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🚨Not sunlight — it’s Earthshine.
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second day of the mission.
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🚨: Stars orbiting Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy
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🚨: A NASA astronaut aboard the ISS captured a red sprite over Mexico and the United States
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🚨: J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the creation of the atomic bomb, famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita after witnessing the first nuclear test:
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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Jun 12
🚨: Earth produces a puzzling pulse every 26 seconds, often described as its "heartbeat."
Is Earth a living being?
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Jun 12
🚨: Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX goes public.
The stock opens at $150 per share, giving the company a staggering $1.96 trillion valuation.
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Jun 12
Saturn hiding behind the Moon! 💫
[Sim space engine]
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🚨: The upscaled footage from Apollo 15 on the Moon is incredible to watch.
This isn’t a movie, this is real footage of humans driving on the moon.
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Jun 11
🚨: You’re 400 million times closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length.
Let that sink in.
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🚨: Johnny Kim, aged 37, changed his career three times and has achieved becoming a navy seal, trained Harvard doctor, and NASA astronaut.
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🚨: This is why showering in space is impossible
Instead, astronauts clean themselves using sponge baths, wet wipes, and rinseless soaps.
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Jun 10
🚨: This is not our galaxy!
You’re staring at billions of stars in the Andromeda Galaxy—and almost every one likely has planets.
Let that sink in.
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🚨: The observable universe spans over 93 billion light-years.
We’ve only traveled 1.3 light-seconds from Earth.
Let that sink in.
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🚨: The true color of the Sun shown from space
The sun isn’t yellow, it’s white. It appears yellow because Earth’s atmosphere scatters light.
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🚨: NASA just unveiled the new Artemis III crew!
- Andre Douglas (Mission Specialist)
- Frank Rubio (Mission Specialist)
- Luca Parmitano (Pilot)
- Randy Bresnik (Commander)
The mission is currently planned for 2027 and will test Orion's rendezvous and docking capabilities with lunar landers in Earth orbit, helping pave the way for future crewed Moon landings under the Artemis program.
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🚨: According to a survey, 70% of human see small dots across their field of vision, known as "floaters”
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Meet Daphnis, a tiny moon of Saturn.
A rock barely the size of a city is carving a 26-mile-wide gap through Saturn’s rings, pushing aside millions of tons of ice and debris with its gravity alone.
[SpaceEngine sim]
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🚨: NASA captured a 12 year timelapse of planets orbiting in another solar system
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According to quantum physics, nothing ever truly touches. Electrons repel each other before contact ever happens.
Your brain interprets that invisible interaction as physical contact.
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