Dr. Ana Glidden @ana-glidden.bsky.social Postdoc @ MIT EAPS • Exoplanet Atmospheres • Habitability • Planet-Star Modeling
Travis Metcalfe @travis-metcalfe.bsky.social Astronomy researcher based in Colorado. I run a nonprofit adopt a star program to help fund astronomy research. #firstgen
Ekaterina Ilin @astroilin.bsky.social astronomer | postdoc @ Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) | planet-star interactions | time-domain astronomy
@jasonleecurtis.bsky.social @jasonleecurtis.bsky.social 
Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her)
linktr.ee/amyraehill
Restock: TBD
Katharine Hesse (she/they) @hesse-at-tess.bsky.social ⚛️ Highschool physics teacher ➡️ Astro🔭 MA @ Wesleyan ➡️ TESS science support staff @ MIT
Lena Heffern, PhD @leenuh-hlfernan.bsky.social Opinions my own. Space stuff day job. Can I offer you some art in these apocalyptic times? 🎨🏺🖌️🖼️🛰️🚀
https://heffern.net/lena/
Dr. Alysa Orbits (Obertas) @astroalysa.bsky.social Queer & disabled astronomer formerly at UofT & CITA. Dynamics, planets, & ballet. Posts reflect opinions of Sailor Galaxia, not my employer. She/her 👩🔬💃
Dr. Michele L. Silverstein (she/her/hers) @silverstronomy.bsky.social ⭐ PhD Astronomer. Seeking a new role in astro or as a data analyst or project manager. Open to a variety of career directions. ⭐
Low-mass stars, exoplanets, & observational astronomy at NASA, Navy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-silverstein-48089337
Dr. Karen K. @galastronomer.bsky.social she/her. Galaxy collisions expert who happens to be a girl. Astro faculty, EPO pro, bellydancer, & fire spinner. Opinions are my own.
Maria R. Drout @mrdrout.bsky.social Astronomer, travel, holder of quiet opinions | Assoc. Prof @UofToronto
Eric Agol @ericagol.bsky.social Astrophysicist, exoplanet enthusiast.
Dr. Brett Addison @astrobrett.com Astrophysicist and data scientist. My interests include astronomy, exoplanets, data science, data analysis, science, nature, and politics. I currently teach physics/astronomy courses at the University of Southern Queensland. https://www.astrobrett.com/
Chad Bender @chadfbender.bsky.social Astronomer at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Instrument builder: LFAST, NEID, HPF. Building giant telescopes! Hobbyist woodworker. Decent vinyl collection.
Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social Astrophysics PhD ✨ studies black holes and galaxy evolution 🌌Science Communicator (find me other places at “Space According to Skylar”)
Steven Silverberg @silverbergastro.bsky.social Research scientist, Eureka Scientific. Focusing on low-mass stars and the stuff around them, and citizen science. PI of Disk Detective. Opinions my own. He/him.
Dr. Angelle Tanner @astrochic73.bsky.social Astronomer, cat (a dog) lady, lover of nature. Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, Project Scientist of the Landolt Mission
Hypatia Catalog @hypatiacatalog.bsky.social I was born in 2010, became legit in 2014 (Hinkel et al.), and blossomed into an interactive database in 2017. Now I'm the largest catalog of stellar elemental abundances for stars with and without planets near the Sun. I like purple.
hypatiacatalog.com
Seven Machina Rasmussen 🔜 DragonCon @toomanyspectra.bsky.social humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
sevenrasmussen.com
Atanas K. Stefanov @astronasko.com PhD student @ Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. I look for exoplanets and I am fond of numerical modelling. I tend to post in EN/ES/BG.
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.
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.
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
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."
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:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
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.
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
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 🔜 DRAGONCON @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)
Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu STScI is the Science Operations Center for Webb, Hubble, and the upcoming 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
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
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
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
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/
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/3TlDCD
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. 🇳🇿🇺🇸
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
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 🧪🔭🚀🛰️☄️
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
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
IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social The Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) of the International Astronomical Union, hosted at @hausderastronomie.bsky.social
https://haus-der-astronomie.de/de/impressum
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social Postdoc at Vanderbilt University working on stellar magnetic activity and its impacts on planetary atmospheres. (He/him/his)
Malena Rice @malenarice.bsky.social Planetary astrophysicist • Assistant Professor, Yale Astronomy • exoplanets & solar system • Forbes Under 30 • astrosoundbites
Luis Welbanks @luiswel.bsky.social 51 Pegasi b & Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow studying the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System at @SESEASU -> Assistant Professor @SESEASU 2025
Previously @NASA Sagan Fellow. @Gates_Cambridge
scholar at @Cambridge_Uni.
Laura Rogers @astroloz.bsky.social Astronomy postdoc studying dead planets around dead stars (a.k.a. polluted white dwarfs)
☄️+💀💫=🔭😲
Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social in no particular order: she/her, exoplanet astronomer, cat mom, cheese lover, Bruins fan, Dunkin connoisseur, 🏳️🌈, kdrama enthusiast, trying to be a halfway decent human being 🍉
kerockcliffe.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
Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social planetary astronomer by day, also by night
asst. prof. @ villanova, movie buff, he/they, 🏳️🌈
https://tkareta.github.io/, formerly lowell obs., uaz, umass
Jessica Birky @jessbirky.bsky.social Astrophysics + data science grad at University of Washington
she/her 🏳️🌈
https://jbirky.github.io/
John Gizis @johngizis.bsky.social Astronomer, University of Delaware
Speaking for myself. 
Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social Astronomer working on imaging extrasolar planets, instrumentation, and science policy. Spare time: hiking with a golden retriever, and not playing enough boardgames.
Director, University of California Observatories, but opinions are my own. He/him
Dr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space Lecturer in Extrasolar Planets 🪐 🔭 at the University of St Andrews 🏴
Dr. Scott W. Fleming @scottwfleming.bsky.social Branch Manager at Space Telescope Science Institute working in the MAST archive. Astronomy PhD. Studies stars and exoplanets. Loves programming. Opinions are my own. He/Him/His
Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social aerospace engineer 🧑🏾🚀, mom, pun queen and obsessed with Kings of Leon 🎸 Solar System Ambassador alumni | rocket propulsion lover 🪐🚀 | science communicator 🔭🥼| 🏳️🌈