🛰️🌌 Engineers at #JPL deactivated a particle sensor on #Voyager 1 to preserve its remaining power levels.
The 48-year-old #spacecraft currently travels through #interstellar #space over 24 billion km (15 billion mi) away from #Earth. The power-saving measure allows the probe to continue collecting magnetic field and plasma wave data for at least one more year.
👉 npr.org/2026/04/19/nx-s1-57899…
#nasa #science #engineering #physics #astronomy #technology #tech #solarsystem #data
I went out with my #astronomy club on Saturday night and ended up staying up literally all night doing #astrophotography. I'm still working on processing everything that I captured because I kind of went hog wild and set up 4 telescopes (if you count my Seestar S30).
I stayed up all night because I wanted to try to capture a pic of comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS). I was only able to capture for like 20 minutes before the sunrise blew out all the images, but I did manage to get luminance and RGB.
#CometR3 #PanSTARRS over a #HimalayanValley
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantula Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets.
But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: eso.org/public/images/potw2616…
📷 A. Berdeu/ESO
Ihr seht gerade die schmale #Mondsichel am Westhimmel? Es lohnt sich, mit einem Fernglas hinzuschauen, sie steht nämlich direkt oberhalb der #Plejaden!
Plato (1874) by James Nasymth, from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.
Source: Rijksmuseum
#astronomy #texlatex
New version of my 'Capuchin' paper #sundial
More detailed calendar, declination scale, meridian elevation scale.
This altitude sundial dates back from the 16th c. Can be printed on book-sized paper. Add a weighted thread with a bead.
On my website you can find the printout for integer latitudes (41 to 52°N), and a user guide in french.
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Ce cadran solaire décrit au 16e siècle est un cadran de hauteur, et partage donc certaines caractéristiques avec ceux décrits sur cette page, celle-ci et celle-là. Il est portatif et ne nécessite p…David ALBERTO (astrolabe-science)
Captured some data on the Sunflower Galaxy (M63) last week that I combined it with some data from last year to make a decent image. This galaxy is still on my to-do list for a deep capture, but I haven’t gotten a good opportunity yet.
Full-resolution and capture details: app.astrobin.com/i/wrum0v
A new partnership between the SETI Institute and SkyMapper is bringing telescope data on-chain—making observations cryptographically verifiable and reproducible.
This “Proof of Space Observation” approach could transform how scientific data is trusted and shared globally. 🔭
Learn more: seti.org/news/skymapper-launch…
#SETI #Astronomy #OpenScience #SpaceData
SETI-linked observations make scientific data provably reliable and reproducible for the first timeSETI Institute
We spotted some of that #Moon joy!
In the early morning of 9 April, ESO's New Technology Telescope turned its gaze to the sky above La Silla in #Chile and caught something special.
Not a distant galaxy, nor a star cluster, but a streak of light with a very special story: NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft with a crew of four, returning from an epic journey around the Moon.
📷 ESO/I. Saviane
This month's target of the month from AGWA is the Statue of Liberty Nebula ( #NGC3579 ), which is in Carinae, and near the famous Eta Carinae Nebula.
This is three hours with a #Dwarf3 in Ha/OIII . Post processing in #Snapseed and Stellar Studio.
#Astronomy #astrodon #Astrophotography #SouthernSky #BackyardAstronomy #AstronomyGroupOfWesternAustralia
We’re going live in 1 hour.
Join Lauren Sgro and Franck Marchis for a live demonstration of SkyMapper, a newly launched global network connecting telescopes, observatories, and citizen scientists.
This session will explore how decentralized, real-time access to astronomical data is opening new pathways for research, education, and public engagement.
🔴 5pm PDT
WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/czTy4wDGpFg
#SETILive #SpaceTech #Astronomy #CitizenScience #STEM
Join us for a special episode of SETI Live as host Lauren Sgro sits down with astronomer and entrepreneur Franck Marchis to explore the newly launched SkyMap...SETI Institute (YouTube)
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👨🚀🔭 Special relativity creates significant visual distortions as an object approaches #lightspeed.
This #video demonstrates how the Doppler effect and relativistic aberration warp distance and color for high speed observers.
👉 openculture.com/2026/04/what-y…
#physics #science #space #relativity #astronomy #simulation #universe
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we'll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light.Colin Marshall (Open Culture)
Taxi, please! 🚖👋
ALMA consists of 66 antennas that work together like a single gigantic telescope in the Chilean Andes. They can be rearranged in different layouts to discern various levels of detail.
This is where these yellow trucks come in. Each truck can carry a 100-tonne antenna and put it in place with a precision of a few millimetres!
Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2615…
📷 S. Otarola/ESO
🕳️🌌 Sonification converts astronomical #data into sound frequencies that the human ear can perceive. The technique demonstrates how pressure waves move through the gas surrounding #blackholes in dense galaxy clusters.
👉 sciencealert.com/space-is-dead…
#astronomy #blackhole #nasa #space #physics #science #universe #research
If you were to drift, suitless, through the vacuum of space, the brief moments before your death would be utterly silent.Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)
🚀🔴 Scientists have developed a framework for altering the Martian environment to support human life.
The plan details the necessary changes to the #planet's #atmosphere and the long-term environmental impacts of such a project.
👉 universetoday.com/articles/cou…
#mars #space #science #astronomy #engineering #planets #physics #cosmos #research #environment
Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet into sharp relief.Universe Today
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔭✨ Before people used phones or paper maps to find their way, they looked to the #night #sky. Sci-comm host Maynard Okereke explains what #stars are made of and how to spot #constellations like Ursa Major, Orion, and Leo in this #video from #NatGeo Kids.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-to-spot-st…
#activities #animals #astronomy #bears #blackandstem #diy #elements #howto #hydrogen #helium #howto #lions #myths #science #space #tksst
🔭✨ Before people used phones or paper maps to find their way, they looked to the #night #sky. Sci-comm host Maynard Okereke explains what #stars are made of and how to spot #constellations like Ursa Major, Orion, and Leo in this #video from #NatGeo Kids.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-to-spot-st…
#activities #animals #astronomy #bears #blackandstem #diy #elements #howto #hydrogen #helium #howto #lions #myths #science #space #tksst
PoET is shining (sun)light on exoplanet research.
The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at our Paranal Observatory in #Chile, has made its first observations. PoET will study the #Sun to understand how the variation in light from stars like the Sun can mask the presence of planets orbiting them.
This could help astronomers in their search for worlds outside the Solar System!
Read more: eso.org/public/news/eso2605/
📷 ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
📷 ESO
The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, has made its first observations. The telescope will work with ESO's ESPRESSO instrument to study the Sun in detail.www.eso.org
🚀🌕 #NASA #astronauts captured high resolution #images of the #lunar surface from the #Orion #spacecraft during their lunar flyby.
These #photos include a view of a solar #eclipse from deep #space that lasted nearly an hour. The mission traveled farther from #Earth than any previous human #spaceflight.
👉 npr.org/sections/the-picture-s…
#artemis #moon #science #photography #astronomy #exploration #history
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: ☀️🌑 Fine #art photographer Liam Man used #drones as spotlights to capture a rare solar #eclipse over a receding #glacier in #Patagonia.
The project required a seven-day #camping expedition to document this celestial event for the #UnitedNations International Year of #Glaciers Preservation. The images highlight the rapid loss of ancient ice due to the warming effects of trapped greenhouse gases.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/photographing-…
#astronomy #chile #climate #climatechange #conservation #geography #geology #jobs #light #moon #nature #photography #science #southamerica #sun #teaching #technology #tech #work #tksst #video
The Moon isn’t just a natural object—it’s a cultural one.
Only about 2% of named lunar craters honor women, revealing how even our maps of space reflect historical bias.
As Artemis missions mark a new era of exploration, this is a chance to rethink representation beyond Earth.
🌍✨ The #Artemis II crew shared high-resolution #photography of #Earth as they travel toward the #moon. Commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialists from #NASA and the #CSA captured images showing the #planet framed by simultaneous #auroras and zodiacal light. They're the first crewed deep-space #photos of these natural phenomena in over 50 years.
☀️🌑 Fine #art photographer Liam Man used #drones as spotlights to capture a rare solar #eclipse over a receding #glacier in #Patagonia.
The project required a seven-day #camping expedition to document this celestial event for the #UnitedNations International Year of #Glaciers Preservation. The images highlight the rapid loss of ancient ice due to the warming effects of trapped greenhouse gases.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/photographing-…
#astronomy #chile #climate #climatechange #conservation #geography #geology #jobs #light #moon #nature #photography #science #southamerica #sun #teaching #technology #tech #work #tksst #video
Meanwhile....
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#madness #war #Artemis #moon #NASA #astronomy #photography #space #ContextAndPerspective #lunar #scence
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/0JLkB0tOXv— Physics & Astronomy Zone (@zone_astronomy) 7. April 2026Physics & Astronomy Zone (X (formerly Twitter))
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Good morning from Heidelberg 👋
As I'm due to to do a few radio interviews about the #Artemis II mission today, this picture seems like a good way to start 🤷♂️
Taken at 07:15 CEST as the gibbous Moon set over the Königstuhl as seen from Ziegelhausen 🌖
Question: are Artemis II & its four astronauts also in the picture? 🧐
#Photography 📷
#Heidelberg 🏰
#Astronomy 🔭
#Germany 🇩🇪
#Space ✨
Our ELT seen from space!
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot took this photo of our Extremely Large Telescope in #Chile from the International Space Station, from more than 400 km above the Earth's surface 👉 eso.org/public/images/potw2614…
Can you spot it?
📷 ESA/S. Adenot. CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO
🪰 Canon lenses help create the eye of MOTHRA
m.dpreview.com/articles/725388…
#astronomy #photography #gear #canon #telescope #cosmology #darkmatter #sensors
Educational site for naturalists who travelMichael Douglas (THE NATURALIST'S TRAVEL PAGE)
Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the *Kometenbuch*. (1587), from Kometenbuch.
Source: ORKA - Open Repository Kassel
Available to buy as a print.
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#trouvelot #sunset #space #astronomy #clouds #sunrise #celestial #landscapes #comets #art #publicdomain
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🌕✨ The #sun is 400 times farther away than the #moon and also 400 times its size. This unlikely coincidence makes them appear nearly identical from #Earth.
This #video shows how #humans see the moon as a god, an artistic symbol, and a stabilizing force across many centuries.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-is-the-mo…
#astronauts #astronomy #astrophysics #biology #culture #history #moons #myths #nasa #rockets #science #space #tksst
🌕✨ The #sun is 400 times farther away than the #moon and also 400 times its size. This unlikely coincidence makes them appear nearly identical from #Earth.
This #video shows how #humans see the moon as a god, an artistic symbol, and a stabilizing force across many centuries.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-is-the-mo…
#astronauts #astronomy #astrophysics #biology #culture #history #moons #myths #nasa #rockets #science #space #tksst
April 2026 Pink Moon
#astronomy #moon #photography
Sony A7iv w/200-600mm lens
Sneak preview 👀
Some of our #JWST data will become publicly available in the archives tomorrow, for the galactic star-forming region, Sharpless 305, & the nearby massive protostar, RAFGL5232.
The data are tricky & need more work on saturation, noise, & banding problems, plus colour compositing 😬
But as others will be quick to publish images as usual, I thought I'd share our snapshot with you first 😉
More to come as we continue pixel-bashing 👾🔨👍
☀️🚀 As the Artemis II crew prepares to leave Earth's magnetic field, they face potential exposure to solar flares and cosmic rays.
Here's how NASA and NOAA monitor solar activity to protect the Orion spacecraft and ensure the safety of the first humans to visit the lunar vicinity in over 50 years.
👉 scientificamerican.com/article…
#ArtemisII #SpaceWeather #NASA #Astronomy #Science #SpaceExploration #SolarFlare #Radiation #MoonMission #STEM #Physics #Sun
A major solar storm during the Artemis II mission could harm astronauts. Here’s how NASA is protecting themMeghan Bartels (Scientific American)
March 31, 2026 Moon
For #TransDayOfVisibilty (and all days), let's celebrate the accomplishments of #transgender #astronomers & #astrophysicists, learn more about some of the brilliant #trans folks working in #astronomy at the links below:
Dr. Megan Pickett: astrobites.org/2025/06/27/mega…
Jessica Mink: aas.org/comms/sgma/sgma-interv…
Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet: astrobites.org/2025/06/06/elio…
Wichahpi King: astrobites.org/2025/06/20/wich…
Dr. JJ/Jan Eldridge: 500queerscientists.com/jj-eldr…
Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer: nytimes.com/interactive/2015/o…
Please feel free to share profiles of #trans astronomers and astrophysicists in the comments!
🪐📡 Aarti Holla-Maini leads the #UN team responsible for alerting the world to potential #asteroid impacts. This #interactive feature explains how the 2024 YR4 asteroid #discovery triggered the first global notification from the Office for Outer Space Affairs.
The agency manages a hotline for satellite operators to prevent collisions in Earth's orbit providing a detailed view of the systems that protect the planet from threats originating in #space.
👉 theguardian.com/science/ng-int…
#astronomy #science #unitednations #asteroids #satellites #technology #tech #research #education #physics #nature
Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had comeOliver Holmes (the Guardian)
Cratered ⭕ for #texturetuesday
Was so happy to get this! 😍 It was taken on Saturday with a 250mm zoom, so the quality may not be too great (it's cropped in). It's been edited a little but I was so excited that you could see the craters! I'm not sure if it's because of the angle or time of day or what - but I'll take it! 😂✨
#photography #amateurphotography #afternoon #sky #skyphotography #moon #moonphotography #nature #italy #city #bologna #astronomy #backgroundastronomy #spring #texture #details #craters #zoom
🪐🔭 Proxima b is the closest Earth-like #planet to our #solarsystem and sits in the habitable zone where liquid water could potentially exist.
Future missions like Breakthrough Starshot aim to send tiny probes to study this neighboring #exoplanet in the coming decades.
👉 skyatnightmagazine.com/news/pr…
#space #astronomy #science #exoplanets #proximab #nasa #research #physics #nature #universe #learning #astrophysics
🧲☄️ Researchers at the University of #Colorado #Boulder suggest that powerful magnets could provide a way to redirect #asteroids without touching them.
By using a #spacecraft to generate a magnetic field, scientists could nudge metallic #space #rocks into safer orbits. The method offers a more controlled alternative to physically crashing probes into asteroids.
👉 newscientist.com/article/25209…
💁🏻♀️✨ Smashing stuff with neodymium magnets seethis.tv/post/smashing-stuff…
#science #physics #engineering #astronomy #nasa #earth #research #magnetism
A new spacecraft concept called NOVA could keep asteroids from hitting our planet by using a huge magnet to gradually pull them apart while shifting their trajectoriesLeah Crane (New Scientist)
These two orbs have little in common beyond their shape.
The one farthest from the camera is our Moon, and the other is one of the three ExTrA telescopes at our La Silla Observatory in #Chile.
What is ExTrA looking for? 👉 eso.org/public/images/potw2613…
📷 L. Sbordone/ESO
From Aratea (ca. 820).
Source: British Library
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#astrology #perseus #zodiac #calligrams #astronomy #aratea #stars #mythology #swords #constellations #medusae #art #publicdomain
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