#space Timeline

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Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk.

105d

'The models were right!' Astronomers locate universe's 'missing' matter in the largest cosmic structures Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its staff amid “stories of possible harassment.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nasa-official-warns-staff-trump-harassment-federal-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NASA #Space #Government #USPolitics #Trump

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🚀✨ When being second means standing above the rest. Second to None — where cosmic beauty meets bold design.

https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/second-to-none-rafael-salazar.html

#cosmic #numeral #galactic #buyintoart #artmatters #fediart #fediverse #mastoart #mastoartist #mastodon #fedigiftshop #abstract #nebula #glass #futuristic #luminous #flipboard #flipboard_user_group #space #modern

Cosmic glass number 2 glowing with swirling nebula colors in deep blues, purples, and gold by artist Rafael Salazar at RafaelSalazar.com

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Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.

This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/ #space #science #art #tech

Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring -- light from the Sun streaming from behind the Earth. Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth.

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203d

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

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Pluto

#space #science

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A NASA astronaut has captured an electrifying image of Earth from space, featuring a gigantic, jellyfish-shaped "sprite" of red lightning shooting upwards above a thunderstorm in North America. The rare phenomenon is still poorly understood, despite being studied for more than 30 years.

Image credit: NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/astronaut-snaps-giant-red-jellyfish-sprite-over-north-america-during-upward-shooting-lightning-event

#NASA #Space

A photograph of a pink purple electricity storm rising above the earth's atmosphere, shot from space

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"Mission Meowssible: Commander Whiskers reporting from the Meowdule. 🚀🐾 For all cat lovers who believe the sky isn’t the limit — it’s just the beginning."

📣https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/mission-meowssible-rafael-salazar.html

#Cats #astronaut #Humor #modern #pop #quirky #sci-fi, #space, #feline #Caturday #fediverse #fediart #mastodon #mastoart #fedigiftshop #BuyIntoArt #RafaelSalazar #RafaelSalazarArt #artmatters #fineartamerica #flipboard #catsonmastodon @Flipboard

A ginger and white cat with blue eyes looks out from a white, futuristic helmet-like pod, resembling a space capsule. The cat wears a sculptural visor, giving the image a space explorer aesthetic.

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Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543 as seen by ESA Euclid Space Telescope

Full size 3K & full info: https://flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj
Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/NAOJ/AndreaLuck CC BY

Latest data release available on: https//eas.esac.esa.int/sas
Mission: ESA Euclid
Instruments: VIS and NIS
Product Type: MER Mosaic
Release Q1 R1
Filters: HSC G (Subaru Telescope), VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y

#Space #Astronomy #Euclid #ESA #Astrodon #Nebula

$This image presents a stunning deep space view centered on the Cat’s Eye Nebula, with intricate structures and vibrant colors. The nebula itself glows in an ethereal blue and violet hue, surrounded by delicate, symmetrical, and concentric gaseous layers that form its iconic shape. The surrounding space is filled with an intricate web of faint reddish and brownish wisps on the outer region surrounding the nebula. Bright stars with distinct diffraction spikes punctuate the scene, adding depth and contrast to the dark, star speckled background. Numerous galaxies are also visible in the background. The image showcases a great balance between sharp details in the nebula's core and the softer, ghostly tendrils of interstellar gas beyond.$

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Why do such characters never age? In popular culture and film art, you see male cybery characters aging, but never women. I'm so annoyed. As I age, I want to keep on having cool futuristic space role models. I want the wise, experienced, middle-aged cybergirl. Cyberwoman. Cybergrandma. Please, pop culture, give me cool aging women. Thank you.

#cyber #anime #sexism #aging #retrofuturism #space

YouTube Screenshot of a Synthwave, Vaporwave, Cyberpunk, Chillwave, Retrowave, Dreamwave, Phonkwave music video promising 80s retro futurist vibes. The video still image shows a cyber girl in a space suit riding a spaceship in near planet orbit. She seems to be in her early 20s.

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Live feed: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=11.5579&mlon=148.4434&zoom=2

#iss #space #earth #nasa #esa #jaxa #csa

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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/pinball-world-asteroids-mudball-meteorite-avoided-collisions
In the Pinball World of Asteroids, a Mudball Meteorite Avoided Collisions

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describe the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not necessarily weak.

#space #science #scicomm

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Ring Nebula as seen by JWST Space Telescope

Full size & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2qW1yL1
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck CC BY

Target: Ring Nebula, NGC6720
Distance: 2,300 light-years
Date: 2022-08-04 / 2022-08-08
Instruments: NIRCam, MIRI
Filters: F770W, F560W, F335M, F300M, F212N, F162M
Colours Assigned: B/W, Red, Orange, Green, Cyan, Blue
PI: Michael Barlow
PI Institution: University College London
Proposal ID: 1558

#JWST #Astronomy #Space #Astrodon

$A glowing, circular nebula with a bright, textured outer ring that fades into a dark background filled with stars. The center of the ring is a smooth, teal-blue area with faint, cloudy structures and small bright points. The ring itself appears reddish-orange with intricate filaments extending outward like wispy tendrils. Surrounding the nebula, the dark space is scattered with bright white stars, some with distinct diffraction spikes.$

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This proposal essentially ends U.S. leadership and dominance in space research and space-based astronomy.

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

#UnitedStates #NASA #Research #Space

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TOPIC> Clouds

"Dear dev-ops and admins, who are mostly overworked and close to burnout: DON'T PANIC!
These clouds have nothing to do with your work, but quite the opposite, they are supposed to lead you back to the original meaning of the word. So scroll calmly through this thread and let yourself fall into deep relaxation until your state of mind corresponds to a small pink fluffy cloud and breathe serenely in and out again .. in and out .. and now let the clouds in your mind just come and go .. come and go .."

2021 August 11

Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan
* Image Credit & Copyright: Michael F Johnston
https://www.instagram.com/beautyandruin/

Explanation:
When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured here, lasting only a few minutes, were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, just after a storm in 2012.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210811.html

#space #earth #atmophere #clouds #weather #photography #science #physics #meteorology #nature

2021 August 11
The picture shows a rows of mammatus clouds photographed over Saskatchewan, Canada.

Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan
* Image Credit & Copyright: Michael F Johnston

Explanation:
When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured here, lasting only a few minutes, were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, just after a storm in 2012.

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In these dark times I figured it was worthwhile to write something a little more light and hopeful. I love corny earnestness in #Christianity and so I wanted to share with you all a bit about my favorite examples of Retrofuturism enshrined in the liturgy of the Episcopal Church

https://catecheticconverter.com/space-age-prayer

#Episcopal #Church #Jesus #Retrofuturism #liturgy #worship #space #SpaceTravel #NASA

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Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. 'This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars'. Via @spacedotcom #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Astronomers trace massive cosm...

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Since this https://chaos.social/@Skorpy/115037963703138114 is getting some traction right now, I would like to alert #astrodon folks that I have created this starter pack https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/ and that you may be in it: for a *very* loose definition of Germany, it's "Astronomy in Germany".

Accounts that have opted in to discovery features can be added to starter packs without further confirmation. So if you find yourself a part of this and want me to *remove* you, please let me know and I'll try to do this quickly, before it spreads too widely.

If you think you should be on that list, but are not, because of oversight on my part, or because of missing opt-in to account discovery so far, which you would now like to change, also feel free to let me know.

The idea is to have a presentable starter pack ready at the time of #ag2025goerlitz for https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_abstract.php?id=39

#astronomy #astrophysics #space

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UPCOMING DEADLINE: The SETI Institute invites outstanding undergraduate interns to apply for the 2025 SETI Forward Award, open from August 4 through September 7, 2025.

Undergraduate student interns who participated in SETI or astrobiology-related research between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025, are eligible to apply.

Recipients receive a $1,500 award.

Learn more and apply:
https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-opens-applications-for-the-2025-seti-forward-award/

#science #space #undergrad #reu

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"Soot Planets" Might Be More Common Than "Water Worlds" https://www.universetoday.com/articles/soot-planets-might-be-more-common-than-water-worlds 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science

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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/perseverance-rover-uncovers-clues-to-ancient-martian-chemistry/

SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop and University of Massachusetts Engineering Professor Mario Parente analyzed orbital hyperspectral images from the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, producing a detailed mineral map at the tens-of-meters scale of the crater documenting deposits of clays and carbonates signaling abundant water on ancient Mars.

#space #science #planetaryscience

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New comet SWAN25B already bright, but near sun

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On the occasion of the International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, where a joint effort is happening right now to connect existing #fediverse accounts and to invite more members of the community to participate, here is a starter pack of accounts with a relation to Astronomy in Germany:

https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/

Are you all already following each other? Did you just get started and want to ask to be included, too? Would you like to suggest further additions to the starter pack? Are you discovering accounts in the list whose introductions should get boosted around a lot more? Are astronomy aficionados out there finding this list useful?

#Starterpack #FediFollows #Astronomy #Astrodon #AG2025Goerlitz #GermanAstroSoc #Space

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