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Hah, leslunesdejupiter.eu for the win!
This is the weirdest most disjointed #Olympics ceremony I have ever seen. Not a bad #eurovision though.
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A mosaic of 88 Mastcam images captured yesterday by Perseverance
#Mars Feb. 5, 2026 - Sol 1764
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
#Perseverance #rover #Sol1764 #PerseveranceRover #NorthernRimCampaign #astrodon #space #science #Mastcam #mosaic #photography
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#PPOD: This very impressive, and little-known, image of a meandering squiggle of high-altitude clouds on Saturn was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 18, 2010. It almost looks like one of these fancy latte art designs! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Jason Major
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1/ Dorothee Bär, German Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, has visited our Paranal Observatory.
The Minister was joined by Markus Blume, Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Thomas Reiter, Director General ‘Space and Security’, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space of Germany, and several high-profile German dignitaries.
Read more: eso.org/public/announcements/a…
🪐✨ #Venus might look like a peaceful morning star, but it is actually the most hostile #environment in our neighborhood.
New #research highlights how a runaway greenhouse effect and clouds of sulfuric acid turned this "#Earth twin" into a planet where the pressure is like being a kilometer under the #ocean. Its beautiful glow is actually caused by its extreme reflectivity, as those thick clouds bounce 70% of sunlight back into #space.
👉 bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban…
#astronomy #STEM #science #planets #NASA
8 ways that Venus is the Solar System's most extreme planet
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!Ethan Siegel (Big Think)
Meet the ELT large coating plant!
Aside from its main mirror, the other mirrors of our Extremely Large Telescope will be removed every two years for a new reflective coating. And the machine designed to carry out this delicate task is undergoing testing.
Discover it: youtube.com/watch?v=6lSTmjqkLo…
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
Keeping the Extremely Large Telescope's mirrors shiny
ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will use five mirrors to collect light from the cosmos and redirect it to the scientific instruments that will analyse ...European Southern Observatory (ESO) (YouTube)
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What's a Nova? Inside the Chaos of Erupting and Exploding Stars - NASA Science
Stars — they shimmer in the night sky, burning hot across the cosmos. But sometimes … they erupt. Enter: novae.Chelsea Gohd (NASA Science)
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Matipon Tangmatitham Photography
Matipon Tangmatitham Photography. Gefällt 1.292 Mal · 2 Personen sprechen darüber. Photo gallery with a focus in landscape and astrophotography.www.facebook.com
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In this week's #SETILive, Simon chatted with Caitlin Ahrens from NASA Goddard about the upcoming (and now delayed) #ArtemisII mission and the two experiments researching the effects of radiation on astronauts. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/fEKIYiK4AwA
Back to the Moon: How Artemis II Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Missions
Humanity is heading back to the Moon—and Artemis II is the mission that makes it real.In this SETI Live, host Simon Steel is joined by Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, as...SETI Institute (YouTube)
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#PPOD: This is NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A “lenticular”, meaning “lens-shaped”, galaxy is a type that sits in between the more familiar spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies.
This new Hubble image, the sharpest yet taken of NGC 7722, brings the impressive dust lanes into sharp focus.
My bio is getting unwieldy, so here's a pinned post with all relevant info about me!
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I'm Layne (he/him), an early 30s bi trans guy from Germany and a library assistant and research specialist irl. Autistic, disabled, nerdy & chronically online. Ecosocialist antifascist.
trans rights are human rights!
punch fascists!
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Have a list of things you will encounter here:
#accessibility (I only boost posts with alt text)
#art
#books (fantasy, scifi, thriller)
#bunnies
#ClimateJustice
#MTG
#pathfinder
#photography
#politics (working on always CWing)
#Space (fuck SpaceX)
#transjoy
#VideoGames (rpg, action adventure)
[Header ID: progress pride flag comprised of NASA astrophotography © @thatfrisiangirlish.
Profile picture: a rainbow neon sign on a purple background featuring the phrases "love is love", "love wins", "support love", "live and let love" and "love is a human right" © Jason Leung @ Unsplash]
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Dr. Andrew Lincowski works with Dr. Victoria Meadows on simulating and characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. He is the current developer of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory 1D climate model (initially developed by Dr. David Crisp and Prof. Tyler Robinson).
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SETI Institute In the News: January Roundup 2026
This month’s stories highlight how SETI Institute scientists combine rigorous analysis with curiosity, whether working alongside citizen astronomers, refining the identification of technosignatures, or improving the precision of radio observations that underpin both astrophysics and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Read the full stories: seti.org/news/seti-institute-i…
SETI Institute In the News: January Roundup 2026
January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful examinations of interstellar visitors and the signa…SETI Institute
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#PPOD: Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which operates three complexes around the globe that support communications with dozens of deep space missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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What is Webb observing?
spacetelescopelive.org/webb?ob…
#webb #space #astronomy #telescope
Webb - Space Telescope Live
Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.spacetelescopelive.org
The latest talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures is now available, professionally recorded, on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=J3gjRBAa1g…
New Developments about Dark Energy and Building the Largest Telescope in the World
With Prof. Robert Kirshner
New Developments in Understanding Dark Energy
“New Developments in Understanding Dark Energy"Dr. Robert Kirshner (Director, 30-meter Telescope Observatory)Jan. 28, 2026One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble...SVAstronomyLectures (YouTube)
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Have you always be fascinated by space and its exploration?
Do you find stories about the Apollo program deeply inspiring?
Then you and me are on the same page.
So: Do also you find the knowledge that in the next few months there will be a crewed moon flyby just not interesting or inspiring at all?
I sincerely don't see what this is for, aside from filling the contractors' companies' pockets at the expense of actual research.
Is it my age or is this just pointless?
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#PPOD: Overview of a swirling green phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 in July 2018.
Every summer, phytoplankton spread across the northern basins of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, with blooms spanning hundreds and sometimes thousands of kilometers. Nutrient-rich, cooler waters tend to promote more growth among marine plants and phytoplankton than is found in tropical waters.
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What is Webb observing?
spacetelescopelive.org/webb?ob…
#webb #space #astronomy #telescope
Webb - Space Telescope Live
Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.spacetelescopelive.org
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Dr. Kai Yang is a solar physics researcher focused on the Sun's dynamic activity. His work investigates the mechanisms of coronal heating, the complex magnetic topology that structures the corona, and the instabilities that trigger solar and stellar flares.
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hugs all around...
#hugs #pyramids #space #illustration #planets
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#PPOD: This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the "Murray Buttes" region on lower Mount Sharp.
The buttes and mesas rising above the surface in this area are eroded remnants of ancient sandstone that originated when winds deposited sand after lower Mount Sharp had formed.
The image was taken on Sept. 8, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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Next #SETILive: Back to the Moon
TODAY, 2 February, 1:00 pm PST / 4:00 pm EST
Humanity is heading back to the Moon—and #ArtemisII is the mission that makes it real.
In today's SETI Live, host Simon Steel is joined by Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, assistant research scientist at NASA Goddard, to explore how Artemis II will prepare the way for future astronaut missions.
WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/fEKIYiK4AwA
Back to the Moon: How Artemis II Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Missions
Humanity is heading back to the Moon—and Artemis II is the mission that makes it real.In this SETI Live, host Simon Steel is joined by Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, as...SETI Institute (YouTube)
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1/2 AES Andes announced that it will step back from the megaproject INNA, planned to be located near our Paranal Observatory.
We welcome this announcement and expect that the project will be withdrawn from #Chile 's Environmental Assessment Service (SEA) soon, which would formally confirm INNA is not going ahead.
📷 A. Ghizzi Panizza/ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #environment #space #science
🛰️📡 Astronomers have found a strange object in our galaxy that blinks with radio waves and X-rays on a perfect 44-minute cycle. It might be a new kind of dead star or a binary system we've never seen before, but for now, it's a cosmic mystery.
👉 scitechdaily.com/unlike-anythi…
#astronomy #space #science #STEM #physics #discovery #universe
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Peek inside ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), under construction in #Chile 's Atacama Desert. The main structure shown here will host the ELT’s five mirrors, which will gather the light and send it to the instruments at the sides of the telescope.
With its 39-metre-diameter, the main mirror will be the largest ever for an optical telescope: the biggest eye on the sky!
Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2605…
📷 ESO/J. C. Muñoz-Mateos
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galaxy themed yogurt bark for the kids! we’re learning about outer space right now so the snack seemed well themed! #homeschool #parenting #space #food #photography
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pLiC PlOc II,
Second partage entre le Brésil et la Belgique durant 2025-2026.
Comme le premier mots de différentes histoires… entre le sombre et la couleur.
Rotull©2025-2026
#photography #abstract #rotull #rotull_photo #dream #experimental #color #space #sky #art #graphicphoto #matiere #artgraphique #matièrephoto #poesie #reves #espace #nature #noai #clouds
A Space Opera – Part 40
Groceries! - Stars
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar
Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars
Duster - Stars Will Fall
Tyler Burkhart - I'll be your star
Bryan Ferry feat. Amelia Barratt - Star
TOPS - Stars Come After You
Birocratic - Starcruise
Art Pepper - Stardust
TURNSTILE - SEEIN’ STARS / BIRDS
Fatboy Slim - Star 69
LA Priest - Star
Mitski - Star
M83 - Earth To Sea (Kaela Remix)
Teethe - Moon
Inner Peace Motel – Under the Moon
Nilüfer Yanya - Ready for Sun (touch)
Naive Super - Splendid Silent Sun
#music #space #spacemusic #soundtrack #soundtracks #mixtape #mixtapes
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The Fish Head Nebula, a luminous star-forming region some 6,000 light-years away.
Apropos of nothing, I recommend Becky Chambers’ SciFi book “The Galaxy, and the Ground Within”. A great read premised on the Kessler Effect.
#SciFi #Satellites #StarLink #Space
🪐🔭 Astronomers have officially passed the milestone of 6,000 confirmed worlds beyond our solar system.
As new telescopes like #NASA’s Roman mission prepare to join the search, researchers are moving from simply finding #planets to mapping entire cosmic neighborhoods in our #galaxy.
👉 spectrum.ieee.org/exoplanets
#exoplanets #astronomy #space #science #discovery #technology #tech #universe
Astronomers Celebrate 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting
Are we alone in the universe? NASA's Exoplanet Archive now holds over 6,000 alien worlds, offering clues to this age-old question.Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)
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#PhotoOfTheDay is a 3rd and final interesting aerospace tire, this being one in a full-scale replica moon buggy complete with tires protected from sharp moon rocks by high tech chainmail wraps!
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#PPOD: This ESO image depicts an object, known as Ve 7–27, which was long believed to be a planetary nebula — the end phase of a sun-like star’s life. But ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has shown that it’s actually a still-forming baby star. And there’s an actual dead star lurking just nearby. The compact yellowish-green smudge to the centre-left of this image hosts a neutron star produced when a massive star exploded as a supernova. Credit: ESO/J. Suherli et al.
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1/2 Today, we have signed the agreement for the construction of BlueMUSE, an upcoming instrument for our Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Based on the successful technology of the MUSE instrument installed at the VLT, BlueMUSE will observe in shorter and therefore bluer wavelengths. It is anticipated to see first-light in 2034.
eso.org/public/announcements/a…
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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San Francisco's 1st Space Elevator
(Details in the AltText) - (Described At Some Length)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_el…
#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #photo #photography #travel #sf #sfba #us #usa #travelphotography #sanfrancisco #photooftheday #potd #BlackAndWhite #california #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #architecture #building #norcal #architecturalphotography #leftcoast #abstractPhotography #science #streetphotography #street #space
🚀❄️ Forty years ago today, the world watched the #Challenger tragedy unfold. It was physicist Richard Feynman who eventually demonstrated the fatal flaw – not with complex #math, but with a simple glass of ice water.
👉 nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-…
#history #physics #nasa #space #science #engineering #education #astronauts
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster: The famed physicist’s persistence led him to uncover shocking failures.Molly Glick (Nautilus)
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#PPOD: A snapshot taken a second before a powerful M-class solar flare was unleashed from the Sun on 30 September 2024 – as seen in unprecedented detail by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission. The image is an excerpt from a video created from Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) images taken every two seconds, leading up to the solar flare. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team
Learn more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp…
Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak disturbances that quickly become more violent.www.esa.int
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Enter the Dragon 🐉🥋
Here it is – my new JWST image of the young protostellar outflow system in Cassiopeia called HH288, aka The Dragon Jet.
We discovered it in the 1990s & the NASA/ESA/CSA JWST reveals stunning new detail, including several new jets crossing the main dragon 🙂👍
This is a 4K version – you can view & download the full 12K image here: flickr.com/gp/markmccaughrean/…
For more coverage, see this by @DrCarpineti at: iflscience.com/dragon-jet-erup…
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Dr. Lauren Sgro is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on exoplanet research, working with citizen scientists to observe exoplanet transits through the Unistellar Network.
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#photoOfTheDay shows off the tire information for a very unusual vehicle - the NASA Space Shuttle. On display at the superb Evergreen Aviation Museum on Oregon.
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In the vast Orion Molecular Cloud complex, several bright blue nebulas are particularly apparent. Pictured here in the center are two of the most prominent reflection nebulas - dust clouds lit by the reflecting light of bright embedded stars.
The more famous nebula is M78, in the image center, cataloged over 200 years ago. To its upper left is the lesser known NGC 2071. Astronomers continue to study these reflection nebulas to better understand how interior stars form.
The overall red glow is from diffuse hydrogen gas that covers much of the Orion complex that spans much of the constellation of Orion. Nearby in the greater complex, which lies about 1,500 light years away, are the Orion Nebula, the Horsehead Nebula, and Barnard's Loop -- partially seen here as the white band on the upper left.
Attribution: Daniel McCauley
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#PPOD: A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean Sea at approximately 10:02 p.m. local time when the image was captured. Credit: NASA/Chris Williams
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On this day, forty years ago: 28 January 1986.
I was working on my astronomy PhD in the terminal room at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
Someone came in & told us the awful news. After so many launches & astronauts, we’d grown blasé & didn’t pay much attention anymore.
That changed in 73 seconds on that cold day & we learned again that space is hard.
I still remember their names:
Onizuka, Smith, McAuliffe, Scobee, Jarvis, Resnick, & McNair.
Ad astra, STS-51L Challenger crew ✨
Hello #Fediverse! 🔭👀
Climbing back in the #Crowsnest.
Third (or fourth?) time's the charm! I’ve had previous incarnations of crowsnest.social that unfortunately succumbed to technical difficulties, but after some serious 'dry dock', this version of the ship is hopefully in for some smooth sailing. 🌊
Interested in:
• #Astronomy #space #appalachia #Gardening #ttrpg #books #videogames and others
#Introduction #NewHere #CrowsnestSocial #SpaceLog #SelfHosted #Fediverse
I’ve just come over to Mastodon after leaving Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter - so glad to be here. 🖤
Thanks to my husband @fstateaudio for suggesting Mastodon and helping me through the process 🖤
#books #vegan #dogs #animals #anime
#science #space #photography #punkmusic #folkmusic #industrialmusic #metalmusic #peace #birds
Thanks to my husband @fstateaudio for suggesting Mastodon and helping me through the process 🖤
#books #vegan #dogs #animals #anime
#science #space #photography #punkmusic #folkmusic #industrialmusic #metalmusic #peace #birds