Exoplanet Atmosphere Spectroscopy = Sniffing Alien Rainbows

The insides of planets 📹Imagined by AI

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I got the PhD offer I wanted!!

Incredible work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I’d like to reemphasize this. The dust you see is not settling. It is still going uphill when it flies over the horizon and out of view. It is like a rocket that has curved below the horizon but is still climbing. If you get this, it makes sense why it clears the view so fast. /1

This is a real photo captured through my telescope of the moon. Completely unedited/unprocessed. See anything strange?

Dark energy not so dark anymore?

Starship always puts on a display, even during a RUD.

Today I solved a rubix cube for the first time 🤓 there goes my childhood trauma!

Imagine an exoplanet with a mountain range so immense that it extends into space: Do you think such a planet exists in the Universe?

Starship flip maneuver and landing burn on its fifth flight test. Vehicle improvements ensured flaps were protected from high heating, resulting in a controlled entry and high accuracy splashdown at the targeted area in the Indian Ocean

Ooo 👀

Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵 1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face

On the eve of the Starship test flight, a reminder of why full reusability is a game changer for access to space... While the industry is following the red line, SpaceX is on a different curve. Note: a straight line is an exponential on this semi-log graph.

CO2!! Just add water and some electrolysis and we have another place in the solar system where we can make rocket fuel for #Starship!

Space is BIG

BREAKING: Asteroid 2024 PT5 to Become Earth's Mini-Moon Asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered August 7, will become a "mini-moon" from September 29 to November 25, 2024. The 10-meter NEO will be temporarily captured by Earth's gravity but won't complete a full orbit before returning to its solar path.

In the lunar phase calendar, the New Moon is the first of four major phases…but beginning this weekend, we will actually get a new moon! Essentially, Earth’s gravity captures an asteroid passing by our planet, which becomes a small moon for a temporary period. In this case, 2024 PT5, which is from the Arjuna asteroid belt, will remain with us for roughly two months before leaving orbit and moving on. The science of these “mini-moons” is quite interesting and they occur fairly frequently!

What horizontal speed does the cyclist have... anyone..?