#  @konstructivizm Black Hole Astronomers 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. 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(TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [OORT (OORT)](/topic/oort) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Stunning Martian landscape from Gale Crater by Curiosity rover. NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1872381872761708896) 2024-12-26T20:40Z 838.3K followers, 74.6M engagements "The James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted something wild Jupiter-sized planets drifting freely through space with no star to orbit. These rogue worlds are gravitationally unbound floating alone in the dark This discovery is reshaping what we thought we knew about planet formation and raises huge questions: How did they form Are there billions more Could they even host life under the right conditions The universe just got a little stranger and a lot more exciting" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1948225879437644276) 2025-07-24T03:37Z 838.3K followers, 71.6K 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971147665703399525 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971147665703399525" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1971147665703399525) 2025-09-25T09:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971404105198223695 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971404105198223695" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1971404105198223695) 2025-09-26T02:39Z 837.7K followers, 10.2K engagements "NASA May Have Accidentally Populated Mars In [----] the bacterium Tersicoccus phoenicis was found in two NASA cleanrooms located [----] 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 [--] 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](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1998583195336634586) 2025-12-10T02:39Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "A magnificent view of Mount Kilimanjaro from the ISS" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2008436463378035077) 2026-01-06T07:12Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "One more cosmic mystery: Explore the hidden stellar nursery of Lynds [---] a dark nebula where young protostars burst forth from gas and dust clouds. Printed on metal for that ethereal star-forming glow in your home" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2008639603952279986) 2026-01-06T20:39Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] Constellation: Ursa Major Distance: [---] million light years RA: 13h 38m 17.5s Dec: +48 [--] [--] NGC [----] (also Markarian 266) is a spectacular interacting galaxy system essentially two disk galaxies in the late stages of a cosmic collision and merger. Credit: ESA/Hubble NASA https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013011139517640962 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013011139517640962" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2013011139517640962) 2026-01-18T22:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Exoplanet. Kamchatka. After a snow storm people are sliding down from the fourth floor" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2013184406052307167) 2026-01-19T09:39Z 838.6K followers, 876.4K engagements "Nestled roughly [--] million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (though recent Hubble observations place similar objects like it in Ursa Major contextsastronomy loves its cosmic shell games) Markarian [---] is no ordinary wallflower of the universe.This compact dwarf irregular galaxy blazes with ferocious star birth radiating an electric blue glow that screams "young hot and restless." It's a card-carrying member of the exclusive Markarian cataloga collection of over [----] galaxies singled out by Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian for their dazzling ultraviolet brilliance" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2014055144045068357) 2026-01-21T19:19Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Nestled roughly [--] million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (though recent Hubble observations place similar objects like it in Ursa Major contextsastronomy loves its cosmic shell games) Markarian [---] is no ordinary wallflower of the universe.This compact dwarf irregular galaxy blazes with ferocious star birth radiating an electric blue glow that screams "young hot and restless." It's a card-carrying member of the exclusive Markarian cataloga collection of over [----] galaxies singled out by Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian for their dazzling ultraviolet brilliance" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2014229794834227249) 2026-01-22T06:53Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Uranus captured by JWST" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2014663904945738067) 2026-01-23T11:38Z 837.7K followers, 201K engagements "The ground beneath Yellowstone National Park is on the move againand it's captivating scientists.After a long quiet period a sprawling 270-square-mile (700 km) zoneroughly the size of Chicagoalong the north rim of the caldera has started inflating. Dubbed the Norris Uplift Anomaly this restless patch has a track record of subtle but intriguing deformations driven by magma movements and trapped volcanic gases lurking more than [--] miles (14 km) underground.Since July [----] advanced GPS stations and satellite radar have detected the surface rising by about an inch (23 cm). It might seem tiny but" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2015442033297744134) 2026-01-25T15:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "The ground beneath Yellowstone National Park is on the move againand it's captivating scientists.After a long quiet period a sprawling 270-square-mile (700 km) zoneroughly the size of Chicagoalong the north rim of the caldera has started inflating. Dubbed the Norris Uplift Anomaly this restless patch has a track record of subtle but intriguing deformations driven by magma movements and trapped volcanic gases lurking more than [--] miles (14 km) underground.Since July [----] advanced GPS stations and satellite radar have detected the surface rising by about an inch (23 cm). It might seem tiny but" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2015574152996954173) 2026-01-25T23:55Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Far beyond the familiar orbits of the planetsway out where the Sun's gravitational grip fades into the galactic voidlies the Oort Cloud an immense ghostly sphere of trillions of icy remnants encircling our entire solar system like a frozen halo.Stretching from roughly [----] AU (about [----] light-years) to as far as [------] AU (nearly [---] light-years) this vast shell dwarfs everything we know: it's hundreds to thousands of times more distant than Pluto enveloping the heliosphere in a spherical cloud of primordial We can't see it directlyno telescope has ever imaged an Oort Cloud object in" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2015738710705271134) 2026-01-26T10:48Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Artemis program isn't just NASA's next chapterit's humanity's bold return to the Moon and the first real steps toward making Mars our next frontier. Here's the thrilling progression mission by mission:Artemis I (November 2022) The roar that restarted deep-space dreams. Uncrewed but carrying the hopes of a generation NASA's mighty Space Launch System (SLS) thundered off the pad propelling the Orion spacecraft on an audacious 25-day odyssey: a distant lunar orbit farther than any human-rated vehicle had gone in half a century then a fiery plunge back through Earth's atmosphere. Orion's heat" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2015751824108618203) 2026-01-26T11:41Z 837.7K followers, 80.7K engagements "Exoplanet. Deep in the Amazon forest is the world's largest single drop waterfall Guyana" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2015913388145319996) 2026-01-26T22:23Z 837.6K followers, 35K engagements "What size would our Sun be if the Milky Way were the size of North America" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016197695556227397) 2026-01-27T17:12Z 836.9K followers, 13.3K engagements "Far beyond the familiar orbits of the planetsway out where the Sun's gravitational grip fades into the galactic voidlies the Oort Cloud an immense ghostly sphere of trillions of icy remnants encircling our entire solar system like a frozen halo.Stretching from roughly [----] AU (about [----] light-years) to as far as [------] AU (nearly [---] light-years) this vast shell dwarfs everything we know: it's hundreds to thousands of times more distant than Pluto enveloping the heliosphere in a spherical cloud of primordial debris. We can't see it directlyno telescope has ever imaged an Oort Cloud object in" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016393301029536244) 2026-01-28T06:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016448414377005217) 2026-01-28T09:49Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements "Northern lights of Jupiter NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016589845582184874) 2026-01-28T19:11Z 838.5K followers, 39.9K engagements "Born OnThisDay in [----] was Beatrice Tinsley astronomer and cosmologist. She was the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University and did pioneering research on how stars age and how galaxies evolve contributing to our fundamental understanding of the universe" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016623064231125159) 2026-01-28T21:23Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Humanity has for the first time captured a direct visual glimpse of an electron's orbital within a hydrogen atomliterally peering inside the simplest building block of the universe.This feels almost dreamlike even impossible. For over a century electrons existed as mathematical ghosts: probability waves abstract clouds never something you could actually see. They were ideas equations patterns of likelihoodnot pictures. Now that boundary between theory and tangible reality has been crossed in a way that feels deeply personal as though the subatomic world has finally looked back at us.For" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016665594972786794) 2026-01-29T00:12Z 837.1K followers, 12.8K engagements "Northern lights of Jupiter NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016766509381751199) 2026-01-29T06:53Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016771039372652926 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016771039372652926" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016771039372652926) 2026-01-29T07:11Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016773304967713280) 2026-01-29T07:20Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "WELCOME TO LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA Just about [--] km (20 miles) south of downtown Los Angeles lies the Port of Long Beach one of the largest busiest and most important container ports on the night its sprawling terminals towering cranes massive cargo ships and endless lights create an incredible man-made galaxy along the coast.This stunning view was captured from the International Space Station (ISS) during a nighttime pass over Southern California Franz ISS83 NASA(Here are a couple of representative night-time satellite / astronaut photos showing brightly lit ports and urban coastal areas" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016808274926944332) 2026-01-29T09:38Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements "Jupiter Today Is Just a Shadow of Its Primordial Giant Self New groundbreaking research reveals that the Jupiter we knowalready the solar system's undisputed heavyweightwas once dramatically larger and far more magnetically ferocious. Roughly [---] million years after the first solid grains condensed in the young solar nebula (marking a key transition as the protoplanetary disk began dissipating) our giant planet was [--] to [---] times its current radiusswollen enough to swallow more than [----] Earths whole.Even more jaw-dropping: its magnetic field roared at about [--] millitesla (mT)roughly [--] times" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016815331919221215) 2026-01-29T10:07Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "River Nile as seen from Space ISS" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016838735414116416) 2026-01-29T11:40Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements "Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016849053984698791) 2026-01-29T12:21Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "When astronomers peer into the atmospheres of certain white dwarfsthe dense Earth-sized corpses of once Sun-like starsthey uncover a startling mystery: traces of heavy metals like calcium iron and magnesium elements that gravity should swiftly drag deep into the star's interior vanishing from sight forever.Yet these "polluted" white dwarfs stubbornly display such contaminants. The only convincing culprit Ongoing cannibalism of shredded planetary debris. In multiple systems telescopes have spotted telltale dusty disks and gaseous streamscosmic graveyards where asteroids planetesimals or even" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016857610348052592) 2026-01-29T12:55Z 837K followers, [----] engagements "The young stars of Taurus GN 04.32.8 a blue reflection nebula in the Taurus Molecular Cloud about [---] light-years away is lit by three young stars (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA G. Duchne)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016871954561613939) 2026-01-29T13:52Z 837K followers, [----] engagements "Hubble captured a pair of interacting galaxies that looks like a bird in flight Astronomers believe these two galaxies will someday merge into a single galaxy. Called ESO 593-8 this pair is adorned with a number of bright blue star clusters and is located about [---] million light-years away Image credit: NASA ESA the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016912874803699895 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016912874803699895" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016912874803699895) 2026-01-29T16:34Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Solar system family portrait" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016921782716977542) 2026-01-29T17:10Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2016948206605914503) 2026-01-29T18:55Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Liftoff SpaceXs Falcon-9 rocket booster B1082-19 successfully lifted off carrying Starlink 17-19 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017023200786600014) 2026-01-29T23:53Z 837K followers, [----] engagements "Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017037797165826543 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017037797165826543" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017037797165826543) 2026-01-30T00:51Z 837.7K followers, 12K engagements "Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017060950143046065) 2026-01-30T02:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017113797677465628) 2026-01-30T05:53Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017120844812542443) 2026-01-30T06:21Z 838.2K followers, 36.7K engagements "Running Man Nebula (Sh 2-279) Credit: Robert G. Lyons Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017133175621775859) 2026-01-30T07:10Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "Final preparations photo for the Artemis II mission This stunning shot captures NASA's massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket the most powerful ever built standing tall at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Florida. The iconic orange core stage gleams under the Florida sun flanked by the white solid rocket boosters with the Orion spacecraft perched on top ready for humanity's return to the Moon.This is the first crewed lunar mission of the 21st century and the first time humans will venture beyond low Earth orbit in over [--] years (since Apollo [--] in 1972)The four-person crew NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017186024045367414) 2026-01-30T10:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers have announced the discovery of a promising new potentially habitable exoplanet candidate located about [---] light-years from Earth.The planet designated HD [------] b is roughly Earth-sized (about 6% larger in radius) and orbits a Sun-like star specifically a cooler dimmer K-type dwarf (V=10.1 magnitude) once every approximately [---] days strikingly similar to Earth's orbital period.Discovered through re-analysis of archival data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope (K2 mission Campaign [--] in 2017) the detection is based on a single high-quality transit event lasting about 10" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017200369068032014) 2026-01-30T11:37Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Signs of active geology discovered on Mercury [---] bright bands have been discovered on the surface of Mercury indicating ongoing geological processes. An analysis of [------] images taken in [----] and [----] revealed that the structures are most often located on the sunward slopes of craters. This suggests that the planet is not completely "dead" and continues to evolve. The bands are formed by heat flow and volatiles including sulfur that rise from the interior through cracks in the rock. Most of them originate in depressions called gullies associated with gas emissions. These findings are" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017216711271842246) 2026-01-30T12:41Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is NGC [----] a star nursery located about [-----] light-years away in the Carina constellation of the Milky Way Galaxy Credit:Space verse" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017292223478698035) 2026-01-30T17:42Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "New Event Horizon Telescope Results Trace M87 Jet Back to Its Black Hole Astronomers have made important progress in understanding how the powerful jet from the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is formed. Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) a global network of radio telescopes that works together as a single Earth-sized telescope scientists studied the region very close to the black hole. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) played a key role by improving the sensitivity needed to see fine details. M87s black hole about six billion times more massive than the" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017352118328230374) 2026-01-30T21:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "2 trillion Galaxies in the Observable Universe. [----] Planetary Nebulae in the Observable Milky Way" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017381562279669811) 2026-01-30T23:37Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "Arp [---] Constellation: Cetus Distance: [---] million light years RA: 03h 11m 18.90s Dec: +01 [--] [-----] Arp [---] is a pair of interacting ring galaxies located over [---] million light-years away. Often called the "number 10" due to its shape it consists of a remnant spiral galaxy (right) that collided with an elliptical galaxy (left) causing a massive blue ring of star formation. Credit: NASA ESA and M. Livio (STScI) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017385337082024407 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017385337082024407" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017385337082024407) 2026-01-30T23:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017408238090916108 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017408238090916108" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017408238090916108) 2026-01-31T01:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "This intriguing image shows NGC [----] a planetary nebula located about [-----] light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered in [----] by the English astronomer John Herschel. A planetary nebula marks the final stage in the life of a Sun-like star and offers a glimpse into the distant future of our own Solar System. As such a star nears the end of its life it expands into a red giant powered by nuclear fusion in its core. While fusion continues the outward pressure balances gravity. Eventually as fusion energy wanes the core collapses and the stars outer layers are" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017420066136989980) 2026-01-31T02:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017423338012905554) 2026-01-31T02:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017483735411871983) 2026-01-31T06:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "60 years ago today on January [--] [----] humanity achieved a groundbreaking milestone: the Soviet Union's Luna-9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the MoonLaunched from Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Molniya-M rocket Luna-9 was sent on a precise trajectory to Earth's natural satellite. Then on February [--] [----] the historic moment an altitude of about [--] km above the lunar surface the spacecraft's braking engines fired unnecessary compartments were jettisoned and shock-absorbing balloons were inflated with gas. After a few gentle bounces Luna-9 successfully touched down in the" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017528236532498515) 2026-01-31T09:19Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "This is the Cartwheel Galaxy located about [---] million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation formed by a powerful head-on galactic collision that created its stunning ring of newborn stars" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017531118795342293) 2026-01-31T09:31Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Planetary nebulae represent one of the most breathtaking final acts in the life cycle of stars like our a Sun-like star (with a mass roughly [---] to [--] times that of the Sun) exhausts its core hydrogen fuel after billions of years it swells into a red giant. In its dying throes the star gently ejects its outer layers into space creating vast glowing shells of gas and dust. The exposed incredibly hot stellar corenow collapsing into a white dwarfblasts the ejected material with intense ultraviolet radiation causing the gas to ionize and shine vividly in a rainbow of colors across optical and" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017534280943947856) 2026-01-31T09:43Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Globular Cluster NGC [----] Observed by Hubble ✨ This stunning Hubble image reveals NGC [----] a massive globular cluster in the Milky Way more than [--] billion years old. Studies of its bright blue stars show the cluster is dynamically middle-aged with heavier stars slowly sinking toward the centre. Hubble observations reveal that globular clusters of the same age can evolve at very different rates reshaping how astronomers understand stellar aging. Credit: NASA ESA F. Ferraro (University of Bologna) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017541113662607585" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017541113662607585) 2026-01-31T10:11Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017546398355313012) 2026-01-31T10:32Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "Gorgeous: NGC [----] a spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away features striking spiral arms a golden core and a remarkable circumnuclear starburst ring where over [--] star clusters formed (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA L. C. Ho G. Brammer A. Filippenko C. Kilpatrick)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017559232913281341) 2026-01-31T11:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Behold the majestic Andromeda Galaxy (M31 also known as NGC 224)our closest large spiral neighbor and the largest member of the Local Group home to the Milky Way the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and dozens of smaller companions.Captured in stunning detail by renowned amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello this deep-field image reveals the galaxy's grand architecture at (J2000) coordinates: RA 00h 42m 44.3s Dec +41 [--] [--] (centered on the core).At roughly [---] million light-years (about [---] kiloparsecs) away Andromeda spans an impressive [------] light-years acrossmaking it visible to the naked eye" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017563260233416865) 2026-01-31T11:39Z 838.6K followers, [----] engagements "A groundbreaking reanalysis of long-dormant data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has delivered the first confirmed detection of ammonia-bearing compounds on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europaa discovery announced on January [--] [----] that strengthens the case for an active potentially habitable subsurface ocean beneath its icy shell.Led by researcher Al Emran at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory the study revisited infrared spectra collected by Galileo's Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) during the spacecraft's 11th Jupiter orbit in [----]. Faint but unmistakable absorption features at" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017567035098574874) 2026-01-31T11:54Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017574835887734825) 2026-01-31T12:25Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Behold the bizarre sponge-like world of Hyperion Saturn's chaotic tumbling moon captured in exquisite false-color detail during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's daring close flyby on September [--] 2005.This stunning compositecreated by combining images taken through infrared green and ultraviolet spectral filtersenhances subtle surface variations that would be far less obvious in natural color. In reality Hyperion sports a distinctive reddish hue overall but here the red tones have been deliberately subdued while other hues are amplified to highlight compositional differences across its wildly" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017577605155983821) 2026-01-31T12:36Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "The tension is electric and the clock is ticking down hard. Artemis II is NASA's bold first crewed flight with the mighty SLS rocket powering Orion on a daring loop around the Moon and safe return to Earth. This isn't just another testit's the real deal with astronauts aboard proving the entire deep-space system works flawlessly under human command.Every team is razor-focused and all-in:Laser-sharp crews. Battle-tested procedures. Absolutely no shortcuts allowed. When launch day hits it needs to feel like second naturesmooth confident routine.Vibe check time: Are you buzzing with pure" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017601260262924580) 2026-01-31T14:10Z 837.6K followers, 26.8K engagements "Astronomers have tracked the birth of a jet from a black hole for the first time. Astronomers have tracked a jet approximately [----] light-years long to its formation region. Its source is located near the supermassive black hole M87 at the center of the galaxy M87. The galaxy is approximately [--] million light-years from Earth. Analysis of the data revealed a connection between the glowing ring of hot matter around the black hole and the base of a jet of particles moving nearly at the speed of light. This allowed them to pinpoint the jet's origin for the first time with sufficient precision." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017636492198482139) 2026-01-31T16:30Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "As comets hurtle closer to the Sun their frozen heartsicy nucleiwarm up dramatically unleashing bursts of gas and dust that create some of the most breathtaking sights in the cosmos: enormous tails stretching millions of kilometers through the void of space.These tails aren't uniform. They split into two strikingly different components:A curved dust tail gently nudged away by the pressure of sunlight itself glowing pale yellow or white as it reflects solar rays. A straight often bluish ion tail (made of charged gas particles) forcefully sculpted and directed by the solar wind's powerful" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017646559027241091) 2026-01-31T17:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Saturn's moon Mimas lit by direct sunlight and reflected light from Saturn. Imaged by Cassini on January [--] 2017" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017654108144984372) 2026-01-31T17:40Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Apollo [--] astronauts rehearsed their lunar landing mission in simulators here today. Pictured in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area from left are Michael Collins Command Module pilot; Neil A. Armstrong commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Lunar Module pilot. NASA https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017661783562195416 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017661783562195416" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017661783562195416) 2026-01-31T18:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Polar auroras (also known as the northern or southern lights) require three main conditions: a sufficiently dense atmosphere a strong global magnetic field and an intense stream of charged particles (mostly from the Sun via the solar wind).Not every planet in the Solar System meets all three requirements at once so classic bright auroras aren't visible everywhere.Mercury receives the strongest bombardment of charged particles due to its proximity to the Sun but it has almost no atmosphere and only a very weak magnetic field no auroras occur. Venus has a very thick atmosphere but virtually no" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017663379171643448) 2026-01-31T18:16Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Precise breathtaking maps charting millions of galaxies across the cosmos have uncovered a subtle yet profound influence: elusive neutrinos are quietly sculpting the Universe's grandest structures.Leveraging groundbreaking data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)one of the most ambitious galaxy surveys ever undertakenresearchers have precisely measured how these galaxies cluster over enormous distances. They've detected a faint but unmistakable suppression of cosmic structure on smaller scales a telltale signature left by the ghostly neutrinos.Unlike cold dark matter which" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017672982911701204) 2026-01-31T18:55Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "A groundbreaking new study led by planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna uncovers fascinating details about the Moon's most colossal scar: the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin its largest deepest and oldest impact crater.Roughly [---] billion years ago in the chaotic early days of the Solar System a gigantic asteroid slammed into the Moon's far side at a sharp oblique angle streaking southward from the north. This glancing blow rather than a straight-on collision explains the basin's distinctive elongated oval shape which narrows toward the south.This angled impact had dramatic consequences: it" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017688082196418693) 2026-01-31T19:55Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Pillars of Creation by James Webb Space Telescope" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017692359941886012) 2026-01-31T20:12Z 838.2K followers, 22.2K engagements "Water discovered on the largest mountain in the Solar System Olympus Mons on Mars" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017702929600549289) 2026-01-31T20:54Z 838.2K followers, 40.6K engagements "The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017787489293869336) 2026-02-01T02:30Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is the Cartwheel Galaxy located about [---] million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation formed by a powerful head-on galactic collision that created its stunning ring of newborn stars" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017797553236893828) 2026-02-01T03:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "NASAs Juno just captured this closest photo of Jupiters Volcanic Moon Io" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017808374537027859) 2026-02-01T03:53Z 837.6K followers, 12.3K engagements "Planetary nebulae represent one of the most breathtaking final acts in the life cycle of stars like our a Sun-like star (with a mass roughly [---] to [--] times that of the Sun) exhausts its core hydrogen fuel after billions of years it swells into a red giant. In its dying throes the star gently ejects its outer layers into space creating vast glowing shells of gas and dust. The exposed incredibly hot stellar corenow collapsing into a white dwarfblasts the ejected material with intense ultraviolet radiation causing the gas to ionize and shine vividly in a rainbow of colors across optical and" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017812653356552354) 2026-02-01T04:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "This is NGC [----] a star nursery located about [-----] light-years away in the Carina constellation of the Milky Way Galaxy Credit:Space verse" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017819950824693853) 2026-02-01T04:39Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "Gorgeous: NGC [----] a spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away features striking spiral arms a golden core and a remarkable circumnuclear starburst ring where over [--] star clusters formed (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA L. C. Ho G. Brammer A. Filippenko C. Kilpatrick)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017827752267936070) 2026-02-01T05:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017835301998334202 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017835301998334202" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017835301998334202) 2026-02-01T05:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Precise breathtaking maps charting millions of galaxies across the cosmos have uncovered a subtle yet profound influence: elusive neutrinos are quietly sculpting the Universe's grandest structures.Leveraging groundbreaking data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)one of the most ambitious galaxy surveys ever undertakenresearchers have precisely measured how these galaxies cluster over enormous distances. They've detected a faint but unmistakable suppression of cosmic structure on smaller scales a telltale signature left by the ghostly neutrinos.Unlike cold dark matter which" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017838574096289917) 2026-02-01T05:53Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "For decades a cosmic mystery haunted astronomers: theory predicted that ordinary matterbaryons like protons and neutronsshould make up about 5% of the universe's total energy budget yet observations of stars galaxies and cool gas fell short by roughly 3050%. Where was the universe's missing ordinary matter hidingThe answer emerging from painstaking detective work across multiple telescopes lies in the vast diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM)a tenuous web of gas at temperatures of [------] to [--] million degrees Kelvin threading through the cosmic web like invisible highways connecting" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017840084134051956) 2026-02-01T05:59Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a revolutionary "laser ruler" technology that could transform how we image black holes and push the boundaries of radio astronomy.The breakthrough centers on an ultra-stable optical frequency comba special laser that emits thousands of perfectly spaced spectral lines (like the "teeth" of a comb) each with frequencies known to atomic-clock precision. This creates an optical "ruler" made of light delivering timing and phase synchronization that's orders of magnitude more accurate than traditional atomic" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017842852483506469) 2026-02-01T06:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "Solar system family portrait" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017850401526321338) 2026-02-01T06:40Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements "The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017853169678643470) 2026-02-01T06:51Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "A potentially habitable planet has been discovered located [---] light-years from Earth. Scientists believe HD [------] b is one of the first candidates among Earth-sized planets capable of supporting life. It has a radius only 6% larger than Earth's and its surface temperature is estimated to be as low as [---] degrees Celsius" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017898720000659591) 2026-02-01T09:52Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Water discovered on the largest mountain in the Solar System Olympus Mons on Mars" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017906269533663627) 2026-02-01T10:22Z 838.1K followers, 10.3K engagements "Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017911932402254061) 2026-02-01T10:44Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "Saturn captured by Voyager [--] in [----] NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017952071392338247) 2026-02-01T13:24Z 837.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33 also cataloged as NGC 598) is a breathtaking face-on spiral galaxy situated about 2.732.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. As the third-largest member of our Local Group (after the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way) it stretches roughly [-----] light-years acrossaround 60% the diameter of our home galaxyand hosts an estimated [--] billion stars.What sets M33 apart is its elegant "pure disk" architecture: it lacks the prominent central bulge seen in most large spirals including Andromeda and the Milky Way. Current observations" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017956098741789124) 2026-02-01T13:40Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Artemis program isn't just NASA's next chapterit's humanity's bold return to the Moon and the first real steps toward making Mars our next frontier. Here's the thrilling progression mission by mission:Artemis I (November 2022) The roar that restarted deep-space dreams. Uncrewed but carrying the hopes of a generation NASA's mighty Space Launch System (SLS) thundered off the pad propelling the Orion spacecraft on an audacious 25-day odyssey: a distant lunar orbit farther than any human-rated vehicle had gone in half a century then a fiery plunge back through Earth's atmosphere. Orion's heat" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017963648506102179) 2026-02-01T14:10Z 838.2K followers, 17.3K engagements "Messier [--] (also known as M61 or NGC 4303) is a stunning intermediate barred spiral galaxy nestled within the massive Virgo Cluster. This dynamic galaxy stands out as both an active and starburst powerhouse furiously churning out new stars at an impressive rate.Lying roughly [----] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo M61 spans about [------] light-years acrosscomparable in size to our own Milky Way.Its face-on orientation reveals graceful spiral arms teeming with vibrant bluish patches of vigorous star formation contrasted by dramatic dark dust lanes that weave through the" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017971197875564612) 2026-02-01T14:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Around [-----] years ago Earth underwent a dramatic geomagnetic upheaval known as the Laschamps Excursion (also called the Laschamp event) when the planet's protective magnetic field weakened to roughly 10% of its modern strength and briefly approached collapse. Lasting about [--------] years overallwith the most intense dipole reduction and tilting spanning roughly [---] yearsthis rare event saw the familiar dipolar field fracture into a multipolar configuration with poles wandering far from their geographic positions resembling the chaotic magnetic setups of outer planets like Jupiter.The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017993847385813164) 2026-02-01T16:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "NASAs Juno just captured this closest photo of Jupiters Volcanic Moon Io" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2017997495708860744) 2026-02-01T16:24Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "During the polar nightwhen the Sun remains below the horizon for weeks or months near the North Polesomething extraordinary and unsettling occurred: temperatures spiked more than 36F (20C) above normal in the heart of Arctic an region where the thermometer should be plunged deep into the negatives with endless darkness and bone-chilling cold the norm some spots briefly climbed above freezing (32F/0C). That's rightmelting-point conditions in the dead of winter far from any hint of spring.This dramatic warm surge stemmed from a mighty low-pressure system near Iceland acting like a atmospheric" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018012218269519978) 2026-02-01T17:23Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "SpaceX aims to launch [--] million satellites into orbit. SpaceX has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy [-------] satellites into low-Earth orbit at altitudes ranging from [---] to [----] km. The satellites will be constantly illuminated by the sun and use solar energy to perform complex calculations. Data exchange between them will occur via laser communication without the need for ground-based infrastructure. The project is designed to meet the growing demand for data for artificial intelligence. SpaceX calls this constellation "orbital data centers" and sees" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018019767685087302) 2026-02-01T17:53Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "This haunting close-up reveals the scorched interior of Apollo Spacecraft 012's Command Module (CM-012) at Launch Pad [--] moments after the catastrophic flash fire that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee on January [--] a pure-oxygen atmosphere under pressure during a routine plugs-out test a spark ignited a ferocious blaze that raced through the cabin in mere seconds. Temperatures soared dramatically melting wiring charring panels and leaving behind a nightmarish scene of blackened heat-warped metal scorched instrumentation and widespread sootsilent evidence" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018024046181408806) 2026-02-01T18:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Milky Way isn't your average spiral galaxyit's a barred spiral dominated by a massive elongated bar of stars slashing through its heart like a cosmic backbone.This central bar isn't just structural flair; it's a powerful gravitational engine. Infrared and radio observations show it channeling enormous rivers of gas inward toward the galactic core acting like a relentless conveyor this gas rushes in it slams into dense clouds triggering compression and igniting bursts of furious star formation near the center.This process is key to the galaxy's long-term story. The bar steadily funnels" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018031344715178213) 2026-02-01T18:39Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers found the earliest hottest galaxy cluster gas. the University of British Columbia An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasnt supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just [---] billion years after the Big Bang far earlier and hotter than theory predicts. The result published today in Nature could upend current models of galaxy cluster formation which predict such temperatures occur only in more mature stable galaxy clusters later in the universes life. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018035118846415339" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018035118846415339) 2026-02-01T18:54Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018049966862987541 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018049966862987541" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018049966862987541) 2026-02-01T19:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "For decades a cosmic mystery haunted astronomers: theory predicted that ordinary matterbaryons like protons and neutronsshould make up about 5% of the universe's total energy budget yet observations of stars galaxies and cool gas fell short by roughly 3050%. Where was the universe's missing ordinary matter hidingThe answer emerging from painstaking detective work across multiple telescopes lies in the vast diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM)a tenuous web of gas at temperatures of [------] to [--] million degrees Kelvin threading through the cosmic web like invisible highways connecting" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018057516920316072) 2026-02-01T20:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "A shocking and mesmerizing anomaly was captured in Alaska. Scientists are hesitant to say it was an atmospheric illusion. By" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018076390902694111) 2026-02-01T21:38Z 838.1K followers, 36.3K engagements "Incredible footage of a plane passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean moons" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018084695519658003) 2026-02-01T22:11Z 837.8K followers, 38.8K engagements "Enceladus is actively sculpting one of Saturn's most enigmatic ringsthe vast ghostly E ringthrough dramatic geysers of water ice erupting from its south pole.This breathtaking extended-color composite (blending infrared green and ultraviolet filters) from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures tiny Enceladus dramatically silhouetted against the glowing backdrop of the E ring. Wispy jets of water vapor ice particles and trace materials blast outward from the moon's south polar "tiger stripes" feeding material directly into orbit around Saturn. That ejected plume spreads out over time forming and" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018092245384130602) 2026-02-01T22:41Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018102814749131056 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018102814749131056" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018102814749131056) 2026-02-01T23:23Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements "Quasars really do release insane amounts of energy we're talking about some of the most extreme objects in the entire universe These aren't ordinary stars; quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (millions to tens of billions of solar masses) at the centers of distant galaxies. As huge amounts of gas dust and even stars fall toward the black hole they form a super-hot accretion disk that spirals in at nearly the speed of light. Friction and magnetic fields convert gravitational energy into radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. The result" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018118166358938070) 2026-02-02T00:24Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "These images were captured by the crew of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during its docking with the International Space Station " [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018133013696283001) 2026-02-02T01:23Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018152391368228912) 2026-02-02T02:40Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "2 trillion Galaxies in the Observable Universe. [----] Planetary Nebulae in the Observable Milky Way" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018155914495201301) 2026-02-02T02:54Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "Exploding Star Solves a Cosmic Puzzle: The Hidden Source of Life's Key IngredientsA centuries-old stellar catastrophe has just handed scientists a game-changing clue about how the universe cooks up elements essential for life as we know it.Using Japan's cutting-edge XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) space telescope astronomers have detected surprisingly massive amounts of chlorine and potassium in the glowing wreckage of Cassiopeia A the dramatic remnant of a massive star that detonated as a supernova roughly [---] years ago about [-----] light-years away in the constellation" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018170259509838092) 2026-02-02T03:51Z 838K followers, [----] engagements "A Bar-Driven Resonance Ring in Hydra: NGC [----] Behold NGC [----] a compact strikingly structured barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra that looks almost like a cosmic flower caught in mid-bloom. At its heart lies a bright luminous central bar that acts like a gravitational engine channeling gas and dust inward to fuel two tightly coiled spiral arms. These arms don't just swirl outward they wrap around to form a nearly complete inner resonance ring a glowing loop where bar-driven orbits pile up material at a special orbital resonance radius. It's classic galactic dynamics turned art:" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018185862425534925) 2026-02-02T04:53Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Humanity has for the first time captured a direct visual glimpse of an electron's orbital within a hydrogen atomliterally peering inside the simplest building block of the universe.This feels almost dreamlike even impossible. For over a century electrons existed as mathematical ghosts: probability waves abstract clouds never something you could actually see. They were ideas equations patterns of likelihoodnot pictures. Now that boundary between theory and tangible reality has been crossed in a way that feels deeply personal as though the subatomic world has finally looked back at us.For" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018190266465931296) 2026-02-02T05:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Imagine a star so colossal it defies human imagination: Stephenson 2-18 a crimson behemoth lurking in the depths of our galaxy.If this red hypergiant suddenly swapped places with our Sun its bloated surface would stretch far beyond Saturn's orbitengulfing Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and still reaching deep into the realm of the ringed giant. The inner solar system would vanish entirely inside its suffocating embrace.Light itself struggles to traverse this monster: a single photon would need over eight hours to crawl from one edge of its diameter to the other. By comparison our Sunalready" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018197187046359346) 2026-02-02T05:38Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Hoags Object stands as one of the most eerily perfect cosmic sculptures ever discovereda galaxy shaped like an almost flawless ring with a bright golden core suspended in the center and no visible bridge of stars gas or dust connecting the two.Discovered in [----] by astronomer Arthur Hoag this extraordinary object lies roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Serpens Caput (the Head of the Serpent). Spanning about [------------] light-years across its outer ring is composed of young hot blue stars blazing with youthful vigor while the central bulge consists of older yellower" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018220339533058344) 2026-02-02T07:10Z 837.3K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018227889226104833) 2026-02-02T07:40Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements "A giant atmospheric jet was captured on camera from the ISS" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018265889242492998) 2026-02-02T10:11Z 837.6K followers, 40.8K engagements "Mercury the swift innermost planet is trapped in a rare 3:2 spinorbit resonance with the Sun: it spins exactly three times on its axis for every two orbits around our star. This peculiar couplingcombined with Mercury's highly eccentric (elongated) orbitcreates one of the strangest "days" in the Solar System.A full solar day on Mercuryfrom one sunrise to the nextstretches to about [---] Earth days more than twice as long as its orbital year of roughly [--] Earth days. Meanwhile the planet's sidereal rotation period (one spin relative to the stars) is about [--] Earth days. The resonance arises from" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018285015931781176) 2026-02-02T11:27Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Venus stands as the most hostile solid-surface world ever directly probed by humanitya true inferno where surface temperatures average around [------] C (about [------] F) hot enough to melt lead (melting point [---] C) and atmospheric pressure crushes down at roughly [----] bars equivalent to the weight of nearly a kilometer of water on Earth. This thick blanket of mostly carbon dioxide topped by reflective clouds of sulfuric acid creates a runaway greenhouse effect that traps heat relentlessly. Electronics fry metals soften and any unprotected probe is doomed in minutes to hours.Yet in one of the" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018293940617617473) 2026-02-02T12:02Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "The second strongest Earth-facing SolarFlare since [----] is currently underway on the Sun X8.0-class levels exceeded. The X8.11 flare from AR [----] has generated a CME which may have Earth-directed components. You can see a clear shockwave traveling outwards from the site of the flare. It is too early to say if this CME will be heading away from Earth or if we may receive a glancing blow. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018337807916269865 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018337807916269865" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018337807916269865) 2026-02-02T14:56Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018338802926809343) 2026-02-02T15:00Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Light-Toned Layering in a Noctis Labyrinthus Pit (HiRISE Mars) NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Understanding both the spatial and temporal distribution of hydrated (water-bearing) minerals on Mars is essential for deciphering the aqueous history of the planet. Over [---] meters of layered beds are exposed in this trough of Noctis Labyrinthus at the western edge of Valles Marineris. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018341135928999972 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018341135928999972" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018341135928999972) 2026-02-02T15:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Saturn's breathtaking ringsthe Solar System's most dazzling jewelare vanishing before our eyes doomed to fade away in cosmic from NASA's Cassini mission uncovered a relentless process dubbed "ring rain": massive amounts of icy particles and dust are steadily cascading from the rings into Saturn's atmosphere. Charged grains get swept along the planet's powerful magnetic field lines plunging downward where they vaporize and mingle with the upper atmosphere in a constant watery downpour. At the measured rateenough material to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half hourthe main rings" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018347564437758446) 2026-02-02T15:35Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "HH [--] and HH [--] are a remarkable pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objectsbright glowing shock regions in spacecaptured here in stunning detail by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These features appear as vivid pink and green patches slicing diagonally across the dark cosmic backdrop with the upper-left patch belonging to HH [--] and the lower streak to HH 80.Herbig-Haro objects form when powerful jets of ionized gas erupt from a newborn star (a protostar) and collide at high speeds with slower-moving surrounding material creating shockwaves that heat the gas and make it glow brightly.What sets HH 80/81" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018350950256443704) 2026-02-02T15:49Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "MACS J1149: A Galaxy Cluster and Huge Gravitational Lens ESA/Webb NASA & CSA C. Willott (NRC Canada) R. Tripodi (INAF -Rome) Released: [----] January 22" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018364168017969392) 2026-02-02T16:41Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "In late January [----] astronomers unveiled jaw-dropping new views from the Gemini North telescope perched atop Mauna Kea Hawaii proof that Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) a pristine wanderer from the distant Oort Cloud is dramatically tearing itself apart.This icy interloper bravely survived its blistering close shave with the Sun on October [--] [----] but the relentless combo of searing heat tidal stresses and pounding solar wind finally shattered its fragile rubble-pile nucleus a loosely glued-together mix of ancient ice dust and rock left over from the Solar System's chaotic birth.Side-by-side" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018371334582219142) 2026-02-02T17:10Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "Clearest image ever taken of planet Mercury NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018374722568798528) 2026-02-02T17:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "AI took control of the Mars rover and drove nearly half a kilometer. NASA's Perseverance rover navigated a route calculated by artificial intelligence for the first time without human intervention. Generative AI independently analyzed the terrain and selected safe navigational landmarks a task previously performed entirely by humans. This approach takes into account signal latency between Earth and Mars and paves the way for fully autonomous planetary exploration. High-resolution satellite imagery and digital terrain models were used to plan the route. Algorithms assessed rocks sandy areas" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018391466826236203) 2026-02-02T18:30Z 838.3K followers, 10.3K engagements "The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018394487458816148) 2026-02-02T18:42Z 838.3K followers, 11.7K engagements "This breathtaking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures a mesmerizing close-up of the Helix Nebulaoften called the "Eye of God"the nearest planetary nebula to Earth lying roughly [---] light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.Planetary nebulae like this one emerge when a star similar in mass to our Sun nears the end of its life. After exhausting its core fuel the star sheds its outer layers in a glowing shell of gas creating these cosmic masterpieces. The Helix was first discovered back in [----] by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding but this latest view from JWST's" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018397255330414721) 2026-02-02T18:53Z 838K followers, [----] engagements "Fascinating: NGC [----] a Milky Waylike spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away in Centaurus with bright star-forming regions and a core likely hiding a supermassive black hole. (Credit: ESO)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018402036480414077) 2026-02-02T19:12Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "This breathtaking composite optical image captures the majestic Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33) a stunning spiral galaxy just 2.72.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulummaking it one of our closest cosmic neighbors and the third-largest member of the Local Group after the Milky Way and Andromeda.First glimpsed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Hodierna before [----] and later cataloged by Charles Messier on August [--] [----] M33 spans about [-----] light-years acrossroughly half the diameter of our Milky Way. Home to an estimated [--] billion stars (compared to the Milky Way's" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018405056941314279) 2026-02-02T19:24Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018424216534618377) 2026-02-02T20:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Hubble time These breathtaking Hubble Space Telescope images zoom in on protostarsthe glowing embryos of future starsdeep within the Orion Molecular Cloud one of the closest and most active stellar nurseries to Earth lying about [----] light-years away in the famous "sword" of the Orion constellation. Still swaddled in thick cocoons of gas and dust these baby stars are just beginning to ignite blasting out powerful jets and carving dramatic cavities as their intense energy sculpts the surrounding clouds. It's a chaotic energetic scene full of cosmic dramaprotostars flaring to life amid swirling" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018428712467808327) 2026-02-02T20:58Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Murchison meteorite this is the oldest material found on earth till date. Its [--] billion [--] years old" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018441723383296225) 2026-02-02T21:49Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Highest Resolution Image of the Moon Ever Captured" More info from the author: This is the most advance moon photography ever featuring interesting surface details and maybe no one has ever seen it before its also my clearest and sharpest moon image Ive capture it require [--] days of continuous moon observation and shooting below are some facts about this image: 1- the image size is [---] gigabytes 2- over [-----] images were stacked 3- by merging [--] different moon phases and merging the shadow area it reveals an interesting topography of Lunar surface. 4- telescope : Skywatcher Flextube 250p" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018443393269969245) 2026-02-02T21:56Z 838K followers, 21.1K engagements "Solar flare X8.11 The AR4366 sunspot region has just triggered a phenomenal solar flare with a magnitude of X8.11 the third strongest in the current solar cycle SDO sensors are saturated by such intensity. The AR4366 region literally exploded tonight. The strong X8.11 flare was followed by another peak at X2.92 a few minutes later. The most impressive thing is that the region remains highly complex despite the flares and could well continue its fireworks display. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018450354967576751 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018450354967576751" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018450354967576751) 2026-02-02T22:24Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "In [----] a meteor with a similar weight to the Eiffel Tower fell over Russia" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018454633081909345) 2026-02-02T22:41Z 838.4K followers, 13.3K engagements "Imagine a star so colossal it defies human imagination: Stephenson 2-18 a crimson behemoth lurking in the depths of our galaxy.If this red hypergiant suddenly swapped places with our Sun its bloated surface would stretch far beyond Saturn's orbitengulfing Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and still reaching deep into the realm of the ringed giant. The inner solar system would vanish entirely inside its suffocating embrace.Light itself struggles to traverse this monster: a single photon would need over eight hours to crawl from one edge of its diameter to the other. By comparison our Sunalready" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018465706262901051) 2026-02-02T23:25Z 838.2K followers, 12.4K engagements "Lurking just [---] light-years away in the shadowy depths of the constellation Scorpius Lupus [--] looms like a colossal misshapen serpent carved from pure darknessa dense dark nebula that devours starlight in its path.This ominous cloud of cold cosmic dust and gas acts like an interstellar blackout curtain completely blocking and scattering the glow of background stars while cradling hidden protostars in its frigid embrace. Yet beneath that inky veil dramatic creation is underway: pockets of material collapse under gravity's relentless pull igniting the births of brand-new stars.Once these infant" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018469481086132254) 2026-02-02T23:40Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "These images were captured by the crew of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during its docking with the International Space Station " [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018477282172830108) 2026-02-03T00:11Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "The second strongest Earth-facing SolarFlare since [----] is currently underway on the Sun X8.0-class levels exceeded. The X8.11 flare from AR [----] has generated a CME which may have Earth-directed components. You can see a clear shockwave traveling outwards from the site of the flare. It is too early to say if this CME will be heading away from Earth or if we may receive a glancing blow. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018487851839852967 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018487851839852967" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018487851839852967) 2026-02-03T00:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018502699592069564) 2026-02-03T01:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018522331321131066) 2026-02-03T03:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Incredible footage of a plane passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean moons" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018525349122826466) 2026-02-03T03:22Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Astronomers found the earliest hottest galaxy cluster gas. the University of British Columbia An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasnt supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just [---] billion years after the Big Bang far earlier and hotter than theory predicts. The result published today in Nature could upend current models of galaxy cluster formation which predict such temperatures occur only in more mature stable galaxy clusters later in the universes life. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018539945233678617" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018539945233678617) 2026-02-03T04:20Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018547747067146320) 2026-02-03T04:51Z 838.6K followers, [----] engagements "Hoags Object stands as one of the most eerily perfect cosmic sculptures ever discovereda galaxy shaped like an almost flawless ring with a bright golden core suspended in the center and no visible bridge of stars gas or dust connecting the two.Discovered in [----] by astronomer Arthur Hoag this extraordinary object lies roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Serpens Caput (the Head of the Serpent). Spanning about [------------] light-years across its outer ring is composed of young hot blue stars blazing with youthful vigor while the central bulge consists of older yellower" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018563349613600968) 2026-02-03T05:53Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements "Mercury the swift innermost planet is trapped in a rare 3:2 spinorbit resonance with the Sun: it spins exactly three times on its axis for every two orbits around our star. This peculiar couplingcombined with Mercury's highly eccentric (elongated) orbitcreates one of the strangest "days" in the Solar System.A full solar day on Mercuryfrom one sunrise to the nextstretches to about [---] Earth days more than twice as long as its orbital year of roughly [--] Earth days. Meanwhile the planet's sidereal rotation period (one spin relative to the stars) is about [--] Earth days. The resonance arises from" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018570647908278727) 2026-02-03T06:22Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's moon IO in 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018598329697837210) 2026-02-03T08:12Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "STS-74 Crew visible in the Shuttle windows - Taken from Mir Station" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018608647614443548) 2026-02-03T08:53Z 838.2K followers, 67.2K engagements "In December [----] a magnetara hyper-magnetized neutron starnamed SGR 1806-20 unleashed one of the most ferocious outbursts ever recorded in our galaxy. From roughly [-----] light-years away (halfway across the Milky Way) this colossal gamma-ray flare slammed into Earth on December [--] briefly turning night-side upper atmosphere into something resembling daytime.The blast was mind-boggling: in just [---] seconds it released more energy than our Sun will emit over the next [------] years. Gamma rays flooded the planet saturating detectors on at least [--] spacecraft (including NASA's Swift which wasn't" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018620476185272544) 2026-02-03T09:40Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues - Saturn & Titan - As Seen from the Cassini Spacecraft A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan Saturn's largest moon measures [----] miles or [----] kilometers across and is larger than the planet Mercury. Cassini scientists have been watching the moon's south pole since a vortex appeared in its atmosphere in [----]. See PIA14919 and PIA14920 to learn more about this mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere of the moon." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018665523177783508) 2026-02-03T12:39Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018683177565315072) 2026-02-03T13:49Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018685655551713776) 2026-02-03T13:59Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018700251692142977) 2026-02-03T14:57Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "That's an impressive capture of NGC [----] This barred spiral galaxy (also known as Caldwell 67) is indeed a fascinating target for astrophotographers located about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Your setup with the Celestron RASA (fast f/2 optics great for wide-field deep-sky imaging) and ZWO ASI533MC color camera is perfect for pulling in those faint details.A few highlights on this gem:It hosts a supermassive black hole at its center with a mass of approximately [---] million solar masses (confirmed via ALMA observations of gas kinematics in the nucleus). As a Seyfert" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018703523895189793) 2026-02-03T15:10Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements "If you've been tracking the Artemis II mission you've likely spotted the term wet dress rehearsal popping up in feeds todayit's a key milestone and the test just wrapped up with some important outcomes.A wet dress rehearsal (often called WDR) is essentially a full-scale dress-rehearsal run-through of launch-day procedureswithout actually lifting off. Teams load the rocket with its cryogenic propellants (super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen) simulate the countdown timeline perform all the critical checks close out the spacecraft (like sealing hatches) and then safely offload the fuel." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018706543840296994) 2026-02-03T15:22Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Jupiter's moon Io in true color. NASA" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018707046338875396) 2026-02-03T15:24Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "M87* linked to base of giant jet Astronomers have for the first time traced a connection between the "shadow" of the supermassive black hole M87* and the base of a relativistic jet. Data from the [----] Event Horizon Telescope a global network of radio telescopes revealed faint but stable emission near a bright ring around the black hole. This allowed them to determine that a significant portion of the jet's energy is generated in the immediate vicinity of the event horizon. Furthermore observations revealed that magnetic fields around M87* have reversed direction over the past four years." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018744681090138217) 2026-02-03T17:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Blue Origin Suspends Space Tourism Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is temporarily suspending New Shepard suborbital flights for at least two years to focus on NASA's lunar program. The rocket has completed [--] launches and carried [--] passengers including Bezos himself William Shatner and Katy Perry. Experience from New Shepard flights will be used in the development of the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and reusable landing technologies. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018748821761908961 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018748821761908961" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018748821761908961) 2026-02-03T18:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "The golden rings of star formation encircle the heart of galaxy NGC [----] in this stunning NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrait.Set against a sparkling backdrop of distant galaxies NGC [----] lies in the constellation Hydra (The Sea Serpent) roughly [----] million light-years from Earth. Classified as a type II Seyfert galaxy it boasts an intensely luminous nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole actively devouring surrounding material.Viewed nearly face-on this barred spiral stands out from typical spirals thanks to its striking resonance ringa luminous loop glowing with intense bursts" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018767067261145521) 2026-02-03T19:22Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "20 brightest star" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018782040267841806) 2026-02-03T20:22Z 838.1K followers, 11.9K engagements "The Space Shuttles R-bar Pitch Maneuver (RPM) dramatically nicknamed the "backflip" was one of the most visually striking and critically important procedures in the post-Columbia era of shuttle missions.Introduced as a direct response to the tragic STS-107 Columbia disaster in 2003where launch debris fatally damaged the orbiter's heat shieldthis [---] pitch rotation became a mandatory safety step before every docking with the International Space Station (ISS).As the shuttle approached along the R-bar (the radial vector from Earth's center through the ISS essentially flying "below" the station)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018786570816417817) 2026-02-03T20:40Z 838.4K followers, 185.9K engagements "The Sun just reminded us it's far from finished with Solar Cycle [--] BOOM In a jaw-dropping display over less than [--] hours our star unleashed a ferocious barrage of four X-class solar flares from a single hyper-active sunspot region. The standout A colossal X8.1 eruption (peaking around 23:57 UTC on February [--] 2026) marking the strongest solar flare of [----] so far the most intense since October [----] and one of the top blasts recorded in the entire all kicked off on February [--] with an X1.0 flare at 12:33 UTC escalated dramatically to the monster X8.1 later that evening then kept pounding with" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018794120605794396) 2026-02-03T21:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "Jupiter's auroras just got a major glow-up in the high-energy department X-ray eyes from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra observatories have cracked the code: unlike Earth's familiar electron-driven "northern lights" that dazzle in visible colors Jupiter's super-intense auroras blaze with X-rays powered primarily by heavy ionsoxygen and sulfurnot just lightweight electrons.These charged beasts originate from the relentless volcanic fireworks on Jupiter's moon Io the most geologically active world in our solar system. Io's massive eruptions constantly spew sulfur and oxygen gases into space" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018796888653209870) 2026-02-03T21:21Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Galaxies aren't just pretty pinwheels of starsthey're alive with invisible superhighways of magnetism stretching across thousands of light-years These colossal magnetic fields weave through the spiral arms halos and disks like cosmic scaffolding quietly bossing around gas clouds dust grains and streams of charged particles. Too weak to pick up a paperclip here on Earth (we're talking microgauss strengthsmillions of times feebler than a fridge magnet) their true power comes from sheer scale: when fields span tens of thousands of light-years they pack enough punch to reshape entire galactic" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018804690373542364) 2026-02-03T21:52Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements "Russia has stunned the world with an astonishing sight: four moons glowing in the night sky over St. Petersburg.This isn't science fiction a hoax or some cosmic anomalyit's a breathtaking atmospheric optical phenomenon known as paraselene (commonly called "moon dogs" or "mock moons").The display occurs when bright moonlight passes through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals suspended in high-altitude cirrus clouds during bitterly cold conditions. These crystals act like prisms refracting and reflecting the light to create vivid moon-like bright spotstypically positioned about [--] degrees" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018816769654444068) 2026-02-03T22:40Z 838.2K followers, 11.6K engagements "Saturn's breathtaking ringsthe Solar System's most dazzling jewelare vanishing before our eyes doomed to fade away in cosmic from NASA's Cassini mission uncovered a relentless process dubbed "ring rain": massive amounts of icy particles and dust are steadily cascading from the rings into Saturn's atmosphere. Charged grains get swept along the planet's powerful magnetic field lines plunging downward where they vaporize and mingle with the upper atmosphere in a constant watery downpour. At the measured rateenough material to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half hourthe main rings" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018824319376449820) 2026-02-03T23:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues - Saturn & Titan - As Seen from the Cassini Spacecraft A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan Saturn's largest moon measures [----] miles or [----] kilometers across and is larger than the planet Mercury. Cassini scientists have been watching the moon's south pole since a vortex appeared in its atmosphere in [----]. See PIA14919 and PIA14920 to learn more about this mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere of the moon." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018835140777320530) 2026-02-03T23:53Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018839418384032048) 2026-02-04T00:10Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements "Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018854517983547499) 2026-02-04T01:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018865339342500066) 2026-02-04T01:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018880690528674156) 2026-02-04T02:54Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018884718461120727) 2026-02-04T03:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018895286492410328) 2026-02-04T03:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "The breathtaking composite optical image captures the majestic Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33) a stunning spiral galaxy just 2.72.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulummaking it one of our closest cosmic neighbors and the third-largest member of the Local Group after the Milky Way and Andromeda.First glimpsed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Hodierna before [----] and later cataloged by Charles Messier on August [--] [----] M33 spans about [-----] light-years acrossroughly half the diameter of our Milky Way. Home to an estimated [--] billion stars (compared to the Milky Way's" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018899816995295674) 2026-02-04T04:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] a Milky Waylike spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away in Centaurus with bright star-forming regions and a core likely hiding a supermassive black hole. (Credit: ESO)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018906611230904336) 2026-02-04T04:37Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Murchison meteorite this is the oldest material found on earth till date. Its [--] billion [--] years old" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018915167610843386) 2026-02-04T05:11Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018918313531994409) 2026-02-04T05:23Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "STS-74 Crew visible in the Shuttle windows - Taken from Mir Station" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018925737068401152) 2026-02-04T05:53Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Highest Resolution Image of the Moon Ever Captured" More info from the author: This is the most advance moon photography ever featuring interesting surface details and maybe no one has ever seen it before its also my clearest and sharpest moon image Ive capture it require [--] days of continuous moon observation and shooting below are some facts about this image: 1- the image size is [---] gigabytes 2- over [-----] images were stacked 3- by merging [--] different moon phases and merging the shadow area it reveals an interesting topography of Lunar surface. 4- telescope : Skywatcher Flextube 250p" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018930015484973522) 2026-02-04T06:10Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements "December [----] a magnetara hyper-magnetized neutron starnamed SGR 1806-20 unleashed one of the most ferocious outbursts ever recorded in our galaxy. From roughly [-----] light-years away (halfway across the Milky Way) this colossal gamma-ray flare slammed into Earth on December [--] briefly turning night-side upper atmosphere into something resembling daytime.The blast was mind-boggling: in just [---] seconds it released more energy than our Sun will emit over the next [------] years. Gamma rays flooded the planet saturating detectors on at least [--] spacecraft (including NASA's Swift which wasn't even" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2018947632194789637) 2026-02-04T07:20Z 838.4K followers, 10.2K engagements "An object falling from the sky over Dubai in the UAE filmed from the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in February 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019008673725780287) 2026-02-04T11:22Z 838.5K followers, 20.8K engagements "NGC [----] This is an image of the NGC [----] located approximately [---] million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. NGC [----] is a massive unbarred spiral galaxy seen almost exactly face-on. The yellowish core contains older cooler stars while the spiral arms are full of hot young blue stars and pink star-forming regions nebulae. It is one of only two spiral galaxies massive and close enough to allow detailed study of its galactic corona an invisible vast region of hot gas that emits X-rays. Image Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019034876373025147" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019034876373025147) 2026-02-04T13:06Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Leo Ring is an enormous intergalactic structurea vast ring-shaped cloud primarily composed of neutral hydrogen (H I) gas with some helium spanning approximately [---] kiloparsecs (about [------] light-years) in diameter. It contains roughly [--] billion solar masses of gas yet harbors remarkably few stars making it one of the most star-poor large-scale gaseous features known in the nearby universe.This colossal cloud orbits within the Leo I group (also known as the M96 group) encircling and interacting with galaxies such as M105 (NGC 3379) and NGC [----] located around [--] million light-years away" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019039487297491432) 2026-02-04T13:25Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "Niels Bohr (18851962) the Danish theoretical physicist widely regarded as the father of atomic physics revolutionized our understanding of the microscopic world. He was awarded the [----] Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."In [----] building on Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model of the atom Bohr introduced the groundbreaking Bohr model. This was the first quantum-based description of atomic structure: electrons orbit the positively charged nucleus in discrete stable energy levels (or "orbits") without" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019042004445868345) 2026-02-04T13:35Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Humanity has finally hit the fundamental limit of how sharply we can visualize individual a groundbreaking [----] achievement physicists at Cornell Universityled by David Mullercaptured the highest-resolution image of atoms ever recorded magnifying a crystal of praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO) by [---] million times. What appears as subtle blur around each atomic spot isn't a technical shortcomingit's the restless dance of thermal vibrations (lattice vibrations). Even in a rigid solid crystal at room temperature atoms jiggle incessantly due to thermal energy smearing their apparent positions by" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019047037250232614) 2026-02-04T13:55Z 838.5K followers, 36.9K engagements "IC342 galaxy" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019051158614990876) 2026-02-04T14:11Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "Humans are on the cusp of returning to the Mooncloser than we've been in over half a centurybut boots on the lunar surface remain a few years of February [----] NASA's Artemis II mission stands poised as the first crewed voyage beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo [--] in [----]. This daring test flight will hurl four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey: launching aboard the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket looping around the Moon on a free-return trajectory (never quite entering orbit but flying tantalizingly closewithin about [----] km of the surface) and splashing back down on Earth." [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019054587181961608) 2026-02-04T14:25Z 838.2K followers, 14.5K engagements "The Venera landers touched the surface of Venus then transmitted images and data through crushing pressure and 460C heat. One of the most famous Venera [--] kept talking for [---] minutes long enough to give humanity a direct look at the most hostile surface ever visited" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019060122845425992) 2026-02-04T14:47Z 838.3K followers, 73.1K engagements "Asteroid [---] Eros Comes Alive: The Historic NEAR Shoemaker Movie from 2000On December [--] [----] NASA's pioneering NEAR Shoemaker spacecraftthen orbiting just [---] miles (200 km) from the center of the 21-mile-long (34 km) near-Earth asteroidcaptured one of the most mesmerizing views ever of a celestial body: a full rotation movie of Eros slowly tumbling through space like a battered potato-shaped relic from the solar system's chaotic youth.The sequence reveals a rugged crater-pocked world dominated by a distinctive saddle-shaped depression (the broad groove slicing across its midsection) jagged" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019062639931109878) 2026-02-04T14:57Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements "A brilliant nebula reminiscent of a blooming rose with fiery red orange and yellow hues encircles the open star cluster NGC [----]. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez T.A. Rector M. Zamani)" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019071327936667802) 2026-02-04T15:31Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Jupiter with auroras captured by JWST" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019073460912496900) 2026-02-04T15:40Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "NGC [----] Constellation: Virgo Distance: [---] million light years RA: 13h 14m 59.38s Dec: [---] 35' 17.49" This Hubble image shows NGC [----] a spiral galaxy some [---] million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario L. Shatz" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019103156626702775) 2026-02-04T17:38Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements "Today's Earth-directed X4.2 solar flare An impulsive X4.2 solar flare erupted from geoeffective Active Region [----] at 12:13 UTC on February [--] [----]. The flare originated from a magnetically complex beta-gamma-delta region that produced dozens of M- and [--] other X-class flares since February [--]. Its location near the central solar disk raises the possibility of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) this week. Credit: NOAA/GOES-19 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019107183078859142 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019107183078859142" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019107183078859142) 2026-02-04T17:54Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "This is a rare Einstein Ring located around [--] billion light-years away in the constellation Leo where two perfectly aligned galaxies bend light into a glowing cosmic circle straight out of sci-fi" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019111209488797913) 2026-02-04T18:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements ":Cosmic Collision: The Bird Takes Flight in ESO 593-8Behold ESO 593-8a breathtaking pair of galaxies locked in an eternal gravitational tango captured in exquisite detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius this interacting duo has earned the nickname "The Bird" for its striking resemblance to a majestic bird soaring through space wings outstretched.Powerful tidal forces are tearing at their once orderly spiral structures ripping streams of stars gas and dust into long feathery tails that stretch across the void. Where" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019134614019645861) 2026-02-04T19:43Z 837K followers, [----] engagements "EARTH FROM SPACE INFO : As of [----] around [-----] active satellites orbit Earth with SpaceXs Starlink forming a large share. This surge raises space debris concerns threatening spacecraft and future missions" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019137130073632805) 2026-02-04T19:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements "Glow Mode: Activated From the vantage point of the International Space Station a mesmerizing dance unfolds: vibrant green auroras ripple and surge across Earth's night side like living emerald waves. These ethereal curtains of light erupt as charged solar particles slam into our atmosphere exciting oxygen atoms into a brilliant green glowguided and sculpted by our planet's invisible magnetic shield.Crowning the horizon a delicate thin orange band hugs the edge of space: that's airglow a subtle constant emission from the upper atmosphere where sunlight-excited molecules gently release their" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019144931802276020) 2026-02-04T20:24Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements "Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019190481746555329) 2026-02-04T23:25Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements "The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very" [X Link](https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2019194005146480880) 2026-02-04T23:39Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Astronomers 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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"Stunning Martian landscape from Gale Crater by Curiosity rover. NASA"
X Link 2024-12-26T20:40Z 838.3K followers, 74.6M engagements
"The James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted something wild Jupiter-sized planets drifting freely through space with no star to orbit. These rogue worlds are gravitationally unbound floating alone in the dark This discovery is reshaping what we thought we knew about planet formation and raises huge questions: How did they form Are there billions more Could they even host life under the right conditions The universe just got a little stranger and a lot more exciting"
X Link 2025-07-24T03:37Z 838.3K followers, 71.6K 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971147665703399525 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971147665703399525"
X Link 2025-09-25T09:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971404105198223695 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971404105198223695"
X Link 2025-09-26T02:39Z 837.7K followers, 10.2K engagements
"NASA May Have Accidentally Populated Mars In [----] the bacterium Tersicoccus phoenicis was found in two NASA cleanrooms located [----] 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 [--] 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 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A magnificent view of Mount Kilimanjaro from the ISS"
X Link 2026-01-06T07:12Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"One more cosmic mystery: Explore the hidden stellar nursery of Lynds [---] a dark nebula where young protostars burst forth from gas and dust clouds. Printed on metal for that ethereal star-forming glow in your home"
X Link 2026-01-06T20:39Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] Constellation: Ursa Major Distance: [---] million light years RA: 13h 38m 17.5s Dec: +48 [--] [--] NGC [----] (also Markarian 266) is a spectacular interacting galaxy system essentially two disk galaxies in the late stages of a cosmic collision and merger. Credit: ESA/Hubble NASA https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013011139517640962 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013011139517640962"
X Link 2026-01-18T22:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Exoplanet. Kamchatka. After a snow storm people are sliding down from the fourth floor"
X Link 2026-01-19T09:39Z 838.6K followers, 876.4K engagements
"Nestled roughly [--] million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (though recent Hubble observations place similar objects like it in Ursa Major contextsastronomy loves its cosmic shell games) Markarian [---] is no ordinary wallflower of the universe.This compact dwarf irregular galaxy blazes with ferocious star birth radiating an electric blue glow that screams "young hot and restless." It's a card-carrying member of the exclusive Markarian cataloga collection of over [----] galaxies singled out by Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian for their dazzling ultraviolet brilliance"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:19Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Nestled roughly [--] million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (though recent Hubble observations place similar objects like it in Ursa Major contextsastronomy loves its cosmic shell games) Markarian [---] is no ordinary wallflower of the universe.This compact dwarf irregular galaxy blazes with ferocious star birth radiating an electric blue glow that screams "young hot and restless." It's a card-carrying member of the exclusive Markarian cataloga collection of over [----] galaxies singled out by Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian for their dazzling ultraviolet brilliance"
X Link 2026-01-22T06:53Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Uranus captured by JWST"
X Link 2026-01-23T11:38Z 837.7K followers, 201K engagements
"The ground beneath Yellowstone National Park is on the move againand it's captivating scientists.After a long quiet period a sprawling 270-square-mile (700 km) zoneroughly the size of Chicagoalong the north rim of the caldera has started inflating. Dubbed the Norris Uplift Anomaly this restless patch has a track record of subtle but intriguing deformations driven by magma movements and trapped volcanic gases lurking more than [--] miles (14 km) underground.Since July [----] advanced GPS stations and satellite radar have detected the surface rising by about an inch (23 cm). It might seem tiny but"
X Link 2026-01-25T15:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The ground beneath Yellowstone National Park is on the move againand it's captivating scientists.After a long quiet period a sprawling 270-square-mile (700 km) zoneroughly the size of Chicagoalong the north rim of the caldera has started inflating. Dubbed the Norris Uplift Anomaly this restless patch has a track record of subtle but intriguing deformations driven by magma movements and trapped volcanic gases lurking more than [--] miles (14 km) underground.Since July [----] advanced GPS stations and satellite radar have detected the surface rising by about an inch (23 cm). It might seem tiny but"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:55Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Far beyond the familiar orbits of the planetsway out where the Sun's gravitational grip fades into the galactic voidlies the Oort Cloud an immense ghostly sphere of trillions of icy remnants encircling our entire solar system like a frozen halo.Stretching from roughly [----] AU (about [----] light-years) to as far as [------] AU (nearly [---] light-years) this vast shell dwarfs everything we know: it's hundreds to thousands of times more distant than Pluto enveloping the heliosphere in a spherical cloud of primordial We can't see it directlyno telescope has ever imaged an Oort Cloud object in"
X Link 2026-01-26T10:48Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Artemis program isn't just NASA's next chapterit's humanity's bold return to the Moon and the first real steps toward making Mars our next frontier. Here's the thrilling progression mission by mission:Artemis I (November 2022) The roar that restarted deep-space dreams. Uncrewed but carrying the hopes of a generation NASA's mighty Space Launch System (SLS) thundered off the pad propelling the Orion spacecraft on an audacious 25-day odyssey: a distant lunar orbit farther than any human-rated vehicle had gone in half a century then a fiery plunge back through Earth's atmosphere. Orion's heat"
X Link 2026-01-26T11:41Z 837.7K followers, 80.7K engagements
"Exoplanet. Deep in the Amazon forest is the world's largest single drop waterfall Guyana"
X Link 2026-01-26T22:23Z 837.6K followers, 35K engagements
"What size would our Sun be if the Milky Way were the size of North America"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:12Z 836.9K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Far beyond the familiar orbits of the planetsway out where the Sun's gravitational grip fades into the galactic voidlies the Oort Cloud an immense ghostly sphere of trillions of icy remnants encircling our entire solar system like a frozen halo.Stretching from roughly [----] AU (about [----] light-years) to as far as [------] AU (nearly [---] light-years) this vast shell dwarfs everything we know: it's hundreds to thousands of times more distant than Pluto enveloping the heliosphere in a spherical cloud of primordial debris. We can't see it directlyno telescope has ever imaged an Oort Cloud object in"
X Link 2026-01-28T06:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:49Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Northern lights of Jupiter NASA"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:11Z 838.5K followers, 39.9K engagements
"Born OnThisDay in [----] was Beatrice Tinsley astronomer and cosmologist. She was the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University and did pioneering research on how stars age and how galaxies evolve contributing to our fundamental understanding of the universe"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:23Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Humanity has for the first time captured a direct visual glimpse of an electron's orbital within a hydrogen atomliterally peering inside the simplest building block of the universe.This feels almost dreamlike even impossible. For over a century electrons existed as mathematical ghosts: probability waves abstract clouds never something you could actually see. They were ideas equations patterns of likelihoodnot pictures. Now that boundary between theory and tangible reality has been crossed in a way that feels deeply personal as though the subatomic world has finally looked back at us.For"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:12Z 837.1K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Northern lights of Jupiter NASA"
X Link 2026-01-29T06:53Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016771039372652926 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016771039372652926"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:11Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:20Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"WELCOME TO LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA Just about [--] km (20 miles) south of downtown Los Angeles lies the Port of Long Beach one of the largest busiest and most important container ports on the night its sprawling terminals towering cranes massive cargo ships and endless lights create an incredible man-made galaxy along the coast.This stunning view was captured from the International Space Station (ISS) during a nighttime pass over Southern California Franz ISS83 NASA(Here are a couple of representative night-time satellite / astronaut photos showing brightly lit ports and urban coastal areas"
X Link 2026-01-29T09:38Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Jupiter Today Is Just a Shadow of Its Primordial Giant Self New groundbreaking research reveals that the Jupiter we knowalready the solar system's undisputed heavyweightwas once dramatically larger and far more magnetically ferocious. Roughly [---] million years after the first solid grains condensed in the young solar nebula (marking a key transition as the protoplanetary disk began dissipating) our giant planet was [--] to [---] times its current radiusswollen enough to swallow more than [----] Earths whole.Even more jaw-dropping: its magnetic field roared at about [--] millitesla (mT)roughly [--] times"
X Link 2026-01-29T10:07Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"River Nile as seen from Space ISS"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:40Z 837.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:21Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"When astronomers peer into the atmospheres of certain white dwarfsthe dense Earth-sized corpses of once Sun-like starsthey uncover a startling mystery: traces of heavy metals like calcium iron and magnesium elements that gravity should swiftly drag deep into the star's interior vanishing from sight forever.Yet these "polluted" white dwarfs stubbornly display such contaminants. The only convincing culprit Ongoing cannibalism of shredded planetary debris. In multiple systems telescopes have spotted telltale dusty disks and gaseous streamscosmic graveyards where asteroids planetesimals or even"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:55Z 837K followers, [----] engagements
"The young stars of Taurus GN 04.32.8 a blue reflection nebula in the Taurus Molecular Cloud about [---] light-years away is lit by three young stars (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA G. Duchne)"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:52Z 837K followers, [----] engagements
"Hubble captured a pair of interacting galaxies that looks like a bird in flight Astronomers believe these two galaxies will someday merge into a single galaxy. Called ESO 593-8 this pair is adorned with a number of bright blue star clusters and is located about [---] million light-years away Image credit: NASA ESA the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016912874803699895 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016912874803699895"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:34Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Solar system family portrait"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:10Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:55Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Liftoff SpaceXs Falcon-9 rocket booster B1082-19 successfully lifted off carrying Starlink 17-19 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base"
X Link 2026-01-29T23:53Z 837K followers, [----] engagements
"Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017037797165826543 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017037797165826543"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:51Z 837.7K followers, 12K engagements
"Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch"
X Link 2026-01-30T05:53Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The"
X Link 2026-01-30T06:21Z 838.2K followers, 36.7K engagements
"Running Man Nebula (Sh 2-279) Credit: Robert G. Lyons Canada"
X Link 2026-01-30T07:10Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Final preparations photo for the Artemis II mission This stunning shot captures NASA's massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket the most powerful ever built standing tall at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Florida. The iconic orange core stage gleams under the Florida sun flanked by the white solid rocket boosters with the Orion spacecraft perched on top ready for humanity's return to the Moon.This is the first crewed lunar mission of the 21st century and the first time humans will venture beyond low Earth orbit in over [--] years (since Apollo [--] in 1972)The four-person crew NASA"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers have announced the discovery of a promising new potentially habitable exoplanet candidate located about [---] light-years from Earth.The planet designated HD [------] b is roughly Earth-sized (about 6% larger in radius) and orbits a Sun-like star specifically a cooler dimmer K-type dwarf (V=10.1 magnitude) once every approximately [---] days strikingly similar to Earth's orbital period.Discovered through re-analysis of archival data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope (K2 mission Campaign [--] in 2017) the detection is based on a single high-quality transit event lasting about 10"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:37Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Signs of active geology discovered on Mercury [---] bright bands have been discovered on the surface of Mercury indicating ongoing geological processes. An analysis of [------] images taken in [----] and [----] revealed that the structures are most often located on the sunward slopes of craters. This suggests that the planet is not completely "dead" and continues to evolve. The bands are formed by heat flow and volatiles including sulfur that rise from the interior through cracks in the rock. Most of them originate in depressions called gullies associated with gas emissions. These findings are"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:41Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is NGC [----] a star nursery located about [-----] light-years away in the Carina constellation of the Milky Way Galaxy Credit:Space verse"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:42Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"New Event Horizon Telescope Results Trace M87 Jet Back to Its Black Hole Astronomers have made important progress in understanding how the powerful jet from the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is formed. Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) a global network of radio telescopes that works together as a single Earth-sized telescope scientists studied the region very close to the black hole. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) played a key role by improving the sensitivity needed to see fine details. M87s black hole about six billion times more massive than the"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"2 trillion Galaxies in the Observable Universe. [----] Planetary Nebulae in the Observable Milky Way"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:37Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Arp [---] Constellation: Cetus Distance: [---] million light years RA: 03h 11m 18.90s Dec: +01 [--] [-----] Arp [---] is a pair of interacting ring galaxies located over [---] million light-years away. Often called the "number 10" due to its shape it consists of a remnant spiral galaxy (right) that collided with an elliptical galaxy (left) causing a massive blue ring of star formation. Credit: NASA ESA and M. Livio (STScI) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017385337082024407 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017385337082024407"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017408238090916108 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017408238090916108"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This intriguing image shows NGC [----] a planetary nebula located about [-----] light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered in [----] by the English astronomer John Herschel. A planetary nebula marks the final stage in the life of a Sun-like star and offers a glimpse into the distant future of our own Solar System. As such a star nears the end of its life it expands into a red giant powered by nuclear fusion in its core. While fusion continues the outward pressure balances gravity. Eventually as fusion energy wanes the core collapses and the stars outer layers are"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers have uncovered what may be the single largest structure in the observable universe: the HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall a mind-boggling chain of galaxies clusters and cosmic filaments stretching an astonishing [----] billion light-years across (with recent analyses suggesting it could be even bigger than the original 10-billion-light-year estimate).First spotted more than a decade ago through an unexpected clustering of gamma-ray bursts (the universe's most violent explosions marking the deaths of massive stars) this colossal feature was later backed up by massive galaxy surveys"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula Credits: Jason Wiscovitch"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"60 years ago today on January [--] [----] humanity achieved a groundbreaking milestone: the Soviet Union's Luna-9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the MoonLaunched from Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Molniya-M rocket Luna-9 was sent on a precise trajectory to Earth's natural satellite. Then on February [--] [----] the historic moment an altitude of about [--] km above the lunar surface the spacecraft's braking engines fired unnecessary compartments were jettisoned and shock-absorbing balloons were inflated with gas. After a few gentle bounces Luna-9 successfully touched down in the"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:19Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the Cartwheel Galaxy located about [---] million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation formed by a powerful head-on galactic collision that created its stunning ring of newborn stars"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:31Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Planetary nebulae represent one of the most breathtaking final acts in the life cycle of stars like our a Sun-like star (with a mass roughly [---] to [--] times that of the Sun) exhausts its core hydrogen fuel after billions of years it swells into a red giant. In its dying throes the star gently ejects its outer layers into space creating vast glowing shells of gas and dust. The exposed incredibly hot stellar corenow collapsing into a white dwarfblasts the ejected material with intense ultraviolet radiation causing the gas to ionize and shine vividly in a rainbow of colors across optical and"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:43Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Globular Cluster NGC [----] Observed by Hubble ✨ This stunning Hubble image reveals NGC [----] a massive globular cluster in the Milky Way more than [--] billion years old. Studies of its bright blue stars show the cluster is dynamically middle-aged with heavier stars slowly sinking toward the centre. Hubble observations reveal that globular clusters of the same age can evolve at very different rates reshaping how astronomers understand stellar aging. Credit: NASA ESA F. Ferraro (University of Bologna) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017541113662607585"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:11Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:32Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Gorgeous: NGC [----] a spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away features striking spiral arms a golden core and a remarkable circumnuclear starburst ring where over [--] star clusters formed (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA L. C. Ho G. Brammer A. Filippenko C. Kilpatrick)"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:23Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Behold the majestic Andromeda Galaxy (M31 also known as NGC 224)our closest large spiral neighbor and the largest member of the Local Group home to the Milky Way the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and dozens of smaller companions.Captured in stunning detail by renowned amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello this deep-field image reveals the galaxy's grand architecture at (J2000) coordinates: RA 00h 42m 44.3s Dec +41 [--] [--] (centered on the core).At roughly [---] million light-years (about [---] kiloparsecs) away Andromeda spans an impressive [------] light-years acrossmaking it visible to the naked eye"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:39Z 838.6K followers, [----] engagements
"A groundbreaking reanalysis of long-dormant data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has delivered the first confirmed detection of ammonia-bearing compounds on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europaa discovery announced on January [--] [----] that strengthens the case for an active potentially habitable subsurface ocean beneath its icy shell.Led by researcher Al Emran at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory the study revisited infrared spectra collected by Galileo's Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) during the spacecraft's 11th Jupiter orbit in [----]. Faint but unmistakable absorption features at"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:54Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:25Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Behold the bizarre sponge-like world of Hyperion Saturn's chaotic tumbling moon captured in exquisite false-color detail during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's daring close flyby on September [--] 2005.This stunning compositecreated by combining images taken through infrared green and ultraviolet spectral filtersenhances subtle surface variations that would be far less obvious in natural color. In reality Hyperion sports a distinctive reddish hue overall but here the red tones have been deliberately subdued while other hues are amplified to highlight compositional differences across its wildly"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:36Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The tension is electric and the clock is ticking down hard. Artemis II is NASA's bold first crewed flight with the mighty SLS rocket powering Orion on a daring loop around the Moon and safe return to Earth. This isn't just another testit's the real deal with astronauts aboard proving the entire deep-space system works flawlessly under human command.Every team is razor-focused and all-in:Laser-sharp crews. Battle-tested procedures. Absolutely no shortcuts allowed. When launch day hits it needs to feel like second naturesmooth confident routine.Vibe check time: Are you buzzing with pure"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:10Z 837.6K followers, 26.8K engagements
"Astronomers have tracked the birth of a jet from a black hole for the first time. Astronomers have tracked a jet approximately [----] light-years long to its formation region. Its source is located near the supermassive black hole M87 at the center of the galaxy M87. The galaxy is approximately [--] million light-years from Earth. Analysis of the data revealed a connection between the glowing ring of hot matter around the black hole and the base of a jet of particles moving nearly at the speed of light. This allowed them to pinpoint the jet's origin for the first time with sufficient precision."
X Link 2026-01-31T16:30Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"As comets hurtle closer to the Sun their frozen heartsicy nucleiwarm up dramatically unleashing bursts of gas and dust that create some of the most breathtaking sights in the cosmos: enormous tails stretching millions of kilometers through the void of space.These tails aren't uniform. They split into two strikingly different components:A curved dust tail gently nudged away by the pressure of sunlight itself glowing pale yellow or white as it reflects solar rays. A straight often bluish ion tail (made of charged gas particles) forcefully sculpted and directed by the solar wind's powerful"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Saturn's moon Mimas lit by direct sunlight and reflected light from Saturn. Imaged by Cassini on January [--] 2017"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:40Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Apollo [--] astronauts rehearsed their lunar landing mission in simulators here today. Pictured in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area from left are Michael Collins Command Module pilot; Neil A. Armstrong commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Lunar Module pilot. NASA https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017661783562195416 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017661783562195416"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Polar auroras (also known as the northern or southern lights) require three main conditions: a sufficiently dense atmosphere a strong global magnetic field and an intense stream of charged particles (mostly from the Sun via the solar wind).Not every planet in the Solar System meets all three requirements at once so classic bright auroras aren't visible everywhere.Mercury receives the strongest bombardment of charged particles due to its proximity to the Sun but it has almost no atmosphere and only a very weak magnetic field no auroras occur. Venus has a very thick atmosphere but virtually no"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:16Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Precise breathtaking maps charting millions of galaxies across the cosmos have uncovered a subtle yet profound influence: elusive neutrinos are quietly sculpting the Universe's grandest structures.Leveraging groundbreaking data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)one of the most ambitious galaxy surveys ever undertakenresearchers have precisely measured how these galaxies cluster over enormous distances. They've detected a faint but unmistakable suppression of cosmic structure on smaller scales a telltale signature left by the ghostly neutrinos.Unlike cold dark matter which"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:55Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A groundbreaking new study led by planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna uncovers fascinating details about the Moon's most colossal scar: the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin its largest deepest and oldest impact crater.Roughly [---] billion years ago in the chaotic early days of the Solar System a gigantic asteroid slammed into the Moon's far side at a sharp oblique angle streaking southward from the north. This glancing blow rather than a straight-on collision explains the basin's distinctive elongated oval shape which narrows toward the south.This angled impact had dramatic consequences: it"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:55Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Pillars of Creation by James Webb Space Telescope"
X Link 2026-01-31T20:12Z 838.2K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Water discovered on the largest mountain in the Solar System Olympus Mons on Mars"
X Link 2026-01-31T20:54Z 838.2K followers, 40.6K engagements
"The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)"
X Link 2026-02-01T02:30Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the Cartwheel Galaxy located about [---] million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation formed by a powerful head-on galactic collision that created its stunning ring of newborn stars"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"NASAs Juno just captured this closest photo of Jupiters Volcanic Moon Io"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:53Z 837.6K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Planetary nebulae represent one of the most breathtaking final acts in the life cycle of stars like our a Sun-like star (with a mass roughly [---] to [--] times that of the Sun) exhausts its core hydrogen fuel after billions of years it swells into a red giant. In its dying throes the star gently ejects its outer layers into space creating vast glowing shells of gas and dust. The exposed incredibly hot stellar corenow collapsing into a white dwarfblasts the ejected material with intense ultraviolet radiation causing the gas to ionize and shine vividly in a rainbow of colors across optical and"
X Link 2026-02-01T04:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is NGC [----] a star nursery located about [-----] light-years away in the Carina constellation of the Milky Way Galaxy Credit:Space verse"
X Link 2026-02-01T04:39Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Gorgeous: NGC [----] a spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away features striking spiral arms a golden core and a remarkable circumnuclear starburst ring where over [--] star clusters formed (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA L. C. Ho G. Brammer A. Filippenko C. Kilpatrick)"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017835301998334202 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017835301998334202"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:40Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Precise breathtaking maps charting millions of galaxies across the cosmos have uncovered a subtle yet profound influence: elusive neutrinos are quietly sculpting the Universe's grandest structures.Leveraging groundbreaking data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)one of the most ambitious galaxy surveys ever undertakenresearchers have precisely measured how these galaxies cluster over enormous distances. They've detected a faint but unmistakable suppression of cosmic structure on smaller scales a telltale signature left by the ghostly neutrinos.Unlike cold dark matter which"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:53Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"For decades a cosmic mystery haunted astronomers: theory predicted that ordinary matterbaryons like protons and neutronsshould make up about 5% of the universe's total energy budget yet observations of stars galaxies and cool gas fell short by roughly 3050%. Where was the universe's missing ordinary matter hidingThe answer emerging from painstaking detective work across multiple telescopes lies in the vast diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM)a tenuous web of gas at temperatures of [------] to [--] million degrees Kelvin threading through the cosmic web like invisible highways connecting"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:59Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a revolutionary "laser ruler" technology that could transform how we image black holes and push the boundaries of radio astronomy.The breakthrough centers on an ultra-stable optical frequency comba special laser that emits thousands of perfectly spaced spectral lines (like the "teeth" of a comb) each with frequencies known to atomic-clock precision. This creates an optical "ruler" made of light delivering timing and phase synchronization that's orders of magnitude more accurate than traditional atomic"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Solar system family portrait"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:40Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The magnificent Elephant Trunk Nebula is a dense cloud of gas embedded within the bright star cluster IC [----]. Hidden within the trunk are young protostars in the early stages of formation (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:51Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A potentially habitable planet has been discovered located [---] light-years from Earth. Scientists believe HD [------] b is one of the first candidates among Earth-sized planets capable of supporting life. It has a radius only 6% larger than Earth's and its surface temperature is estimated to be as low as [---] degrees Celsius"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:52Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Water discovered on the largest mountain in the Solar System Olympus Mons on Mars"
X Link 2026-02-01T10:22Z 838.1K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Exoplanet. Ice flowers in Norway represent one of the rarest and most delicate natural wonders on Earth. These exquisite crystal formationsoften called frost flowersbloom fleetingly on the surface of ultra-thin freshly formed ice transforming barren frozen expanses into surreal ephemeral gardens of shimmering "petals."They appear in mere seconds under razor-sharp conditions: a razor-thin layer of ice (often on lakes ponds or calm coastal waters) dead-still air with no wind whatsoever bone-chillingly low air temperatures (typically far below freezing) and relatively warmer water beneath. The"
X Link 2026-02-01T10:44Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Saturn captured by Voyager [--] in [----] NASA"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:24Z 837.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33 also cataloged as NGC 598) is a breathtaking face-on spiral galaxy situated about 2.732.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. As the third-largest member of our Local Group (after the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way) it stretches roughly [-----] light-years acrossaround 60% the diameter of our home galaxyand hosts an estimated [--] billion stars.What sets M33 apart is its elegant "pure disk" architecture: it lacks the prominent central bulge seen in most large spirals including Andromeda and the Milky Way. Current observations"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:40Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Artemis program isn't just NASA's next chapterit's humanity's bold return to the Moon and the first real steps toward making Mars our next frontier. Here's the thrilling progression mission by mission:Artemis I (November 2022) The roar that restarted deep-space dreams. Uncrewed but carrying the hopes of a generation NASA's mighty Space Launch System (SLS) thundered off the pad propelling the Orion spacecraft on an audacious 25-day odyssey: a distant lunar orbit farther than any human-rated vehicle had gone in half a century then a fiery plunge back through Earth's atmosphere. Orion's heat"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:10Z 838.2K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Messier [--] (also known as M61 or NGC 4303) is a stunning intermediate barred spiral galaxy nestled within the massive Virgo Cluster. This dynamic galaxy stands out as both an active and starburst powerhouse furiously churning out new stars at an impressive rate.Lying roughly [----] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo M61 spans about [------] light-years acrosscomparable in size to our own Milky Way.Its face-on orientation reveals graceful spiral arms teeming with vibrant bluish patches of vigorous star formation contrasted by dramatic dark dust lanes that weave through the"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Around [-----] years ago Earth underwent a dramatic geomagnetic upheaval known as the Laschamps Excursion (also called the Laschamp event) when the planet's protective magnetic field weakened to roughly 10% of its modern strength and briefly approached collapse. Lasting about [--------] years overallwith the most intense dipole reduction and tilting spanning roughly [---] yearsthis rare event saw the familiar dipolar field fracture into a multipolar configuration with poles wandering far from their geographic positions resembling the chaotic magnetic setups of outer planets like Jupiter.The"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"NASAs Juno just captured this closest photo of Jupiters Volcanic Moon Io"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:24Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"During the polar nightwhen the Sun remains below the horizon for weeks or months near the North Polesomething extraordinary and unsettling occurred: temperatures spiked more than 36F (20C) above normal in the heart of Arctic an region where the thermometer should be plunged deep into the negatives with endless darkness and bone-chilling cold the norm some spots briefly climbed above freezing (32F/0C). That's rightmelting-point conditions in the dead of winter far from any hint of spring.This dramatic warm surge stemmed from a mighty low-pressure system near Iceland acting like a atmospheric"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:23Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"SpaceX aims to launch [--] million satellites into orbit. SpaceX has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy [-------] satellites into low-Earth orbit at altitudes ranging from [---] to [----] km. The satellites will be constantly illuminated by the sun and use solar energy to perform complex calculations. Data exchange between them will occur via laser communication without the need for ground-based infrastructure. The project is designed to meet the growing demand for data for artificial intelligence. SpaceX calls this constellation "orbital data centers" and sees"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:53Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This haunting close-up reveals the scorched interior of Apollo Spacecraft 012's Command Module (CM-012) at Launch Pad [--] moments after the catastrophic flash fire that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee on January [--] a pure-oxygen atmosphere under pressure during a routine plugs-out test a spark ignited a ferocious blaze that raced through the cabin in mere seconds. Temperatures soared dramatically melting wiring charring panels and leaving behind a nightmarish scene of blackened heat-warped metal scorched instrumentation and widespread sootsilent evidence"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:10Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Milky Way isn't your average spiral galaxyit's a barred spiral dominated by a massive elongated bar of stars slashing through its heart like a cosmic backbone.This central bar isn't just structural flair; it's a powerful gravitational engine. Infrared and radio observations show it channeling enormous rivers of gas inward toward the galactic core acting like a relentless conveyor this gas rushes in it slams into dense clouds triggering compression and igniting bursts of furious star formation near the center.This process is key to the galaxy's long-term story. The bar steadily funnels"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:39Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers found the earliest hottest galaxy cluster gas. the University of British Columbia An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasnt supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just [---] billion years after the Big Bang far earlier and hotter than theory predicts. The result published today in Nature could upend current models of galaxy cluster formation which predict such temperatures occur only in more mature stable galaxy clusters later in the universes life. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018035118846415339"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:54Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Vesta is one of the Largest Objects in the Asteroid Belt. Location: Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter about [---] million km from Earth It has mountains valleys and a giant impact crater at its south pole. NASAs Dawn spacecraft mapped its surface in high detail. This asteroid looks like a small rocky planet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018049966862987541 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018049966862987541"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"For decades a cosmic mystery haunted astronomers: theory predicted that ordinary matterbaryons like protons and neutronsshould make up about 5% of the universe's total energy budget yet observations of stars galaxies and cool gas fell short by roughly 3050%. Where was the universe's missing ordinary matter hidingThe answer emerging from painstaking detective work across multiple telescopes lies in the vast diffuse warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM)a tenuous web of gas at temperatures of [------] to [--] million degrees Kelvin threading through the cosmic web like invisible highways connecting"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A shocking and mesmerizing anomaly was captured in Alaska. Scientists are hesitant to say it was an atmospheric illusion. By"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:38Z 838.1K followers, 36.3K engagements
"Incredible footage of a plane passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean moons"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:11Z 837.8K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Enceladus is actively sculpting one of Saturn's most enigmatic ringsthe vast ghostly E ringthrough dramatic geysers of water ice erupting from its south pole.This breathtaking extended-color composite (blending infrared green and ultraviolet filters) from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures tiny Enceladus dramatically silhouetted against the glowing backdrop of the E ring. Wispy jets of water vapor ice particles and trace materials blast outward from the moon's south polar "tiger stripes" feeding material directly into orbit around Saturn. That ejected plume spreads out over time forming and"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:41Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Blue Flame of Rigel and the Red Glow of Hydrogen Nebulae In the constellation Orion the star Rigel illuminates the cosmos with its bright blue light while the surrounding hydrogen nebulae emit a rich red glow. This image required [--] hours of exposure. It reveals the fine structures of gas and dust creating a stunning contrast between the star's cool glow and the warm hues of the nebulae. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018102814749131056 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018102814749131056"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:23Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Quasars really do release insane amounts of energy we're talking about some of the most extreme objects in the entire universe These aren't ordinary stars; quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (millions to tens of billions of solar masses) at the centers of distant galaxies. As huge amounts of gas dust and even stars fall toward the black hole they form a super-hot accretion disk that spirals in at nearly the speed of light. Friction and magnetic fields convert gravitational energy into radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. The result"
X Link 2026-02-02T00:24Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"These images were captured by the crew of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during its docking with the International Space Station "
X Link 2026-02-02T01:23Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:40Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"2 trillion Galaxies in the Observable Universe. [----] Planetary Nebulae in the Observable Milky Way"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:54Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Exploding Star Solves a Cosmic Puzzle: The Hidden Source of Life's Key IngredientsA centuries-old stellar catastrophe has just handed scientists a game-changing clue about how the universe cooks up elements essential for life as we know it.Using Japan's cutting-edge XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) space telescope astronomers have detected surprisingly massive amounts of chlorine and potassium in the glowing wreckage of Cassiopeia A the dramatic remnant of a massive star that detonated as a supernova roughly [---] years ago about [-----] light-years away in the constellation"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:51Z 838K followers, [----] engagements
"A Bar-Driven Resonance Ring in Hydra: NGC [----] Behold NGC [----] a compact strikingly structured barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra that looks almost like a cosmic flower caught in mid-bloom. At its heart lies a bright luminous central bar that acts like a gravitational engine channeling gas and dust inward to fuel two tightly coiled spiral arms. These arms don't just swirl outward they wrap around to form a nearly complete inner resonance ring a glowing loop where bar-driven orbits pile up material at a special orbital resonance radius. It's classic galactic dynamics turned art:"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:53Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Humanity has for the first time captured a direct visual glimpse of an electron's orbital within a hydrogen atomliterally peering inside the simplest building block of the universe.This feels almost dreamlike even impossible. For over a century electrons existed as mathematical ghosts: probability waves abstract clouds never something you could actually see. They were ideas equations patterns of likelihoodnot pictures. Now that boundary between theory and tangible reality has been crossed in a way that feels deeply personal as though the subatomic world has finally looked back at us.For"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:10Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine a star so colossal it defies human imagination: Stephenson 2-18 a crimson behemoth lurking in the depths of our galaxy.If this red hypergiant suddenly swapped places with our Sun its bloated surface would stretch far beyond Saturn's orbitengulfing Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and still reaching deep into the realm of the ringed giant. The inner solar system would vanish entirely inside its suffocating embrace.Light itself struggles to traverse this monster: a single photon would need over eight hours to crawl from one edge of its diameter to the other. By comparison our Sunalready"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:38Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Hoags Object stands as one of the most eerily perfect cosmic sculptures ever discovereda galaxy shaped like an almost flawless ring with a bright golden core suspended in the center and no visible bridge of stars gas or dust connecting the two.Discovered in [----] by astronomer Arthur Hoag this extraordinary object lies roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Serpens Caput (the Head of the Serpent). Spanning about [------------] light-years across its outer ring is composed of young hot blue stars blazing with youthful vigor while the central bulge consists of older yellower"
X Link 2026-02-02T07:10Z 837.3K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)"
X Link 2026-02-02T07:40Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A giant atmospheric jet was captured on camera from the ISS"
X Link 2026-02-02T10:11Z 837.6K followers, 40.8K engagements
"Mercury the swift innermost planet is trapped in a rare 3:2 spinorbit resonance with the Sun: it spins exactly three times on its axis for every two orbits around our star. This peculiar couplingcombined with Mercury's highly eccentric (elongated) orbitcreates one of the strangest "days" in the Solar System.A full solar day on Mercuryfrom one sunrise to the nextstretches to about [---] Earth days more than twice as long as its orbital year of roughly [--] Earth days. Meanwhile the planet's sidereal rotation period (one spin relative to the stars) is about [--] Earth days. The resonance arises from"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:27Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Venus stands as the most hostile solid-surface world ever directly probed by humanitya true inferno where surface temperatures average around [------] C (about [------] F) hot enough to melt lead (melting point [---] C) and atmospheric pressure crushes down at roughly [----] bars equivalent to the weight of nearly a kilometer of water on Earth. This thick blanket of mostly carbon dioxide topped by reflective clouds of sulfuric acid creates a runaway greenhouse effect that traps heat relentlessly. Electronics fry metals soften and any unprotected probe is doomed in minutes to hours.Yet in one of the"
X Link 2026-02-02T12:02Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The second strongest Earth-facing SolarFlare since [----] is currently underway on the Sun X8.0-class levels exceeded. The X8.11 flare from AR [----] has generated a CME which may have Earth-directed components. You can see a clear shockwave traveling outwards from the site of the flare. It is too early to say if this CME will be heading away from Earth or if we may receive a glancing blow. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018337807916269865 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018337807916269865"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:56Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:00Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Light-Toned Layering in a Noctis Labyrinthus Pit (HiRISE Mars) NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Understanding both the spatial and temporal distribution of hydrated (water-bearing) minerals on Mars is essential for deciphering the aqueous history of the planet. Over [---] meters of layered beds are exposed in this trough of Noctis Labyrinthus at the western edge of Valles Marineris. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018341135928999972 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018341135928999972"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Saturn's breathtaking ringsthe Solar System's most dazzling jewelare vanishing before our eyes doomed to fade away in cosmic from NASA's Cassini mission uncovered a relentless process dubbed "ring rain": massive amounts of icy particles and dust are steadily cascading from the rings into Saturn's atmosphere. Charged grains get swept along the planet's powerful magnetic field lines plunging downward where they vaporize and mingle with the upper atmosphere in a constant watery downpour. At the measured rateenough material to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half hourthe main rings"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:35Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"HH [--] and HH [--] are a remarkable pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objectsbright glowing shock regions in spacecaptured here in stunning detail by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These features appear as vivid pink and green patches slicing diagonally across the dark cosmic backdrop with the upper-left patch belonging to HH [--] and the lower streak to HH 80.Herbig-Haro objects form when powerful jets of ionized gas erupt from a newborn star (a protostar) and collide at high speeds with slower-moving surrounding material creating shockwaves that heat the gas and make it glow brightly.What sets HH 80/81"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:49Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"MACS J1149: A Galaxy Cluster and Huge Gravitational Lens ESA/Webb NASA & CSA C. Willott (NRC Canada) R. Tripodi (INAF -Rome) Released: [----] January 22"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:41Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In late January [----] astronomers unveiled jaw-dropping new views from the Gemini North telescope perched atop Mauna Kea Hawaii proof that Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) a pristine wanderer from the distant Oort Cloud is dramatically tearing itself apart.This icy interloper bravely survived its blistering close shave with the Sun on October [--] [----] but the relentless combo of searing heat tidal stresses and pounding solar wind finally shattered its fragile rubble-pile nucleus a loosely glued-together mix of ancient ice dust and rock left over from the Solar System's chaotic birth.Side-by-side"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:10Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Clearest image ever taken of planet Mercury NASA"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:23Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"AI took control of the Mars rover and drove nearly half a kilometer. NASA's Perseverance rover navigated a route calculated by artificial intelligence for the first time without human intervention. Generative AI independently analyzed the terrain and selected safe navigational landmarks a task previously performed entirely by humans. This approach takes into account signal latency between Earth and Mars and paves the way for fully autonomous planetary exploration. High-resolution satellite imagery and digital terrain models were used to plan the route. Algorithms assessed rocks sandy areas"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:30Z 838.3K followers, 10.3K engagements
"The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:42Z 838.3K followers, 11.7K engagements
"This breathtaking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures a mesmerizing close-up of the Helix Nebulaoften called the "Eye of God"the nearest planetary nebula to Earth lying roughly [---] light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.Planetary nebulae like this one emerge when a star similar in mass to our Sun nears the end of its life. After exhausting its core fuel the star sheds its outer layers in a glowing shell of gas creating these cosmic masterpieces. The Helix was first discovered back in [----] by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding but this latest view from JWST's"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:53Z 838K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating: NGC [----] a Milky Waylike spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away in Centaurus with bright star-forming regions and a core likely hiding a supermassive black hole. (Credit: ESO)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:12Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This breathtaking composite optical image captures the majestic Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33) a stunning spiral galaxy just 2.72.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulummaking it one of our closest cosmic neighbors and the third-largest member of the Local Group after the Milky Way and Andromeda.First glimpsed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Hodierna before [----] and later cataloged by Charles Messier on August [--] [----] M33 spans about [-----] light-years acrossroughly half the diameter of our Milky Way. Home to an estimated [--] billion stars (compared to the Milky Way's"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:24Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:40Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Hubble time These breathtaking Hubble Space Telescope images zoom in on protostarsthe glowing embryos of future starsdeep within the Orion Molecular Cloud one of the closest and most active stellar nurseries to Earth lying about [----] light-years away in the famous "sword" of the Orion constellation. Still swaddled in thick cocoons of gas and dust these baby stars are just beginning to ignite blasting out powerful jets and carving dramatic cavities as their intense energy sculpts the surrounding clouds. It's a chaotic energetic scene full of cosmic dramaprotostars flaring to life amid swirling"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:58Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Murchison meteorite this is the oldest material found on earth till date. Its [--] billion [--] years old"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:49Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Highest Resolution Image of the Moon Ever Captured" More info from the author: This is the most advance moon photography ever featuring interesting surface details and maybe no one has ever seen it before its also my clearest and sharpest moon image Ive capture it require [--] days of continuous moon observation and shooting below are some facts about this image: 1- the image size is [---] gigabytes 2- over [-----] images were stacked 3- by merging [--] different moon phases and merging the shadow area it reveals an interesting topography of Lunar surface. 4- telescope : Skywatcher Flextube 250p"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:56Z 838K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Solar flare X8.11 The AR4366 sunspot region has just triggered a phenomenal solar flare with a magnitude of X8.11 the third strongest in the current solar cycle SDO sensors are saturated by such intensity. The AR4366 region literally exploded tonight. The strong X8.11 flare was followed by another peak at X2.92 a few minutes later. The most impressive thing is that the region remains highly complex despite the flares and could well continue its fireworks display. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018450354967576751 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018450354967576751"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:24Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] a meteor with a similar weight to the Eiffel Tower fell over Russia"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:41Z 838.4K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Imagine a star so colossal it defies human imagination: Stephenson 2-18 a crimson behemoth lurking in the depths of our galaxy.If this red hypergiant suddenly swapped places with our Sun its bloated surface would stretch far beyond Saturn's orbitengulfing Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and still reaching deep into the realm of the ringed giant. The inner solar system would vanish entirely inside its suffocating embrace.Light itself struggles to traverse this monster: a single photon would need over eight hours to crawl from one edge of its diameter to the other. By comparison our Sunalready"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:25Z 838.2K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Lurking just [---] light-years away in the shadowy depths of the constellation Scorpius Lupus [--] looms like a colossal misshapen serpent carved from pure darknessa dense dark nebula that devours starlight in its path.This ominous cloud of cold cosmic dust and gas acts like an interstellar blackout curtain completely blocking and scattering the glow of background stars while cradling hidden protostars in its frigid embrace. Yet beneath that inky veil dramatic creation is underway: pockets of material collapse under gravity's relentless pull igniting the births of brand-new stars.Once these infant"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:40Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"These images were captured by the crew of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during its docking with the International Space Station "
X Link 2026-02-03T00:11Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The second strongest Earth-facing SolarFlare since [----] is currently underway on the Sun X8.0-class levels exceeded. The X8.11 flare from AR [----] has generated a CME which may have Earth-directed components. You can see a clear shockwave traveling outwards from the site of the flare. It is too early to say if this CME will be heading away from Earth or if we may receive a glancing blow. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018487851839852967 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018487851839852967"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Incredible footage of a plane passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean moons"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:22Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Astronomers found the earliest hottest galaxy cluster gas. the University of British Columbia An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasnt supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just [---] billion years after the Big Bang far earlier and hotter than theory predicts. The result published today in Nature could upend current models of galaxy cluster formation which predict such temperatures occur only in more mature stable galaxy clusters later in the universes life. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018539945233678617"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:20Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:51Z 838.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Hoags Object stands as one of the most eerily perfect cosmic sculptures ever discovereda galaxy shaped like an almost flawless ring with a bright golden core suspended in the center and no visible bridge of stars gas or dust connecting the two.Discovered in [----] by astronomer Arthur Hoag this extraordinary object lies roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Serpens Caput (the Head of the Serpent). Spanning about [------------] light-years across its outer ring is composed of young hot blue stars blazing with youthful vigor while the central bulge consists of older yellower"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:53Z 837.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Mercury the swift innermost planet is trapped in a rare 3:2 spinorbit resonance with the Sun: it spins exactly three times on its axis for every two orbits around our star. This peculiar couplingcombined with Mercury's highly eccentric (elongated) orbitcreates one of the strangest "days" in the Solar System.A full solar day on Mercuryfrom one sunrise to the nextstretches to about [---] Earth days more than twice as long as its orbital year of roughly [--] Earth days. Meanwhile the planet's sidereal rotation period (one spin relative to the stars) is about [--] Earth days. The resonance arises from"
X Link 2026-02-03T06:22Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's moon IO in 2023"
X Link 2026-02-03T08:12Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"STS-74 Crew visible in the Shuttle windows - Taken from Mir Station"
X Link 2026-02-03T08:53Z 838.2K followers, 67.2K engagements
"In December [----] a magnetara hyper-magnetized neutron starnamed SGR 1806-20 unleashed one of the most ferocious outbursts ever recorded in our galaxy. From roughly [-----] light-years away (halfway across the Milky Way) this colossal gamma-ray flare slammed into Earth on December [--] briefly turning night-side upper atmosphere into something resembling daytime.The blast was mind-boggling: in just [---] seconds it released more energy than our Sun will emit over the next [------] years. Gamma rays flooded the planet saturating detectors on at least [--] spacecraft (including NASA's Swift which wasn't"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:40Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues - Saturn & Titan - As Seen from the Cassini Spacecraft A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan Saturn's largest moon measures [----] miles or [----] kilometers across and is larger than the planet Mercury. Cassini scientists have been watching the moon's south pole since a vortex appeared in its atmosphere in [----]. See PIA14919 and PIA14920 to learn more about this mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere of the moon."
X Link 2026-02-03T12:39Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:49Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:59Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:57Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"That's an impressive capture of NGC [----] This barred spiral galaxy (also known as Caldwell 67) is indeed a fascinating target for astrophotographers located about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Your setup with the Celestron RASA (fast f/2 optics great for wide-field deep-sky imaging) and ZWO ASI533MC color camera is perfect for pulling in those faint details.A few highlights on this gem:It hosts a supermassive black hole at its center with a mass of approximately [---] million solar masses (confirmed via ALMA observations of gas kinematics in the nucleus). As a Seyfert"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:10Z 836.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If you've been tracking the Artemis II mission you've likely spotted the term wet dress rehearsal popping up in feeds todayit's a key milestone and the test just wrapped up with some important outcomes.A wet dress rehearsal (often called WDR) is essentially a full-scale dress-rehearsal run-through of launch-day procedureswithout actually lifting off. Teams load the rocket with its cryogenic propellants (super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen) simulate the countdown timeline perform all the critical checks close out the spacecraft (like sealing hatches) and then safely offload the fuel."
X Link 2026-02-03T15:22Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Jupiter's moon Io in true color. NASA"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:24Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"M87* linked to base of giant jet Astronomers have for the first time traced a connection between the "shadow" of the supermassive black hole M87* and the base of a relativistic jet. Data from the [----] Event Horizon Telescope a global network of radio telescopes revealed faint but stable emission near a bright ring around the black hole. This allowed them to determine that a significant portion of the jet's energy is generated in the immediate vicinity of the event horizon. Furthermore observations revealed that magnetic fields around M87* have reversed direction over the past four years."
X Link 2026-02-03T17:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Blue Origin Suspends Space Tourism Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is temporarily suspending New Shepard suborbital flights for at least two years to focus on NASA's lunar program. The rocket has completed [--] launches and carried [--] passengers including Bezos himself William Shatner and Katy Perry. Experience from New Shepard flights will be used in the development of the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and reusable landing technologies. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018748821761908961 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018748821761908961"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The golden rings of star formation encircle the heart of galaxy NGC [----] in this stunning NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrait.Set against a sparkling backdrop of distant galaxies NGC [----] lies in the constellation Hydra (The Sea Serpent) roughly [----] million light-years from Earth. Classified as a type II Seyfert galaxy it boasts an intensely luminous nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole actively devouring surrounding material.Viewed nearly face-on this barred spiral stands out from typical spirals thanks to its striking resonance ringa luminous loop glowing with intense bursts"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:22Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"20 brightest star"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:22Z 838.1K followers, 11.9K engagements
"The Space Shuttles R-bar Pitch Maneuver (RPM) dramatically nicknamed the "backflip" was one of the most visually striking and critically important procedures in the post-Columbia era of shuttle missions.Introduced as a direct response to the tragic STS-107 Columbia disaster in 2003where launch debris fatally damaged the orbiter's heat shieldthis [---] pitch rotation became a mandatory safety step before every docking with the International Space Station (ISS).As the shuttle approached along the R-bar (the radial vector from Earth's center through the ISS essentially flying "below" the station)"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:40Z 838.4K followers, 185.9K engagements
"The Sun just reminded us it's far from finished with Solar Cycle [--] BOOM In a jaw-dropping display over less than [--] hours our star unleashed a ferocious barrage of four X-class solar flares from a single hyper-active sunspot region. The standout A colossal X8.1 eruption (peaking around 23:57 UTC on February [--] 2026) marking the strongest solar flare of [----] so far the most intense since October [----] and one of the top blasts recorded in the entire all kicked off on February [--] with an X1.0 flare at 12:33 UTC escalated dramatically to the monster X8.1 later that evening then kept pounding with"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Jupiter's auroras just got a major glow-up in the high-energy department X-ray eyes from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra observatories have cracked the code: unlike Earth's familiar electron-driven "northern lights" that dazzle in visible colors Jupiter's super-intense auroras blaze with X-rays powered primarily by heavy ionsoxygen and sulfurnot just lightweight electrons.These charged beasts originate from the relentless volcanic fireworks on Jupiter's moon Io the most geologically active world in our solar system. Io's massive eruptions constantly spew sulfur and oxygen gases into space"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:21Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Galaxies aren't just pretty pinwheels of starsthey're alive with invisible superhighways of magnetism stretching across thousands of light-years These colossal magnetic fields weave through the spiral arms halos and disks like cosmic scaffolding quietly bossing around gas clouds dust grains and streams of charged particles. Too weak to pick up a paperclip here on Earth (we're talking microgauss strengthsmillions of times feebler than a fridge magnet) their true power comes from sheer scale: when fields span tens of thousands of light-years they pack enough punch to reshape entire galactic"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:52Z 838.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Russia has stunned the world with an astonishing sight: four moons glowing in the night sky over St. Petersburg.This isn't science fiction a hoax or some cosmic anomalyit's a breathtaking atmospheric optical phenomenon known as paraselene (commonly called "moon dogs" or "mock moons").The display occurs when bright moonlight passes through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals suspended in high-altitude cirrus clouds during bitterly cold conditions. These crystals act like prisms refracting and reflecting the light to create vivid moon-like bright spotstypically positioned about [--] degrees"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:40Z 838.2K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Saturn's breathtaking ringsthe Solar System's most dazzling jewelare vanishing before our eyes doomed to fade away in cosmic from NASA's Cassini mission uncovered a relentless process dubbed "ring rain": massive amounts of icy particles and dust are steadily cascading from the rings into Saturn's atmosphere. Charged grains get swept along the planet's powerful magnetic field lines plunging downward where they vaporize and mingle with the upper atmosphere in a constant watery downpour. At the measured rateenough material to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half hourthe main rings"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:10Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues - Saturn & Titan - As Seen from the Cassini Spacecraft A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan Saturn's largest moon measures [----] miles or [----] kilometers across and is larger than the planet Mercury. Cassini scientists have been watching the moon's south pole since a vortex appeared in its atmosphere in [----]. See PIA14919 and PIA14920 to learn more about this mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere of the moon."
X Link 2026-02-03T23:53Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] - a breathtaking spiral galaxy gracefully nestled within the constellation Virgo (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario / L. Shatz)"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:10Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Rapidly growing Sunspots AR4366 in [--] hours The video spans [--] hours between Jan [--] and Feb [--] [----]. Source: NASA/SDO Processing: Milky Way"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Meet NGC [----] the Milky Ways twin 40M light years away it offers a stunning look at what our own galaxy might look like from the outside"
X Link 2026-02-04T02:54Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Sun has erupted into a dramatic frenzy of activity over February 1-2 [----] driven by the explosive emergence of massive sunspot region AR4366This behemoth active regionnow nearly [--] times wider than Earthrotated into view on the eastern limb and rapidly ballooned into a magnetically chaotic powerhouse with a complex delta-class configuration. The result A non-stop barrage of flares turning the Sun into a true "flare factory."Key highlights from the past 24-48 hours:AR4366 unleashed at least [--] flares in a single 24-hour span including [--] powerful X-class flares (the strongest category). The"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A spectacular view of Terzan [--] a globular cluster with countless stars held together by an immense gravitational pull. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA R. Cohen)"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:52Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The breathtaking composite optical image captures the majestic Triangulum Galaxy (Messier [--] or M33) a stunning spiral galaxy just 2.72.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulummaking it one of our closest cosmic neighbors and the third-largest member of the Local Group after the Milky Way and Andromeda.First glimpsed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Hodierna before [----] and later cataloged by Charles Messier on August [--] [----] M33 spans about [-----] light-years acrossroughly half the diameter of our Milky Way. Home to an estimated [--] billion stars (compared to the Milky Way's"
X Link 2026-02-04T04:10Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] a Milky Waylike spiral galaxy [--] million light-years away in Centaurus with bright star-forming regions and a core likely hiding a supermassive black hole. (Credit: ESO)"
X Link 2026-02-04T04:37Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Murchison meteorite this is the oldest material found on earth till date. Its [--] billion [--] years old"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:11Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:23Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"STS-74 Crew visible in the Shuttle windows - Taken from Mir Station"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:53Z 837.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Highest Resolution Image of the Moon Ever Captured" More info from the author: This is the most advance moon photography ever featuring interesting surface details and maybe no one has ever seen it before its also my clearest and sharpest moon image Ive capture it require [--] days of continuous moon observation and shooting below are some facts about this image: 1- the image size is [---] gigabytes 2- over [-----] images were stacked 3- by merging [--] different moon phases and merging the shadow area it reveals an interesting topography of Lunar surface. 4- telescope : Skywatcher Flextube 250p"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:10Z 837.9K followers, [----] engagements
"December [----] a magnetara hyper-magnetized neutron starnamed SGR 1806-20 unleashed one of the most ferocious outbursts ever recorded in our galaxy. From roughly [-----] light-years away (halfway across the Milky Way) this colossal gamma-ray flare slammed into Earth on December [--] briefly turning night-side upper atmosphere into something resembling daytime.The blast was mind-boggling: in just [---] seconds it released more energy than our Sun will emit over the next [------] years. Gamma rays flooded the planet saturating detectors on at least [--] spacecraft (including NASA's Swift which wasn't even"
X Link 2026-02-04T07:20Z 838.4K followers, 10.2K engagements
"An object falling from the sky over Dubai in the UAE filmed from the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in February 2023"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:22Z 838.5K followers, 20.8K engagements
"NGC [----] This is an image of the NGC [----] located approximately [---] million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. NGC [----] is a massive unbarred spiral galaxy seen almost exactly face-on. The yellowish core contains older cooler stars while the spiral arms are full of hot young blue stars and pink star-forming regions nebulae. It is one of only two spiral galaxies massive and close enough to allow detailed study of its galactic corona an invisible vast region of hot gas that emits X-rays. Image Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019034876373025147"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:06Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Leo Ring is an enormous intergalactic structurea vast ring-shaped cloud primarily composed of neutral hydrogen (H I) gas with some helium spanning approximately [---] kiloparsecs (about [------] light-years) in diameter. It contains roughly [--] billion solar masses of gas yet harbors remarkably few stars making it one of the most star-poor large-scale gaseous features known in the nearby universe.This colossal cloud orbits within the Leo I group (also known as the M96 group) encircling and interacting with galaxies such as M105 (NGC 3379) and NGC [----] located around [--] million light-years away"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:25Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Niels Bohr (18851962) the Danish theoretical physicist widely regarded as the father of atomic physics revolutionized our understanding of the microscopic world. He was awarded the [----] Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."In [----] building on Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model of the atom Bohr introduced the groundbreaking Bohr model. This was the first quantum-based description of atomic structure: electrons orbit the positively charged nucleus in discrete stable energy levels (or "orbits") without"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:35Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Humanity has finally hit the fundamental limit of how sharply we can visualize individual a groundbreaking [----] achievement physicists at Cornell Universityled by David Mullercaptured the highest-resolution image of atoms ever recorded magnifying a crystal of praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO) by [---] million times. What appears as subtle blur around each atomic spot isn't a technical shortcomingit's the restless dance of thermal vibrations (lattice vibrations). Even in a rigid solid crystal at room temperature atoms jiggle incessantly due to thermal energy smearing their apparent positions by"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:55Z 838.5K followers, 36.9K engagements
"IC342 galaxy"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:11Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Humans are on the cusp of returning to the Mooncloser than we've been in over half a centurybut boots on the lunar surface remain a few years of February [----] NASA's Artemis II mission stands poised as the first crewed voyage beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo [--] in [----]. This daring test flight will hurl four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey: launching aboard the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket looping around the Moon on a free-return trajectory (never quite entering orbit but flying tantalizingly closewithin about [----] km of the surface) and splashing back down on Earth."
X Link 2026-02-04T14:25Z 838.2K followers, 14.5K engagements
"The Venera landers touched the surface of Venus then transmitted images and data through crushing pressure and 460C heat. One of the most famous Venera [--] kept talking for [---] minutes long enough to give humanity a direct look at the most hostile surface ever visited"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:47Z 838.3K followers, 73.1K engagements
"Asteroid [---] Eros Comes Alive: The Historic NEAR Shoemaker Movie from 2000On December [--] [----] NASA's pioneering NEAR Shoemaker spacecraftthen orbiting just [---] miles (200 km) from the center of the 21-mile-long (34 km) near-Earth asteroidcaptured one of the most mesmerizing views ever of a celestial body: a full rotation movie of Eros slowly tumbling through space like a battered potato-shaped relic from the solar system's chaotic youth.The sequence reveals a rugged crater-pocked world dominated by a distinctive saddle-shaped depression (the broad groove slicing across its midsection) jagged"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:57Z 838.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A brilliant nebula reminiscent of a blooming rose with fiery red orange and yellow hues encircles the open star cluster NGC [----]. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez T.A. Rector M. Zamani)"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:31Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Jupiter with auroras captured by JWST"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:40Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"NGC [----] Constellation: Virgo Distance: [---] million light years RA: 13h 14m 59.38s Dec: [---] 35' 17.49" This Hubble image shows NGC [----] a spiral galaxy some [---] million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA D. Rosario L. Shatz"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:38Z 837.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Today's Earth-directed X4.2 solar flare An impulsive X4.2 solar flare erupted from geoeffective Active Region [----] at 12:13 UTC on February [--] [----]. The flare originated from a magnetically complex beta-gamma-delta region that produced dozens of M- and [--] other X-class flares since February [--]. Its location near the central solar disk raises the possibility of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) this week. Credit: NOAA/GOES-19 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019107183078859142 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019107183078859142"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:54Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a rare Einstein Ring located around [--] billion light-years away in the constellation Leo where two perfectly aligned galaxies bend light into a glowing cosmic circle straight out of sci-fi"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:10Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
":Cosmic Collision: The Bird Takes Flight in ESO 593-8Behold ESO 593-8a breathtaking pair of galaxies locked in an eternal gravitational tango captured in exquisite detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located roughly [---] million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius this interacting duo has earned the nickname "The Bird" for its striking resemblance to a majestic bird soaring through space wings outstretched.Powerful tidal forces are tearing at their once orderly spiral structures ripping streams of stars gas and dust into long feathery tails that stretch across the void. Where"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:43Z 837K followers, [----] engagements
"EARTH FROM SPACE INFO : As of [----] around [-----] active satellites orbit Earth with SpaceXs Starlink forming a large share. This surge raises space debris concerns threatening spacecraft and future missions"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:53Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Glow Mode: Activated From the vantage point of the International Space Station a mesmerizing dance unfolds: vibrant green auroras ripple and surge across Earth's night side like living emerald waves. These ethereal curtains of light erupt as charged solar particles slam into our atmosphere exciting oxygen atoms into a brilliant green glowguided and sculpted by our planet's invisible magnetic shield.Crowning the horizon a delicate thin orange band hugs the edge of space: that's airglow a subtle constant emission from the upper atmosphere where sunlight-excited molecules gently release their"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:24Z 838.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Markarian's Chain is a stunning celestial paradea graceful curving string of galaxies bound together within the vast Virgo Cluster.Nestled about [--] million light-years away in the constellation Virgo these galaxies aren't just aligned by chance from our viewpoint. Many share a common motion through space drifting and subtly tugging at one another with the relentless pull of like a cosmic river of island universes flowing silently across the void slowly reshaping each other over billions of years in an elegant gravitational are some captivating views of this galactic chain: http://dance.Here"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:25Z 838.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a surprising population of massive black holes that already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. These behemoths boast masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun yet they reside in remarkably small and youthful galaxies. JWST's exceptional infrared capabilities enable it to cut through cosmic dust and capture the redshifted light from these faint distant galaxieslight stretched by the universe's expansion. This allows astronomers to witness black holes actively growing in tandem with the very"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:39Z 838.4K followers, [----] engagements
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