James Cook

It's only a matter of time until someone -- @SpaceX, @blueorigin, @NASA ... -- uses this song in a video or ad or something. I mean, "It's in the stars, it's our destiny..."

The Stones went and A.I.ed themselves. youtube.com/watch?v=oT5Lww…

I don't think I've ever seen the Messier catalog together to scale like this—their apparent/angular size in the sky. Could've used this when I was doing stargazing programs. Cool—M33 is as wide as the Pleiades/M45 (alas too dim to see well). From @apod apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260514.…

And another one from Spaceweather.com spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.p…

Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) still putting on a show. But you have to be in the Southern Hemisphere to take these. Phooey. 😕 spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.p…

@SpaceTelescope I saw this once in a telescope. In color. It took a 61" telescope. @StewardAstro

This #NASAWebb Red Spider Nebula image reveals the extent of the spider’s “legs,” the blue lobes, for the first time. Each bubble extends three light-years across, sculpted by gas from the nebula’s center. Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA.

@apod too. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260512.…

I remember when rock n' roll artists in the late 60s and early 70s were dropping like flies. But, wow, I did not see this coming. Some of them just keep going and going ... youtube.com/watch?v=F-F_oH…

No bugs or worms. youtube.com/watch?v=_Cxb56…

Regarding the recent release of Apollo photos showing strange lights in the sky. 1. These are not lights or any kind of object in the sky. They are blemishes on the film. Apollo photos were captured on 70mm film which were processed in chemicals. During the processing, dirt, dust, scratches or small air bubbles would attach to the film, causing strange looking artifacts. This happens to most photos taken on film, not just Apollo photos, but show up more prominently on Apollo photos due to the black sky, as opposed to a bright colorful scene on earth. 2. These Apollo photo blemishes are not new. They have been known about for nearly 60 years, simply as blemishes on the film, but in today’s idiotic clickbait world have been made out to be something there are not.

@TheAstroN8 I was supposed to go out there for the eclipse two years ago. Never been to Johnson, Starbase. Still need to see some Whooping Cranes at Aransas, too. 😔 I'll get there eventually.

@Spacey_J_C Long time, I'm sure. You need to come to Texas! Plenty of Painted Buntings to see in the state parks!

@TheAstroN8 I saw the sad report about a Frontier jet (N646FR) pedestrian accident, but didn't know they had a whole series with birds on their tails. (N646FR has a Scrub Jay.) flyfrontier.com/plane-tails/sk… Have you been ... Frontier birding?

@TheAstroN8 How long has Frontier been putting birds/critters—apparently endagered ones—on their tails? flyfrontier.com/plane-tails/en… Good for them. I'll have to make a day trip out to one of the DC airports to catch some of them. Might be the only chance I get to see a flying Painted Bunting.

@Spacey_J_C I saw that … sucks.

Artemis II to the Moon and Back. The white line shows the geocentric coordinates of @NASAArtemis II based on my orbit determination from tracking the spacecraft during the free return trajectory from April 4-10. My upcoming video will let you see the flight play out in 3D.

How you know you're not that important. From: gocomics.com/ziggy/2026/05/…

I can never tell on X anymore which links will include the image on the page the link is from. This didn't. 🤔 So I'll have to do it myself this time. Again. From Spaceweather.com Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS: spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.p…

@SkyandTelescope An organization with less integrity would have taken this post down by now. But not NASA. 🫡 From Feb. 15, 2024 ("... any day now"). x.com/NASAUniverse/s…

Some celestial events are sure things; it's just a question of when. We're still waiting for T Corona Borealis to go nova — any month now. Read more: buff.ly/P5JMXB5

@TheAstroN8 @efraser77 @photogbrian I bet these two had something to do with it.

@efraser77 Discovery's reprimand. Pic by @photogbrian

26-1/2 months and still counting. 🥱 From Feb. 2024: x.com/NASAUniverse/s…