[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @ExploreCosmos_ Erika Erika posts on X about esa, comet, over the, 3iatlas the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 3625 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +23% - X Month XXXXXXX +24% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XX +11% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.18% - X Month XXXXXX +1.10% - X Months XXXXXX +6.60% - X Year XXXXXX +7.80% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/influence) --- **Social topic influence** [esa](/topic/esa), [comet](/topic/comet), [over the](/topic/over-the), [3iatlas](/topic/3iatlas), [university of](/topic/university-of) #902, [electronics](/topic/electronics), [chaos](/topic/chaos), [nasa](/topic/nasa), [clarity](/topic/clarity), [compact](/topic/compact) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1315900032365793281/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "A new study suggests that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS didnt originate near us at all but rather may have been launched from the boundary region between the Milky Ways thin disk and its more ancient thick disk offering a rare window into the early galaxy. Using data from ESAs Gaia telescope researchers retraced the comets path over the last XX million years calculating its interactions with dozens of nearby stars. None of them appear capable of having significantly altered its trajectory implying that 3I/ATLAS was already on a high-speed path long before entering our neighborhood. That" [X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1975285076997951839) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-06T19:40Z 48.2K followers, 18.4K 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 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 48.2K followers, 13.5K engagements "Using XX years of data from ESAs Swarm satellite constellation scientists have identified that Earths magnetic field particularly over the South Atlantic is weakening in a way thats both accelerating and shifting. The region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly first recognized in the 19th century has grown significantly between 2014 and 2025 expanding by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe. Intriguingly the most rapid loss of field strength since 2020 has occurred over the Atlantic southwest of Africa suggesting that the anomaly is not a monolithic zone but is evolving unevenly" [X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1977956927406588097) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-14T04:37Z 48.2K followers, 7086 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 48.2K followers, 3349 engagements "Astronomers using the @almaobs have for the first time detected doubly deuterated water (DO heavy water) in the planet-forming disk surrounding a young star (V883 Ori). This discovery reveals that the water present in such disks and therefore in comets and planets that may form from them did not originate in the disk itself but rather was inherited from ancient interstellar clouds that predated the star. The chemical fingerprint of DO demonstrates that these water molecules survived the violent processes of star formation intact and have been carried through cosmic history into nascent" [X Link](https://x.com/ExploreCosmos_/status/1978519385343197563) [@ExploreCosmos_](/creator/x/ExploreCosmos_) 2025-10-15T17:52Z 48.2K followers, 3977 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 "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 48.2K followers, 6206 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 48.2K followers, 23.6K 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 48.2K followers, 5088 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 48.2K followers, 8417 engagements "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 48.2K followers, 11.3K 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 48.2K followers, 3484 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 48.2K followers, 4340 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 48.2K followers, 6270 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 48.2K followers, 8006 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 48.2K followers, 9637 engagements
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@ExploreCosmos_ Erika
Erika posts on X about esa, comet, over the, 3iatlas the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 3625 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +23%
- X Month XXXXXXX +24%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XX +11%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX -XX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.18%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.10%
- X Months XXXXXX +6.60%
- X Year XXXXXX +7.80%
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Social topic influence esa, comet, over the, 3iatlas, university of #902, electronics, chaos, nasa, clarity, compact
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"A new study suggests that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS didnt originate near us at all but rather may have been launched from the boundary region between the Milky Ways thin disk and its more ancient thick disk offering a rare window into the early galaxy. Using data from ESAs Gaia telescope researchers retraced the comets path over the last XX million years calculating its interactions with dozens of nearby stars. None of them appear capable of having significantly altered its trajectory implying that 3I/ATLAS was already on a high-speed path long before entering our neighborhood. That"
X Link @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-06T19:40Z 48.2K followers, 18.4K 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-08T06:00Z 48.2K followers, 6172 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-14T04:32Z 48.2K followers, 13.5K engagements
"Using XX years of data from ESAs Swarm satellite constellation scientists have identified that Earths magnetic field particularly over the South Atlantic is weakening in a way thats both accelerating and shifting. The region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly first recognized in the 19th century has grown significantly between 2014 and 2025 expanding by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe. Intriguingly the most rapid loss of field strength since 2020 has occurred over the Atlantic southwest of Africa suggesting that the anomaly is not a monolithic zone but is evolving unevenly"
X Link @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-14T04:37Z 48.2K followers, 7086 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-14T05:03Z 48.2K followers, 3349 engagements
"Astronomers using the @almaobs have for the first time detected doubly deuterated water (DO heavy water) in the planet-forming disk surrounding a young star (V883 Ori). This discovery reveals that the water present in such disks and therefore in comets and planets that may form from them did not originate in the disk itself but rather was inherited from ancient interstellar clouds that predated the star. The chemical fingerprint of DO demonstrates that these water molecules survived the violent processes of star formation intact and have been carried through cosmic history into nascent"
X Link @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-15T17:52Z 48.2K followers, 3977 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 @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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T15:01Z 48.2K followers, XX 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-17T03:58Z 48.2K followers, 6206 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-14T04:52Z 48.2K followers, 23.6K 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-14T19:13Z 48.2K followers, 5088 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T03:37Z 48.2K followers, 8417 engagements
"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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T12:51Z 48.2K followers, 11.3K 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T14:58Z 48.2K followers, 3484 engagements
"Don't you just love these places 🥹💚🤎 #Autumn"
X Link @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T15:07Z 48.2K followers, 4340 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-16T19:30Z 48.2K followers, 6270 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-18T16:00Z 48.2K followers, 8006 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 @ExploreCosmos_ 2025-10-19T10:32Z 48.2K followers, 9637 engagements