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@froylance472

Retired science writer for the Baltimore Sun. New Jersey native, transplanted to Bawlmer in 1980. Father, grandfather. Into travel, history, backyard astronomy. Twitter refugee. Bluesky newbie.

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Doing what they do best. Being incompetent. Like the Cabinet of Incompetence in DC.

27.02.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2025 12:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s the video.

15.01.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The International Space Station passing over Baltimore earlier this evening.

15.01.2025 23:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.01.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bad year. Good riddance.

01.01.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sun southernmost - Universal Workshop The solstice comes tomorrow, Saturday December 21, at 9:19 by Universal Time. What is the solstitium, the β€œSun-standing”? It is the moment when Earth’s north pole is most tilted away from the Sun. So ...

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20.12.2024 23:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.12.2024 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15.12.2024 01:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Geminid meteor shower peaks in moonlight tonight!

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13.12.2024 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Are Geminid meteors striking the moon? See videos

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11.12.2024 13:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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LIVE TODAY: Geminid meteor shower 2024 prospects and tips

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11.12.2024 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nightfall…

07.12.2024 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new...

πŸ§ͺ New NIH nominee wants to choose which University researchers get their proposals approved by whether their universities promote Trump definition of β€œacademic freedom”. OMG

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07.12.2024 12:08 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

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06.12.2024 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Earth flies between Jupiter and the sun tomorrow

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06.12.2024 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform The Watchers is a specialized daily news service with an objective and informative approach to all significant Earth-related events.

DUCK!
Asteroid COWEPC5 to impact Earth over Russia on December 3
Source: watchers.news

04.12.2024 00:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Butterfly Nebula. Seems appropriate here.

02.12.2024 21:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mars in November 2024: It’s time to start watching!

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01.12.2024 14:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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26.11.2024 23:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Visible planets and night sky guide for November

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26.11.2024 14:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My kid lives down there, on the far side of the pointy island with the tall buildings.

21.11.2024 00:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Posting the neighborhood piebald fawns to try my hand at posting photos here. Here goes …

19.11.2024 02:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello! Anybody out there? I just quit TwitterX and joined BlueSky. Just beginning figure it out. But I hope to begin posting here soon, and reconnecting with some of the 1,100 followers I had on Twitter. Stay tuned.

19.11.2024 01:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hole in clouds

Hole in clouds

Hole in clouds

Hole in clouds

I became a little bit obsessed with this hole in the black clouds yesterday.

18.11.2024 07:35 πŸ‘ 1938 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 5
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Finally got around to processing this short Milky Way timelapse I took a few months ago. I hope to take an extended version soon! πŸ”­πŸŒŒ

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