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I'm super excited about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope!!

I haven't had this much hope for astronomy since the JWST was launched. I really hope the NASA budget cuts stop... there's so much to know beyond our skies. I can't help but think about what amazing things the NGR will find in the coming months and years.

DID YOU KNOW? ☀️🌑

If the Sun suddenly disappeared, Earth wouldn’t know for about 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Then everything would begin to change. 8 minutes: The Sun vanishes from our sky. Earth stops following its orbit and continues through space roughly along the direction it was traveling. Within days: Global… read more

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There’s a neutron star called PSR J1748−2446ad that spins 716 times every second. That’s more than 42,000 rotations per minute. It packs roughly the mass of the Sun into an object only tens of kilometers across. At its equator, the surface is moving at roughly a quarter of the speed of… read more

Here's my shot

Partial Blood Full Moon in Pisces, taken at peak coverage, 12:12 am EDT, August 28th.

Hey

Very new here so hello. Enjoy this photo I took of the eclipse the other day 😅😊

Picture I took of the stars from my back garden 😋

Spaceship!

Me: "Can I touch it?" Security: "No, sir." Me: "Just one finger?" Securoty: "Nope."

Does anyone play CUE? I'm willing to trade quite highly for this new card

I have loads of good dupes

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On Mercury, one sunrise to the next lasts about 176 Earth days. But Mercury completes an entire orbit around the Sun in only 88 Earth days. That means that between one sunrise and the next… two Mercurian years have already passed. 🤯 You could celebrate two birthdays before seeing the next… read more

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There’s a planet where scientists think it may rain molten glass — sideways. The exoplanet HD 189733 b has extreme winds estimated at thousands of kilometers per hour, and observations suggest its atmosphere contains silicate particles. Those particles could condense into glass-like droplets. So… read more

March Lunar eclipse

Back in March, had the chance to bring out my small telescope to see the eclipse better. I only had my phone to take photos and this is probably the best i can get with my shaky hands

🌌⏳ DID YOU KNOW?

Some of the stars you see tonight… may already be dead. Light doesn’t travel instantaneously. When you look at a star 500 light-years away, you’re seeing the light that left it 500 years ago. If that star disappeared today, Earth wouldn’t know for another 500 years. And the farther into space… read more

The void

Anyone else hyper fixate on Boötes Void and weather or not it’s part of a greater cosmic structure that we can’t see because space-time expansion kicked that information outside of our observable bubble? It’s been a long work week 🤣 (edited)

Spotted Starlink in the sky above Glasgow while walking back from the gym tonight 💫

Astrophotography

Stargazing night at Durbuy Belgium

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If you were floating in space, you wouldn’t hear an explosion happening right next to you. Sound needs matter — such as air, water, or solid material — to travel. The near-vacuum of space provides essentially nothing for those sound waves to move through. So outside a spacecraft, an enormous… read more

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There’s an interpretation of quantum mechanics called the Many-Worlds Interpretation. It proposes that when different quantum outcomes are possible, reality may branch — with each outcome existing in a different branch of the universe. If that idea were true, its implications would be almost… read more

Clear sky after a long cloudy week.💓

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There are places in the universe so distant that we will never be able to reach them, even if we could somehow travel at the speed of light. Not simply because they’re too far away. But because the universe is expanding. Some galaxies we can see today are already beyond what we could ever reach,… read more

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There are rogue planets wandering through our galaxy. They don’t orbit a star. They travel through interstellar darkness completely alone, likely after being thrown out of their original planetary systems. Some estimates suggest the Milky Way could contain billions — perhaps even far more — of… read more

Tha best....

Interstellar (2014) is an epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan that follows former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper as he embarks on humanity’s final mission to find a new home beyond the stars. As Earth faces environmental collapse, Cooper and his crew travel through a mysterious… read more

The Expanse

Am I in nerd heaven?, watching this with hdr 10+, wow 😲

Help me take good astrophotos pleeasee (edited)

Artemis II

NASA launched the first manned mission to the moon in over 50 years. Artemis II, successful launch!! The crewed mission to the moon departed after 50 years.

M31 Andromeda

A late night out watching shooting stars, just happens to catch Andromeda 🌌

Photo dump from a stargazing trip

Identify the following (edited)

Last Night 🚀🔭✨

Merry Christmas, even in space🎄

Tonight

The stars and planets out for a night of mysticism and wonder

⏳ Waiting for Midnight 11pm

Space stuff is cool stuff

So, so cool.

Rockets!

Gotta love space! (edited)

Astrophotography practise

One of my proudest pictures so far, capturing Jupiter through my telescope just using my phone camera - the night sky is so deeply, endlessly beautiful 😍

SPAACCEEE

Seeing the moon this closely and with this much detail is always a surreal experience. It looks 10x better in person too. I love my telescope

Space 🔥

A new frontier.....

Shooting star 💫

One of the perks of work...

Hey there! So, I work at NASA, and one cool thing that happened recently was that I got to watch live coverage of the Artemis II splashdown from my office. I'd say that qualifies as a perk, wouldn't you? 😉

The view from Artemis II💜

Orion's Belt

My street has minimal lights at night, no zoom, no effects, Pixel 10 Pro