The Astrosky Ecosystem

📌 Check out all of our feeds! 📌 The Astronomy feeds network includes many different feeds covering a range of astro topics. Anyone can read them; if you're an astronomer, you can post to any of them by signing up via @bot.astronomy.blue. Here's a thread of all of them:

At the AAS meeting this week? Find Kyle if you'd like to get some free sticker swag for your laptop! 🔭☄️

At the AAS meeting this week? Find Kyle if you'd like to get some free sticker swag for your laptop! 🔭☄️

Do you enjoy the Astronomy feeds? Help us to build them! 🔭 We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:

If you like astronomy posts, then you'll probably really like the astronomy feeds! If you didn't know, Bluesky gives you direct control over your social algorithm. Instead of doomscrolling, look at space instead:

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself. It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅 That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

🎉 The Astronomy feeds have new pinned posts! 🔭☄️ • The new pinned posts are now per-feed, so each feed has its own info & identity • There are some lovely images in the link for each feed (including one from @ltno2.bsky.social) • They include a link to a bespoke FAQ page for each feed, like this:

Spam over - sorry for clogging your timeline for a sec!

Welcome to the Stellar Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #stellarastrononomy or #stellarastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Heliophysics (Astro) feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #heliophysics or #solarastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

This feed exists for technical purposes.

Welcome to the AstroSci feed! Contains posts about astronomy and planetary science research. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add ☄️ or #astrosci to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Radio Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #radioastronomy or #radioastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

This feed exists for technical purposes.

Welcome to the Planetary Science feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #planetaryscience or #planetsci to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Milky Way feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #galactic or #galacticastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astro Software & Methods feed! Discuss software and stats for astro here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astromethods, #astrocoding or #astrocode to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astro Instrumentation feed! Discuss astronomy instrumentation here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #instrumentation to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the History of Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astrohistory or #historyofastronomy to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the High Energy Astrophysics feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #highenergyastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Extragalactic Astronomy feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #extragalactic or #extragalacticastro to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Exoplanets feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #exoplanet or #exoplanets to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astronomy Education feed! Discuss astronomy education here. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astroeducation or #astroedu to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Cosmology feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #cosmology to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astrophotography feed! • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add #astrophoto, #astrophotos or #astrophotography to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astrosky feed! Contains all posts from all signed up users of the Astronomy feeds. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

Welcome to the Astronomy feed! Contains a filtered view of astronomy content on Bluesky. • You need to sign up for your posts to appear here. • Then, add 🔭, #astro or #astronomy to your post. • Check out our other feeds! See the FAQ for more info:

We're about to send lots of posts from this account, which will be the new main pinned posts for the Astronomy feeds - sorry for the spam!

Reminder for the #exoplanets feed:

Important news about the Stellar Astronomy feed: we have removed #stars as a way to post to this feed due to false positives - as with the other subtopic feeds, it's only intended for scientific posts! You can now only post to it with #stellarastronomy or #stellarastro.

Important news about the Milky Way feed #galactic: We have removed the hashtag #milkyway as a way to post to the feed, as it was causing a huge number of false positives. The hashtags for the feed are now just #galactic or #galacticastro. As a reminder, the feed is intended just for science posts!

📌 We have a new feed aimed at professional astronomers! 📌 The AstroSci feed is just for science posts, and you can post your smoking hot research there with the comet emoji ☄️ AstroSci crossposts back to the main Astronomy feed, and all subtopic feeds post into it too. 🔭

All done - it actually only took a few minutes! Normal service resumes on our new, shiny hosting! 🔭 #astrophotos #exoplanets #cosmology #milkyway #stars #planetsci

Well nobody here needs this post, but if you colleagues are looking to make the jump...From Lindsey Gordon @lcgordon.bsky.social : The community of astronomers on the Bluesky platform is rapidly growing, and invite you to join them. 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/01/21/b...