksgiving, everyone!

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Well, with the walls around here crumbling, I've opened an account on Mastodon. Please if you like what I do here, follow me there at @astroscott@masto.ai . Have a great day and Clear Skies!

Hey @pandoramusic Is there any way on the Web app to turn off the pop-up message that asks about showing me how to turn on auto-play? I turned auto-play off because I don't like it, and I really would like you to trust me on this.

Been thinking (obsessing) about Dr. Wet-Blanket saying people wouldn't notice a #LunarEclipse if they didn't know it's happening. Solar eclipses are so bright, all I've seen have been pretty unnoticeable until totality (I assume), and totality's in a tiny little band.Quit hating!

Please, #vote today.

I watched the #LunarEclipse at around 5am (US Eastern) as it slipped into totality, and then for a few minutes afterward. It was absolutely stunning.

To illustrate how amazing lunar eclipses are, it was a deep, impenetrable red as it neared totality.

Tonight! The #Moon's riding the sky with #Jupiter. Remember J00ps is about 625 million km/400 million miles away, far behind the Moon, not next to it. If you have a pair of binoculars, you can even see its four giant moons. That's 5 of the solar system's 6 biggest moons! #lookUp

A MAGA guy I know was echoing RW points re the Paul Pelosi attack.

I asked "Isn't violence wrong, no matter who does it?"

"But Democrats..."

"Doesn't matter. Is violence right or wrong? Shouldn't MAGA mean holding yourself to a higher standard than non-MAGA?"

{name-calling}

You know how the #Moon looks enormous as it rises? The same illusion hits us with other sky things, too! This week, look how big the #Pleiades and V-shaped #Hyades clusters look as they pop above the rooftops at mid-evening. Next week, the near-full Moon joins the fun! #lookup

There'll be a #LunarEclipse on November 8! Here's my latest article for The Examiner News, where we talk about why they're great and why you should take a look if your skies cooperate. I hope you'll give it a read. Thanks, @ExaminerMedia!

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I love the NE corner of the sky this time of year. It's not angular and tidy, like winter's, but garbled and messy, like life, with abstract tangles of stars scattered like Legos across the night. Tonight, let's start with Cassiopeia's W and let our mind go where it wants. #space

Hey @dunkindonuts How come you have no way of canceling an order that make through the app by mistake? That seems really... bad... don't you think? Could I get a little help, a little customer service? Your phone person was really unkind.

But when it all sucks, there's the Moon. There's Jupiter. There's the Great Square, the Big Dipper, and infinite emptiness with vanishingly little bigotry. #LookUp #space

. @NorthwellHealth Your appt process is broken. Why make sick patients sit on hold so that someone else calls back and forth between offices, to have to wait to get a follow-up call from another office until its too late to make it to the appt? You should be ashamed.

Do better.

I want the movie from when Doc & Marty first met up to what happened at the mall, along the post-1955-Marty timeline. How'd Doc stay motivated to build the time machine? How'd he manage to not tell Marty? How'd he make everything happen just like in the original timeline? #BTTF

I switched over to an old-style flip phone this weekend. If this is what the before times was like, I'm totally in.