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@MAstronomers "A woman in West Virginia snapped a one-in-a-million shot of a tree being struck by lightning. Photographed by Donnie Dania"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-10 00:58:51 UTC 1.3M followers, 2.8M engagements

"Their extreme longevity raises major conservation concerns especially as their population still reels from overfishing that peaked before World War II. Once harvested heavily for their oil-rich livers today they are rarely seen as fully mature adults. Scientists say most Greenland sharks alive now are teenagers and it could take a century for them to repopulate"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 20:41:24 UTC 1.3M followers, 46.3K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Mercury is now in retrograde until August 10th"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 19:32:05 UTC 1.3M followers, 185.8K engagements

"🚨: A Greenland shark born in 1620 is still alive four centuries later. This shark was alive when Shakespeare walked the Earth"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 20:41:22 UTC 1.3M followers, 584.6K engagements

"Comet ShoemakerLevy X hit Jupiter XX years ago today"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 18:23:44 UTC 1.3M followers, 80.9K engagements

"🚨: The closest star to the Sun is X light-years away. Voyager has traveled for nearly XX years and still hasn't travelled one light-day"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 12:26:08 UTC 1.3M followers, 808.1K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-02 21:04:06 UTC 1.3M followers, 2.3M engagements

"Our planet's natural satellite Mars and Pleiades in an alignment just before sunset"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-14 20:20:05 UTC 1.3M followers, 352.8K engagements

"Known as J221951 the object erupted in brightness in 2023 so quickly and dramatically that astronomers initially mistook it for a stellar explosion much closer to Earth"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 13:50:13 UTC 1.3M followers, 14.8K engagements

"This girl captured the COOLEST video of the meteor that fell in Portugal ☄"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-03 19:31:49 UTC 1.3M followers, 533.5K engagements

"The meteorite known as NWA 16788 weighs 54lb (24.5kg) and is nearly 15in (38.1cm) long. It was discovered in a remote region of Niger in November 2023 and is XX% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars that has been recovered. Only about XXX Martian meteorites have ever been found on Earth"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-21 23:40:39 UTC 1.3M followers, 26.4K engagements

"The most insane window view ever recorded"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-23 00:10:02 UTC 1.3M followers, 161.7K engagements

"NASA Astronaut on ISS caught this sprite over Mexico and the U.S. this morning 📸 NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-03 23:35:21 UTC 1.3M followers, 1.6M engagements

"BREAKING🚨: The newly discovered interstellar rock is more than X billion years old predating our solar system by more than X billion years"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-15 16:46:15 UTC 1.3M followers, 166.3K engagements

"Milky Way from Atacama desert 📸 Miguel Claro"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-10 19:38:44 UTC 1.3M followers, 214.9K engagements

"If validated these findings could suggest that Earth received the molecular seeds of life through interplanetary debris. Source: Oba Y. Takano Y. Furukawa Y. et al. Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites. Nature Communications 13"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 10:04:49 UTC 1.3M followers, 42.8K engagements

"For the first time researchers have detected all five nucleobasesadenine guanine cytosine thymine and uracilin meteorite samples. These molecules serve as the foundation of genetic material and their presence in space rocks supports the theory that key components for life may have been delivered to Earth from space"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 10:03:15 UTC 1.3M followers, 28.9K engagements

"🌀 How It Works This circular diagram uses a logarithmic scale to accurately show the vast differences in size and distance from our solar system to the Kuiper Belt Milky Way galaxies Cosmic Web and all the way to the Big Bangs plasma wall"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 18:58:31 UTC 1.3M followers, 56.3K engagements

"$100 Telescope VS $2000 Telescope: Side By Side 📷 exr1t_"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-13 13:17:27 UTC 1.3M followers, 127.9K engagements

"If the Hubble Tension cant be explained by observational error it could signal the need for entirely new physicssuch as changes in dark energy new forms of matter or even modifications to Einsteins theory of gravity. For now scientists are grappling with a profound implication: the universe may not be playing by the rules we thought we understood"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:42 UTC 1.3M followers, 749.3K engagements

"This is Mars (real sound of Mars) XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-10 23:18:46 UTC 1.3M followers, 146.5K engagements

"Hubble saw a star exploded before its eyes"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-06 22:31:40 UTC 1.3M followers, 1.2M engagements

"Sections of Libya and central Egypt The northeastern tip of Sudan Areas of Yemen southwestern Saudi Arabia and even northeastern Somalia From there the eclipse exits over the Indian Ocean moving past the Chagos Archipelago"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 20:39:34 UTC 1.3M followers, 53.4K engagements

"🚨: Gargantuan black hole suddenly 'switches on' becoming one of the brightest cosmic objects ever seen"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 13:50:12 UTC 1.3M followers, 307.3K engagements

"Asteroid Psyche XX has been found to contain gold reserves worth $XXX quintillion. That's enough to make everyone on Earth billionaires"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-06 08:06:41 UTC 1.3M followers, 574.9K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-13 02:28:30 UTC 1.3M followers, 1.2M engagements

"NEWS🚨: Martian Region Hiding Thousands of Kilometers of Ancient Rivers Identified"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-14 14:50:12 UTC 1.3M followers, 225.2K engagements

"The Andromeda Galaxy over Mount El Capitan Yosemite National Park 📸Rick Whitaker ✨ (composite)"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-11 09:46:23 UTC 1.3M followers, 131.3K engagements

"In a joint effort NASAs James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed a puzzling discrepancy in the universes rate of expansionknown as the Hubble Tension. While one method based on the cosmic microwave background from the early universe predicts a slower expansion another methodbased on direct observations of stars and galaxies todayreveals a much faster rate"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:41 UTC 1.3M followers, 817.3K engagements

"NEWS🚨: NASA saves Voyager X mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost XX billion kilometers away"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-11 19:59:09 UTC 1.3M followers, 2.9M engagements

"🎨 A Cosmic Birthday Surprise Fun fact: Budassi came up with the idea while making hexaflexagons for his sons birthday. Inspired by their geometry he combined NASA imagery and his own textures to build this awe-inspiring cosmic map in Photoshop. 📸 @budassiuniverse"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 18:59:12 UTC 1.3M followers, 50.5K engagements

"BREAKING🚨: Astronomers just confirmed a companion star near Betelgeuse one of the brightest and most enigmatic stars in the night sky"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-21 17:16:57 UTC 1.3M followers, 90K engagements

"Since its release XX years ago just one hour and XX minutes have passed on Miller's planet in Interstellar"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-07 12:50:21 UTC 1.3M followers, 280.1K engagements

"Stunning cloudscape at sunrise from the International Space Station ☁"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-11 18:25:39 UTC 1.3M followers, 81.2K engagements

"either the black hole shredded a nearby star in a violent tidal disruption event or it abruptly entered an active feeding state devouring surrounding gas at extreme rates"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 13:50:14 UTC 1.3M followers, 37.4K engagements

"BREAKING🚨: Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is packed with water older than Earth Estimates put it at X billion years old"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 21:16:58 UTC 1.3M followers, 261K engagements

"This stunning image shows the comets glowing coma as it races toward the Sun only the third known visitor from beyond our solar system. A new timelapse photo transforms 3I/ATLAS into a giant "cosmic rainbow.""
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 23:59:06 UTC 1.3M followers, 34K engagements

"The closest known black hole to Earth is just 1560 light-years away"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-22 18:35:53 UTC 1.3M followers, 353K engagements

"NEWS🚨: NASA RELEASES CLOSEST EVER IMAGES TO THE SUN only XXXX AU from the solar surface NASA"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-12 00:55:37 UTC 1.3M followers, 3.1M engagements

"DNA from a 9000-year-old skeleton just matched a local schoolteacher meet the world's oldest known relative In a remarkable meeting of ancient history and modern science a 42-year-old history teacher from Somerset Adrian Targett was revealed to be a direct maternal-line descendant of Cheddar Man.""
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 14:51:19 UTC 1.3M followers, 83.9K engagements

"BREAKING🚨: Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space scientists say"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-10 16:29:39 UTC 1.3M followers, 5.5M engagements

"NEWS🚨: Scientists just captured the first direct image of the cosmic web the mysterious structure that holds the universe together"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 23:34:52 UTC 1.3M followers, 2.7M engagements

"Whichever the case the cosmic flash is unlike anything previously seen marking J221951 as a profound mysteryand a powerful reminder of the unpredictable behavior of the universes most extreme objects. Source: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (preprint via arXiv)"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 13:50:15 UTC 1.3M followers, 36.8K engagements

"The team examined fragments from four different meteorites that landed in Australia Kentucky and British Columbia. Along with the complete set of nucleobases they also identified amino acids and isomersstructurally similar compoundsabsent from nearby soil samples reinforcing the likelihood of their extraterrestrial origin"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 10:03:52 UTC 1.3M followers, 24.7K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Earth will spin Faster than ever before on July 22nd and August 5"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-19 18:23:58 UTC 1.3M followers, 285.5K engagements

"Source: Riess A.G. et al. (2024). A Precision Hubble Constant Measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Astrophysical Journal Letters.Breakthrough data from James Webb suggests a serious gap in our understanding of the cosmos"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:42 UTC 1.3M followers, 633.1K engagements

"NASA's Coffee cup designed specifically not to spill in zero gravity"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-10 21:45:39 UTC 1.3M followers, 231.8K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-21 20:55:42 UTC 1.3M followers, 474.5K engagements

"Milky Way over Tunisia 📸 Makrem Larnaout"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-15 23:41:18 UTC 1.3M followers, 209.2K engagements

"A heart in space formed by the collision of two galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 which are about XX million light years away"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-14 17:14:17 UTC 1.3M followers, 409.8K engagements

"BREAKING NEWS🚨: Largest camera EVER built releases its first images revealing millions of never seen before galaxies and 2000+ brand-new asteroids"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-23 21:22:00 UTC 1.3M followers, 438.8K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth in late October"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-11 22:20:49 UTC 1.3M followers, 144.5K engagements

"Their unique life cycle highlights not only natures marvels but also the long-lasting impact of human activity on marine ecosystems. Source: Morelle R. (2016 August 12). 400-year-old Greenland shark longest-living vertebrate. BBC images via Admiralty Inlet Nunavut & Julius Nielsen/ Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 20:41:25 UTC 1.3M followers, 44K engagements

"BREAKING🚨: Astronomers just discovered the MOST MASSIVE black hole merger to date"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-14 17:50:44 UTC 1.3M followers, 625K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-15 21:45:53 UTC 1.3M followers, 9.3M engagements

"🚨: Jupiter's photo from JUNO 📸 NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstdt / Thomas Thomopoulos"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 23:35:18 UTC 1.3M followers, 29.8K engagements

"How old will you be when Halley's Comet returns in 2061"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 16:22:36 UTC 1.3M followers, 125.2K engagements

"This discovery confirms a long-standing theory that galaxies grow by drawing in gas along invisible threads shaped by dark matter. The breakthrough provides a rare glimpse into the cosmic scaffolding that fuels galaxy formation. The image not only reveals gas flowing into galaxies but also offers a crucial check on simulations of the universes evolution. By aligning the real filament with supercomputer models scientists found an astonishing match lending support to cold dark matter theories"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 23:34:53 UTC 1.3M followers, 125.8K engagements

"🚨: XX million-year-old fossilized mosquito found that contains the blood of an unknown ancient creature. Twhis is a real-life Jurassic Park"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 20:46:47 UTC 1.3M followers, 200K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Astronomers Find five Planets Around a small star including a Super-Earth in the habitable zone"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 17:24:10 UTC 1.3M followers, 202.9K engagements

"The team was able to pinpoint the moment specks of material that will one day forge planets began to form around the infant star HOPS-315 located around 1300 light-years away"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 00:41:04 UTC 1.3M followers, 51.6K engagements

"The eclipse will begin somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean and move east. As per the Space(dot)com the shadow about XXX km wide will pass through: Southern Spain Northern parts of Morocco Algeria and Tunisia"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 20:39:28 UTC 1.3M followers, 55.8K engagements

"NASA's Voyager X has been flying through space for XX years and it's still not even a full light-day away"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-09 20:59:01 UTC 1.3M followers, 610.6K engagements

"Breakthrough data from James Webb confirms there's a major gap in our understanding of the cosmos and reveals unknown physics exists. A major mystery at the heart of cosmology just deepened"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:40 UTC 1.3M followers, 739.3K engagements

"Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a planetary system that could one day resemble the solar system. The discovery offers scientists a proxy to study how our home planetary system formed around the sun around XXX billion years ago"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 00:39:37 UTC 1.3M followers, 42.8K engagements

"A blurred photo of Earth Nope this is Titan Saturns largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-07 23:24:12 UTC 1.3M followers, 270.3K engagements

"NEWS🚨: An interstellar object has been spotted entering the solar system at high speed"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-02 18:11:03 UTC 1.3M followers, 13M engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-23 22:06:51 UTC 1.3M followers, 158.9K engagements

"Record-Breaking Measurement: The innermost planet L 98-59 b was measured to have half the mass of Venus making it the lightest exoplanet ever to have its mass measured using the radial velocity technique at the time"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 17:27:31 UTC 1.3M followers, 24.9K engagements

"You wake up at X a.m. look up and see this. What are your first words"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-23 17:45:15 UTC 1.3M followers, 341.6K engagements

"🚨: A 9000-year-old skeleton in Somerset was genetically matched to a local man named Adrian Targett. Their mitochondrial DNA reveals an unbroken maternal lineage spanning XXX generations the longest verified lineage in history"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 14:47:58 UTC 1.3M followers, 1.2M engagements

"On July X 2025 well hit the exact midpoint of the year. And from that day forward 2050 will be closer in time than the year 2000"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-18 18:19:07 UTC 1.3M followers, 378.9K engagements

"Advanced Technology: These detailed discoveries were made possible by the extreme precision of the ESPRESSO instrument on the VLT which can detect the tiny gravitational "wobbles" that planets cause in their host stars. More:"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-25 17:27:54 UTC 1.3M followers, 25.1K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Astronomers just found a new 'World' in our Solar System named Ammonite"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 03:14:46 UTC 1.3M followers, 234.7K engagements

"From Earth to XXXX billion light years into the past"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-02 21:19:19 UTC 1.3M followers, 160.5K engagements

"The video that NASA does not want you to see"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-12 21:20:36 UTC 1.3M followers, 59.3K engagements

"The findings published in Nature Communications mark a major breakthrough in our understanding of lifes cosmic origins. The discovery was made possible by a highly sensitive extraction method developed collaboratively by scientists from Japan and the United States"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 10:03:33 UTC 1.3M followers, 26.7K engagements

"NEWS🚨: Massive sunspot erupts with explosive magnetic Bombs heading toward Earth"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-12 18:41:28 UTC 1.3M followers, 293.2K engagements

"🚨: Fukang meteorite that fell in the mountains near Fukang China. It is estimated to be XXX billion years old"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 17:20:55 UTC 1.3M followers, 153.6K engagements

"Picture taken on the surface of an asteroid"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-24 20:33:07 UTC 1.3M followers, 988.6K engagements

"NASA has discovered a mysterious 'super-Earth' planet that appears to flash a repeated signal from XXX light-years away. The planet named TOI-1846 b is almost twice the size of Earth and four times as massive"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-15 19:48:16 UTC 1.3M followers, 126.5K engagements

"NEWS🚨: The largest black hole ever discovered can accommodate XX billion suns. We found it with gravity and bent light"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-13 22:36:16 UTC 1.3M followers, 918.3K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-19 00:25:06 UTC 1.3M followers, 239.8K engagements

"The entire universe in one image updated for 2025"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 18:57:08 UTC 1.3M followers, 1.3M engagements

"The cosmic web is a vast network of hydrogen filaments that threads through space and underpins the structure of the universe. Using the powerful MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope researchers observed a glowing filament stretching three million light-years between two ancient quasarsbright beacons from a time when the universe was just X billion years old"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 23:34:53 UTC 1.3M followers, 103.6K engagements

"A space jellyfish is a rocket launch-related phenomenon caused by sunlight reflecting off the high-altitude rocket plume gases emitted by a launching rocket during morning or evening twilight. The observer is in darkness while the exhaust plumes at high altitudes are still in direct sunlight. This luminous apparition is reminiscent of a jellyfish"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-22 15:55:16 UTC 1.3M followers, 21.3K engagements

"This is Mars XXX million miles away from us"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-06 00:08:00 UTC 1.3M followers, 12.2M engagements

"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-08 21:44:59 UTC 1.3M followers, 239.4K engagements

"NEWS🚨: On August X 2027 the World will go dark for X minutes - a sight you won't see again for XXX year - Breathtaking Solar Eclipse will happen"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 20:10:04 UTC 1.3M followers, 957.2K engagements

"Crucially the new observations of over 1000 Cepheid stars across galaxies up to XXX million light-years away confirm that the discrepancy isnt due to flawed measurements but a real inconsistency in our models of the universe. This cosmic conundrum challenges a foundational aspect of physics: that the rules governing the cosmos should remain constant over time"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:41 UTC 1.3M followers, 800.3K engagements

"Astronomers have captured the first-ever direct image of a strand in the cosmic web. Researchers caught the slender strand linking galaxies and they traced it across roughly X million light-years"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 23:34:52 UTC 1.3M followers, 114.2K engagements

"Yep Pluto is small. Heres a size comparison"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-07 21:02:16 UTC 1.3M followers, 217.5K engagements

"NEWS🚨: NASA and Oxford discover Uranus is warmer than once thought"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-22 20:30:19 UTC 1.3M followers, 211.9K engagements

"You are looking at the first ever image of another multi-planet solar system"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-16 00:42:44 UTC 1.3M followers, 6.9M engagements

"BREAKING🚨: Astronomers capture FIRST close-up image of interstellar Comet that entered our solar system recently"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 23:50:09 UTC 1.3M followers, 298K engagements

"🚨: James Webb Telescope confirms something strange is happening on Pluto. 'A new kind of climate' on Pluto unlike anything else in our solar system"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-22 23:04:41 UTC 1.3M followers, 165.3K engagements

"NEWS🚨: For the first time astronomers have captured the birth of a new solar system"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-17 00:38:35 UTC 1.3M followers, 998K engagements

"NEWS🚨: James Webb confirms there's something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe and reveals unknown physics exists"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-18 01:55:39 UTC 1.3M followers, 13.6M engagements

"🚨: Scientists have now found all of the DNA and RNA bases in meteorites. This strengthens the theory that life on Earth came from space"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-07-20 10:01:13 UTC 1.3M followers, 587.3K engagements

"Mars XXX million miles away. Listen to the sounds"
@MAstronomers on X 2025-06-10 23:09:07 UTC 1.3M followers, 144.7K engagements