# ![@coreyspowell Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::21634600.png) @coreyspowell Corey S. Powell

Corey S. Powell posts on X about solar, earth, space, sun the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  5.13% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2.56% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  2.56%

**Social topic influence**
[solar](/topic/solar) 12.82%, [earth](/topic/earth) 11.97%, [space](/topic/space) 11.11%, [sun](/topic/sun) 10.26%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 8.55%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 6.84%, [stars](/topic/stars) 5.98%, [to the](/topic/to-the) 5.13%, [sky](/topic/sky) 4.27%, [planet](/topic/planet) 4.27%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"News from the edge of the visible universe: JWST has confirmed this galaxy MoM-z14 as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was [----] billion years ago 98% of the way back to the Big Bang. (MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-pushes-boundaries-of-observable-universe-closer-to-big-bang/ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-pushes-boundaries-of-observable-universe-closer-to-big-bang/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2019883393777799404)  2026-02-06T21:18Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved a great Moon mystery: Why does its far side look totally different than the side facing us A huge impact [---] billion years ago melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided according to a new study. https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022055068762353822)  2026-02-12T21:07Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Radio is beyond red Gamma rays beyond blue There are [--] octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum But only one we can view #ValentinesDay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022742751574659139)  2026-02-14T18:40Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"For context this is a sketch of OSIRIS-REx's path around Bennu as it executed its rapid descent and return earlier this week. https://www.asteroidmission.org/attachment_id=23029#main https://www.asteroidmission.org/attachment_id=23029#main"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1251142622774730752)  2020-04-17T13:37Z 78.2K followers, [--] engagements


"On Earth avalanches are terrifying. On the Sun they are simply overwhelming. The @ESASolarOrbiter captured this magnetic avalanche on the Sun as it triggered a major solar flare. There's an outline of Earth at the beginning of the video for scale. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Magnetic_avalanches_power_solar_flares_finds_Solar_Orbiter https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Magnetic_avalanches_power_solar_flares_finds_Solar_Orbiter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2017619211825078544)  2026-01-31T15:21Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Many people are claiming Japan Space Systems' OHISAMA satellite has achieved space-based power beaming.but I can't find any official word. No paper. No press release. No trace of JSS online just a PowerPoint from a [----] energy conference. Has anyone seen a primary source"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2020565739329974763)  2026-02-08T18:29Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@simonmontefiore It really is a spectacular image Not from JWST though. This is a [----] image from NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter; the image was processed by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran. Original available here: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/jupiters-clouds-of-many-colors/ https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/jupiters-clouds-of-many-colors/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2020568092003196972)  2026-02-08T18:39Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@DJSnM Thank you for calling them out. This is a Juno image processed by Gerald Eichstadt & Sean Doran which has been flipped and saturated. People should know the real sources and credits. https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/jupiters-clouds-of-many-colors/ https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/jupiters-clouds-of-many-colors/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2020998895073984711)  2026-02-09T23:10Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"While scanning for alien signals researchers found a possible millisecond pulsar near the center of the Milky Way. If confirmed it could help study the structure of our galaxy & map the gravitational pull of the supermassive black hole at the center. https://news.columbia.edu/news/researchers-announce-discovery-possible-pulsar-milky-ways-center https://news.columbia.edu/news/researchers-announce-discovery-possible-pulsar-milky-ways-center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021009108363772281)  2026-02-09T23:51Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It's frustrating to see huge accounts spreading fake space images when real amazing images are easily accessible. Left: fake. Right: real image from the Akatsuki probe showing Venus's clouds backlit by infrared from its overheated lower atmosphere. https://akatsuki.isas.jaxa.jp/en/gallery/data/ https://akatsuki.isas.jaxa.jp/en/gallery/data/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021597701431869556)  2026-02-11T14:50Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Japan's under-appreciated Akatsuki Venus probe has greatly expanded our understanding of Earth's strange wayward twin. [---] degrees F and [--] atmospheres of pressure on the ground.superrotating winds above. Context and images here: https://www.planetary.org/articles/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki https://www.planetary.org/articles/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021603392359932148)  2026-02-11T15:13Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Ten years ago today physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves disturbances from colliding black holes [---] billion light years away. That was when we as a species developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column: https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021695507773391288)  2026-02-11T21:19Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@RobJLow Breaking news in a GR class What a moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021699606246010908)  2026-02-11T21:35Z 78.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@CosmicDaryl The singularity (if real) does not exist in our universe. Neither strictly speaking does the event horizon; it lies in our future. The gravitational field (spacetime distortion) does exist in our universe and when perturbed it creates gravitational waves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021712657091592502)  2026-02-11T22:27Z 78.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Amazing: the most detailed map of dark matter in the universe based on JWST observations of [------] galaxies. Background image shows the galaxies in infrared light. Yellow indicates the location of dark matter inferred from its gravitational pull. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2018857135577411711)  2026-02-04T01:20Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@jondpratt @martinmbauer This is an image of the sky seen in gamma rays produced by the annihilation of electrons and positrons (antimatter). We can tell because electron-positron annihilation emits radiation at a specific energy which we can detect and measure on Earth. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01066 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01066"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2021622806673264973)  2026-02-11T16:30Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Over the years there have been a lot of weird explanations for our two-faced Moon. Samples from the far side suggest a simpler & more logical answer linking the division to the asteroid blast that carved the Moon's South PoleAitken basin. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515408123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515408123"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022055494094139727)  2026-02-12T21:09Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@PNASNews Apollo lunar samples hinted at a strange flurry of major impacts that happened hundreds of millions of years after the solar system formed: the "late heavy bombardment." Chang'e-6 samples suggest it was an illusion addressing another major puzzle. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9265 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9265"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022055755697058178)  2026-02-12T21:10Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@PNASNews @ScienceMagazine @ScienceAdvances China's sample-return mission from the lunar far side is greatly expanding our understanding of the solar system. I hope the renewed interest in the Moon brings a lot of new lunar science with it. Here's a look back [---] billion years: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260208011014.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260208011014.htm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022056056558694463)  2026-02-12T21:11Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"A panorama of cosmic life & death: These images of the Sculptor Galaxy combine [---] exposures in 1000s of colors [---] gigs of data. They show [---] planetary nebulae (the demise of other Suns) + a central "chimney" caused by a burst of newly formed stars. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/ https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2020552068168090095)  2026-02-08T17:35Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Meanwhile JWST & the Chandra Observatory teamed up to discover JADES-ID1 the most distant known galaxy cluster. Enormous structures (galaxies & galaxy clusters) formed surprising quickly in the early universe. This one is from [----] billion years ago https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/protoc/ https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/protoc/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2019883664780431563)  2026-02-06T21:19Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@konstructivizm Great information here but readers should know that the artwork is fantasy. This is an actual image of Comet 3I/ATLAS shortly after its closest approach to the Sun. https://britastro.org/observations/observation.phpid=20251109_131937_d020b5f5984edbd4 https://britastro.org/observations/observation.phpid=20251109_131937_d020b5f5984edbd4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022196441272529268)  2026-02-13T06:29Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"A cheat sheet to the entire electromagnetic rainbow that comes to us from the distant universe. (The image here shows the gamma ray sky.) https://astrobites.org/2022/10/16/guide-to-the-electromagnetic-spectrum-in-astronomy-2/ https://astrobites.org/2022/10/16/guide-to-the-electromagnetic-spectrum-in-astronomy-2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/2022743773533315179)  2026-02-14T18:44Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"If Betelgeuse decides to go supernova the first warning sign will be a blast of neutrinos. Good thing we now have real-time neutrino detectors running (and you can watch them online like a cosmic-ray webcam). https://nusoft.fnal.gov/nova/public/ https://nusoft.fnal.gov/nova/public/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1217210671269584897)  2020-01-14T22:23Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@NatSolarObs OK maybe you can mess with Texas but definitely don't mess with the Sun: https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-context-full-sun/ https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-context-full-sun/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1222598426594070528)  2020-01-29T19:12Z 78.2K followers, 12.4K engagements


"A crescent Earth rising over the Moon seen from Apollo [--] on February [--] [----]. Not as famous as the Apollo [--] Earthrise but this one has such an eerie beauty. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200201.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200201.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1224008427145506817)  2020-02-02T16:35Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Glowing lava inside Chile's Villarrica Volcano created this searchlight through a snowstorm with the Large Magellanic Cloud in the background. What a shot (Credit: Cristobal Saavedra Escobar) https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/photos-of-the-week-idUSRTS209HO https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/photos-of-the-week-idUSRTS209HO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1226201250640859137)  2020-02-08T17:48Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Sheep flow like liquid blobs as they are herded by shepherd dogs. So much like a liquid in fact that a group of physicists modeled them using the principles of fluid dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09467 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09467"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1232831530172649472)  2020-02-27T00:55Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"38 years ago #today the Soviet Venera [--] lander made the first sound recordings on another planet. Amazingly it took place on the hellish surface of Venus. (This clip is from Venera [--] its twin which landed [--] days later.) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8jZDW53U8qQ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8jZDW53U8qQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1234339270011375616)  2020-03-02T04:46Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I see versions of this nonsense claim all the time. This one went hugely viral. So let's dig into the actual numbers cars versus volcanoes. (1/x)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1235658096162242568)  2020-03-05T20:07Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico just bounced radar off a spinning mile-wide rock [--] million miles away moving at 20000mph.and we got pictures back. These observations amaze me every time. http://www.naic.edu/pradar/ http://www.naic.edu/pradar/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1253356070799577093)  2020-04-23T16:12Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"One of the coolest new concepts getting NASA support: A proposal to turn a crater on the far side of the Moon into a giant robot-built radio telescope. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/ https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1256603930706022400)  2020-05-02T15:18Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"What the stars of Orion will look like in the far future based on data from @ESAGaia. Here you see the next [------] years of the sky compressed into [--] seconds https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/59206-the-future-of-the-orion-constellation https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/59206-the-future-of-the-orion-constellation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1306132151113601028)  2020-09-16T07:25Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"If you could watch the sky long enough you'd see that all of the stars are alive with motion. This marvelous @ESAGaia animation shows the actual star positions for the next [---] million years. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/12/Gaia_s_stellar_motion_for_the_next_1.6_million_years https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/12/Gaia_s_stellar_motion_for_the_next_1.6_million_years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1334500170554335235)  2020-12-03T14:10Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This may be the longest photographic exposure ever taken: An 8-year image of the Sun's path through the sky taken with a pinhole camera made out of a beer can. https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1337073244621463556)  2020-12-10T16:34Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"There is beauty out there everywhere we look. At the south pole of Jupiter @NASAJuno watched as a new storm tried to turn a pentagon of cyclones into a symmetric hexagon. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.phpfeature=7798 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.phpfeature=7798"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1338006674297253888)  2020-12-13T06:23Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Every known object in the solar system more than [--] kilometers in diameter. This gorgeous map is the work of data artist Eleanor Lutz: https://eleanorlutz.com/mapping-18000-asteroids https://eleanorlutz.com/mapping-18000-asteroids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1350679989054828544)  2021-01-17T05:42Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"What's that spaceship flying over the Sun It's the International Space Station captured in a great perspective shot by photographer Andrew McCarthy. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/andrew-mccarthy-iss/ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/andrew-mccarthy-iss/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1353048827205398529)  2021-01-23T18:35Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"All the Moon phases of [----]. As a bonus this NASA animation shows how the Moon appears to tilt and wobble as it orbits the Earth. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1353750462432993283)  2021-01-25T17:03Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Earth has a tiny second moon known as [----] SO. But not for long: In two days it will swing past us and break free returning to an independent orbit around the Sun. https://earthsky.org/space/2020-so-mini-moon-asteroid-or-space-junk https://earthsky.org/space/2020-so-mini-moon-asteroid-or-space-junk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1355527015236050949)  2021-01-30T14:43Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A webcam atop Maunakea in Hawaii captured a singular moment: Upward-shooting red sprite & blue jet lightning to the right the Gemini North observatory to the left the handle of the Big Dipper in the distance. https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2108a/ https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2108a/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1364795251681075200)  2021-02-25T04:31Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Remarkable engineering: How to make an 8.4-meter (27.6-foot) mirror for the new Giant Magellan Telescope by cooking glass blocks in an enormous spinning oven. https://news.arizona.edu/story/sixth-mirror-casting-brings-giant-magellan-telescope-closer-completion https://news.arizona.edu/story/sixth-mirror-casting-brings-giant-magellan-telescope-closer-completion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1368033330948620296)  2021-03-06T02:58Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Insane overhead drone footage of Iceland's Reykjanes eruption captured by photographer Garar lafs. https://www.instagram.com/p/CM63xBnF2Ff/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CM63xBnF2Ff/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1376029034597998597)  2021-03-28T04:31Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"For the first-ever flight on another world the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars carries with it a small piece of the Wright Brothers' first airplane. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24291 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24291"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1380927426633420803)  2021-04-10T16:55Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"All the stars and brown dwarfs within [--] parsecs (33 light years) as revealed by the @ESAGaia mission. Get to know your celestial neighborhood https://gruze.org/10pc/resources/ https://gruze.org/10pc/resources/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1390353620630114309)  2021-05-06T17:11Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Stop and look for a moment: We live here nestled among [---] billion stars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1411718890162372609)  2021-07-04T16:09Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The National Ignition Facility just achieved a 70% return on fusion energy. Although NIF is not a model for a fusion power plant this is a notable physics & engineering advance. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/explosive-new-result-laser-powered-fusion-effort-nears-ignition https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/explosive-new-result-laser-powered-fusion-effort-nears-ignition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1427675294756970499)  2021-08-17T16:54Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"24 hours of Earth's rotation with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock. Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyski. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1465321538949951496)  2021-11-29T14:07Z 78.2K followers, 19.1K engagements


"Spectacular: Today's solar eclipse over Antarctica captured from a flight above the Weddell Sea. Photo by Petr Horlek https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.phpupload_id=180095 https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.phpupload_id=180095"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1467174126884380680)  2021-12-04T16:49Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Wow: Shadow of the Moon sweeping across Antarctica during the December [--] solar eclipse. This view was captured by the DSCOVR space-weather station which hangs out [--] million miles sunward from the Earth. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1467680090653970438)  2021-12-06T02:19Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Parker Solar Probe flew through the kinds of streamers that are visible during a solar eclipse. Now we know what they are like from the inside. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/177 https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/177"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1471174674822402058)  2021-12-15T17:45Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"People often ask how doesn't the Parker Solar Probe melt Here's a sample of its heat shield: You can blowtorch one side and not feel it on the other. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BKinVmBoIrE https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BKinVmBoIrE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1471179731030708227)  2021-12-15T18:05Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"To generate electricity the Parker Probe needs to poke its solar panels into blistering sunshine. So it also has a 6000-watt cooling system that continuously circulates high-pressure water to wisk away the heat. Clever engineering http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.phparticleID=30 http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.phparticleID=30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1471350531171958789)  2021-12-16T05:24Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Oh look there goes the @NASAWebb space telescope speeding off to its new home (The fainter object moving below it is the 4-km-wide asteroid [----] DF10.) Fabulous imagery captured at the Bayfordbury Observatory. http://www.herts.ac.uk/bayfordbury/bayfordbury-observatory http://www.herts.ac.uk/bayfordbury/bayfordbury-observatory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1479154564037476354)  2022-01-06T18:15Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Beautiful engineering: This is the filter wheel for MIRI one of the Webb telescope's three imaging cameras. Each of the [--] elements here provides a distinct perspective on the universe. https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-18-jwst-launch https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-18-jwst-launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1481314781818769408)  2022-01-12T17:19Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@andrewflood Reverse it and watch how new geologists are born"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1488652168395694080)  2022-02-01T23:15Z 78.2K followers, 11.9K engagements


"The true colors of the solar system a short thread. * First let's start with the Sun. Can we all agree it's white to the eye * inspired by James ODonoghue & Marina Koren with some color corrections by me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1489602243108253702)  2022-02-04T14:10Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Just look at this marvelous wind sculpture on Mars seen last week by NASA's Curiosity rover. It led me to learn the term for these formations: "ventifacts." (Image processing by @mars_stu) https://www.mindat.org/a/ventifacts https://www.mindat.org/a/ventifacts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1495242989312032772)  2022-02-20T03:44Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


""Warped space" sounds like a very abstract concept -- but you can really SEE it in the new JWST image. This is what gravity does to the light of a distant galaxy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1546628373539131394)  2022-07-11T22:51Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"For some genuine mind-blowing space imagery: This is a star going supernova & its light echoing out through galaxy Centaurus A captured in 2016-2017. Processing by @SpaceGeck. HT @Tom_Ruen https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NwuVXtIU0is https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NwuVXtIU0is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1553207623427788800)  2022-07-30T02:35Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Test #2: What is the source of the information If there is no source/link (or a generic ID like "NASA") that's a red flag. It's also a common tactic in bot accounts that scrape or steal images from the actual creators. 3/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554205085344956420)  2022-08-01T20:39Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Test #4: Common sense is useful even in deep space If someone is trying seriously to explain a counterintuitive idea they'll break it down for you. If someone is trying to confuse you they'll just leave the claim sitting there. 5/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554207908405067777)  2022-08-01T20:50Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Want the real story behind the "void in space" It's actually a dusty interstellar cloud probably on its way to collapsing into a new star in about [------] years. More information here via the European Southern Observatory: https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso9934/ https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso9934/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554209143732436992)  2022-08-01T20:55Z 78.2K followers, 15.3K engagements


"@musicscott Absolutely There's no good legit reason for an anonymous account to be cranking out sloppy and stolen content. At the very least don't follow these accounts. Better yet block them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554209775352676352)  2022-08-01T20:57Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Bottom line: These anonymous twitter accounts want big lists of followers and you don't want to be on those lists. Please don't follow or unfollow. There are many other legit places to get amazing science information"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554210819340177427)  2022-08-01T21:01Z 78.2K followers, 12.5K engagements


"The Perseid meteor shower peaks tomorrow night. It's caused by dust shed from Comet Swift-Tuttle; this is what the debris trail looks like as it orbits the Sun & intersects with Earth. #PerseidMeteorShower https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Perseids https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Perseids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1557424911597068288)  2022-08-10T17:53Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"From more than [--] million miles away NASA engineers have solved a problem with Lucy's solar panels. The spacecraft is now on track to explore [--] mysterious asteroids that were trapped by Jupiter's gravity. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-team-troubleshoots-asteroid-bound-lucy-across-millions-of-miles https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-team-troubleshoots-asteroid-bound-lucy-across-millions-of-miles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1558434588250234882)  2022-08-13T12:45Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The view from NASA's Artemis mission yesterday is just.words fail me. HT @JPMajor and the brilliant engineers & scientists who made this happen. #NASA #Artemis #space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1597589741926744065)  2022-11-29T13:54Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"You're about to hear a lot about #NuclearFusion. I've followed the field for years & can offer context. Top line: - NIF's "breakeven" does not generate more power than it consumes - NIF is not a model for a commercial fusion reactor - This news is a big deal all the same. 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1602529903165022209)  2022-12-13T05:04Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a real time-lapse video of planets orbiting the star HR [----] [---] light years away: four super-Jupiter worlds dancing around their sun. Amazing Images collected at the Keck Observatory processed by William Thompson (@AstroWrt). #astronomy #space https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14213 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14213"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1606437805948911616)  2022-12-23T23:53Z 78.2K followers, 696.4K engagements


"Researchers have discovered the first known "virovore" an organism that feeds on viruses. Probably there are many others like it -- an entire previously unknown food chain. One day into [----] and already things are going topsy turvy. #ecology #life https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975344 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975344"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1609692035769946112)  2023-01-01T23:24Z 78.2K followers, 906.7K engagements


"Supermassive black holes can swallow entire stars. But new observations show that sometimes they like to play with their food nibbling at the same star over and over. #astronomy #BlackHoles https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_spies_black_holes_eating_the_same_stars_again_and_again https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_spies_black_holes_eating_the_same_stars_again_and_again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1615887891451842560)  2023-01-19T01:44Z 78.2K followers, 96.1K engagements


"If you saw this headline or one like it you might reasonably have thought the world has gone mad. The inside of the Earth is spinning backwards *But that is not at all what the actual research says.* a short thread #RealityCheck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1617907735022145536)  2023-01-24T15:30Z 78.2K followers, 434.6K engagements


"I was a NASA intern in the '80s when I heard that astronomers had discovered a mysterious disk around the nearby star Fomalhaut. Now JWST has revealed exactly what they are: three enormous dusty asteroid belts around another star https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-109 https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-109"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1655602935739428864)  2023-05-08T15:57Z 78.2K followers, 101.2K engagements


"These are some of the most detailed pictures ever taken of the Sun captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope. To get a sense of how big the Sun is the zoomed-in image is about as wide as the entire Earth. https://nso.edu/press-release/new-images-released-by-nsfs-inouye-solar-telescope/ https://nso.edu/press-release/new-images-released-by-nsfs-inouye-solar-telescope/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1659779384406835200)  2023-05-20T04:33Z 78.2K followers, 96.6K engagements


"Humans have pumped so much groundwater that we have measurably shifted Earth's axis. https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1669380589479133192)  2023-06-15T16:25Z 78.2K followers, 238.1K engagements


"I've seen a lot of pictures of Saturn but there's something really magical about this new raw image from JWST. Pixel noise + filter selection make the planet vanish -- just a set of rings floating in space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1673072848242343939)  2023-06-25T20:57Z 78.2K followers, 335.9K engagements


"For the first time here is our galaxy seen in the "light" of neutrinos. A remarkable achievement by the team at @uw_icecube. https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/press-releases/2023/06/our-galaxy-seen-through-a-new-lens-neutrinos-detected-by-icecube/ https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/press-releases/2023/06/our-galaxy-seen-through-a-new-lens-neutrinos-detected-by-icecube/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1674491222763663371)  2023-06-29T18:53Z 78.2K followers, 171K engagements


"4.5 billion years ago a protoplanet called Theia smashed into Earth & led to the formation of the Moon. Or so the theory goes. Now researchers say they've identified Theia's remains still buried deep inside our planet. What an amazing story. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-earth-moon-collision-theia https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-earth-moon-collision-theia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1735358752331612240)  2023-12-14T17:59Z 78.2K followers, 69.7K engagements


"This is really happening NASA has confirmed the Dragonfly octocopter will launch in [----]. When it arrives it will fly over the organic-rich sands of Titan Saturn's largest moon. https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20231128.php https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20231128.php"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1780389296295330128)  2024-04-17T00:14Z 78.2K followers, 140.6K engagements


"A triangle of glowing plasma. Bigger than the Earth. Hovering over the surface of the Sun last week. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1830606042151174393)  2024-09-02T13:57Z 78.2K followers, 48.6K engagements


"Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are out.and they are spectacular. Here's the overall winner a time-sequence of a solar eclipse that shows deepening shadows from mountains on the Moon. (Credit: Ryan Imperio) https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/exhibition_gl=1*11jmz2c*_up*MQ.*_ga*MTgwMTMyNzExNS4xNzI2MjQyNDQy*_ga_7JJ3J5DBF6*MTcyNjI0MjQ0MS4xLjAuMTcyNjI0MjQ0MS4wLjAuMA.*_ga_4MH5VEZTEK*MTcyNjI0MjQ0MS4xLjAuMTcyNjI0MjQ0MS4wLjAuMA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1834620303923675162)  2024-09-13T15:49Z 78.2K followers, 162.6K engagements


"In one image: Every celestial object we've landed on (excluding crash landings on Jupiter & Eros). HT @Astro_Govert http://t.co/xCDr3zLpde"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/532970926795534337)  2014-11-13T18:59Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Every atom in your body has a cosmic origin story. Brilliant graphic by @jajohnson51. #aas229"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/817138736148447232)  2017-01-05T22:40Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"We could all use a dose of beauty right now. @CassiniSaturn probe just delivered. (Processing: @EliBonora)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/832312705352613888)  2017-02-16T19:36Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Brilliant: We could map the surface of a distant Earthlike planet by using the sun as a huge magnifying glass. #v2050"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/836243294497599488)  2017-02-27T15:55Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This map of the reactions that turn food into energy just blew my mind. Far beyond what I learned in biology class. http://tabletopwhale.com/2017/05/16/a-galaxy-of-molecules.html http://tabletopwhale.com/2017/05/16/a-galaxy-of-molecules.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/865406275030441987)  2017-05-19T03:18Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"NASA commanded Voyager [--] to fire its thrusters for the first time in [--] years. [--] billion miles away off in interstellar space the probe responded perfectly. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.phprelease=2017-310 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.phprelease=2017-310"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/936704516979875840)  2017-12-01T21:12Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@neiltyson @johnwenz The Gap is a zoo for pants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/987892362222415873)  2018-04-22T03:14Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Wow wow: Dust stars and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P captured by the @ESA_Rosetta probe (+ amazing processing by @landru79)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/988579545988124673)  2018-04-24T00:45Z 78.2K followers, 16.1K engagements


"Planetary scientists get to do fun things like throw a bunch of giant protoplanets at Uranus to see which one properly knocks it over onto its side. http://icc.dur.ac.uk/giant_impacts/ http://icc.dur.ac.uk/giant_impacts/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1029230010861871104)  2018-08-14T04:55Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I can't stop looking at this: a radio picture of our galaxy reflecting off the surface of the Moon. https://astro3d.org.au/mwa_moon/ https://astro3d.org.au/mwa_moon/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1052560701326278656)  2018-10-17T14:03Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"What a gorgeous shot of last night's meeting of Venus Jupiter and the Moon. (Photo by by Ian Carstairs Norfolk UK; ht @mizuho73700856)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1090979978286645249)  2019-01-31T14:27Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Sick transit glorious Monday. #MercuryTransit https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/ https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1193904673243238403)  2019-11-11T14:53Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the sharpest movie of the Sun ever made. Even at this fine resolution the scale is enormous; each plasma cell here is about the size of Texas. via @NatSolarObs https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-cropped-field-movie/ https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-cropped-field-movie/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1222587352037691393)  2020-01-29T18:28Z 78.2K followers, 111.9K engagements


"Astronomers have just discovered the first alien planet that practices social distancing: LHS 1815b swoops [----] light years above & below the plane of the Milky Way far from most of our galaxy's stars. https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-just-found-an-exoplanet-that-swoops-outside-the-galactic-plane https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-just-found-an-exoplanet-that-swoops-outside-the-galactic-plane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1239605189625221122)  2020-03-16T17:31Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Planet LHS 1815b is almost exactly the size of Earth but has an estimated surface temperature around [---] degrees F. That's another effective way to keep people away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1239608966952476674)  2020-03-16T17:46Z 78.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Imagine wandering around on the night-side of a tiny asteroid looking with a flashlight. No need to imagine: That's what the MASCOT lander did on asteroid Ryugu. https://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/hayabusa2-lander-mania.html https://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/hayabusa2-lander-mania.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1242818263878434819)  2020-03-25T14:18Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"On Tuesday NASA's @OSIRISREx plunged toward asteroid Bennu preparing to grab samples from the surface and came away with this remarkable video. That's a 900-foot-wide asteroid [---] million miles from Earth https://www.asteroidmission.org/latest-news=one-step-closer-to-touching-asteroid-bennu https://www.asteroidmission.org/latest-news=one-step-closer-to-touching-asteroid-bennu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1251139552485552129)  2020-04-17T13:24Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Infrared image of Jupiter from the Gemini North observatory shows heat welling up from the planet's interior blotted out by cold clouds up top. Just amazing https://www.gemini.edu/pr/gemini-gets-lucky-and-takes-deep-dive-jupiter-s-clouds https://www.gemini.edu/pr/gemini-gets-lucky-and-takes-deep-dive-jupiter-s-clouds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1258483728604635137)  2020-05-07T19:47Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Earth's magnetic field is weakening over South America creating a hazard zone for low-orbiting satellites. It's a sign of little-understood changes happening in our planet's core. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/Swarm_probes_weakening_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/Swarm_probes_weakening_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1264665775979323393)  2020-05-24T21:13Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Paleontologists have solved the riddle of Tanystropheus a bizarre dinosaur-era reptile that had 3x as much neck as body. https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2020/Tanystropheus.html https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2020/Tanystropheus.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1291909059357147136)  2020-08-08T01:28Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Jake_Wolff Let's not forget the New Yorker version: On a sunny afternoon in June of [----] north of Monterey California -- the Monterey Pop Festival was happening just miles away unknown to my six-year-old self -- I ate my first hotdog. I remember the taste"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1326208163918602242)  2020-11-10T17:00Z 78.2K followers, [---] engagements


"This is just marvelous: A billion years of plate tectonics reconstructed by Andrew Merdith et al. If you have enough patience Earth looks like a living pulsing organism. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220305237dgcid=coauthor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220305237dgcid=coauthor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1356468726309208064)  2021-02-02T05:05Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism--an ancient mechanical calculator--has been amazingly meticulously reconstructed. It could predict eclipses phases of the Moon and the motions of the planets. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/mar/experts-recreate-mechanical-cosmos-worlds-first-computer https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/mar/experts-recreate-mechanical-cosmos-worlds-first-computer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1370976227595534337)  2021-03-14T05:52Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was.staggering. http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.phparticleID=173 http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.phparticleID=173"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1471147994456145926)  2021-12-15T15:59Z 78.2K followers, 57.6K engagements


"Twitter is full of "wonder science" accounts many of them full of stolen images & misinformation. The recent viral tweet about the alleged void in space offers a good case study in how to spot the fakes. 1/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1554203795579625478)  2022-08-01T20:33Z 78.2K followers, 58.8K engagements


"Test #1: Who is sending the tweet Reputable researchers journalists and institutions identify themselves. If the account is anonymous and contains no information you should be suspicious. 2/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554204434049236994)  2022-08-01T20:36Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Test #3: Improbable precision. It's a classic bluffing technique. If someone told you "I drove from Boston to New York in [----------] hours" you'd recognize that the precision is impossible even before you register that the speed is impossible. 4/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1554206741994377219)  2022-08-01T20:45Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"One week ago an exceptionally bright gamma ray burst lit up the sky indicating the likely birth of a black hole [---] billion light years away. NASA's Swift space telescope captured this image of the burst illuminating layers of dust in our galaxy. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14227 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14227"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1581677162641645569)  2022-10-16T16:03Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The gravitational "hum" of the universe lies far outside the range of human experience. Its frequency is measured in decades its wavelength in light years. The sound of the universe as detected by @nanograv is approximately [--] octaves below middle c -- if you could hear it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1674219018637524993)  2023-06-29T00:51Z 78.2K followers, 47.1K engagements


"OSIRIS-REx is an amazing mission but it is NOT the first time a spacecraft has brought an asteroid sample back to Earth Japan did it first with the Hayabusa spacecraft in [----] and more successfully with Hayabusa-2 in [----]. https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/ https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1705971559339274449)  2023-09-24T15:44Z 78.2K followers, 47.9K engagements


"Samples of Bennu a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars gummy polymers and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system. There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/1996443834453201213)  2025-12-04T04:57Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Migrating swarm of stingrays (a "fever" of rays). Not Photoshopped. Not an Escher drawing. http://t.co/RGJuwe3WlP http://t.co/teQla61bjz http://bit.ly/Z8lcYC http://bit.ly/Z8lcYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/507547401716903936)  2014-09-04T15:15Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In honor of #wintersolstice here's the world's smallest snowman less than [--] microns tall. http://nanofabrication.tumblr.com/post/154552479516/the-worlds-smallest-snowman-stands-less-than-3 http://nanofabrication.tumblr.com/post/154552479516/the-worlds-smallest-snowman-stands-less-than-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/811611536603152384)  2016-12-21T16:37Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Aurora chasers spotted a strange arc of light--a discovery so new that scientists are just calling it "Steve." http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/When_Swarm_met_Steve http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/When_Swarm_met_Steve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/855882599516000258)  2017-04-22T20:34Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The population of Manhattan hour by hour over the course of a week. Fabulous data visualization by @citrusvanilla. http://manpopex.us/ http://manpopex.us/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/coreyspowell/status/994210834887921670)  2018-05-09T13:41Z 78.2K followers, [----] engagements

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