home.social

#stars — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stars, aggregated by home.social.

  1. NASA Ames Stars of the Month: September 2026
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right)
    #directorate #september #science #stars

  2. I mean, the study about patches in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse is interesting and all, but it's still mind-boggling for me we can detect spots, in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse, which is at least 640 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!

    Link: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/fort

    #Space #Astronomy #Stars

  3. I mean, the study about patches in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse is interesting and all, but it's still mind-boggling for me we can detect spots, in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse, which is at least 640 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!

    Link: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/fort

    #Space #Astronomy #Stars

  4. I mean, the study about patches in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse is interesting and all, but it's still mind-boggling for me we can detect spots, in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse, which is at least 640 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!

    Link: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/fort

    #Space #Astronomy #Stars

  5. I mean, the study about patches in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse is interesting and all, but it's still mind-boggling for me we can detect spots, in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse, which is at least 640 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!

    Link: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/fort

    #Space #Astronomy #Stars

  6. I mean, the study about patches in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse is interesting and all, but it's still mind-boggling for me we can detect spots, in the atmosphere of Betelgeuse, which is at least 640 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!

    Link: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/fort

    #Space #Astronomy #Stars

  7. Had no luck with the stars - but a lot of clouds last weekend. Postponed my carbon stars observation project until October.

  8. Four Hundred Words for Six Hundred Dollars

    The announcement arrived through LJExpress on a Friday in late July, dressed in the language of service. Media Source, the company that owns Library Journal, School Library Journal, The Horn Book, and the Junior Library Guild, had opened a storefront called Open Shelf Reviews, aimed at independent authors and small presses, and the copy asked me to hold two ideas at once: the reviews would be paid for by the authors under review, and a wall would keep those purchased reviews away from the magazines whose names give the wall its worth. The company described the operation as "a clearly identified paid service," with its own editor, reviewer pool, and website, all kept apart from the editorial processes that made Library Journal matter to librarians for a century and a half. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/30/four

  9. The Sodden Astronomer

    They say, Do not look at the stars,
    or you will step into holes
    and sink your shoes in mud.

    So you can keep your eyes
    fixed on the ground,
    safe from puddles,
    safe from falling,
    and miss the lights
    burning above in the dark—

    except for a stolen glance,
    a hurried sip of heaven.

    Or you can throw
    caution to the wind,
    lift your thirsty face
    to those bright jewels
    sewn into black velvet,

    and stumble on
    with wet feet.

    October 27, 1988 (edited June 2026)
    Curridabat, Costa Rica

    Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

    9.927128-84.082012 #1988 #astronomyMetaphor #awe #Beauty #blackVelvetSky #CentralAmerica #ContemplativePoetry #Courage #CreativeWriting #dreamers #Dreaming #earthAndHeaven #HereAreSomeWordPressTagsForThePoemSoddenAstronomer #Hope #Imagination #jewelsInTheDarkness #lookingUp #mudAndStars #mysticalPoetry #night #NightSky #poeticImage #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Risk #SpiritualReflection #stargazing #stars #symbolicPoetry #walkingByFaith #wetFeet #Wonder #wonderAndCaution #Writing
  10. The Sodden Astronomer

    They say, Do not look at the stars,
    or you will step into holes
    and sink your shoes in mud.

    So you can keep your eyes
    fixed on the ground,
    safe from puddles,
    safe from falling,
    and miss the lights
    burning above in the dark—

    except for a stolen glance,
    a hurried sip of heaven.

    Or you can throw
    caution to the wind,
    lift your thirsty face
    to those bright jewels
    sewn into black velvet,

    and stumble on
    with wet feet.

    October 27, 1988 (edited June 2026)
    Curridabat, Costa Rica

    Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

    9.927128-84.082012 San Jose, Costa Rica #1988 #astronomyMetaphor #awe #Beauty #blackVelvetSky #CentralAmerica #ContemplativePoetry #Courage #CreativeWriting #dreamers #Dreaming #earthAndHeaven #HereAreSomeWordPressTagsForThePoemSoddenAstronomer #Hope #Imagination #jewelsInTheDarkness #lookingUp #mudAndStars #mysticalPoetry #night #NightSky #poeticImage #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Risk #SpiritualReflection #stargazing #stars #symbolicPoetry #walkingByFaith #wetFeet #Wonder #wonderAndCaution #Writing
  11. The Sodden Astronomer

    They say, Do not look at the stars,
    or you will step into holes
    and sink your shoes in mud.

    So you can keep your eyes
    fixed on the ground,
    safe from puddles,
    safe from falling,
    and miss the lights
    burning above in the dark—

    except for a stolen glance,
    a hurried sip of heaven.

    Or you can throw
    caution to the wind,
    lift your thirsty face
    to those bright jewels
    sewn into black velvet,

    and stumble on
    with wet feet.

    October 27, 1988 (edited June 2026)
    Curridabat, Costa Rica

    Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

    9.927128-84.082012 San Jose, Costa Rica #1988 #astronomyMetaphor #awe #Beauty #blackVelvetSky #CentralAmerica #ContemplativePoetry #Courage #CreativeWriting #dreamers #Dreaming #earthAndHeaven #HereAreSomeWordPressTagsForThePoemSoddenAstronomer #Hope #Imagination #jewelsInTheDarkness #lookingUp #mudAndStars #mysticalPoetry #night #NightSky #poeticImage #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Risk #SpiritualReflection #stargazing #stars #symbolicPoetry #walkingByFaith #wetFeet #Wonder #wonderAndCaution #Writing
  12. The Sodden Astronomer

    They say, Do not look at the stars,
    or you will step into holes
    and sink your shoes in mud.

    So you can keep your eyes
    fixed on the ground,
    safe from puddles,
    safe from falling,
    and miss the lights
    burning above in the dark—

    except for a stolen glance,
    a hurried sip of heaven.

    Or you can throw
    caution to the wind,
    lift your thirsty face
    to those bright jewels
    sewn into black velvet,

    and stumble on
    with wet feet.

    October 27, 1988 (edited June 2026)
    Curridabat, Costa Rica

    Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

    9.927128-84.082012 San Jose, Costa Rica #1988 #astronomyMetaphor #awe #Beauty #blackVelvetSky #CentralAmerica #ContemplativePoetry #Courage #CreativeWriting #dreamers #Dreaming #earthAndHeaven #HereAreSomeWordPressTagsForThePoemSoddenAstronomer #Hope #Imagination #jewelsInTheDarkness #lookingUp #mudAndStars #mysticalPoetry #night #NightSky #poeticImage #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Risk #SpiritualReflection #stargazing #stars #symbolicPoetry #walkingByFaith #wetFeet #Wonder #wonderAndCaution #Writing
  13. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☀️🌍 For decades, scientists assumed #Earth would spiral into the #Sun when it swells into a red giant billions of years from now.

    A new study flips that prediction. Better modeling of tidal dissipation inside dying #stars finds that the Sun’s mass loss from stellar wind may push Earth outward, potentially saving it from incineration.

    👉 phys.org/news/2026-06-sun-engu

    #redgiant #solardeath #astronomy #astrophysics #science #kuleuven #belgium #ceaparis #france #planets #whitedwarf #science

  14. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☀️🌍 For decades, scientists assumed #Earth would spiral into the #Sun when it swells into a red giant billions of years from now.

    A new study from flips that prediction. Better modeling of tidal dissipation inside dying #stars finds that the Sun’s mass loss from stellar wind may push Earth outward, potentially saving it from incineration.

    👉 phys.org/news/2026-06-sun-engu

    #redgiant #solardeath #astronomy #astrophysics #science #kuleuven #belgium #ceaparis #france #planets #whitedwarf #science

  15. 1971 And Counting

    Today is my birthday! And so I wrote a poem about being alive for open link day and fellow poets at Dverse. Enjoy!

    thetigressawakes.wordpress.com

  16. These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...

    From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  17. These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...

    From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  18. These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...

    From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  19. These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...

    From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  20. These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...

    From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  21. They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".

    Painting by me.

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  22. They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".

    Painting by me.

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  23. They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".

    Painting by me.

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  24. They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".

    Painting by me.

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi

  25. They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".

    Painting by me.

    #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi