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π‘»π’‰π’Šπ’” π’”π’•π’–π’π’π’Šπ’π’ˆ π’Šπ’Žπ’‚π’ˆπ’† 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂 π’”π’Žπ’‚π’π’ π’“π’†π’ˆπ’Šπ’π’ 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’†π’…π’ˆπ’† 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’Šπ’π’Œπ’š π‘ͺπ’π’‚π’π’”π’‚π’„π’Œ 𝑡𝒆𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒂, 𝒐𝒓 π‘ͺπ’‚π’π’…π’˜π’†π’π’ πŸ—πŸ—. π‘ͺπ’‚π’π’…π’˜π’†π’π’ πŸ—πŸ— π’Šπ’” 𝒂 π’…π’‚π’“π’Œ 𝒏𝒆𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒂, 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒐𝒇 π’Šπ’π’•π’†π’“π’”π’•π’†π’π’π’‚π’“ 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 π’„π’π’Žπ’‘π’π’†π’•π’†π’π’š π’ƒπ’π’π’„π’Œπ’” 𝒐𝒖𝒕 π’—π’Šπ’”π’Šπ’ƒπ’π’† π’˜π’‚π’—π’†π’π’†π’π’ˆπ’•π’‰π’” 𝒐𝒇 π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• π’‡π’“π’π’Ž 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 π’ƒπ’†π’‰π’Šπ’π’… π’Šπ’•. π‘ͺπ’‚π’π’…π’˜π’†π’π’ πŸ—πŸ— π’Šπ’” 𝒂 π’—π’†π’“π’š π’‘π’“π’π’Žπ’Šπ’π’†π’π’• 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 π’Šπ’ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒏 π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• π’”π’Œπ’š. 𝑢𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•, π’Šπ’• 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 π’†π’‚π’”π’Šπ’π’š π’˜π’Šπ’•π’‰ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’π’‚π’Œπ’†π’… π’†π’šπ’† 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 π’…π’‚π’“π’Œ 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉, π’—π’π’Šπ’… 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒏 π‘ͺ𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 π’Šπ’ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’„π’π’π’”π’•π’†π’π’π’‚π’•π’Šπ’π’ π‘ͺ𝒓𝒖𝒙. π‘ͺπ’‚π’π’…π’˜π’†π’π’ πŸ—πŸ— π’Šπ’” 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 πŸ”πŸŽπŸŽ π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•-π’šπ’†π’‚π’“π’” π’‡π’“π’π’Ž 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’Šπ’” 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝟏𝟎𝟎 π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•-π’šπ’†π’‚π’“π’” 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔. 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 π’ƒπ’†π’‚π’–π’•π’š.βœ¨πŸ’™

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There Was No Women's March Even Remotely Close To Me, So I Threw My Own. End The Gender Gap In STEM!
There Was No Women's March Even Remotely Close To Me, So I Threw My Own. End The Gender Gap In STEM!
There Was No Women's March Even Remotely Close To Me, So I Threw My Own. End The Gender Gap In STEM!
There Was No Women's March Even Remotely Close To Me, So I Threw My Own. End The Gender Gap In STEM!

there was no women's march even remotely close to me, so i threw my own. end the gender gap in STEM! let young girls know they can be scientists!

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By NASA
By NASA
By NASA
By NASA

by NASA

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Neptune's Rings
Neptune's Rings

Neptune's rings

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A screenshot from a TV show. A white, bkonde woman is sitting at a table talking to someone out of frame with a dark-haired woman sitting next to/behind her. The subtitles are edited to say "Why don't you look at JWST's image of the Pillars of Creation and maybe you'll calm down "
This Webb image of the β€œPillars of Creation” has layers of semi-opaque, rusty red gas and dust that start at the bottom left and go toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars rising toward the top right. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have red outlines. Peeking through the layers of gas and dust is the background, set in shades of blue and littered with tiny yellow and blue stars. Many of the tips of the pillars appear tinged with what looks like lava. There are also tiny red dots at the edges of the pillars, which are newly born stars. (ID credit: NASA)

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12 Great Gifts from Astronomy

This is a season where our thoughts turn to others and many exchange gifts with friends and family. For astronomers, our universe is the gift that keeps on giving. We’ve learned so much about it, but every question we answer leads to new things we want to know. Stars, galaxies, planets, black holes … there are endless wonders to study.

In honor of this time of year, let’s count our way through some of our favorite gifts from astronomy.

Our first astronomical gift is … one planet Earth

So far, there is only one planet that we’ve found that has everything needed to support life as we know it β€” Earth. Even though we’ve discovered over 5,200 planets outside our solar system, none are quite like home. But the search continues with the help of missions like our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). And even you (yes, you!) can help in the search with citizen science programs like Planet Hunters TESS and Backyard Worlds.

This animated visualization depicts Earth rotating in front of a black background. Land in shades of tan and green lay among vast blue oceans, with white clouds swirling in the atmosphere. The image is watermarked with the text β€œCredit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio” and β€œvisualization.”

Our second astronomical gift is … two giant bubbles

Astronomers found out that our Milky Way galaxy is blowing bubbles β€” two of them! Each bubble is about 25,000 light-years tall and glows in gamma rays. Scientists using data from our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered these structures in 2010, and we're still learning about them.

This image captures the majestic β€œFermi bubbles” that extend above and below our Milky Way galaxy, set against the black background of space. A glowing blue line horizontally crosses the center of the image, showing our perspective from Earth of our galaxy’s spiral arms and the wispy clouds of material above and below it. Cloudy bubbles, colored deep magenta to represent Fermi’s gamma-ray vision, extend above and below the galactic plane. These bubbles are enormous, extending roughly half of the Milky Way's diameter and filling much of the top and bottom of the image. The image is watermarked β€œCredit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration.”

Our third astronomical gift is … three types of black holes

Most black holes fit into two size categories: stellar-mass goes up to hundreds of Suns, and supermassive starts at hundreds of thousands of Suns. But what happens between those two? Where are the midsize ones? With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists found the best evidence yet for that third, in between type that we call intermediate-mass black holes. The masses of these black holes should range from around a hundred to hundreds of thousands of times the Sun’s mass. The hunt continues for these elusive black holes.

This cartoon depicts two black holes as birds, with a small one representing a stellar-mass black hole on the left and an enormous one representing a supermassive black hole on the right. These two birds appear on a tan background and flap their wings, and then a circle with three question marks pops up between them to represent the intermediate-mass black holes that scientists are hunting for. The image is watermarked β€œCredit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.”

Our fourth and fifth astronomical gifts are … Stephan’s Quintet

When looking at this stunning image of Stephan’s Quintet from our James Webb Space Telescope, it seems like five galaxies are hanging around one another β€” but did you know that one of the galaxies is much closer than the others? Four of the five galaxies are hanging out together about 290 million light-years away, but the fifth and leftmost galaxy in the image below β€” called NGC 7320 β€” is actually closer to Earth at just 40 million light-years away.

A group of five galaxies that appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. One is somewhat separated. In the image, the galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. Each has a slightly different size, shape, structure, and coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies are a number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center. The image is watermarked with the text β€œCredits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.”

Our sixth astronomical gift is … an eclipsing six-star system

Astronomers found a six-star system where all of the stars undergo eclipses, using data from our TESS mission, a supercomputer, and automated eclipse-identifying software. The system, called TYC 7037-89-1, is located 1,900 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus and the first of its kind we’ve found.

This diagram shows the sextuple star system TYC 7037-89-1, a group of six stars that interact with each other in complex orbits. The stars are arranged in pairs: System A, System B, and System C, each of which is shown as having one larger white star and one smaller yellow star. The two stars of System A, in the upper left, are connected by a red oval and labeled "1.3-day orbit." The two stars of System C, just below System A, are connected by a turquoise oval and labeled "1.6-day orbit." Additionally, these two systems orbit each other, shown as a larger blue oval connecting the two and labeled "A and C orbit every 4 years." On the other side of the image, in the bottom right, the two stars of System B are connected by a green oval and labeled "8.2-day orbit." Lastly, Systems A, B and C all interact with System B orbiting the combined A-C system, shown as a very large lilac oval labeled "AC and B orbit every 2,000 years." A caption at the bottom of the image notes, "Star sizes are to scale, orbits are not." The image is watermarked with the text β€œIllustration” and β€œCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.”

Our seventh astronomical gift is … seven Earth-sized planets

In 2017, our now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope helped find seven Earth-size planets around TRAPPIST-1. It remains the largest batch of Earth-size worlds found around a single star and the most rocky planets found in one star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on a planet’s surface.

Further research has helped us understand the planets’ densities, atmospheres, and more!

his animated image shows an artist's concept of the star TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf, and the seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. TRAPPIST-1 is large and glows bright orange, while the planets are smaller and in shades of cool gray-blue. The image is highly stylized to look like glowing balls sitting on a shiny surface, and neither the sizes nor distances are to scale. The planets closer to TRAPPIST-1 have droplets of water standing on the surface around them, indicating that they may have liquid water. Planets further away have frost around them, indicating that those are more likely to have significant amounts of ice, especially on the side that faces away from the star. Our view pans across the system, from the center outward, and faint tan rings depict the orbits of each planet. The image is watermarked with the text β€œIllustration” and β€œCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC).”

Our eighth astronomical gift is … an (almost) eight-foot mirror

The primary mirror on our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is approximately eight feet in diameter, similar to our Hubble Space Telescope. But Roman can survey large regions of the sky over 1,000 times faster, allowing it to hunt for thousands of exoplanets and measure light from a billion galaxies.

Side profile of a man standing in front of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Primary mirror. The man wears a long white coat, hair net, facemask, and glasses. The man is standing to the left of the mirror, and looking at it. The mirror faces the man, so it appears to be looking back at him. The mirror is a flat, smooth, silver disk with a black cylinder protruding from its center. Behind the mirror, a black square houses hardware for the mirror. The image is watermarked β€œCredit: NASA/Chris Gunn.”

Our ninth astronomical gift is … a kilonova nine days later

In 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and European Gravitational Observatory’s Virgo detected gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars. Less than two seconds later, our telescopes detected a burst of gamma rays from the same event. It was the first time light and gravitational waves were seen from the same cosmic source. But then nine days later, astronomers saw X-ray light produced in jets in the collision’s aftermath. This later emission is called a kilonova, and it helped astronomers understand what the slower-moving material is made of.

This animated illustration shows what happened in the nine days following a neutron star merger known as GW170817, detected on Aug. 17, 2017. In the first part of the animation, a pair of glowing blue neutron stars spiral quickly towards each other and merge with a bright flash. The merger creates gravitational waves (shown as pale arcs rippling out from the center), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (shown as brown cones and a rapidly-traveling magenta glow erupting from the center of the collision), and a donut-shaped ring of expanding blue debris around the center of the explosion. A variety of colors represent the many wavelengths of light produced by the kilonova, creating violet to blue-white to red bursts at the top and bottom of the collision. In the second part of the animation, we see the collision as it would appear from Earth, looking like a burst of red light in the lower left and a huge umbrella-shaped cascade of blue light in the upper right, representing X-rays. The image is watermarked with the text β€œCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab” and β€œIllustration.”

Our tenth astronomical gift is … NuSTAR’s ten-meter-long mast

Our NuSTAR X-ray observatory is the first space telescope able to focus on high-energy X-rays. Its ten-meter-long (33 foot) mast, which deployed shortly after launch, puts NuSTAR’s detectors at the perfect distance from its reflective optics to focus X-rays. NuSTAR recently celebrated 10 years since its launch in 2012.

This animation shows an artist’s concept of the NuSTAR X-ray observatory orbiting above the blue marble of Earth and deploying its 10-meter-long (33 foot) mast shortly after launch in 2012. NuSTAR is roughly cylindrical, with a shiny silver covering and a pair of blue solar panels on each of its sides. As we pan around the spacecraft, silver scaffolding extends from inside, separating the ends of the telescope to the right distance to begin observing the universe in X-rays. The image is watermarked with the text β€œIllustration” and β€œCredit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.”

Our eleventh astronomical gift is … eleven days of observations

How long did our Hubble Space Telescope stare at a seemingly empty patch of sky to discover it was full of thousands of faint galaxies? More than 11 days of observations came together to capture this amazing image β€” that’s about 1 million seconds spread over 400 orbits around Earth!

This animated image zooms into the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, showing how a tiny patch of β€œempty” sky turned out to contain about 10,000 galaxies. The sequence begins with a starry backdrop, then we begin to zoom into the center of this image. As we travel, larger and brighter objects come into view, including dazzling spiral and elliptical galaxies in reds, oranges, blues, and purples. The image is watermarked with the text β€œCredit: NASA, G. Bacon and Z. Levay (STScI).”

Our twelfth astronomical gift is … a twelve-kilometer radius

Pulsars are collapsed stellar cores that pack the mass of our Sun into a whirling city-sized ball, compressing matter to its limits. Our NICER telescope aboard the International Space Station helped us precisely measure one called J0030 and found it had a radius of about twelve kilometers β€” roughly the size of Chicago! This discovery has expanded our understanding of pulsars with the most precise and reliable size measurements of any to date.

In this simulation of a pulsar’s magnetic fields, dozens of thin lines dance around a central gray sphere, which is the collapsed core of a dead massive star. Some of these lines, colored orange, form loops on the surface of the sphere. Others, colored blue, arc away from two spots on the lower half of the sphere and vanish into the black background. The image is watermarked with the text β€œSimulation” and β€œCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.”

Stay tuned to NASA Universe on Twitter and Facebook to keep up with what’s going on in the cosmos every day. You can learn more about the universe here.

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What that James Webb image really means. Full video here:

Here's a 1-minute video showing--in the words of visualization hero @EdwardTufte--the "compared to what" factor for today's amazing @NASAWebb image. Thanks to the @WWTelescope for making this possible, and @ADavidWeigel. I only wish @NASA and @POTUS had shown the image this way! https://t.co/ThqLJqCUMa pic.twitter.com/4Yd6CIRcst β€” Alyssa A. Goodman (@AlyssaAGoodman) July 12, 2022
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"We Love Our Black Hole"
"We Love Our Black Hole"

"We love our black hole"

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The Black Areas Represent The Remaining Natural Dark Skies In The United States

The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

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hi are you really an astrophysicist can you tell me like your favorite facts. not in like a quiz way i just think it's a neat field. thank you !

everyone knows about how interstellar paid for simulation on what a black hole would look like but few people know how the hair animation on tangled later got used for simulations of magnetic field lines in the sun. the problem with magnetic field lines in the sun is, imagine a magnetic, which is a nice shape. now set it on fire and melt it and put it in a blender. and that's a little bit like the sun.

this was presaged some decades ago by a physicist using skills to draw simulations of magnetic field lines using the skills in drawing hair that he learned sketching models at the local nudie bar.

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RULES OF MY BLOG

MATTER CAN NEITHER BE DESTROYED NOR CREATED

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Space! Ft. NASA

Space! ft. NASA

It was a big year in our part of the cosmos. We’ve invited our friends at @nasa​ to recap all the stunning scientific advances that gave us a deeper glimpse into the galaxy around us this year.

JWST Showed Us Space with New Eyes

In July 2022, we saw the first full-color images and data from the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made: the James Webb Space Telescope. This landscape of β€œmountains” and β€œvalleys” is speckled with glittering stars, and called the Cosmic Cliffs. It’s the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but the infrared Webb can peer through cosmic dust thanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIΒ 

Artemis I Flew Us Beyond the MoonΒ 

NASA’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), lifted off for the first time on November 16, 2022, launching the Orion spacecraft on a journey around the Moon. Orion has now traveled farther from Earth than any other spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth. The Artemis I mission is the first part of a new era of deep space exploration. The program is designed to take astronauts back to the Moon and eventually on to Mars.

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Credit: NASA

This One’s for the Dinosaurs

NASA’s DART mission successfully redirected an asteroidβ€”the first time humanity has ever changed the orbit of a celestial object in space. On Sept. 26, 2022, the vending-machine-size spacecraft slammed into the stadium-size asteroid Dimorphos, slightly shortening its orbit around its much larger companion asteroid Didymos. Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth before or after the test. The objective was to test this β€œplanetary defense” technique, should an asteroid ever pose a threat. Note: there are no known asteroid threats to Earth for at least the next 100 years, but NASA is keeping an eye on the skies, just in case.

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Credit: NASA/JHUAPL

Be sure to follow @nasa​ for more!

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First crying-roses term of the year lets gooo

⁺⊹ . ｑ. :β˜† Alderlactea β˜†: .ｑ.⊹ ⁺

First Crying-roses Term Of The Year Lets Gooo

Alderlactea [Alder-lac-tia] is an aldernic term for when one has, or wishes to have, a body that is, partially or fully, made of stars, starry or galactic.

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[Flag ID: A flag with 7 similarly sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colours are dark blue, dark purple, dark magenta, muted salmon, gold, light yellow and white. The flag has a golden orange in the centre outlined with muted salmon. End ID.]

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Was out filming with the telescope and first of all, I have it on the porch, which is shared with our neighbors. One of them came out and saw me with the telescope and I was like straddling it because it’s the only way I can use the viewfinder on that thing and conversation was just:

Him: uhhh-

Me: don’t

Him: -yes ma’am

And then I met our other neighbors, some drunk girls, who thought it was a /cannon/. So I put it on the Moon and was like β€œwanna see?” And they were about as excited as your typical 4 year olds to see the moon and when I told them they could take pictures through the eyepiece (the eyepiece I was using was a wide angle plossl) they could not have been more excited

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not astrophysics but it's space so 🀷
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bro i can’t come to the phone right now, neptune has a moon that shines like a star.

Bro I Can’t Come To The Phone Right Now, Neptune Has A Moon That Shines Like A Star.
Bro I Can’t Come To The Phone Right Now, Neptune Has A Moon That Shines Like A Star.
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Perfect magnets

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astrophysics-georg - i know way too much about this
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"average person knows 3 astrophysics things" actualy just statistical error. average person knows 1 astrophysics thing. Astrophysics Georg, who lives in space and knows 10,000 astrophysics things, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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