MMT Observatory @mmtobservatory.bsky.social The MMT Observatory is a 6.5-meter telescope at the summit of Mt. Hopkins, Arizona. The MMT is operated by U. of Arizona and Smithsonian Observatory under a permit from the US Forest Service. Any questions about what we do, just ask! https://www.mmto.org/
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Mike Brown @plutokiller.com Astronomer, planet hunter, Pluto killer, bear whisperer, finger-wrapped dad. Dangerous secularist. Foot soldier in the War on Cars. He/him.
mikebrown.caltech.edu
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social I love space!
PhD, Astrophysics
SFF Author
🚀🌌👩🚀🌠🪐
🔗: https://galaxy.nora-bailey.com/linktree
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social Caltech/IPAC Planet Hunter | Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute | @TEDFellow | Science consultant | SHERA PI | My views are not the views of NASA | She/her
sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social big fan of stars 💻✨🦫🏳️🌈
Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network "Ok. Not good. Probably bad." Disabled, queer, Jewish, cyborg, astrophysicist, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches. Building joy with a side of chaos. "..a wizardess is never late. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."
Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social I'm Raven Baxter, Ph.D. I'm molecular biologist and science educator who loves sharing science with the world! thesciencemaven.com
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social Prof. of Astronomy and Physics, Haverford College. PI of Galaxy Zoo. Radio astronomer. Check out my latest book “The Astronomers Library” about books, libraries and astronomy - three of my favourite things. Brit/US.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow & Assoc. Professor. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she
Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social Astronomer here! I’m a Hungarian-American radio astronomer, alias /r/Andromeda321 on Reddit. Assistant professor at the University of Oregon 
Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com Physics professor, astronomer, educator, science communicator in NH, US. Lover of dogs, spec-fic, weights, and good trouble. She/they.
Opinions my own. RTs≠endorsements. Most older posts auto-delete.
I swear a lot.
https://bio.link/noisyastronomer
Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social Digestible summaries of the latest astronomy research. Written by an international team of grad students for undergrads! Supported by the @AAS_Office. #scicomm
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
notnotrocketscience.com
Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social NZ theoretical astrophysicist studying exploding binary stars. Sci-fi addict, feminist, non-binary femme. Pronouns: she/her/they. All views my own.
Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu STScI is the Science Operations Center for Webb, Hubble, and Roman space telescopes, & Mission Operations Center for Webb. We help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and data archive. news.stsci.edu
Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social Celebrating and amplifying the Black experience in space-related fields. EST. 2020
✉️ blackinastro@gmail.com
Website: blackinastro.com
https://www.blackinastro.com/black-space-week-2026
Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de Astronomy and relativity outreach (Tweets in German & English) | personal account | he/his | managing scientist @hausderastronomie.bsky.social | director @astro4edu.bsky.social |outreach @mpi-astro.bsky.social | Seestar enthusiast
Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social Plumian Prof in Astro @U Cambridge & Prof Astro-/Particle Physics @U Amsterdam. All things black hole, member: Event Horizon Telescope, Africa Millimeter Telescope, CTAO. Space, sci-fi, cats, music, valve amps, other unabashed geekery. www.seramarkoff.com
Erin M. May, PhD @astronomay.bsky.social Staff Astronomer @ a place - Exoplanet Atmospheres. All data is good data.
Plus Knitting, Stickers, Baking, and other crafty things. Toddler mom.
Previously known as @_astronoMay on the other site.
ErinMMay.com
SiderealStickers.Etsy.com
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social ✨Astronomer searching for and studying the faintest galaxies in the Universe ✨co-host of the @starxiv.bsky.social podcast ✨ Enthusiastic-but-mediocre runner 🏃🏻♀️ vegan 🌱 She/her
Dr. Heloise Stevance @sydonahi.bsky.social Astrophysicist - Schmidt A.I. in Science Fellow - Oxford Uni - she/they
Sky surveys
Exploding stars
Hungry black holes
AI Literacy
Beatrice Tinsley Lecturer 2021
Caroline Herschel Prize 2024
hfstevance.com
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his.
Blog: telescoper.blog
Dr. Timothy Pickering @tepickering.bsky.social astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
James Davenport @jradavenport.com Astronomy professor in Seattle. Coffee drinking, year-round-plaid wearing, joke telling space dad. Searching for ET, caring for humans.
https://jradavenport.github.io
🔭☕️🎤
Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social LLM-free science: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-0090, fiction: https://www.galacticwords.com. Words in Year’s Best Cdn F&SF, Utopia SF, Analog, OnSpec, MNRAS, ApJ, etc. Knitter, curler, sometime runner. 🇨🇦 & minor planet 281067. She/her.
Dr Becky Smethurst @drbecky.bsky.social Astrophysicist studying how supermassive black holes affect galaxies (s/h). I get overly enthusiastic about space (and cats) on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/drbecky
Prof. Carl E. Fields 💥 @carlnotsagan.github.io Computational Astrophysicist and Assistant Professor @uarizona.bsky.social & @stewardobservatory.bsky.social. #Forbes30u30, Science 2021. He/Him. carlnotsagan.github.io.
Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social Planetary scientist & astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast: KBOs, Planet Four(Mars), exoplanets (Planet Hunters NGTS) ,LSST SSSC co-chair. Opinions posted are my own. Pronouns: she/her
Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social Professor of Astrophysics @ Univ. of Amsterdam. Neutron stars, pulsars, dense matter, X-ray astronomy. Mom, Migrant. "Particles in stars blah blah". Does science with NICER on the International Space Station and schemes for EVEN BIGGER SPACE TELESCOPES.
American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org The mission of the American Astronomical Society is to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe as a diverse and inclusive astronomical community.
aas.org
Brett Morris @brettmorr.is Astronomer, software engineer.
Supporting space telescopes, open science, and data access in astrophysics.
Thrilled and haunted by dots on stars.
http://brettmorr.is/
Posts my own, not my employer's.
Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social Associate professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill studying young exoplanets and stars. Dad to one human and one cat. 🏳️🌈💗💜. Carrboro Citizen. http://andrewwmann.com
All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org Posting galaxies classified by the public on Galaxy Zoo, @galaxyzoo.org
Created and maintained by @davidoryan.bsky.social with backup support from @vrooje.net and @emily.space
Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social Professor of astronomy working at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands on the direct imaging of extrasolar planets and transits of giant ring systems || Opinions my own || Will tell Dad jokes for cash. https://kenworthy.space/
Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social Dutch-Australian | Astrophysicist | Head of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Science Group at ASTRON | Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam
Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw (he/him)
Astronomer;
Leads the Nearby Universe group at the Flatiron Institute / CCA;
Asst. Director of Scientific Software @ Simons Foundation;
Astropy;
Music;
https://adrian.pw 
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social Get ready for a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with Rubin Observatory!
Para español siga a Instagram: http://instagram.com/rubin_observatory
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie @mpi-astro.bsky.social Astronomical research institute in Heidelberg, Germany / Astronomisches Forschungsinstitut in Heidelberg
Impressum: https://www.mpia.de/impressum
Haus der Astronomie @hausderastronomie.bsky.social Zentrum für astronomische Bildungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in Heidelberg | Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach in Heidelberg, Germany. Posts in erster Linie auf Deutsch but also in English
https://www.haus-der-astronomie.de/de/impressum
AAS Nova @aasnova.org Highlighting recent astronomy research from the American Astronomical Society's journals. Editors: Kerry Hensley & Susanna Kohler. Discover what's new in the universe at aasnova.org. Header image: https://bit.ly/4vPAvD
Paul McMillan @mcmillan-astro.bsky.social Astrophysicist working on Milky Way dynamics and Gaia data. University of Leicester. Views expressed are my own.
Website: https://paulmcmillan-astro.github.io/
A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com Hunting low mass exoplanets.
Christian Fröschlin @chrfrde.bsky.social Amateur astronomer from urban 15th floor balcony. Celestron 8" / Lunt 40 / Galileoscope. Software developer. Image processing / HALCON. Fledgling skeptic. He/him.
Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social Mapping the Universe since 1998. Featuring @milkywaymapper.bsky.social, @blackholemapper.bsky.social, and @localvolumemapper.bsky.social. We'll let you know when we are done.
sdss.org
Yao-Yuan Mao @yymao.bsky.social Astrophysicist at U of Utah studying small galaxies and dark matter using astronomical surveys and simulations || teacher || programmer || 茅耀元 || they/he || 🏳️🌈 || http://yymao.github.io || https://astro-outlist.github.io
astropy @astropy.org A community effort to develop a common core package for Astronomy in Python and foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages.
Web: astropy.org
Source: github.com/astropy/astropy
Docs: docs.astropy.org
Tutorials: learn.astropy.org
ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social Making astrophysics research source codes discoverable since 1999
editor@ascl.net
Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social www.ras.ac.uk
Linn Boldt-Christmas @nplinnspace.bsky.social 🇸🇪🚀🇪🇺 Astrophysicist in exoplanet science & space policy research 🪐🔭 Also: astrobiology, telescopes, climate, equality/EDI, and scicomm ✨ (she/her) – linnboldtchristmas.wordpress.com
The Astrosky Ecosystem @astrosky.eco We're building new social media tools for astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts online - from feeds to account hosting.
Website: https://astrosky.eco | GitHub: https://github.com/the-astrosky-ecosystem
Account managed by @emily.space
Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the EUI in Firenze, studying the history of the European Space Agency.
Processing space telescopes data for fun
28
He/him
Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com Astrophysics PhD candidate studying stars that go snap, crackle, and pop - communicating scientist - meme aficionado. - M Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social computational astrophysicist
open source tool developer
professor
blower upper of stars
can recite π to 2 decimal places from memory
star wars fan
coffee aficionado
https://zingale.github.io
Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social Astronomer at UW, data pipeline wrangler for Rubin Observatory, satellite mitigation leader via IAU CPS SatHub, mom, violist, Ballardite (Seattle), family cargo e-bike evangelist, Episcopalian, etc. Opinions all mine
Prof. Joey "Barely a Footnote" Neilsen @joeyneilsen.bsky.social Black hole astrophysicist at Villanova. Formerly: MIT, Boston University, Harvard, Kenyon College | X-rays | husband | dad of 2 | cooking. He/him. Skeets are my own.
CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social Astronomer, science communicator, over-thinker extraordinaire. @AucklandUni space person @AucklandSpace. Autoimmune illness. 🇳🇿🇺🇸
💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀 @afeinstein20.bsky.social asst prof | astronomy PhD | MSU | https://adina.feinste.in
Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social Professor of astrophysics at UNC, studying colliding black holes, swarming stars, and other things that go bump in the night. Big fan of transit, biking, climbing, Durham NC, he/him
dynamics.unc.edu
Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social Astronomer, professor, birder, singer, cat communer (she/her)
University of Denver, @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social
Past Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence
Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social Australian astronomer
he/him
Sydney/Gadi
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social Planetary Astronomer on #TeamAsteroid; Gedankenband member/guitarist; “Surprisingly nonchalant” according to Wired. He/him הנני 🌻
Work Output: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aGVsk3IAAAAJ
Play output: https://andyrivkin.bandcamp.com
Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own. 
Dr. Kelley Hess @khesser.bsky.social Astronomer/Senior Researcher at Onsala Space Observatory/Chalmers University, Sweden; ultra runner, adventure racer, cyclist. Ironman WC 2012, 2014. Xterra World Champs 2014.
Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. Too frequent appearances on YouTube. All my own views.
Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the @unibe.ch
Co-I of ESA's Comet Interceptor, collaborator on NASA's Lucy and ESA's Rosetta missions.
www.spaceMarschall.net
(he/him)🇨🇭🇺🇸🇫🇷
#asteroids #comets #protoplanetarydisks #planetaryScience 🧪🔭🚀🛰️☄️
Kevin Hardegree-Ullman @kevinkhu.bsky.social Research Scientist at Caltech/IPAC-NExScI studying all things related to exoplanets! Opinions are my own. https://kevinkhu.com
Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social 🛰️🪐 Space voyager processing space images 📡💻
🎞️ HD Photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrealuck/
🎋Other places: https://linktr.ee/andrealuck
🌍Glasgow, Scotland 🌱 (He/Him)
John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social Tenure-track astronomer working on galaxies, machine learning, and AI for scientific discovery. Opinions my own. He/him.
Website: https://jwuphysics.github.io/
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social Gravitational-wave astrophysicist. University of Glasgow Senior Lecturer. Science, education, LEGO & cake. May contain traces of nuts
🐘 https://mastodon.online/@cplberry
📚 https://cplberry.com
Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social Astronomy Prof at Open University. 26.2. #RejoinEU, £➡️€. Views not OU’s and often not even mine. He/him
🐘 https://mas.to/@stephenserjeant
🧵 https://www.threads.net/@prof.stephen.serjeant
ORCID 0000-0002-0517-7943 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0517-7943
Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch 🇨🇭
• ESO fellow @eso.org exploring exoplanet atmospheres 🪐 🔭 🇩🇪
• PhD from Lund Observatory 🇸🇪 & ESO 🇨🇱
• passionate about all things outreach and science communication ✨
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev Official Mirroring APOD BOT for Bluesky.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
Src:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social James Webb - Everything That's Hot 🔥
jwstfeed.com
Dr Jake Taylor @astrojake.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. Researching the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Emily Hunt @emily.space Postdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning.
Also: open web developer & enthusiast, working on @astrosky.eco and more
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ
Website: https://emily.space
GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social (M IT, GC Astronomy) Art, science, music & tech - Byron Bay 🇦🇺 Team Celestron. Host of StarStuff on YouTube - Public Domain AP. Probably alcoholic. ByronBayObservatory.com.au
SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com Connecting and sharing news, people, projects, voices and science from Australia and NZ’s space communities. 📸 CSIRO.
www.spaceaustralia.com 
Jordan Maples @maples-astro.bsky.social Seattle based astrophotographer.
Married to @codecoffeecode.bsky.social.
Pour over is best coffee.
Furry trash.
Elsewhere I'm sloppyjaconda
All photos posted are my own.
#photography #astrophotography
Former software engineer.
Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social Astrophotography shenanigans.
CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Carolyn Porco @carolynporco.bsky.social Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life.
If you like what you see here, signup for my newsletter on Substack!
https://carolynporco.substack.com/
Lt Nono @ltno2.bsky.social Northern hemisphere astronomy enthusiast and Islay Single Malt lover. Cats shall one day rule the world. 🔭🥃 🐈
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Ltno/
Alumnus Université Côte d'Azur/OCA 🔭🌌
So long and thanks for all the fish...
Andreas Fischer @afischer.bsky.social Astrophotography, Birdwatching, PhD Biology, SciComm 🏳️🌈
http://instagram.com/ansefischerbilder
Think Big (Peter Pat) @think-big.bsky.social Physics Grad, Maths Tutor, Amateur Astronomer & Astrophotographer, Kung Fu Instructor & Student. Interested in Climate Science, Education & Politics.
High-res versions of astrophotos can be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Retrograde/
Sydney, Au
Bernd Flachsbart @bflachsbart.bsky.social Regular lender on kiva.org | Favourite place on earth: Vaucluse, France 🇫🇷 | Thumbs up: Road cycling 🚴♀️ Hard & heavy music 🤘 Astrophotography 🔭✨
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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