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[@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/twitter/ExploreCosmos_)
"Using new infrared images from the #JWST astronomers have captured vivid detail of the colossal jet of subatomic particles blasting from M87* the same supermassive black hole that was the first ever imaged. These images not only confirm known features of the main jet at a level of clarity never before seen but also reveal a counter-jet shooting in the opposite direction. The jet is traveling at nearly the speed of light and the infrared views bridge what was known from radio and optical wavelengths allowing scientists to better map its structure and how it emerges from the black holes core."  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978806058651935017) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T12:51Z 48.3K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Scientists at the Universities of @unibirmingham and @SussexUni have devised a novel compact detector that could finally fill a key gap in our ability to observe gravitational waves. Employing advanced optical cavities combined with atomic-clock techniques the device is tuned to detect gravitational waves in the elusive milli-Hertz (mid-band) range a spectrum inaccessible to both current ground-based instruments like @LIGO /Virgo and pulsar timing arrays. Because the design is small robust against seismic and Newtonian noise and able to fit on a laboratory table it could pave the way for a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978837905159127081) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T14:58Z 48.3K followers, 3523 engagements


"One of the deepest questions in cosmology is whether the universe stretches on forever or has a limit. The observable evidence shows that space itself is expanding yet this expansion does not imply an edge or center its not an explosion into something but an increase in distance between all points everywhere at once. Theres no outside or beyond because everything that exists is contained within space-time itself. In this sense asking what lies beyond the universe is like asking whats north of the North Pole: the question loses meaning within the framework of relativity. Still the ultimate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1977960636739891651) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-14T04:52Z 48.3K followers, 23.7K engagements


"Don't you just love these places 🥹💚🤎 #Autumn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978840333707247964) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T15:07Z 48.3K followers, 4373 engagements


"When the #JWST embarked on its deep-sky surveys one of the most intriguing discoveries was a set of ultra-compact deeply red-coloured objects dubbed Little Red Dots (LRDs) which appeared to be galaxies from the very early Universe. Although there is no definitive consensus yet astronomers currently favour two leading interpretations. One is the stellar-only scenario: these LRDs are intensely star-forming dust-rich galaxies whose high density and dust content redden them making them compact red and unusually small by galaxy standards. The other is the massive-black-hole + galaxy hypothesis:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1979578357688783283) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-18T16:00Z 48.3K followers, 8428 engagements


"Between X and X October 2025 ESAs ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their instruments toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it swept past Mars giving ESA the closest views of the comet from any of its spacecraft. During its closest approach on X October the comet lay about XX million km from the orbiters. ExoMars TGO employed its CaSSIS camera to track the comet as a dim fuzzy dot against the blackness of space too faint to resolve its solid nucleus but bright enough to reveal its gaseous coma a halo of gas and dust expanding from the nucleus under solar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1975803550241259575) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-08T06:00Z 48.2K followers, 6172 engagements


"In preparation for the Sentinel-1D mission @esa s mission control teams ran an extreme what-if simulation: what would happen if a solar storm of Carrington-scale intensity struck The exercise plunged controllers into a scenario where communications navigation and tracking systems fail electronics suffer bit-flips and malfunctions and satellite orbits are thrown into chaos. In the simulation a powerful solar flare first knocked out GPS Galileo ground station links and radar infrastructure. Minutes later energetic particles inundated spacecraft disrupting onboard electronics. Then hours later a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978667908495532213) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T03:42Z 48.2K followers, 3387 engagements


"@druez2 @esa Youre confusing astrophotography with heliophysics. @esa doesnt chase comets for likes it builds the systems that stop your GPS power grid and satellites from frying when the Sun sneezes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978838747564134821) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T15:01Z 48.2K followers, XX engagements


"Astronomers using @almaobs have for the first time revealed in a large and statistically meaningful survey of XX massive star-forming regions how gravity gradually wrests control from magnetic fields during the collapse of gas clouds toward new stars. At the largest scales magnetic fields and turbulence resist gravitational collapse but as gas becomes denser and spirals inward the magnetic fields are dragged into alignment with the inflow showing that gravity overtakes magnetic forces in shaping the cloud. The observed field orientations fall into two patterns either aligned with or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1977963498677174696) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-14T05:03Z 48.3K followers, 3353 engagements


"Researchers from the University of Bremens ZARM institute and the Transylvanian University of Braov propose that the universes accelerating expansion might be explained without invoking mysterious dark energy. Traditionally cosmologists have relied on general relativity combined with the Friedmann equations inserting an ad hoc dark energy term to match observations. But the team has extended general relativity using a more general geometric framework known as Finsler gravity. When they re-derive the Friedmann equations in this Finslerian setting the resulting Finsler-Friedmann equations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978666480431464595) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T03:37Z 48.3K followers, 8427 engagements


"In a recent experiment physicists have for the first time recreated in a laboratory setting what an object would appear to look like if it were moving at an astonishing XXXX % of light speed. Rather than actually accelerating anything to relativistic velocities a task that would demand infeasible energy they used ultra-fast laser pulses and precisely timed camera shutters to record slices of light reflecting off static objects. By shifting the object slightly between each light-slice and then combining them into a composite image they produced what appears to be a snapshot of motion at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1977955722517254235) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-14T04:32Z 48.3K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Astronomers may be inching closer to finally confirming an exomoon. Using data from the #JWST alongside observations from other telescopes a team led has found evidence that a cloud of gas detected around the exoplanet WASP-39b could originate from a volcanic exo-Io type moon orbiting it. The chemical signatures especially sulfur dioxide fluctuate in a way that hints at eruptions more consistent with a solid body than the planet itself and the variations in sodium and potassium levels over more than a decade further support that idea. Critics caution that stellar activity or processes on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978177294255685681) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-14T19:13Z 48.3K followers, 5105 engagements


"Astronomers using the @keckobservatory have uncovered surprising and peculiar features in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS including a rare anti-tail pointing toward the Sun and an unexpected distribution of nickel in its coma. Discovered in July 2025 by the ATLAS survey 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object with a hyperbolic orbit (eccentricity 6.16.2) that ensures it will leave the Solar System. Through spectral analysis researchers detected emission lines of nickel (Ni) and cyanide (CN) though intriguingly iron (Fe) was only weakly or not at all present and found that Ni is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978906315201352164) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-16T19:30Z 48.3K followers, 6411 engagements


"Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and NASA have made a surprising discovery about Titan Saturns largest moon that challenges conventional chemistry and offers fresh perspective on prebiotic processes. In the frigid conditions of Titans surface where methane and ethane exist alongside hydrogen cyanide at temperatures near XX K the team found that hydrogen cyanide crystals can incorporate nonpolar molecules like methane and ethane into their lattice forming stable co-crystals. This is unexpected because under normal conditions polar and nonpolar substances resist mixing think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1979034370464780721) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-17T03:58Z 48.3K followers, 6260 engagements


"This is how scientists sharpened the vision of the #JWST which lies about XXX million kilometres away and cannot be serviced directly. They used a special mode called the aperture-masking interferometer (AMI) a precisely-machined metal plate inserted into one of Webbs cameras to diagnose and correct both optical and electronic distortions in the telescopes imagery. Despite its spectacular launch and initial images the team found that at the pixel-level resolution required for truly faint companions (like exoplanets or brown dwarfs beside bright stars) the images were slightly blurred due to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1979858298456228001) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-19T10:32Z 48.3K followers, 17.8K engagements


"Physicists are exploring the intriguing possibility that dark matter rather than being composed of individual particles could instead act like a kind of quantum wave when the particles are extremely light. In particular models of ultralight dark matter (with masses in the range around to X eV/) suggest that its behavior in galactic halos might be described by a wave-equation (specifically a version of the Schrdinger equation) rather than by classical collisionless particles. In this wave-like scenario the researchers applied a non-linear generalization known as the Gross-Pitaevskii equation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1979859408684229010) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-19T10:37Z 48.3K followers, 13.1K engagements