I impersonate some of your favorite spacecraft, planets, and the entire solar system on social media for a living. (Tweets here are entirely my own, though.)
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Mercury, here we go! ☀️🌑🛰️
Watch @esa /@JAXA_en @BepiColombo MTM separation live on 3 September and witness the first critical step in a never-before-seen planetary arrival. 💫
Click here for more info 👉 esa.int/Enabling_Support/Ope…
@esascience #BepiColombo #Mercury
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💥 C/2026 A1 MAPS FALLS APART
According to the latest update from Toni Scarmato, we can now confirm that C/2026 A1 (MAPS) has not survived perihelion.
As of 13:05 UTC on 4/4, it appears that only debris remains.
Huge bummer for everyone that was hoping to see one of the great comets, but all hope is not lost. There is a growing speculation that this may have been the frontrunner of an active cluster of Kreutz Sungrazers which might contain larger member bodies. Only time will tell.
RIP C/2026 A1 (MAPS) 🫡
Stay curious.
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Many people think that a scientific consensus is a large group of scientists who all agree that something is true.
In reality, it’s a large body of scientific studies that all agree with and support each other. The agreement is a by-product of the consistent evidence.
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Finally! Tens of thousands of asteroids are found each year. Yet 2026 had ZERO through Jan 6.
The drought is over.
Possibly as big as a jet liner. Possibly as large as a football field. Meet 2026 AA.
Blame the Full Moon for the drought.🌕 Expect many more soon.
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"How can I relax you just killed my f*cking neighbor!? You got her in the f*cking face. You killed my f*cking neighbor. How do you show up to work everyday? How the f*ck do you do this every day? You're killing my neighbors, you're stealing my neighbors. What the F*CK man?"
Horrifying. They let her die there, bleeding out. Her kids' toys in the passenger-side door.
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Masked men in tactical gear with assault weapons preventing a doctor from rendering medical to a mother they had just shot.
The new face of American neighborhoods, unless things change. Fast.
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The Trump administration spent the first half of the week constructing an alternate reality about Jan 6th, which with all saw with our own eyes.
It will spend the back half of the week making up an alternate reality about the ICE shooting, which we all saw with our own eyes.
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On January 6th, I hid reporters in my office because police couldn’t get them into the safe room. We used a special knock so we knew they weren’t insurrectionists.
Anyone trying to whitewash that day is lying. It was violent. People feared for their lives.
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No need to pack your bags! 🧳
NASA astronauts @AstroDuke and @astro_kjell will bring space station to you! Tour the orbiting laboratory and keep celebrating 25 years of humans on station into the new year! Full video: youtu.be/D9gUhAOQ0O4
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Whether 2025 was the best year you've had, or...not, we’re moving on to 2026. This weekend brings a big, bright full Moon. That Moon will be shining down on us all year, through the highs and the lows.
We hope you, and your 2026, are looking up. 🌕💛
science.nasa.gov/moon/
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What’s Up for January? Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest, the Moon and Saturn pair up, and the Beehive Cluster buzzes into view. 🔭 science.nasa.gov/skywatching…
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Five years ago, a mob of insurrectionists — fueled with conspiracies and lies, and incited to violence by a mendacious conman clinging to power — stormed the Capitol. It was a Day of Infamy.
But now — five years later —we know that the infamy was just beginning — a cascading failure of the institutions we thought would be the guardrails of our Constitutional order.
open.substack.com/pub/charli…
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A team using @NASAHubble has made the first confirmed detection of a new type of astronomical object: a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, nicknamed Cloud-9. Here's what this object is teaching us about dark matter and the early universe: go.nasa.gov/3YYPVqU
ALT A magenta cloud is radio data representing the location of the dark-matter cloud. There is a yellow dashed-line circle roughly in the center of the image, marking where researchers focused their search for stars. There are some galaxies in the background; they are mostly located away from the magenta cloud. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA. G. Anand (STScI), and A. Benitez-Llambay (Univ. of Milan-Bicocca); Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Mark Kelly is more of a man than you ever will be Pete.
His service to our nation has been exemplary, while your tenure as SecDef has been shameful.
History will not kindly remember your incompetent role in this dark chapter of American history.
Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice.
Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.
To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly’s reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file.
Captain Kelly has been provided notice of the basis for this action and has thirty days to submit a response. The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days.
Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action.
These actions are based on Captain Kelly's public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders. This conduct was seditious in nature and violated Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to which Captain Kelly remains subject as a retired officer receiving pay.
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This is worth revisiting regularly, because we so readily forget: Love Anyway themarginalian.org/2024/03/2…
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These two books will be read and loved for as long as there are still books.
ALT Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi
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