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Hey 2023! Time for a #YearInReview of my various project highlights from a travel laden 2023! First up, my fav #dataviz @WWTelescope interactive that I made this year. Explore the Orion Nebula in all its spectacle from JWST and more! web.wwtassets.org/specials/2… 1/
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Listen to exoplanets! projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvar… Zoom and pan in 2D (Earth view) and 3D (Milky Way view), change background all-sky imagery, search for exoplanets, add constellations... High pitch tones correspond to rapid exoplanet orbital periods and vice versa.
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You can now pan & zoom the full Rubin First look images in their glory here: projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvar…
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Hello friends! @VRubinObs will #CaptureTheCosmos like nothing else. Explore the #RubinFirstLoook images in their astronomical context at. projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvar…
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Thx to the @VRubinObs and WorldWide Telescope, everyone can go explore these GIGANTIC SPECTACULAR images of our Universe!! Experience the full richness of the 3.2 GigaPixel images at projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvar… @CosmicDataStory @WWTelescope @RocketCenterUSA @NSF DOE @CenterForAstro
T-7 days! We're getting so close to the reveal of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images 🤩#RubinFirstLook Get ready for your first preview of how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🎬 🗓️: June 23, 2025 ⌚️: 11am US EDT 🔗: ls.st/rubin-first-look-lives…
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You’re a good dude, @rookisaacman. I went to space academy in middle school in Huntsville and it was totally magical, really lit my fire. I was the “pilot” of our simulated shuttle mission and I nearly believed it was real. I’m sorry for all of this.
I caught up with Jared Isaacman to hear more about his plan for NASA, and what he’s going to do next (it’s probably not what you think). arstechnica.com/space/2025/0…
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🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle. For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view. In 2025, Solar Orbiter gave us a first-ever look at the Sun’s south pole. Remarkably, it found both north and south magnetic fields tangled together. This is a sign that the Sun is at the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, when its magnetic poles are ready to flip...
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New observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile may have caught a Jupiter-like planet at its moment of birth around another star. The universe just keeps on building more cool things. eso.org/public/images/potw25…
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Well over $20B in taxpayer, paid for assets being thrown away for a savings that's literally pennies on those dollars. I'm all for shrinking waste and increasing efficiencies in our government, but this is neither. science.org/content/article/…
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Hosted by the INTUITIVE® Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the "Rubin First Look" Domecast will connect Digistar domes across continents for a unified, real-time experience as history unfolds with an epic image reveal from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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🚀 From a remote mountaintop to #Digistar domes worldwide - join us for a live "Rubin First Look" Domecast on June 23 in celebration of one of astronomy’s most anticipated milestones.
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No better way to mark #NationalSpaceDay than joining @SpaceForceAssoc to watch @SpaceForceDoD’s new planetarium film - "Always Above" - at the @RocketCenterUSA in Huntsville! Thanks for an amazing event and to all that joined us. alwaysabove.spaceforce.com/
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Using adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing. This video shows coronal rain: loops of plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. nso.edu/press-release/new-ad…
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Join us DAILY at the INTUITIVE Planetarium for a guided tour of our solar system in Our Place in Space! 🪐 Get a tour of the galaxy as we take you from fiery solar flares on the Sun to diamond rain falling through Neptune's skies! 🤯 Get your tickets now: bit.ly/3xH4i9D
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Luuucy, 'splain that if you can! The first images from the #LucyMission's asteroid Donaldjohanson flyby show an elongated contact binary shape, with an odd narrow neck between the two lobes. More data from Lucy will be analyzed in the coming weeks. go.nasa.gov/42mUZrJ

ALT Gif of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, as seen by the Lucy spacecraft during its close flyby. The asteroid looks like two lobes, attached by a thinner cylinder, like a barbell with very large weights. One lobe is smaller than the other. Although they are both about the same circumference, the smaller lobe is less wide than the other. The asteroid is a smooth, light gray surface, with smooth-edged craters dimpling its surface. The larger lobe has many more craters. The asteroid moves closer to the camera, pushing in on the larger lobe. Then it rotates slightly to look along the asteroid long-ways.

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These dots are gas giant exoplanets captured by Webb's camera - the clearest infrared look we've gotten yet! Webb also detected carbon dioxide and heavy elements in the planets - evidence they may have formed in the same way as Jupiter and Saturn. go.nasa.gov/4iAM9Mt
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#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! 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. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1
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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! flickr.com/photos/fireflyspa…
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Birds of a feather, we should stay together 💞 A binary pair of actively forming stars created this shimmering hourglass of gas and dust. Here, Webb’s ability to see near-infrared light reveals incredible detail and structure in Lynds 483. go.nasa.gov/4i4cOBl
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Athena landing on at the south pole of the Moon is looking good so far! These images just arrived on the way down. @Int_Machines #Athena
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Bring breathtaking astronomical images from @NASAWebb and more into your planetarium! 🌟 Join David Weigel (@rocketcenterusa) & Micah Acinapura (@AMNH) this Thursday, March 6 at 3pm ET to learn the basics of OpenSpace’s SkyBrowser feature. 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/3arTj

ALT A frustum-shaped outline extends from a model of the James Webb Space Telescope toward an orange crosshairs marking a target in the Milky Way. An orange-bordered inset zooms into the Eagle Nebula (Pillars of Creation), transitioning between different wavelengths of the image.

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