Cosmographer at University Paris-Saclay | co-discoverer of Laniakea (our home supercluster), Ho'oleilana, and some other (very) large scale structures 🌌 🔭 💻

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Discovery alert! A spherical shell-like structure 1 billion light-years in diameter named Ho’oleilana is discovered in the distribution of relatively nearby galaxies. We posit this is the 1st observation of an individual Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO). doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac…
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360° interactive viewer of the panorama captured yesterday by Percy: ▶️ 360cities.net/image/persever… #Mars
A 360° panorama captured 14 hours ago by Perseverance 🔍 zoomhub.net/a/2CGbPbCYQ8A #Mars June 13, 2026 - Sol 1889 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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A 360° panorama captured 14 hours ago by Perseverance 🔍 zoomhub.net/a/2CGbPbCYQ8A #Mars June 13, 2026 - Sol 1889 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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Wiggle3D view of the Mira Flores butte, captured yestersol by Curiosity with her stereoscopic navigation cameras #Mars June 12, 2026 - Sol 4923 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

ALT An animation rapidly alterning between the two left and right, black and white images of a stereoscopic pair, capturing a Martian landscape, featuring a small butte standing alone in the valley currently explored by the Mars rover Curiosity.

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Mira Flores, captured yesterday by Curiosity ℹ️ science.nasa.gov/blog/curios… #Mars June 11, 2026 - Sol 4922 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
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Daniel Pomarède retweeted
🙋‍♂️ Qui est content d'arriver en haute montagne ? Who’s happy to be heading into the high mountains? ⛰️ #TourAuvergneRhoneAlpes
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Long post, but this one is important to me so I hope you stick it out! In January I reached out to Artemis II Commander @astro_reid with a simple ask- was he open to capturing the moon like I do for my colorful moon photos during the flyby? He humbly agreed, and we worked out a plan to incorporate into the photos captured as the crew approached the moon. The premise was simple- just capture enough photos in a burst to allow for image stacking to improve image fidelity, potentially to reveal color no human has ever captured. What he brought back was nothing short of magnificent. When I initially stacked the raw photos, it exceeded my expectations by far. The color came right out of the seemingly gray images, and showed details I've never seen before. It's possible nobody has. The lack of atmosphere meant a lot of color normally absorbed and scattered was present, so even the "near side" features looked exotic and unfamiliar. This view of the moon from an alien perspective made the usually-familiar lunar surface fresh and exciting, and the color we were able to resolve gave us valuable insight to the complex geological history of it's battered surface. Then, I faced a bit of a moral dilemma. I wanted people to be able to own these images in print- but I wouldn't feel right to profit off of them. As an active NASA astronaut, Reid certainly can't. He took these photos as part of a taxpayer-funded mission. If I couldn't split profits with him I didn't see a way to do this ethically, so I decided to release the images initially with no print offering, despite many requests!  Then, it clicked. After doing some research- I decided that I should do a print sale where the profits go 100% to charity. That way I can make prints available, do some good in the world, and it doesn't feel like an ethical conflict. ​I'm pleased to share my first EVER entirely-for-charity print release. ​ At the end of this sale all proceeds with be donated to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. It feels fitting. I will follow up in a future post with a receipt from the donation, so you know how much we were able to donate. When I released this to my email subscribers only, we were already able to raise around $15k. Amazing! The limited edition fine art print is now publicly available, you can grab one of them at the link in my bio (also linked further in the thread) for a short time. Thank you for helping me do something good with my platform. Seriously... it feels amazing.
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The Concorde looks so futuristic for a plane that first flew in 1969! Its vortex-generating S-curve delta wing for low-speed lift and high-speed efficiency is still a marvel. #art by Julien Lepelletier. lepelletier.artstation.com/p…
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Big week for Artemis III 🚀 Just before NASA introduced the Artemis III crew, the SLS solid rocket booster segments arrived in Florida after a six-day rail journey from Utah. Later this year, teams will begin stacking the boosters that create 75% of the thrust needed at launch.
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NASA's Mars Orbiter mission MAVEN has been officially declared dead. See the full video on my youtube channel @spacemog
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The @PAFofficiel just painted the New York sky blue, white and red. ✈️🇫🇷🗽 A breathtaking flyover over Manhattan as part of Mission Liberté 250, honoring 250 years of French-American friendship. #Liberté250
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🇫🇷🇺🇸 Blue, white and red over New York. The Patrouille de France flew over Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the friendship between France and the United States. This flypast forms part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. ©️ Diane Desobeau, AFP
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The Moon looks even more beautiful when it’s bathing in some Earthglow – let’s hear it for Earth Joy! Congratulations to my friends and colleagues on the Artemis III crew: @AstroKomrade, Frank Rubio, @astro_luca, and @Astro_AndreD. This mission in low Earth orbit will pave the way for our subsequent @NASAArtemis missions to land humans on the Moon.
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Charon is the most Sci-Fi moon, with features named after Star Trek, Macross, Doctor Who, Alien, Firefly and so on.
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Un symbole offert par la France. Une histoire partagée depuis 250 ans. Une mission qui commence. 🇫🇷🇺🇸 La mission #Liberté250 débute officiellement aujourd’hui aux États-Unis avec un survol de la Statue de la Liberté #NewYork
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Artemis III SRB Arrival Eight of the 10 SRB Solid Rocket Booster motor segments for NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket arrive at a rail yard near Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 8, 2026. images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-… #Artemis @NASAArtemis
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Mel Hunter, "Rocket Ship Orbiting Mars," used as the May 1965 cover for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Malý pahorek vysoký asi 6 m, který Curiosity vyfotografovala pravou kamerou MastCam 2025-06-07 UTC / sol 4915 10:28:57 LMST. Od roveru se nacházel jižně ve vzdálenosti 136 m. Kredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JV
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Two images of Mars received a few minutes ago from the Psyche spacecraft. They were captured 24 hours apart on May 30 and 31. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_… solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_… #Psyche #Mars
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A timelapse view from our @SpaceX Dragon of the spectacular southern aurora seen in yesterday’s post, a result of a recent solar event. As opposed to the previous aurora I’ve seen, this one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show. I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon.
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NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Victor J. Glover is piped aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, June 4, 2026. Glover was the pilot on the Artemis II mission, which sent four astronauts on a flight around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft. #Artemis
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