Astronomy 🔭

astronomy.bsky.social

16 October 2026 07:15

NASA launched Cassini 29 years ago today, the spacecraft that gave us our most iconic views of Saturn

Filippo Valsorda

filippo.abyssdomain.expert

16 October 2026 07:11

No more leap seconds, ever! There isn’t one in December and they will be abolished in May. The last one will forever be the 2016(?!) one. Didn’t realize having experienced leap seconds in prod dates me. I’m not going to miss time going backwards, I’ll be honest. www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

ESO

eso.org

15 October 2026 10:52

New milestone reached 🥳 Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our ELT have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in Chile. That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a 39-metre eye on the sky. 🔭 🧪

Kelsey Hightower

kelseyhightower.com

03 October 2026 14:39

🤦🏾‍♂️

Simon Willison

simonwillison.net

29 September 2026 19:44

I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past three DevDay events, I'm running a live blog where I'll be posting updates during the keynote, which starts in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/...