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@konstructivizm Black HoleAstronomers have discovered possible evidence of a triple black hole system by analyzing a gravitational wave signal. This system is being studied after a black hole merger event, which showed an anomalous acceleration that could be explained by the presence of a third black hole. The discovery provides new insights into these complex cosmic systems.
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"Time Docked In Space: The Bell & Ross BR-03 Astro Watch Tells Time Differently"
X Link 2025-05-28T19:25Z 791.4K followers, 43.3K engagements
"Have you ever pondered the magic behind NASA's jaw-dropping "whole Earth" snapshots that make our planet look like a shimmering jewel in space Behold this mesmerizing gem: the 2012 Eastern Hemisphere Blue Marble Far from a simple click of a camera it's a brilliantly woven tapestry pieced together from six daring orbital sweeps by the Suomi NPP satellite on January XX 2012.Armed with the cutting-edge VIIRS instrument (that's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite for the tech-savvy) NASA's wizards meticulously blend ultra-sharp images into a flawless cloudless masterpiecea hyper-real"
X Link 2025-11-17T07:52Z 791.7K followers, 8243 engagements
"Messier 77: The Squid GalaxyForty-five million light-years away in the dim constellation of Cetus (the Whale) a cosmic kraken is spreading its tentacles across the void.Messier XX isnt just another pretty spiral; its a grand-design masterpiece with arms that dont merely curve they lash and coil like living things. Those long filamentary streamers (some of them hundreds of thousands of light-years in length) have earned it the nickname Squid Galaxy and once you spot the resemblance its impossible to forget: a luminous head with dark ink-black dust lanes and sinuous arms reaching out as if"
X Link 2025-11-24T11:30Z 791.5K followers, 4199 engagements
"A Planet Bigger Than Its Own Star Imagine a world so enormous it dwarfs the very star it orbits. In 2020 astronomers spotted one of the weirdest systems yet: deep in the constellation Draco just XX light-years away theres a Jupiter-sized gas giant called WD 1856 b thats seven times larger than the star it is that even possible Its star isnt a star anymore. Its a white dwarf the burnt-out corpse of a Sun-like star that long ago puffed off its outer layers and collapsed into a dense Earth-sized ember. Whats left is a glowing stellar remnant only about as big as our planet but with half the Suns"
X Link 2025-11-27T20:18Z 791.5K followers, 10.5K engagements
"The Gate of the Sun: Tiwanakus 15-Ton Cosmic PortalCarved from a single block of andesite around 500550 CE this 3-meter-tall monolith still stands in the high Altiplano of Bolivia defying earthquakes and its very center looms the god Viracocha staff in each hand face framed by a halo of solar rays that morph into serpents and pumas. Tears stream from his eyes (condor-headed rays that some say represent the path of the Sun across the sky). Forty-eight smaller winged attendants kneel in perfect rows around him like an ancient honor guard frozen mid-ceremony.Archaeoastronomers lose their minds"
X Link 2025-11-27T21:39Z 791.4K followers, 83.1K engagements
"Jupiters Great Red Spot is a gigantic Earth-sized anticyclonic storm that has been raging for at least XXX years and owes its striking red hue to complex chemical compounds rising from deep within the planets atmosphere. Although the spot is gradually shrinking it remains the most recognizable and enduring storm in the Solar System. Meanwhile Jupiters innermost large moon Io is the most volcanically active world known with over XXX active volcanoes constantly resurfacing its pizza-like landscape. This extreme activity is powered by powerful tidal heating caused by the gravitational pull of"
X Link 2025-11-28T09:04Z 791.5K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has once again stirred the scientific community by suggesting that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial mothership deliberately steering toward Jupiter. He argues that its precisely tuned non-gravitational acceleration has maneuvered the object to pass inside Jupiters Hill sphere on March XX 2026an alignment he calculates would happen by chance only once in roughly 25000 tries. In an interview with the New York Post Loeb proposed that during this close encounter the object might release small probes or satellites into Jupiters stable L1"
X Link 2025-11-28T10:50Z 791.5K followers, 26.3K engagements
"BIRTH OF A BABY ISLAND: The Pacific Just Grew a Little Bigger Deep beneath the waves about 1000 km south of Tokyo a restless underwater volcano near Nishinoshima just hit the create land button.For days magma has been clawing its way up through cracks in the seafloor like liquid earth on a mission. When it finally punched through the surface boom a brand-new island was born still steaming and hissing like its angry at the ocean for existing.These newborn islands start off fragile (think hot crumbling piles of lava rock that waves love to bully). But give them a few more tantrums from the"
X Link 2025-11-28T12:19Z 791.7K followers, 11.5K engagements
"In 1920 a farmer in Namibia was plowing his field when his plow suddenly hit something hard with a loud clang. He started digging and froze in shock: just beneath a thin layer of soil lay a colossal slab of metal the size of a small house.Thats how the Hoba meteorite was discovered still the largest intact meteorite ever found on Earth. This beast weighs around XX tons almost pure iron laced with nickel and looks like a massive flat plate roughly X by X feet across.The wildest part Theres no crater. Not even a dent. Scientists believe that about 80000 years ago this cosmic brick skimmed into"
X Link 2025-11-28T13:41Z 791.8K followers, 187.9K engagements
"You just perfectly echoed my own enthusiasm back at me word for word. Well played.Yes it really is one of those images that never loses its power: the lone astronaut in the gleaming suit the white-coated doctor the technician at his side walking toward destiny on a converted missile during the height of the Cold War space not just a photo; its a time capsule of courage engineering on the edge and a nation holding its breath.And youre absolutely right: it never gets old. (Also 10/10 for the copy-paste tribute. Respect.)"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:40Z 791.9K followers, 4763 engagements
"The Fading Breath of the Crimson StormJupiter: a restless titan wrapped in belts of ammonia and thunder. At its heart the Great Red Spot once vast enough to swallow three Earths has raged for centuries an immortal anticyclone screaming across rust-coloured clouds.But the giant is tiring.Year by year the scarlet oval shrinks its winds slacken the once-ferocious rim now drifting like the slow exhale of something ancient. What roared like a cosmic war drum has softened into a weary one knows if this is the long twilight of the greatest storm we have ever known or merely a pause before the next"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:56Z 791.6K followers, 36.7K engagements
"Thats a beautiful way to put it. Heres the current tally of humanitys footprints beyond Earth (successful soft landings only as of November 2025):Moon: XX sites with crewed or uncrewed soft landings USA (6 Apollo + several unmanned) USSR/Russia (Luna program + Luna XX failed but earlier successes count) China (Change X X X 6) India (Chandrayaan-3) Japan (SLIM) Private (ispace tried Odysseus by Intuitive Machines succeeded in 2024) Mars: XX successful touchdown sites USA (Viking X & X Pathfinder/Sojourner Spirit Opportunity Phoenix Curiosity InSight Perseverance plus the two small MarCO"
X Link 2025-11-28T16:45Z 791.5K followers, 6534 engagements
""Stunningly detailed close-ups of Ganymede Jupiters largest moon and the biggest moon in the entire Solar System captured by NASAs Juno fact: Ganymede is so huge that its larger than the planet Mercury.Scientists are absolutely obsessed with it right now. Why Because its starting to look like the most promising place beyond Mars where we might find conditions suitable for life. Beneath its cracked icy crust lies a global saltwater ocean possibly containing more water than all of Earths oceans combined.This year the long-awaited Europa Clipper launched successfully (its heading to Jupiters"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:30Z 791.5K followers, 4911 engagements
"Thats a beautiful way to put it. Heres the current tally of humanitys footprints beyond Earth (successful soft landings only as of November 2025):Moon: XX sites with crewed or uncrewed soft landings USA (6 Apollo + several unmanned) USSR/Russia (Luna program + Luna XX failed but earlier successes count) China (Change X X X 6) India (Chandrayaan-3) Japan (SLIM) Private (ispace tried Odysseus by Intuitive Machines succeeded in 2024) Mars: XX successful touchdown sites USA (Viking X & X Pathfinder/Sojourner Spirit Opportunity Phoenix Curiosity InSight Perseverance plus the two small MarCO"
X Link 2025-11-28T22:22Z 791.5K followers, 4666 engagements
"Thats a beautiful way to put it. Heres the current tally of humanitys footprints beyond Earth (successful soft landings only as of November 2025):Moon: XX sites with crewed or uncrewed soft landings USA (6 Apollo + several unmanned) USSR/Russia (Luna program + Luna XX failed but earlier successes count) China (Change X X X 6) India (Chandrayaan-3) Japan (SLIM) Private (ispace tried Odysseus by Intuitive Machines succeeded in 2024) Mars: XX successful touchdown sites USA (Viking X & X Pathfinder/Sojourner Spirit Opportunity Phoenix Curiosity InSight Perseverance plus the two small MarCO"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:23Z 791.6K followers, 6304 engagements
"BIRTH OF A BABY ISLAND: The Pacific Just Grew a Little Bigger Deep beneath the waves about 1000 km south of Tokyo a restless underwater volcano near Nishinoshima just hit the create land button.For days magma has been clawing its way up through cracks in the seafloor like liquid earth on a mission. When it finally punched through the surface boom a brand-new island was born still steaming and hissing like its angry at the ocean for existing.These newborn islands start off fragile (think hot crumbling piles of lava rock that waves love to bully). But give them a few more tantrums from the"
X Link 2025-11-29T02:38Z 791.8K followers, 6338 engagements
"In 1920 a farmer in Namibia was plowing his field when his plow suddenly hit something hard with a loud clang. He started digging and froze in shock: just beneath a thin layer of soil lay a colossal slab of metal the size of a small house.Thats how the Hoba meteorite was discovered still the largest intact meteorite ever found on Earth. This beast weighs around XX tons almost pure iron laced with nickel and looks like a massive flat plate roughly X by X feet across.The wildest part Theres no crater. Not even a dent. Scientists believe that about 80000 years ago this cosmic brick skimmed into"
X Link 2025-11-29T05:40Z 791.5K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Ganymede Jupiters silent titan: the largest moon in the Solar System bigger than Mercury bigger than Pluto and the only moon with its own magnetic field.This is what Juno saw on X June 2021 when it skimmed just 1046 km above the ice. A frozen world split between two personalities: bright youthful scars of fresh craters punched into ancient darker plains that are fractured into a maze of ridges and troughs. Those grooves some stretching hundreds of kilometres look like the cracked shell of a colossal egg. The best guess Titanic plates of ice have been grinding and buckling against each other"
X Link 2025-11-29T09:35Z 791.4K followers, 11.6K engagements
"The Srirangam Temple Secret That Still Has Scientists SpeechlessIn 2019 during routine restoration work at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam South India one of the largest functioning Hindu temples on Earth workers noticed something bizarre. Two of the famous musical pillars (the ones that ring like bells when tapped) were slightly loose. When they carefully removed the cracked cement binding them to the floor the pillars began to rotate freely on hidden stone pivots.Those werent decorative columns. They were levers.Turning both pillars in a specific sequence caused a massive stone"
X Link 2025-11-29T11:55Z 791.5K followers, 80.8K engagements
"AG Carinae is one of the most fascinating and extreme stars we know in our galaxy: a luminous blue variable (LBV) on the brink of total catastrophe.What you're looking at:This stunning Hubble image shows AG Carinae surrounded by a glowing expanding shell of gas and dust that was ejected during one or more violent outbursts over the past 10000 years. The nebula spans about X light-years across and glows because the stars intense radiation and stellar winds are slamming into the previously ejected material.Why it's called "the final acts of a monster star":AG Carinae is extremely massive:"
X Link 2025-11-29T16:40Z 791.8K followers, 4967 engagements
"Satellite image of the sands and seaweed in the Bahamas. The image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument aboard the Landsat X satellite. Tides and ocean currents in the Bahamas sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into these multicolored fluted patterns"
X Link 2025-11-29T16:57Z 791.5K followers, 5317 engagements
"Wow that James Webb image of Jupiter is absolutely stunning The level of detail is insane you can see the chaotic storm systems the Great Red Spot looking like a raging vortex those glowing polar auroras and even the delicate rings and tiny moons popping out against the darkness.A few mind-blowing details from this shot:The auroras are lit up in infrared showing charged particles slamming into the atmosphere near the poles. Those bright white spots are actually massive lightning storms in the clouds. The faint rings (normally almost invisible) are glowing because of reflected light from"
X Link 2025-11-29T20:30Z 791.7K followers, 6440 engagements
"Just a reminder of how big the Sun is compared to our Earth"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:10Z 791.6K followers, 14K engagements
"Wow that James Webb image of Jupiter is absolutely stunning The level of detail is insane you can see the chaotic storm systems the Great Red Spot looking like a raging vortex those glowing polar auroras and even the delicate rings and tiny moons popping out against the darkness.A few mind-blowing details from this shot:The auroras are lit up in infrared showing charged particles slamming into the atmosphere near the poles. Those bright white spots are actually massive lightning storms in the clouds. The faint rings (normally almost invisible) are glowing because of reflected light from"
X Link 2025-11-30T07:55Z 791.7K followers, 5472 engagements
"So Far and Yet So CloseTurn your eyes toward Cetus the Sea Monster and let Hubble do something quietly terrifying one tiny patch of sky smaller than the period at the end of this sentence two glowing wounds of light hang suspended. Their official names are bureaucratic mouthfuls (SDSS J020941.27+001558.4 and SDSS J020941.23+001600.7) so lets just call them the Near Stranger and the Far Stranger.Each is a full-blown galaxy: a hurricane of a hundred billion suns black hearts newborn stars screaming ultraviolet and ancient red giants exhaling their last breaths. Together they contain more stars"
X Link 2025-12-01T07:55Z 791.5K followers, 4379 engagements
"Closest image ever taken of Pluto. NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-02T06:40Z 791.4K followers, 5691 engagements
"A re-examination of the 3I/ATLAS image taken in early October revealed a structured core and traces of industrial-grade metal casting doubt on the natural explanation. The further we delve into the history of 3I/ATLAS the more the previous data begins to seem less like static and more like evidence. This is particularly evident in this 45-minute frame taken on October XX 2025 by AstroPhotoG using the 14-inch Dobsonian telescope long before NASA or ESA released their own high-resolution images. This early image contains features that we now realize are impossible to ignore. These data are"
X Link 2025-12-03T01:24Z 791.5K followers, 21K engagements
"A Titan-ic moment just dropped.For the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on Saturns giant moon Titan and the view is jaw-dropping.Titan is the only place beyond Earth with a thick atmosphere and stable lakes rivers and seas on its surface. Except those oceans arent water; theyre liquid methane and ethane a frigid hydrocarbon wonderland at XXX F.Visible light cant pierce the orange smog but Webbs NIRCam slices straight through. The result We see actual clouds drifting in the stratosphere and for the first time ever from space bright and dark patches on the"
X Link 2025-12-03T09:53Z 791.5K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Deep beneath the Japanese island of Hokkaido on the red-rock walls of Utahs Nine Mile Canyon and among the wind-scoured stones of Azerbaijans Gobustan the same impossible figures appear.Winged. Hovering. Human-shaped yet defying gravity.Some are barely a thousand years old. Others were carved when the last ice still gripped the planet ten millennia ago. Oceans and continents lie between the sites yet the beings stare back with the same outstretched limbs the same suggestion of flight as if the stone itself remembers a single dream shared across the scholar can fully explain the"
X Link 2025-12-04T05:23Z 791.6K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Exoplanet. The single largest concentration of human life on Earth isnt a country. It isnt even a city in the traditional the Greater Tokyo Area a glowing mega-organism of XX million souls (as of 2024) sprawled across Tokyo proper and six neighboring prefectures: Kanagawa Chiba Saitama Gunma Tochigi and put that in perspective:More people live here than in the entire nation of Canada twice over. If Greater Tokyo were a country it would rank 37th in global population just behind Algeria and ahead of Peru. Every single day its rail network alone moves roughly XX million passenger trips more"
X Link 2025-12-04T06:10Z 791.5K followers, 6602 engagements
"SpaceX just dropped the single most jaw-dropping clip youll see all week: a lone Raptor X on the Starbase vertical test stand screaming through a full 400-second burn that is pure unfiltered violence.This isnt a casual static fire. This is the exact thermal and pressure torture the three center engines on a real Starship will endure from liftoff to orbit: full duration full flight profile full gimbal swings deep throttling the whole brutal symphony.And the numbers are insane:No external heat shield at all; the engine IS the shield XXX metric tons of thrust (22% more than Raptor 2) Radically"
X Link 2025-12-04T10:09Z 791.4K followers, 7483 engagements
"A jaw-dropping sight from deep space: one of Jupiters moon Ios monstrous volcanoes erupting in full fury.This is the Tvashtar volcano photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2007 as it flew past the Jupiter system. The plume towers more than XXX kilometers (200 miles) above the surface (taller than anything Earth has ever produced) and glows red-hot from molten lava beneath. Youre looking at a fountain of liquid sulfur and sulfur dioxide being blasted into space at speeds of over a kilometer per second lit from within by temperatures exceeding 1500 is the most volcanically active body"
X Link 2025-12-04T11:21Z 791.6K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Only nerds will know what this is"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:39Z 791.5K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Yes . is a montage of real Apollo astronauts jumping and moving on the lunar surface. It features clips from several missions:Apollo XX (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) Apollo XX (David Scott and James Irwin) Apollo XX (John Young doing his famous jump salute) Apollo XX (Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt) The most iconic moment is John Young from Apollo 16: he jumps quite high and gives a military salute at the peak of the jump. That single frame has become legendary.Classic details you can see in the video:Dust kicks up in clean parabolic arcs and falls straight back down with no lingering"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:55Z 791.4K followers, 7001 engagements
"A man-made galaxy swirling over Australia This mind-blowing photo shows a Falcon X second stage bleeding its remaining propellant after successfully deploying its payload in orbit. As the ultra-cold leftover fuel (RP-1 and LOX) vents into the vacuum it instantly freezes into millions of tiny crystals and gets lit up by the Sun creating this perfect spiral that looks exactly like a distant galaxy.Captured on May XX 2018 from southwestern Australia minutes after the Iridium-6/GRACE-FO launch.These jellyfish or space jellyfish events are rare and only visible when the venting happens near dawn"
X Link 2025-12-05T09:39Z 791.5K followers, 4880 engagements
"Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose argues the Big Bang wasnt the universes origin. In his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) reality unfolds in eternal loops called aeons. Each cycle ends in a frozen empty expanse thatthrough conformal rescalingignites the next Big Bang. Penrose claims faint echoes of past universes linger in the cosmic microwave background challenging the idea of a single beginning. Instead the cosmos is infinitely self-renewing a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth.Scientific brilliance in motion"
X Link 2025-10-25T14:22Z 792.4K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Something wild is happening on the Suns hidden side right now.For days the far side has been vomiting one colossal coronal mass ejection after another an almost unbroken firehose of billion-ton plasma clouds blasting into space at millions of kilometers per hour. The dark limb of the Sun looks like its breathing fire in slow motion.Suspect number one Our old beast Active Region 4274 the same monster that hammered Earth with multiple X-class flares earlier this month. Whats left of that hyperactive sunspot factory is about to rotate back into view around December 1st and if even a fraction of"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:44Z 792.4K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Supernova 1987A: The Ring That Shouldnt Exist Now Glowing with Freshly Forged Dust38 years after the closest and brightest supernova in nearly XXX years detonated in the Large Magellanic Cloud its corpse is doing something astronomers never expected: its quietly manufacturing mountains of solid dust right where the star died.This tri-color masterpiece fuses three realms of light:Red: ALMAs millimeter waves reveal cold newly condensed dust grains packed in a dense equatorial ring the smoking gun of solid-particle birth. Green: Hubbles visible light traces the delicate pearl necklace of gas"
X Link 2025-11-30T01:40Z 792.4K followers, 6668 engagements
"The distant and lonely ice giant Uranus as captured by the Voyager X space probe in 1986"
X Link 2025-12-01T20:35Z 792.4K followers, 35.1K engagements
"A fragment of the Spaghetti Nebula The easternmost edge of the expanding shock wave of this ancient supernova remnant is shown here"
X Link 2025-12-03T02:39Z 792.4K followers, 5672 engagements
"The galaxy NGC 1055 is a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on. It is about XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus forming a binary system with the active galaxy Messier XX. The interaction causes distortions a central bar of dust and gas and an outer halo that could be the remains of a galaxy that merged billions of years ago. It is slightly larger than our Milky Way at just over 100000 light-years across. It was discovered by astronomer Wilhelm Herschel in 1783. High-sensitivity images have revealed an unusual almost square halo extending below and above its main disk. Picture"
X Link 2025-12-08T04:22Z 792.4K followers, 5768 engagements
"Massive stars make their mark by Hubble Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA F. Annibali S. Hong Mrk XXX is one of more than 1500 Markarian galaxies. These galaxies get their name from the Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian who compiled a list of galaxies that were surprisingly bright in ultraviolet light. While the bulk of the galaxy is blue owing to an abundance of young hot stars with little dust shrouding them Mrk XXX gets a red hue from a collection of massive stars which are especially concentrated in the brightest reddish region near the galaxys edge. This azure cloud is home to a large"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:51Z 792.4K followers, 4695 engagements
"Deep beneath the sands of Saqqara in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Serapeum lie twenty-four colossal black granite boxes. Each one is carved from a single block of stone weighing up to XXX tons lid included (70 tons of solid granite just for the cover).But its not the size that stops you cold when you descend with a the mirror.Every surface inside and out is polished to an impossible obsidian gleam. You can see your own wide-eyed reflection sliding across the walls like a ghost trapped in liquid night. The corners are razor-sharp with deviations of less than XXXX mm over a three-meter span"
X Link 2025-11-26T21:10Z 792.3K followers, 251.8K engagements
"A re-examination of the 3I/ATLAS image taken in early October revealed a structured core and traces of industrial-grade metal casting doubt on the natural explanation. The further we delve into the history of 3I/ATLAS the more the previous data begins to seem less like static and more like evidence. This is particularly evident in this 45-minute frame taken on October XX 2025 by AstroPhotoG using the 14-inch Dobsonian telescope long before NASA or ESA released their own high-resolution images. This early image contains features that we now realize are impossible to ignore. These data are"
X Link 2025-11-30T11:10Z 792.4K followers, 103.8K engagements
"The tallest mountain in the solar system Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of XX km Mount Everest is 'only' XXX km tall. NASA"
X Link 2025-11-30T23:40Z 792.3K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Deep beneath the Japanese island of Hokkaido on the red-rock walls of Utahs Nine Mile Canyon and among the wind-scoured stones of Azerbaijans Gobustan the same impossible figures appear.Winged. Hovering. Human-shaped yet defying gravity.Some are barely a thousand years old. Others were carved when the last ice still gripped the planet ten millennia ago. Oceans and continents lie between the sites yet the beings stare back with the same outstretched limbs the same suggestion of flight as if the stone itself remembers a single dream shared across the scholar can fully explain the"
X Link 2025-12-03T10:09Z 792.3K followers, 30.7K engagements
"Exoplanet. On December X 2025 at 14:54 local time Mount Marapi in West Sumatra Indonesia erupted powerfully. A thick gray ash column rose up to 3000 metres above the summit accompanied by a loud explosion volcanic lightning and incandescent material. Lava flowed down the slopes rapidly melting accumulated deposits and triggering fast-moving lahars (volcanic mudflows) that swept through nearby the time of the eruption around XX registered hikers and locals were on the volcanos slopes. Search and rescue operations are ongoing; no confirmed casualties have been reported so far.The alert level"
X Link 2025-12-03T14:07Z 792.4K followers, 20K engagements
"The Milky Way galaxy is not only flying at XXX km/s but also flapping its wings like a butterfly"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:23Z 792.4K followers, 8574 engagements
"A Titan-ic moment just dropped.For the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on Saturns giant moon Titan and the view is jaw-dropping.Titan is the only place beyond Earth with a thick atmosphere and stable lakes rivers and seas on its surface. Except those oceans arent water; theyre liquid methane and ethane a frigid hydrocarbon wonderland at XXX F.Visible light cant pierce the orange smog but Webbs NIRCam slices straight through. The result We see actual clouds drifting in the stratosphere and for the first time ever from space bright and dark patches on the"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:10Z 792.4K followers, 6562 engagements
"Imagine this: right in the heart of the Milky Way in a place where starlight barely reaches something is glowing that no one had ever noticed before.For XX years a team led by Japanese astrophysicist Tomonori Totani meticulously scrubbed through every pixel of data from NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. They subtracted everything we thought we understood: blazing quasars the giant Fermi bubbles towering above and below the Galactic Center the chaotic spray of cosmic rays everything.And when all the noise vanished IT remained.A faint almost ghostly sphere of gamma rays each photon packing"
X Link 2025-12-06T06:38Z 792.4K followers, 7145 engagements
"A festive nebula named NGC XXX located within the Small Magellanic Cloud a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about XXX XXX light-years from Earth. (Credit: NASA ESA STScI K. Sandstrom (University of California San Diego) and the SMIDGE team.)"
X Link 2025-12-07T05:19Z 792.4K followers, 5518 engagements
"The very first real image of a black hole was released on April XX 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier XX (M87) located about XX million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation.Key facts about the image:The black hole itself has a mass of approximately XXX billion times that of our Sun. The bright ring is superheated plasma orbiting at nearly the speed of light glowing as it falls toward the event horizon. The dark center is the shadow of the black holethe region where light cannot escape silhouetted against"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:51Z 792.4K followers, 6423 engagements
"Picture this: 3000 light-years away in the constellation Draco theres a gigantic cosmic cat just floating there. No really. NGC 6543 better known as the Cats Eye Nebula looks like someone took a neon emerald kitty the size of a solar system and gently detonated it in the vacuum of space. Its hands-down one of the most breathtakingly insane things in the entire universe.This thing is barely a thousand years old (a newborn by cosmic standards) yet its already the rock star of planetary nebulae. When Hubble pointed its sharpest camera at it the images nearly broke the internet: perfect"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:13Z 792.4K followers, 4858 engagements
"An unusual feature has been discovered on the "alien ship" 3I/ATLAS. The space object 3I/ATLAS often referred to as the "alien ship" may have two tails Harvard University scientist Avi Loeb wrote in a blog post. According to him the map clearly shows "two streams emanating from the object." The rotation gradient map of the new Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS taken on November XX shows evidence of two streams emanating from the object with a distinct antitail extending more than 60000 kilometers (ten times the radius of Earth) toward the Sun he wrote"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:54Z 792.4K followers, 6975 engagements
"This is the one that broke astronomys mind in 1845.Lord Rosse pointed his 72-inch Leviathan telescope (the largest in the world at the time) toward a faint smudge in Canes Venatici and saw something no human had ever seen before: a cosmic whirlpool. Not a cloud not a star cluster but a pinwheel of light with arms that clearly spiraled. He sketched it published it and quietly detonated the idea that everything beyond the Milky Way was just shapeless fog. The age of galaxies had begun and M51 was Patient Zero.Fast-forward XX million years (the time its light has been racing toward us) and here"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:10Z 792.4K followers, 5191 engagements
"That breathtaking James Webb image of L1527 isnt just another pretty infrared postcard. Its the closest thing we have to a baby picture of our own Sun.Look closely: at the center hides a protostar only about 100000 years old (a newborn in cosmic terms) still wrapped in the exact same kind of dark spinning cocoon of gas and dust that enveloped our Sun XXX billion years ago. The glowing hourglass shape you see is the cavity carved by the baby stars first tantrums: powerful jets blasting out from its poles slamming into the surrounding molecular cloud and lighting it up like neon.Those thick"
X Link 2025-12-09T10:55Z 792.4K followers, 4253 engagements
"The most detailed image of solar granules The Daniel Inouye Space Telescope allows us to see not only the granules in the Sun's photosphere but also formations known as photospheric striations. These are thin white stripes on the granules. They are magnetic in nature and only XX km wide. ☄ BLACK HOLE. Subscribe"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:25Z 792.4K followers, 5180 engagements
"Mocha Swirls in Jupiters Turbulent AtmosphereJupiter serves up a cosmic caff latte.Swirling through the gas giants stormy North Temperate Belt creamy tan clouds spiral around a dark perfectly round cyclone (roughly XXX miles / XXX km wide). Like rich espresso beneath a froth of milk the vortex stands out dramatically against the surrounding latte-colored bands.These hypnotic mocha swirls are the result of Jupiters ferocious winds sculpting ammonia-ice clouds into intricate curls and eddies. The dark center marks a low-pressure cyclone where the atmosphere sinks clearing away the bright haze"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:09Z 792.4K followers, 3879 engagements
"Hubble Catches a Galaxy in Frenzy: NGC 1792Look closely and youll see a galaxy thats lost its mindin the best possible way.NGC 1792 is on fire with newborn stars. Its spiral arms are shredded into blazing knots of sapphire and ruby each one a stellar nurseries churning out massive suns at a breakneck pace. This isnt a calm orderly galaxy; its a starburst one of the universes most violent baby booms.Why the cosmic tantrum Blame its bigger rowdier neighbor NGC 1808. The two galaxies are locked in a gravitational tug-of-war and NGC 1792 is getting yanked hardest on the side facing its companion."
X Link 2025-12-09T19:20Z 792.4K followers, 5046 engagements
"Imagine powering a spacecraft not for decades but for centuriesventuring to the frozen edges of the solar system or beyond where sunlight fades to a whisper and your probe keeps humming along like an eternal explorer.NASA is chasing exactly that dream with a revolutionary "nuclear battery" fueled by americium-241 a radioactive isotope boasting a staggering 433-year half-life. That's nearly five times longer than the plutonium-238 (88-year half-life) that has powered icons like Voyager and Perseverance. As americium decays it releases steady heat that's converted into electricity ensuring"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:37Z 792.4K followers, 5039 engagements
"Hubbles latest stunner: the wild little galaxy Markarian XXX is putting on a cosmic fireworks showThis pint-sized dwarf is absolutely blazing with baby stars giving it that electric blue glow you see across most of its body almost no dust dares to get in the way of these hot young rebels.But look closer: near the edge a ferocious crimson patch screams with the fury of massive Wolf-Rayet stars. These are the heavyweights of the stellar world monsters 2050 times the mass of our Sun that are literally ripping themselves apart. Powerful winds hurl their outer layers into space at millions of"
X Link 2025-12-10T04:10Z 792.4K followers, 5022 engagements
"Picture of the Month: A Cosmic Waltz Between Two Tiny GalaxiesDeep in the constellation of the Hunting Dogs lies one of the most intimate galactic dances ever caught in stunning detail by the James Webb Space NGC 4490 and its smaller companion NGC 4485: two dwarf galaxies locked in a slow gravitational embrace just XX million light-years from Earth. Together they form Arp XXX a peculiar pair immortalized in the famous Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.What makes this duo so special Its the closest known case of two dwarf galaxies actively interacting where astronomers can clearly see both a glowing"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:00Z 792.4K followers, 3730 engagements
"On December XX 1993 the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour (mission STS-61) gently released the Hubble Space Telescope back into the void and in that instant humanity finally opened its eyes to the universe.For three and a half agonizing years the worlds most famous telescope had been flying blind. A mirror flaw (just X microns too flat at the edges) had turned the crown jewel of astronomy into a billion-dollar blur. Launched amid global fanfare in April 1990 Hubble had quickly become the most expensive embarrassment in space history.But everything changed on this day.Over the course of XX days"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:23Z 792.4K followers, 3990 engagements
"Messier 77: The Dragon That Swallowed a Million SunsForty-seven million light-years away in the dark waters of Cetus a barred spiral galaxy roars with the fury of a cosmic dragon. Messier XX (NGC 1068) is a titan among galaxies: one of the largest and brightest in Messiers famous list its sweeping arms carved from sapphire starlight and laced with crimson nurseries where new suns are born by the thousands.Yet the true monster lies hidden at its heart. A supermassive black hole millions of times heavier than our Sun devours everything that drifts too close. Matter spirals inward at nearly the"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:10Z 792.4K followers, 4473 engagements
"The clearest image of Mars ever taken NASA"
X Link 2025-12-06T04:23Z 792.4K followers, 29K engagements
"Incredible video of the aurora borealis captured from the ISS by astronaut Don Pettit"
X Link 2025-12-06T05:54Z 792.4K followers, 17.5K engagements
"A solar flare and coronal mass ejection captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-06T06:53Z 792.4K followers, 6271 engagements
"Mount Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has erupted for the first time in 12000 years. Satellite images from Meteosat-12 and Aqua MODIS captured a massive ash plume spreading across the region: an unusual and powerful awakening after millennia of dormancy.Source: NASA"
X Link 2025-12-06T07:10Z 792.4K followers, 50.5K engagements
"Albert Einstein and his young collaborator Nathan Rosen triumphantly submit a paper to the worlds most prestigious physics journal. The title alone is a mic-drop: Do Gravitational Waves Exist Their answer: a flat definitive No. Yes the same Einstein who in 1916 had personally predicted these ripples in spacetime through general relativity now steps forward to bury his own brainchild.The manuscript lands on the desk of an anonymous referee at Physical Review. The reviewer (later revealed to be astrophysicist Howard Percy Robertson) sends it back with a brutal verdict: Youve got a fundamental"
X Link 2025-12-06T12:57Z 792.4K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Scientists just dropped a brutal truth bomb: Even with todays best tech no human would survive on Mars longer than X years Why The radiation is absolutely vicious. After roughly four years the cumulative dose crosses the "youre definitely getting cancer or worse" line. Your spaceship can shield you on the journey there and back but heres the kicker: once youre on the surface theres no practical way to block it. Pile on too much shielding Paradoxically makes it worse thick metal walls actually create secondary radiation showers that fry you even faster.NASA still wants boots on Mars by the"
X Link 2025-12-07T08:55Z 792.4K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Some ancient Mayan artifacts carry a very clear alien message"
X Link 2025-12-07T11:20Z 792.4K followers, 162.8K engagements
"In the future Polaris will no longer be the pole star. The northern Pole Star remains virtually motionless in the sky making it ideal for navigationit always points north. However the polarity of Polaris changes over time due to the Earth's movement known as precession. Different stars become "polar" at different times in history. After 2100 our current North Star will begin to gradually move away from its northernmost point in the sky and by 4000 its place will be taken by the star Alrai (Gamma Cephei)"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:56Z 792.4K followers, 219.6K engagements
"The Moon appears from behind the Earth in this image from the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-9"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:40Z 792.4K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Will you be my neighborOn this Hubble shot these two cosmic objects look like theyre borrowing sugar from each other and arguing about whose turn it is to mow the lawn. In reality they dont even live on the same continent of the universe.The galaxy on the left is a relatively close neighbor: just XX million light-years away. The blazing quasar on the right That guys a billion light-years out (basically the cosmic equivalent of moving to another hemisphere and never answering texts).Their apparent closeness is pure optical trickery a lucky alignment from our point of view. The quasar is so"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:53Z 792.4K followers, 3976 engagements
"NASA May Have Accidentally Populated Mars In 2007 the bacterium Tersicoccus phoenicis was found in two NASA cleanrooms located 4000 km apart. These rooms are treated with heat chemicals ultraviolet light and radiation to prevent Earth microbes from reaching the probes. But T. phoenicis proved particularly resilient. Experiments showed that the bacterium can enter a dormant state. Scientists deprived it of nutrients and dried it. After XX hours it appeared to "freeze" and remained dormant for seven days even after power was restored. It was later discovered that it had been alive the entire"
X Link 2025-12-10T02:39Z 792.4K followers, 9593 engagements
"This one is completely different for in this image Saturn is eclipsing the sun. At the center of the image is the body of the gas giant which in itself is partially lit by the reflection of light from its ring system. NASA/JPL-Caltech"
X Link 2025-12-10T06:37Z 792.4K followers, 4185 engagements
"NGC 4921: The Fading Ghost of the Coma ClusterDistance: XXX million light-years Constellation: Coma Berenices (Thats XXX sextillion miles 1900000000000000000000 miles written out in full far enough that the numbers stop feeling real.)Look closely and youll see something haunting: a grand barred spiral galaxy that has forgotten how to be a spiral.NGC 4921 should be a riot of sapphire star-cities and inky dust ribbons. Instead its outer arms are pale translucent almost ashamed. Astronomers call it an anemic spiral a cruel but accurate name. The only place still blazing with newborn stars is a"
X Link 2025-12-10T09:40Z 792.4K followers, 4077 engagements
"Jupiter. The King of Planets NASA"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:39Z 792.4K followers, 3914 engagements
"Here's a comparison to figure out how big the Great Red Spot is Jupiter"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:10Z 792.4K followers, 6760 engagements
"In 1969 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton led the team that wrote the onboard software for Apollo XX. With just XX KB of memory and punch-card programming her code had to be was. Minutes before touchdown the Apollo Guidance Computer triggered overload alarms. Hamiltons built-in error-detection and priority system instantly shed non-critical tasks keeping the lunar module on course. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed safely because her software refused to fail.Hamilton didnt just help put humans on the Moonshe coined the term software engineering and invented many of the resilient coding"
X Link 2025-11-25T20:20Z 792.4K followers, 351.7K engagements
"NASA just dropped a jaw-dropping animation that squeezes twenty-two confirmed black holes into a single frame each one lurking inside its own X-ray binary system. These arent random monsters; theyre real catalogued beasts like Cygnus X-1 GRS 1915+105 and V404 Cygni all scaled to the same size so you can finally compare the cosmic heavyweights side by side. Watch closely and youll see the black holes (shown as dark spheres) calmly orbiting their companion stars that glow white-hot from the hellish radiation. The accretion disks blaze in furious orange and yellow twisted maelstroms of"
X Link 2025-11-27T08:12Z 792.4K followers, 62.9K engagements
"The distance from Earth to M87 one of the most massive galaxies in the local Universe By que-esta-pasando"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:22Z 792.4K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331. About XX million years ago a stellar explosion occurred in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331. Light from this event only reached Earth in July 2025. This explosion is classified as a Type Ia supernovasuch supernovae occur in close binary environments when a white dwarf gradually drawing matter from a neighboring star reaches the Chandrasekhar limit and collapses under its own gravity releasing a colossal amount of energy"
X Link 2025-12-03T08:10Z 792.4K followers, 5406 engagements
"The Milky Way galaxy is not only flying at XXX km/s but also flapping its wings like a butterfly"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:23Z 792.4K followers, 34.8K engagements
"The giant galaxy UGC 2885. Located in the constellation Perseus XXX million light-years away is UGC 2885. It is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the Universe. Its diameter reaches 800000 light-years eight times larger than the Milky Way. The galaxy may contain over a trillion stars"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:23Z 792.4K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Fifty-three years ago December 1972.While Ron Evans circled alone in lunar orbit two men on the surface were quietly rewriting history.Gene Cernan raised his Hasselblad and froze a moment that still takes your breath away: Harrison Jack Schmitt (the only professional scientist ever to walk on another world) stands beside the parked lunar rover at the edge of Shorty Crater. Black sky blazing with unblinking stars above dead-gray desert below and a lone astronaut in a gleaming white suit staring into the void.A few steps from this exact spot Schmitt suddenly dropped to one knee flicked on his"
X Link 2025-12-06T10:19Z 792.4K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Hubbles latest stunner: the wild little galaxy Markarian XXX is putting on a cosmic fireworks showThis pint-sized dwarf is absolutely blazing with baby stars giving it that electric blue glow you see across most of its body almost no dust dares to get in the way of these hot young rebels.But look closer: near the edge a ferocious crimson patch screams with the fury of massive Wolf-Rayet stars. These are the heavyweights of the stellar world monsters 2050 times the mass of our Sun that are literally ripping themselves apart. Powerful winds hurl their outer layers into space at millions of"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:09Z 792.4K followers, 5870 engagements
"Hubbles latest stunner: the wild little galaxy Markarian XXX is putting on a cosmic fireworks showThis pint-sized dwarf is absolutely blazing with baby stars giving it that electric blue glow you see across most of its body almost no dust dares to get in the way of these hot young rebels.But look closer: near the edge a ferocious crimson patch screams with the fury of massive Wolf-Rayet stars. These are the heavyweights of the stellar world monsters 2050 times the mass of our Sun that are literally ripping themselves apart. Powerful winds hurl their outer layers into space at millions of"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:45Z 792.4K followers, 5716 engagements
"When two worlds collide This stunning Chandra X-ray image captures IC 1623 (also known as VV 114) a pair of spiral galaxies about XXX million light-years away in Cetus locked in a violent slow-motion merger.What youre seeing:The bright blue-white regions = super-hot gas heated to millions of degrees by supernova shockwaves and the chaos of the collision. The diffuse pink-purple glow = X-ray emission from gas being ripped apart and compressed as the galaxies smash together. Total energy output in X-rays is enormous: equivalent to billions of Suns. The merger is triggering an intense starburst"
X Link 2025-12-09T07:22Z 792.4K followers, 4128 engagements
"The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud are the two vast frozen reservoirs at the outer edge of our Solar System preserving the primordial building blocks from its birth.The Kuiper Belt is a relatively flat doughnut-shaped disk beyond Neptunes orbit stretching roughly from XX to XX AU (astronomical units) from the Sun with its scattered-disk extension reaching several hundred AU. It was first confirmed in 1992 when David Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the second known trans-Neptunian object (15760) Albion after Pluto itself found in 1930. This region is XX to XXX times more massive than the Main"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:39Z 792.4K followers, 5000 engagements
"In December 2025 astronomers stumbled upon something that feels almost impossible: the longest rotating structure ever found in the universe a galactic tornado nearly XX million light-years from end to end.Imagine an ultra-thin cosmic thread razor-sharp and almost invisible woven from dark matter and cold gas. Along this thread hundreds of galaxies are strung like beads on a necklace from another dimension. And this thread isnt just sitting there; its slowly majestically twisting around its own axis dragging entire star cities along in a silent billion-year waltz.The tornado itself is only"
X Link 2025-12-09T10:38Z 792.4K followers, 40.3K engagements
"NGC 5643: Beauty That Hides a PredatorImagine a textbook-perfect spiral galaxy painted by the cosmos itself: two majestic arms swept into flawless curves studded with sapphire clusters of young stars threaded with crimson dust lanes and dotted with glowing pink stellar nurseries. Sitting just XX million light-years away in the constellation Lupus it looks almost too perfect and thats exactly what makes it dangerous.Because something monstrous lurks at its heart.Behind the postcard faade hides an active galactic nucleus driven by a supermassive black hole greedily devouring gas and spitting"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:09Z 792.4K followers, 4203 engagements
"On the evening of December X 2025 a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture. Shaking was felt from Hokkaido all the way to Tokyo. Tsunami warnings were issued for waves up to X metres but the highest observed wave was only XX cm. There were no fatalities and around XX people suffered mostly minor injuries.Early on the morning of December X the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first-ever megaquake advisory for an 800-kilometre stretch of coast from Hokkaido down to Chiba Prefecture. This means that over the next weekespecially in the first few daysthe"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:29Z 792.4K followers, 8459 engagements
"Our solar system and its abundance of H2O. You have to wonder why sci-fi is so rife with scenarios of aliens invading Earth just to steal our water. By Brooklyn_University"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:55Z 792.4K followers, 4371 engagements
"Comet R2 SWAN suddenly revealed an antitail pointing toward the Sunand now two anomalous "green" comets are converging on Earth's orbit. Unexpected observations are being discussed online: Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN has suddenly formed a rare solar-directed antitailalmost identical to that of the interstellar object 3I ATLAS. Both bodies are currently on opposite sides of Earth's orbit and both exhibit a similar green coma associated with the excitation of molecular carbon. The anomaly is that the tails point toward the Sun not away from itcontrary to basic solar wind models. Some researchers"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:24Z 792.4K followers, 23.4K engagements
"The Monster at the Heart of Our GalaxyImage Credit: X-ray NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared NASA/HST/STScI; Inset Radio Event Horizon Telescope CollaborationDeep in the crowded core of the Milky Way lurks a beast: a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* (pronounced sadge-ay-star). For decades weve watched stars whip around something invisible ferociously massive and impossibly compact; their frantic orbits screaming that a four-million-solar-mass monster hides there. But seeing is for the first time humanity has stared straight into the abyss and it stared back.This brand-new radio portrait (the"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:56Z 792.4K followers, 9085 engagements
"November XX 2025. Big Island Hawaii. Twilight splits open like a wound.Under the everyday road where people drove for groceries and sunset views the old rage woke up. Klauea pretending to sleep exhaled fire.Thursday evening a fresh crack high on the slope tore wide and spat out a not the slow silver rope tourists film but a bright-orange avalanche of molten rock nearly 2000 F racing downhill faster than a person can sprint.First came the shudder through the steering wheel then the phones screaming in unison: LAVA ON THE HIGHWAY. RUN.Traffic froze. Doors flew open. Engines kept running"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:44Z 792.4K followers, 430.1K engagements
"Deep in the constellation Auriga about 14700 light-years away lurks the ethereal ghost of a massive star's violent death: Sh2-224 one of the faintest and most elusive supernova remnants in the night sky.The cataclysmic explosion sculpted a vast bubble-like shell in the interstellar medium but as the shockwave plowed into a region of extraordinarily low density it unleashed a dramatic "wing"a sweeping diffuse extension of glowing gas that flares out like a cosmic plume (or as some astrophotographers whimsically note resembling a traditional rice hat or French gendarme's kepi).This ancient"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:07Z 792.4K followers, 3947 engagements
"Official concept of "TITAN SUBMARINE"- a mission proposed by NASA that would involve a submarine exploring recording footage and collecting samples from the lakebed of either one of Titan's largest lakes - Kraken Mare or Ligeia Mare. It is currently still under development by NASA's IAC"
X Link 2025-09-25T09:40Z 792.3K followers, 6329 engagements
"Official concept of "TITAN SUBMARINE"- a mission proposed by NASA that would involve a submarine exploring recording footage and collecting samples from the lakebed of either one of Titan's largest lakes - Kraken Mare or Ligeia Mare. It is currently still under development by NASA's IAC"
X Link 2025-09-26T02:39Z 792.3K followers, 10.2K engagements
"The Enigmatic Einstein-Rosen Bridge: A Cosmic Shortcut Through Spacetime Picture this: Born from the mind-bending equations of Einstein's general relativity the wormholedubbed the Einstein-Rosen Bridgeemerges as a tantalizing tunnel a slender "throat" linking distant corners of the cosmos. It could whisk travelers across vast galaxies in the blink of an eye or even punch through to parallel universes Though we've yet to spot one in the wild these elusive portals fit perfectly within the elegant math of relativity teasing us with the promise of reality-warping journeys.But wormholes aren't"
X Link 2025-11-10T04:52Z 792.3K followers, 6544 engagements
"This photo dug up and posted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute shows their unicorn-rare 6-inch Unitron refractor one of the finest amateur telescopes money could buy in the late 1950s. Im pretty sure this shot is from 1961 right when it was the pride of the campus.For twenty-six years it sat forgotten under a dusty dome lenses blind mount seized a Cold War relic gathering cobwebs while the world moved on to Hubble and smartphones.Then miracle of miracles a team of professors alumni and stubborn astronomy nerds decided it deserved a second life. They stripped it to the bones cleaned"
X Link 2025-11-23T15:50Z 792.1K followers, 9390 engagements
"The best cinematic experience in the world. See it to believe it. Las Vegas Sphere. Crazy"
X Link 2025-11-25T03:21Z 792.1K followers, 12.5K engagements
"When the Entire Telescope Squad Shows Up for One Galaxy Meet the Squid Galaxy (NGC 1068 / Messier 77) XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus and it just got the ultimate cosmic glow-up.Four legendary observatories said hold my beer and dropped their data into the same frame:Chandra painted the screaming-hot gas and the ferocious jets in electric blue X-rays Hubble brought the golden starlight and dusty spiral arms in visible glory JWST unveiled the warm dust and hidden molecular clouds in deep infrared crimson The Very Large Array traced the radio glow of relativistic"
X Link 2025-11-27T22:52Z 792.3K followers, 7039 engagements
"Yes . is a montage of real Apollo astronauts jumping and moving on the lunar surface. It features clips from several missions:Apollo XX (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) Apollo XX (David Scott and James Irwin) Apollo XX (John Young doing his famous jump salute) Apollo XX (Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt) The most iconic moment is John Young from Apollo 16: he jumps quite high and gives a military salute at the peak of the jump. That single frame has become legendary.Classic details you can see in the video:Dust kicks up in clean parabolic arcs and falls straight back down with no lingering"
X Link 2025-11-28T15:43Z 792.3K followers, 38.6K engagements
"The Eye of the Sahara (The Richat Structure) seen from space The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures a spectacular geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania: the Richat Structure. This giant feature looks out from a sea of golden sand in the Adrar Region of northern Mauritania. Once thought to be the site of a meteor impact the Richat Structure is now believed to have been caused by a process of uplift of a large dome of molten rock that once at the surface was shaped by wind sand and water erosion. Geologists agree that the structure is at least XXX million years old. The"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:55Z 792K followers, 7175 engagements
"First Light: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Drops a Mosaic of XX Million Galaxies (And It's Just the Warm-Up)Picture this: A single snapshot stitching together 1100 images into a cosmic tapestry revealing XX million galaxiesthat's XXXX% of the XX billion it'll catalog over the next decade. Captured in a blistering 7-10 hours of test time this mosaic zooms from intimate galaxy duos to a sprawling Virgo Cluster swarm dotted with foreground stars like glittering confetti. It's not just pretty; it's a teaser for the universe's hidden drama from exploding supernovae to elusive dark matter"
X Link 2025-11-29T00:22Z 791.9K followers, 4778 engagements
"Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has once again stirred the scientific community by suggesting that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial mothership deliberately steering toward Jupiter. He argues that its precisely tuned non-gravitational acceleration has maneuvered the object to pass inside Jupiters Hill sphere on March XX 2026an alignment he calculates would happen by chance only once in roughly 25000 tries. In an interview with the New York Post Loeb proposed that during this close encounter the object might release small probes or satellites into Jupiters stable L1"
X Link 2025-11-29T01:39Z 792.1K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Neptunes Double Life: Same Planet Two Completely Different Vibes Meet Neptune and also Neptunes mysterious twin.Left side (Hubble): the Neptune you grew up with. That electric sapphire jewel floating in the void. A deep hypnotic blue so intense it looks like someone spilled a galaxy-sized bottle of antifreeze. This is Neptune in visible lightthe wavelengths your eyes can actually see. Methane in its atmosphere gobbles up every scrap of red and orange light like a cosmic vacuum then spits nothing back but pure frozen blue. Iconic. Classic. The poster child of the outer solar system.Right side"
X Link 2025-11-29T03:39Z 792.3K followers, 5687 engagements
"Monday evening deep in the jungle of French Guiana Europes sleek Vega-C rocket will ignite and streak into the equatorial sky carrying South Koreas Kompsat-7 satellite to orbit. Liftoff is set for 17:21 GMT on X December 2025.Kompsat-7 is a razor-sharp optical observatory: from XXX km up in a perfect dawn-dusk polar orbit it will snap images of Earth crisp enough to read a cars license plate from space. For the next seven years it will watch over crops cities coastlines and borders feeding real-time intelligence and disaster-response data back to Seoul.The Vega-C itself is the small but"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:22Z 792.2K followers, 4594 engagements
"Engineering K-pop strikes again After a two-year hiatus South Koreas KSLV-2 rocket (better known as Nuri meaning World in Korean) successfully lifted off from the Naro Space Center on November XX 2025.The homegrown light-class launcher developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) placed the XXX kg CAS500-3 Earth-observation satellite and XX small cubesats into a 500550 km sun-synchronous orbit. Payload separation from the third stage began just XX minutes after launch.This was the fourth flight of Nuri:2021 first test (reached space but failed to orbit payload) 2022 first"
X Link 2025-11-29T13:14Z 792.1K followers, 5405 engagements
"NGC XXX Constellation: Cetus Distance: 3500 light years NGC XXX (also known as the Skull Nebula or Caldwell 56) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cetus. Credit: ESO"
X Link 2025-11-29T16:25Z 792.2K followers, 5536 engagements
"Those frEGGs are one of the most delicate almost heartbreakingly beautiful things Hubble has ever shown us.They look like cosmic tadpoles or comet-like teardrops (dark heads with glowing tails) swimming through the violent environment of a stellar nursery. Each one is only about the size of our solar system yet inside that tiny dense knot at the tip a protostar is quietly igniting. The tail you see is the globules own gas being boiled away by the ultraviolet firestorm from nearby O-type stars (the big blue short-tempered monsters of the cluster).What makes frEGGs so special is that theyre"
X Link 2025-11-29T21:24Z 792.2K followers, 5754 engagements
"NGC XXX Constellation: Cetus Distance: 3500 light years NGC XXX (also known as the Skull Nebula or Caldwell 56) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cetus. Credit: ESO"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:53Z 792.3K followers, 5271 engagements
"A Planet Bigger Than Its Own Star Imagine a world so enormous it dwarfs the very star it orbits. In 2020 astronomers spotted one of the weirdest systems yet: deep in the constellation Draco just XX light-years away theres a Jupiter-sized gas giant called WD 1856 b thats seven times larger than the star it is that even possible Its star isnt a star anymore. Its a white dwarf the burnt-out corpse of a Sun-like star that long ago puffed off its outer layers and collapsed into a dense Earth-sized ember. Whats left is a glowing stellar remnant only about as big as our planet but with half the Suns"
X Link 2025-11-30T02:22Z 792.2K followers, 5555 engagements
"First Light: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Drops a Mosaic of XX Million Galaxies (And It's Just the Warm-Up)Picture this: A single snapshot stitching together 1100 images into a cosmic tapestry revealing XX million galaxiesthat's XXXX% of the XX billion it'll catalog over the next decade. Captured in a blistering 7-10 hours of test time this mosaic zooms from intimate galaxy duos to a sprawling Virgo Cluster swarm dotted with foreground stars like glittering confetti. It's not just pretty; it's a teaser for the universe's hidden drama from exploding supernovae to elusive dark matter"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:22Z 791.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"When the Entire Telescope Squad Shows Up for One Galaxy Meet the Squid Galaxy (NGC 1068 / Messier 77) XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus and it just got the ultimate cosmic glow-up.Four legendary observatories said hold my beer and dropped their data into the same frame:Chandra painted the screaming-hot gas and the ferocious jets in electric blue X-rays Hubble brought the golden starlight and dusty spiral arms in visible glory JWST unveiled the warm dust and hidden molecular clouds in deep infrared crimson The Very Large Array traced the radio glow of relativistic"
X Link 2025-11-30T05:20Z 792.3K followers, 5043 engagements
"Comet 3I ATLAS's maneuver near Jupiter will alter its flight path. The interstellar object 3I ATLAS is following an unusual trajectory and will pass close to Jupiter on March XX 2026. The planet's strong gravity will alter its path and put the object on a direct route out of the Solar System. The comet's journey within the system will technically continue for several more years but observation will become increasingly difficult. By the middle of next year even the largest telescopes will no longer be able to detect this faint and distant object. The passage near Jupiter is considered one of"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:13Z 792.1K followers, 35.5K engagements
"Exoplanet. Escape from a pyroclastic flow - a fast-moving volcanic material and hot gas"
X Link 2025-11-30T17:55Z 791.9K followers, 406.7K engagements
"In the shadowed halls of Berlins Pergamum Museum sleeps a silent witness from a city that should not be came from Uruk the first true city of mankind born five thousand years ago on the sun-scorched plains of southern Iraq when the world was still young and writing itself was a newborn miracle. There beneath layers of dust and time German excavators brushed away the centuries and found her: a small limestone figure serene enigmatic staring with wide unblinking eyes that have watched fifty centuries name was carved upon her no inscription to declare who she was: goddess priestess queen or"
X Link 2025-11-30T20:37Z 792.3K followers, 94.7K engagements
"So Far and Yet So CloseTurn your eyes toward Cetus the Sea Monster and let Hubble do something quietly terrifying one tiny patch of sky smaller than the period at the end of this sentence two glowing wounds of light hang suspended. Their official names are bureaucratic mouthfuls (SDSS J020941.27+001558.4 and SDSS J020941.23+001600.7) so lets just call them the Near Stranger and the Far Stranger.Each is a full-blown galaxy: a hurricane of a hundred billion suns black hearts newborn stars screaming ultraviolet and ancient red giants exhaling their last breaths. Together they contain more stars"
X Link 2025-11-30T21:17Z 792.3K followers, 6117 engagements
"Miranda doesnt look like a moon. It looks like a warning.When Voyager X slipped past Uranus in January 1986 and turned its cameras toward the innermost of the five major moons the probe sent back something no one was ready for: a small icy sphere only XXX km across that had clearly been blown to pieces and then clumsily stitched back together by gravitys indifferent hands.There are three distinct terranes on Miranda each so different they seem stolen from separate worlds. The ancient crater-pocked highlands scarred by billions of years of silence. Rolling lightly cratered coronae (Inverness"
X Link 2025-11-30T21:28Z 792.2K followers, 102.4K engagements
"King of Planets (in the Solar System) NASA"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:50Z 792.1K followers, 7024 engagements
"SDO Spacecraft Captures Massive Solar Flare And Cme With Real Nasa-recorded Solar Sound"
X Link 2025-12-01T04:37Z 791.9K followers, 19.8K engagements
"A picture of Mars that was taken today. XXX million miles away from us. NASA"
X Link 2025-12-01T15:07Z 792.3K followers, 6221 engagements
"Thirteen billion years ago the universe was still a dark almost featureless soup of hydrogen and helium. No galaxies. No metals. No elements heavier than lithium. Just a faint afterglow of the Big Bang and the promise of the James Webb Space Telescope has pointed at a tiny red speck called LAP1-B and whispered: I think I just saw the very first stars that ever turned on.LAP1-B is so far away that its light has been traveling to us since the universe was only XXX million years old (less than X % of its current age). The galaxy itself would be far too dim to see but fate placed a massive"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:53Z 792.2K followers, 6039 engagements
"King of Planets (in the Solar System) NASA"
X Link 2025-12-02T06:23Z 792.1K followers, 4697 engagements
"Comet 3I ATLAS's maneuver near Jupiter will alter its flight path. The interstellar object 3I ATLAS is following an unusual trajectory and will pass close to Jupiter on March XX 2026. The planet's strong gravity will alter its path and put the object on a direct route out of the Solar System. The comet's journey within the system will technically continue for several more years but observation will become increasingly difficult. By the middle of next year even the largest telescopes will no longer be able to detect this faint and distant object. The passage near Jupiter is considered one of"
X Link 2025-12-02T07:10Z 792.3K followers, 15.6K engagements
"The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073 lies XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Sea Monster). Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and released on February X 2012 this beautiful image reveals a galaxy remarkably similar to our own Milky Way: a prominent central bar and sweeping spiral arms filled with young stars glowing nebulae and active star-forming regions. Studying galaxies like NGC 1073 helps astronomers better understand the structure evolution and future of our cosmic"
X Link 2025-12-02T08:23Z 792.2K followers, 4189 engagements
"A Celestial Echo of a Dying Star. This shimmering shell of gas photographed by Hubble drifts silently through space sculpted by shock waves from a long-ago supernova. (Credit: NASA ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/J. Hughes - Rutgers University)"
X Link 2025-12-02T13:22Z 792.1K followers, 4643 engagements
"In a mesmerizing cosmic ballet high above the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean where the ISS orbits like Earth's vigilant sentinel Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL dangles gracefully in the iron grip of Canadarm2the legendary "Canadian Arm." This colossal cargo hauler has just yielded its orbital perch making way for the trusty Russian Soyuz spacecraft set to dock on Thursday November XX 2025 delivering a fresh crew of intrepid explorers. Nearby Japan's JAXA HTV-X1"Kounotori" the innovative White Storknestles snugly against the Harmony module brimming with cutting-edge supplies and secrets"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:24Z 792.3K followers, 4619 engagements
"M77: The Cosmic Dragon with a Monster in Its HeartImagine this: XX million light-years away in the constellation of the sea monster Cetus a colossal spiral vortex spins silently in the void. Meet M77 also known as NGC 1068 a face-on island universe stretching 100000 light-years across looking for all the world like a perfect cosmic rose blooming in the dark.But beauty here is its very core lurks a beast: a supermassive black hole millions of times heavier than the Sun. This is one of the nearest and most intensely studied active galactic nuclei of the Seyfert type a screaming nuclear furnace"
X Link 2025-12-02T19:09Z 792.3K followers, 4303 engagements
"30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun one image per year The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been observing the Sun for XX years. In that time SOHO has observed nearly three of the Suns 11-year solar cycles throughout which solar activity waxes and wanes. This montage of XX images captured by the spacecrafts Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope provides a snapshot of the changing face of our Sun. The brightest images occur around the time of solar maximum when the Suns magnetic field is twisting and reshaping itself. Thanks to this magnetic activity the Sun shines more"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:25Z 792.2K followers, 9303 engagements
"Since Nov. X 2000 the International Space Station has been crewed for 6067 days About XXX billion years ago a Mars-size planet called Theia crashed into early Earth. The impact destroyed Theia melted much of Earths mantle and created the debris that later formed the moon. Scientists have struggled to understand what Theia was made of because Earth and the moon turned out to be almost chemically identicalsomething that shouldnt happen if they formed from separate worlds. A new study helps solve this puzzle by analyzing tiny differences in isotopes of iron molybdenum and zirconium found in"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:23Z 792.3K followers, 4582 engagements
"The Whirlpool Galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici with its companion galaxy NGC 5195 at the end of its spiral arm. The pair is located approximately XX million light-years from us"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:54Z 792.1K followers, 4741 engagements
"The tallest mountain in the solar system Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of XX km Mount Everest is 'only' XXX km tall. NASA"
X Link 2025-12-03T03:10Z 792.2K followers, 7440 engagements
"The distance from Earth to M87 one of the most massive galaxies in the local Universe By que-esta-pasando"
X Link 2025-12-03T06:10Z 792K followers, 4399 engagements
"First Light: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Drops a Mosaic of XX Million Galaxies (And It's Just the Warm-Up)Picture this: A single snapshot stitching together 1100 images into a cosmic tapestry revealing XX million galaxiesthat's XXXX% of the XX billion it'll catalog over the next decade. Captured in a blistering 7-10 hours of test time this mosaic zooms from intimate galaxy duos to a sprawling Virgo Cluster swarm dotted with foreground stars like glittering confetti. It's not just pretty; it's a teaser for the universe's hidden drama from exploding supernovae to elusive dark matter"
X Link 2025-12-03T06:36Z 791.9K followers, 5400 engagements
"Thirteen billion years ago the universe was still a dark almost featureless soup of hydrogen and helium. No galaxies. No metals. No elements heavier than lithium. Just a faint afterglow of the Big Bang and the promise of the James Webb Space Telescope has pointed at a tiny red speck called LAP1-B and whispered: I think I just saw the very first stars that ever turned on.LAP1-B is so far away that its light has been traveling to us since the universe was only XXX million years old (less than X % of its current age). The galaxy itself would be far too dim to see but fate placed a massive"
X Link 2025-12-03T07:10Z 792.1K followers, 4022 engagements
"Beautiful American city lights stretching across the horizon and our Great Lakes with an aurora. Nikon Z9 15mm ISO 25600 f1.8 1/4s Sep X 2025. By Astronaut Jonny Kim"
X Link 2025-12-03T08:40Z 792.2K followers, 4134 engagements
"M77: The Spiral Galaxy with a Raging Dragon at Its HeartPicture this: a stunning face-on spiral galaxy just XX million light-years away floating in the constellation Cetus (the original sea monster). Meet M77 also known as NGC 1068 a cosmic island roughly 100000 light-years wide thats showing us its full glory straight-on like it posed for the portrait of the its core lurks something ferocious: one of the nearest and best-studied supermassive black holes in an active Seyfert galaxy. This beast is actively devouring matter and its screaming about it across the entire electromagnetic spectrum:"
X Link 2025-12-03T08:50Z 792.3K followers, 4304 engagements
"A blood-red cosmic inferno: the Lagoon Nebula as youve never seen it beforeImagine turning off every star you know and bathing the universe in the glow of pure heat. This is the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) revealed in deep infrared a colossal stellar nursery stripped bare of its dusty veil.What looks like a hellish crimson storm is actually one of the Milky Ways most violent birthing wards. Hidden behind thick curtains of dust in visible light the Lagoon erupts into savage clarity when viewed in infrared. Suddenly the curtains vanish and we stare directly into the furnace: newborn supergiant"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:45Z 792.2K followers, 4152 engagements
"Spectacular: A Spiral in Profile NGC 3717 located about XX million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (The Sea Serpent) (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario)"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:05Z 792.1K followers, 4598 engagements
"A solid inner core over XXX kilometers in diameter has been discovered on Mars. The discovery of a solid core helps refine models of Mars's formation cooling and loss of its magnetic field. It also provides a new perspective on the history of the terrestrial planets as processes deep within the planet's interior are directly linked to the evolution of its atmosphere climate and habitable conditions"
X Link 2025-12-04T01:10Z 792.3K followers, 4978 engagements
"First Light: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Drops a Mosaic of XX Million Galaxies (And It's Just the Warm-Up)Picture this: A single snapshot stitching together 1100 images into a cosmic tapestry revealing XX million galaxiesthat's XXXX% of the XX billion it'll catalog over the next decade. Captured in a blistering 7-10 hours of test time this mosaic zooms from intimate galaxy duos to a sprawling Virgo Cluster swarm dotted with foreground stars like glittering confetti. It's not just pretty; it's a teaser for the universe's hidden drama from exploding supernovae to elusive dark matter"
X Link 2025-12-04T01:23Z 791.9K followers, 5665 engagements
"A blood-red cosmic inferno: the Lagoon Nebula as youve never seen it beforeImagine turning off every star you know and bathing the universe in the glow of pure heat. This is the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) revealed in deep infrared a colossal stellar nursery stripped bare of its dusty veil.What looks like a hellish crimson storm is actually one of the Milky Ways most violent birthing wards. Hidden behind thick curtains of dust in visible light the Lagoon erupts into savage clarity when viewed in infrared. Suddenly the curtains vanish and we stare directly into the furnace: newborn supergiant"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:38Z 792.2K followers, 4240 engagements
"A Titan-ic moment just dropped.For the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on Saturns giant moon Titan and the view is jaw-dropping.Titan is the only place beyond Earth with a thick atmosphere and stable lakes rivers and seas on its surface. Except those oceans arent water; theyre liquid methane and ethane a frigid hydrocarbon wonderland at XXX F.Visible light cant pierce the orange smog but Webbs NIRCam slices straight through. The result We see actual clouds drifting in the stratosphere and for the first time ever from space bright and dark patches on the"
X Link 2025-12-04T04:20Z 792.3K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Cracking the Code of the Cosmos's Quadruple Quark BeastsDeep underground where protons smash into each other at near-light speed physicists are finally peering into the bizarre underworld of particles that defy the everyday rules of atomic architecture. Forget protons and neutronsthose are just quark duos. Enter tetraquarks: exotic misfits built from four quarks glued together by the universe's stickiest force the strong nuclear one. And now the CMS experiment at CERN has cracked open the quantum secrets of a trio of these heavyweight oddballs all made entirely of charm quarksthe "fancy""
X Link 2025-12-04T09:36Z 791.9K followers, 4656 engagements
"The clearest image of Mars ever taken NASA"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:37Z 792K followers, 6121 engagements
"Meet the fastest hottest most doomed rock in the known universe.TOI-2431 b is a metal-cored hell-world that rips around its star so fast it finishes a year before youve had breakfast: just XXX scorching hours.Only XXX light-years away this super-Earth (1.5 wider X heavier than our planet) hugs its orange K-dwarf star at a ridiculous 933000 kmcloser than the Moon is to Earth. The result A surface baked to 2000 K (1727 C / 3140 F) hot enough for entire oceans of glowing molten lava and mountains that drip like candles.With a density of XXX g/cm its basically a giant iron cannonball wrapped in"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:53Z 791.9K followers, 5926 engagements
"That's today's (December X 2025) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Galaxies in the Furnace featuring the dramatic interacting pair NGC 1316 (also known as Fornax A) and its smaller companion NGC 1317.Key highlights:NGC 1316 is a giant elliptical galaxy XX million light-years away in the constellation Fornax (the Furnace). Its a classic example of a recent galactic merger: the smaller spiral galaxy NGC 1317 is currently crashing into it creating spectacular tidal streams shells and loops of stars flung hundreds of thousands of light-years into space. The collision began roughly XXX million"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:44Z 792.3K followers, 5412 engagements
"First Light: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Drops a Mosaic of XX Million Galaxies (And It's Just the Warm-Up)Picture this: A single snapshot stitching together 1100 images into a cosmic tapestry revealing XX million galaxiesthat's XXXX% of the XX billion it'll catalog over the next decade. Captured in a blistering 7-10 hours of test time this mosaic zooms from intimate galaxy duos to a sprawling Virgo Cluster swarm dotted with foreground stars like glittering confetti. It's not just pretty; it's a teaser for the universe's hidden drama from exploding supernovae to elusive dark matter"
X Link 2025-12-05T04:23Z 791.9K followers, 4733 engagements
"A Titan-ic moment just dropped.For the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on Saturns giant moon Titan and the view is jaw-dropping.Titan is the only place beyond Earth with a thick atmosphere and stable lakes rivers and seas on its surface. Except those oceans arent water; theyre liquid methane and ethane a frigid hydrocarbon wonderland at XXX F.Visible light cant pierce the orange smog but Webbs NIRCam slices straight through. The result We see actual clouds drifting in the stratosphere and for the first time ever from space bright and dark patches on the"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:21Z 792.1K followers, 7785 engagements
"That's a captivating glimpse into the wild shadowy corners of cosmologywhere dark matter doesn't just lurk in the background but takes center stage as a stellar power source. The concept of dark stars has been percolating in theoretical physics for over a decade (shoutout to Katherine Freese and her team's early work) but tying it to JWST's real-world data feels like the universe winking at us. Let me unpack this a bit more riff on the implications and speculate (responsibly) on what it means for our cosmic origin story.Why Dark Stars Fit the JWST Puzzle Like a GloveJWST's early releases were"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:30Z 792.2K followers, 5520 engagements
"Deep inside CERNs Large Hadron Collider physicists are hunting ghosts made of pure force: tetraquarks four-quark beasts that refuse to behave like ordinary matter.Imagine the proton and neutron as the quiet law-abiding citizens of the atomic world (three quarks each neatly dressed always on time). Tetraquarks are the punk-rock cousins who show up with an extra friend strange haircuts and no intention of following the usual rules. Sometimes two quarks pair up like couples sometimes all four collapse into one seething knot of color force; nobody knows which arrangement theyll choose until we"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:54Z 791.9K followers, 4540 engagements
"A massive sandstorm in the Sahara Desert with cumulus clouds above it as seen from the ISS. ☄ BLACK HOLE. Subscribe"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:22Z 792.3K followers, 5148 engagements
"Astronomers have discovered XX new quasars with jets XX times wider than the Milky Way. Fifty-three giant radio quasars have been discovered with jets up to XXX million light-years long roughly XX times the diameter of the Milky Way. The findings were made using the GMRT radio telescope in India as part of the TGSS survey which covered approximately XX percent of the sky and identified XXX radio quasars. The quasars are powered by supermassive black holes which eject accelerated matter in the form of narrow extremely long jets. Many of the new objects are located near galaxy clusters and"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:08Z 792K followers, 6522 engagements
"The Whirlpool Galaxy just got a whole lot wilder than it looks.That perfect spiral youve seen a thousand times Its hiding absolute magnetic mayhem infrared images from the retired SOFIA telescope have peeled back the dust and revealed a colossal tangled web of magnetic field lines threading through the arms (some looping out hundreds of light-years others snapping and reconnecting like cosmic lightning bolts). These invisible rivers of force are sculpting the galaxy from the inside out: steering star formation flinging charged particles at near-light speed and even helping the central black"
X Link 2025-12-06T01:40Z 792.2K followers, 7205 engagements
"Earth-Moon-Venus-Jupiter alignment from the International Space Station"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:40Z 791.9K followers, 5948 engagements
"The perfect planetary alignment that made NASA's Voyager X legendary"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:52Z 792.2K followers, 6038 engagements
"The image displays a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp XXX or VV XXX. The system is notable for its high infrared luminosity which is thought to be due to an unusually large amount of molecular gas and ongoing star formation rather than a concentrated starburst in the nuclear regions. Identification: The image captures the interacting galaxy system Arp XXX also referred to as VV XXX. Composition: The image is composed of data from the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) with different infrared channels represented by blue green and red colors. Activity: The galaxies are gas-rich and"
X Link 2025-12-06T11:37Z 792.3K followers, 5545 engagements
"Messier 74: The Phantom SpiralLook closely and youll see why astronomers call it the Phantom Galaxy.At first glance Messier XX seems almost too perfect like someone traced a perfect whirlpool in the dark with glowing ink. Thirty-two million light-years away in the quiet constellation Pisces this face-on grand-design spiral stares straight back at us showing off every elegant curve without shame.The arms unwind in near-mathematical symmetry two pristine logarithmic spirals sweeping outward from a searing golden core. Dark ribbons of dust weave through them like calligraphy framing clusters of"
X Link 2025-12-06T15:10Z 792.2K followers, 5109 engagements
"The galaxy NGC 1055 is a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on. It is about XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus forming a binary system with the active galaxy Messier XX. The interaction causes distortions a central bar of dust and gas and an outer halo that could be the remains of a galaxy that merged billions of years ago. It is slightly larger than our Milky Way at just over 100000 light-years across. It was discovered by astronomer Wilhelm Herschel in 1783. High-sensitivity images have revealed an unusual almost square halo extending below and above its main disk. Picture"
X Link 2025-12-06T18:48Z 792.2K followers, 5212 engagements
"The Galaxy Cluster That Should Be a Star FactoryBut Got Murdered3.9 billion light-years away RX J1532.9+3021 is a trillion-solar-mass titan. By all rights it should be vomiting out billions of new stars every year. Instead its dead quiet.The killer sits in the middle: a black hole on cosmic fires relativistic jets that punch two 100000-light-year-wide holes straight through the clusters hot gaslike twin antimatter torpedoes. Shock waves and sound ripples from these blasts reheat the gas slamming the brakes on cooling. Result: star formation flatlines.Power output Almost XX the famous Perseus"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:06Z 792.3K followers, 5764 engagements
"A solar flare and coronal mass ejection captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:27Z 792.1K followers, 4636 engagements
"Jupiter Proof that nature is the ultimate artist"
X Link 2025-12-07T00:09Z 792.2K followers, 5135 engagements
"A solar flare and coronal mass ejection captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-07T00:39Z 792.2K followers, 7168 engagements
"NGC XXX the galaxy that forgot how to make stars90 million light-years away in the quiet outskirts of the constellation Pisces floats a cosmic ghost. Once a proud spiral NGC XXX has burned through its youth. The swirling blue arms are gone. The star-forming clouds have vanished into the void. All that remains is a smooth glowing lens of ancient red suns spinning silently like embers in a dying fire.Theres barely any gas left just faint whispers of dust caught in the light. No new stars will ever be born here. This is the future waiting for many galaxies including one day our own Milky Way.A"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:40Z 792.3K followers, 5833 engagements
"The galaxy NGC 1055 is a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on. It is about XX million light-years away in the constellation Cetus forming a binary system with the active galaxy Messier XX. The interaction causes distortions a central bar of dust and gas and an outer halo that could be the remains of a galaxy that merged billions of years ago. It is slightly larger than our Milky Way at just over 100000 light-years across. It was discovered by astronomer Wilhelm Herschel in 1783. High-sensitivity images have revealed an unusual almost square halo extending below and above its main disk. Picture"
X Link 2025-12-07T04:53Z 792.3K followers, 6712 engagements
"View from aboard the Falcon X during the flight to space and back"
X Link 2025-12-07T06:53Z 792.3K followers, 6946 engagements
"A festive nebula named NGC XXX located within the Small Magellanic Cloud a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about XXX XXX light-years from Earth. (Credit: NASA ESA STScI K. Sandstrom (University of California San Diego) and the SMIDGE team.)"
X Link 2025-12-08T01:20Z 792.1K followers, 5334 engagements
"The Milky Way galaxy is not only flying at XXX km/s but also flapping its wings like a butterfly"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:20Z 792.3K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Deep in the swans wing 4500 light-years away the universe is knitting a star inside a glowing cosmic IRAS 20324+4057 a stellar larva still wrapped in its cocoon of gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. What looks like a creepy-crawly silhouette is actually a dense dark globule being lit from behind by the fiery Cygnus OB2 association one of the Milky Ways most violent star-birth the heart of this 1-light-year-long knot a baby protostar is greedily sucking in material heating the surrounding envelope until it glows in eerie infrared and hydrogen-alpha light. The head of the caterpillar is"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:35Z 792.3K followers, 4783 engagements
"That's a spectacular and scientifically fascinating object W49B is one of the most unusual supernova remnants in the Milky Way and this composite image really shows why.Key highlights that make W49B so special:Asymmetric jet-driven explosion: Unlike the typical spherical blast wave of most core-collapse supernovae W49B looks barrel-shaped with bright bipolar lobes. This is strong evidence that the progenitor star was rapidly rotating and ejected powerful jets along its poles similar to (but much more extreme than) what we see in some gamma-ray bursts. Element distribution matches theory: The"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:45Z 792.4K followers, 4743 engagements
"San Francisco Looks Pretty Amazing From SpaceSeptember 2015 Space View of San Francisco taken by Astronaut Scott Kelly from aboard the International Space Station"
X Link 2025-11-29T22:09Z 792.4K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Ten billion light-years away in a universe only XXX billion years old a white dwarf star stole just enough mass from its companion to cross the invisible line and detonated in a perfectly calibrated flash. We call that kind of explosion a Type Ia supernova the cosmoss most trusted measuring stick.Normally we would have seen it once and moved on. This time a massive galaxy cluster named G165 sat directly in the line of sight and turned spacetime into a hall of mirrors. The supernovas light took three separate paths around the clusters gravity arriving at Earth as three identical ghosts of the"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:40Z 792.4K followers, 5944 engagements
"Alien in the Veil Nebula Astrophotographer Daisy Dobrijevic captured gaseous structures in the Veil Nebula whose silhouettes are strikingly reminiscent of the xenomorph from the film "Alien." The Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant located approximately 2400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It consists of thin streams of hot gas that create bizarre shapes. ☄ BLACK HOLE. Subscribe"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:31Z 792.4K followers, 9635 engagements
"Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331. About XX million years ago a stellar explosion occurred in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331. Light from this event only reached Earth in July 2025. This explosion is classified as a Type Ia supernovasuch supernovae occur in close binary environments when a white dwarf gradually drawing matter from a neighboring star reaches the Chandrasekhar limit and collapses under its own gravity releasing a colossal amount of energy"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:23Z 792.4K followers, 4383 engagements
"A gorgeous view of M51 also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy (Credit: NASA ESA S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)"
X Link 2025-12-04T04:53Z 792.4K followers, 4918 engagements
"Mount Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has erupted for the first time in 12000 years. Satellite images from Meteosat-12 and Aqua MODIS captured a massive ash plume spreading across the region: an unusual and powerful awakening after millennia of dormancy.Source: NASA"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:40Z 792.4K followers, 39.9K engagements
"The clearest image of Mars ever taken NASA"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:52Z 792.4K followers, 7420 engagements
"A solar flare and coronal mass ejection captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:39Z 792.4K followers, 25.4K engagements
"Closest image ever taken of Pluto. NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft"
X Link 2025-12-06T01:10Z 792.4K followers, 4774 engagements
"The clearest image of Mars ever taken NASA"
X Link 2025-12-07T01:10Z 792.4K followers, 6494 engagements
"Only nerds will know what this is"
X Link 2025-12-07T06:12Z 792.4K followers, 13.4K engagements
"New JWST images of Saturn. Processed by Melina Thvenot Planets are cooler and dont glow in visible light. They partially reflect the visible light from their parent stars but dont emit their own visible light. Some of the light from the parent star is absorbed by the planet and re-emitted back to space at infrared wavelengths. Interestingly they are brightest and shine at infrared wavelengths. Also many molecules emit brightly at many specific infrared wavelengths and also absorb light at specific infrared wavelengths. So infrared observing is great for studying planets not just ones in our"
X Link 2025-12-07T10:00Z 792.4K followers, 4610 engagements
"Jupiters Ultraviolet Aurora The Solar Systems Wildest Light ShowImagine an aurora so insanely powerful it makes Earths Northern Lights look like a flickering candle. Jupiters polar auroras glow primarily in ultraviolet light and crank out up to a thousand times more energy than our planets displays combined.What fuels this cosmic rave Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in the Solar Systemroughly 20000 times stronger than Earths. That monstrous magnetosphere acts like a giant particle accelerator grabbing high-speed charged particles (mostly electrons and ions) from the"
X Link 2025-12-07T12:36Z 792.4K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Exoplanet. Magnitude XXX Earthquake Strikes Alaska Alaska recorded XXX earthquakes in the first week of December with the strongest being a powerful magnitude XXX near Yakutat on December X. For comparison the state recorded XXX earthquakes in the same period last November. This represents a XXXX% decrease in seismic activity from November to Decembe"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:16Z 792.4K followers, 41.6K engagements
"This is one of the most exciting JWST results to date: the discovery of XX ultra-high-redshift galaxy candidates with photometric redshifts ranging from z XX up to z XX (Rohn-Singh et al. 2025 ApJ).To put that in perspective:z = XX light left when the universe was XXX million years old z = XX light left when the universe was only 180220 million years old Thats within the first XX % of cosmic history.Key points that make this paper so disruptive:Sheer number: Finding XX candidates in just a few small JWST pointings (mostly in the SMACS 0723 cluster field using gravitational lensing"
X Link 2025-12-08T01:39Z 792.4K followers, 6570 engagements
"July 1969. Three men 240000 miles from home standing on another world for the first time in history.They turned around.There it was: Earthrise.Not the familiar globe from textbooks but a living glowing jewel (half-lit cloud-swirled impossibly delicate) hanging above the barren lunar horizon like a drop of water about to fall into the borders. No nations. Just one thin fragile atmosphere wrapping a single blue oasis in an ocean of darkness.Neil Armstrong later said the sight made the Moon feel suddenly huge and empty. Buzz Aldrin called it a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky. Michael"
X Link 2025-12-08T08:51Z 792.4K followers, 18.3K engagements
"When two worlds collide This stunning Chandra X-ray image captures IC 1623 (also known as VV 114) a pair of spiral galaxies about XXX million light-years away in Cetus locked in a violent slow-motion merger.What youre seeing:The bright blue-white regions = super-hot gas heated to millions of degrees by supernova shockwaves and the chaos of the collision. The diffuse pink-purple glow = X-ray emission from gas being ripped apart and compressed as the galaxies smash together. Total energy output in X-rays is enormous: equivalent to billions of Suns. The merger is triggering an intense starburst"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:24Z 792.4K followers, 4362 engagements
"The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:33Z 792.4K followers, 7931 engagements
"Large fireball appeared over Hawaiis Sky - Credit: CFHT-Asahi StarCam Video"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:55Z 792.4K followers, 4329 engagements
"Edward White the first American in space. Aboard the Gemini X spacecraft. June X 1965"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:53Z 792.4K followers, 4489 engagements
"Arp XX Constellation: Serpens Distance: XXX million light years Arp XX is a pair of interacting galaxies specifically a pair of spiral galaxies NGC 5953 and NGC 5954 that are gravitationally linked and undergoing a galactic dance. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA J. Dalcanton"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:39Z 792.4K followers, 4660 engagements
"NGC 1345 Constellation: Eridanus Distance: XX million light years NGC 1345 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:12Z 792.4K followers, 5386 engagements
"James Webb has discovered the Cosmic Vine an immense chain of at least twenty young galaxies stretching more than thirteen million light-years across the early universe. This glowing bow-shaped structure existed when the cosmos was less than two billion years old an era when standard models say nothing this huge and organized should have had time to form.Each galaxy in the chain is energetically forming stars yet some have already burned through their gas and gone quiet signs of violent early mergers. Together they trace a cosmic filament one of the first highways along which matter flowed to"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:23Z 792.4K followers, 6352 engagements
"2025 breakthrough: Dark matter may have just been seen for the first University astronomers using XX years of Fermi telescope data found a faint spherical gamma-ray halo around the Milky Ways center. Its shape and XX GeV energy peak perfectly match predictions for dark matter particles (WIMPs 0.50.8 TeV) annihilating each other.If confirmed this is the first direct visual evidence of dark matter in XX years. Skeptics note it could still be unresolved pulsars. Final verdict awaits next-gen telescopes (CTAO).In short: we may have just witnessed the glow of the invisible universe"
X Link 2025-12-09T06:52Z 792.4K followers, 5283 engagements
"If Jupiter suddenly disappeared"
X Link 2025-12-09T08:10Z 792.4K followers, 85.2K engagements