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2 years

Moon Europa. Image taken by #NASAJuno and processed by myself. #Europa #Jupiter #News #Astronomy #Science #NASA #Photography 🐘

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If you blended all 7.88 billion ppl on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human=985 kg/m3, average human body mass=62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide. This is a visualization of how that would look like in Central Park. © reddit/kiwi2703

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Earth & Moon breathing together. © Unknown #Moon #Earth

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P.s. You are in this photo.... 😆

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There's gotta be life around one of these 'dots'... 🙄

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The true size of Black Holes. © YT morn1415. #Science #Cosmos #BlackHole

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A huge hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind directly toward Earth. NASA's SDO photographed the structure, which stretches almost 800,00 km along its long axis. 1/

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Jupiter has a mini Solar System of its own! 📹 @NASAGoddard

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Imagine a massive celestial bubble made of ice and dust surrounding our Solar System. That’s the Oort cloud.⁠ ⁠ The Oort Cloud lies at the very edges of the Solar system. It’s so far away that it can’t be seen directly and remains unexplored by spacecraft.⁠ 1/

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About 1300 years ago, an unexplained cosmic storm hit our planet. It left its imprints in the tree rings across the globe and the ice cores of Antarctica. Then, after 200 years, the event repeated, but this time it was 60% as strong. 1/ #Thread #SpaceWeather

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@OOConserva Hay personas que no merecen nacer. 🤢🤢

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Zoom Into the Southern Ring Nebula Captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope. #JWST It's mind blowing to consider how such a massive object can be such a miniscule fraction of the universe. 💙

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I'm not crying 🥲 #Auroraborealis #AuroraBoreal

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We should have a holiday called "Space Day" where lights are turned off to appreciate our starry night.

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Meteor Explodes Over Sakurajima Volcano Japan. This is what the word 'awesome' was originally intended for! 👉

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It's amazing how well Jupiter protects the inner solar system. 😍 #TeamJupiter

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Amazing view from Mazatlán, Mexico. @NASA #SolarEclipse2024 #Eclipse2024

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Yesterday, astronomers in Europe witnessed the most spectacular eruption of Solar Cycle 25 so far. Many observers noted the rapidity of the blast. It lasted only ~one hour. Fast prominences like this are uncommon. 1/2 📸 NASA SDO

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@MeggGawat What are you talking about?

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Amazing! ©️ @NASA

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The #JWST spots the first chemical signs of supermassive stars, celestial monsters blazing with the brightness of millions of Suns in the early universe. So far, the largest stars observed anywhere have a mass of around 300 times that of our Sun. 1/ 👉

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In October 2017, astronomers made a startling discovery that captivated the world's imagination: an object hurtling through our Solar System at an incredible speed, seemingly originating from interstellar space. Named 'Oumuamua which loosely translates to "scout" ... 1/

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Moons Of Jupiter Comparison. © YT MetaBallStudios

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#India is about to launch #Chandrayaan3 , its 3rd mission to the Moon. But this time things are quite different. Chandrayaan, in Sanskrit, means "Moon Craft". India launched its first mission to the Moon in 2008. It comprised only an orbiter. 1/

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"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!

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This is #Jupiter . @NASAJuno spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail. Juno passes light zones & dark belt of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than hurricanes on Earth. #TeamJupiter #Astronomy

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Plasma falls on the Sun. Plasma falls have been seen on the sun many times before, yet researchers still don't fully understand them. One big mystery is how fast they fall. The sun's gravity is powerful, but not powerful enough to pull the plasma down so quickly through the

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A living creature. Data NASA.

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Astronomers have found compelling evidence suggesting the existence of a massive object beyond Neptune's orbit, possibly a ninth planet, by studying distant, unstable objects. 1/ 👉

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12-year time lapse of 4 distant planets, each larger than Jupiter, orbiting their star. Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has documented HR8799, the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly imaged. 👉

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Time is weird. It slows down at high speeds and around massive objects. It completely stops at the speed of light, and at the event horizon of a black hole. And finally, it doesn't even exist at the singularity. 1/

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Nestled among Saturn's retinue of moons, lies one of the most enigmatic celestial bodies: Iapetus. Among its many peculiar features, one stands out prominently, a towering mountain ridge that encircles its equator like a cosmic belt. 1/

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Video of Jupiter made by interpolating images from the James Webb Space Telescope. #JWST © u/ceresians

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The Milky Way is nothing else, but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. ~Galileo Galilei~ The planets orbit the Sun, roughly in the same plane. The Solar System moves through the galaxy with about a 60° angle between the galactic... 1/2 ©️ YT / DjSadhu

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Earth is approaching a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Sun, Oct. 22nd, with 15/20 meteors/h. The best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise when Orion the Hunter is high in the sky.

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Scientists have recorded the coldest temperature ever measured in a lab. They attained a temperature of just 38 trillionths of a degree above -273.15 °C. This achievement made the laboratory the coldest place in the observable universe. The temperature reached is the closest..1/

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This is what you get when you combine X-ray, infrared, & optical data. These gorgeous views showcase star cluster NGC 346, spiral galaxies NGC 1672 and Messier 74 & the Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula) in ways we could never see with just our eyes. 1/

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NASA has made a stunning discovery on the icy moon of Saturn, Enceladus. They have discovered that the moon is spewing out phosphorus, one of the key chemical elements required for the existence of life. And possibly, the phosphorus concentration in subsurface oceans of... 1/

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The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. IR light @HubbleTelescope

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New research from the SOFIA observatory, has shown that the magnetic fields in 30 Doradus, aka The Tarantula Nebula, region of ionized hydrogen at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, could be the key to its surprising behavior. ➡️

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In an extraordinary celestial display, the skies over Mongolia turned deep, blood-red as the country experienced one of the rarest auroral events on Friday and early Saturday. 1/ 📸 X/Bileg

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When you see lightning, run! That’s what @NOAA advises in lightning safety brochures. This merged view shows all of the lightning that occurred during a 50 minute period just before local midnight. 1/ 📸 Uğur İkizler @StormHour

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Why do stars have different colors? The color of stars depends on the temperature of their surface. Blue stars have a higher temperature than red ones. In astronomy, stars are classified into 7 different categories according to their color and size. 1/

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Jupiter, high on caffeine, sleep deprived and doing its best to take care of 95 moons. Life is rough. #Jupiter

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Asteroid Apophis is coming back. Apophis stands out as the most dangerous asteroid that passes close to our planet. In March 2021, it had a close encounter with Earth, and it's poised to return in 2029. During its 2029 closest approach, Apophis will pass within.... 1/

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Full rotation of #Mars

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This is a real footage of a star going #supernova . This video, showing a supernova explosion in the Centaurus A galaxy, 13 million light years from Earth, was created by @SpaceGeck using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. 1/

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Betelgeuse, nestled on Orion's shoulder, has experienced a sudden increase in its brightness surging by over 50 percent above its typical luminosity. At the beginning of the year, Betelgeuse was the 10th brightest star in our night sky. 1/ #Thread #Update

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The black hole firewall is a concept in theoretical physics that addresses a potential paradox related to the nature of black holes & the principles of quantum mechanics. The paradox arises from considering the fate of information that falls into a black hole. 1/ #ScienceParadox

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Pillars of Creation scale. Tag: @NASAVoyager

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Soon, #WebbTelescope will be turning its eye on TRAPPIST-1e, a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet in its star's habitable zone....

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The Earth's second Moon. Astronomers recently discovered that Earth has a second Moon and it's been orbiting our planet since 100 BC. Earth's second Moon, or more accurately considered a quasi moon, is a small asteroid named 2023 FW-13. It was only recently discovered... 1/

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Jupiter. ©️ NASA Juno / Processed by Kevin M. Gill

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From Earth, we can only see one side of the Moon. This video compiles images from both sides taken by the @LRO_NASA probe.

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. @NASAWebb Telescope passes its final tests and prepares for launch! 😭 This video shows the future Webb’s orbit around the sun, 1 million miles away from us at L2 Lagrange point.

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Earlier today Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years. NASA's SDO recorded this extreme-UV movie of the M4.4 category blast. X-rays & UV radiation ionized the top of Earth's atm, producing a shortwave radio blackout over the South Atlantic.

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This summer, the Milky Way will be visible without a telescope during moonless nights. Key viewing dates are: July 8 July 28 August 7 August 26 September 6 September 24 October 5 Viewers should find dark-sky locations and avoid bright moonlight for optimal visibility. The

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The power of James Webb #JWST has revealed a full Einstein Ring. Einstein Ring is a phenomena that's created when light from a source, such as galaxy/star, passes by a massive object in its route to us. 1/ 👉

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Time dilation is a fascinating concept in physics, particularly in the realm of Einstein's theory of relativity. Time, a fundamental concept that we often take for granted, is not as absolute as it appears. In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein ... 1/ #Thread

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The final parsec problem presents a significant challenge in astrophysics, particularly in the study of the coalescence of binary black hole systems. This problem arises from the inefficiency of gravitational wave emission in driving the black holes together once ... 1/

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Devils Horns. It was captured in Qatar, during a partial eclipse during sunrise in 2019 by Elias Chasiotis. The sunrise of 26 December 2019 as seen from Qatar was not a common one. The sun rose partially eclipsed, as an annular solar eclipse was in progress. 1/

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A star system, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), located 3,000 light-years away from Earth, is expected to undergo a nova eruption soon, offering a rare spectacle visible to the unaided eye. 1/

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A journey of 500 million light years away to the Cartwheel Galaxy. You could see 1 galaxy every second of your life and you’d still only ever see 1 percent of them. It’s insane how vast our universe is. © @NASAWebb / @ESA_Webb / @csa_asc

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Great Scientists Logos (if they had one) #Science ©Kapil Bhagat & Prateek Lala

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A new theory suggests that time might be an illusion created by quantum entanglement. According to this theory, changes over time are perceived only because objects are entangled with clocks, making the universe appear static to an external observer. This challenges traditional

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Stunning photo from the far side of the Moon captured by the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 spacecraft in 2014. © Chinese Space Agency.

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How the Solar System moves. #Space #Astronomy #Science #SolarSystem © YT morn1415

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@011Stepanie So small and yet so harmful...

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Point Nemo, also known as the "oceanic pole of inaccessibility," is the point in the ocean that is farthest from any land. It is named after Jules Verne's character Captain Nemo from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." Point Nemo is located in the ... 1/

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#JWST will soon zoom in on 17 nearby stars to observe the planets forming around them.

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Earth is about to gain a temporary mini-moon—asteroid 2024 PT5. Discovered on August 7, 2024, this asteroid is roughly 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter and will be captured by Earth's gravity from September 29 to November 25, 2024. During this time, the asteroid will loop around

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Fire Vanadinite Crystals found 100 foot below the surface at the Geronimo Mine in Arizona. #GeologyPage #Geology Source & ©️ 👇

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The difference between amateur and pro cat. 😎

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Astronomers have calculated the number of black holes in the universe. And the number is 40 quintillion (40 followed by 18 zeros). Hence, stellar-mass black holes make up 1% of all the ordinary matter in the cosmos. 1/

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Japan will put a wooden satellite into orbit next year. Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan have determined that wood from magnolia trees could be the ideal construction material for a satellite due to launch into space next year. 🙄 ➡️

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The Lagrange points, named after the French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, are unique locations in space where gravitational forces create a delicate equilibrium btw the gravitational pull of 2 large celestial bodies, such as a planet & its moon or a planet & the sun. 1/

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The Voyager 1 probe, which has been in space for nearly 47 years, has successfully resumed operations for its four scientific instruments after a complex troubleshooting process. The issue began with a corrupted software code on a chip, which rendered data from the spacecraft

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Magnetars are extraordinary celestial objects, among the most magnetic in the universe. These neutron stars possess magnetic fields that are mind-bogglingly intense, orders of magnitude stronger than those of typical neutron stars or even other exotic objects like pulsars. 1/

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These two bright objects are Earth and the Moon, as observed from the orbit of Mercury. The image was acquired by NASA's MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft on May 6, 2010. At the moment this image was captured, the MESSENGER

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The Milky Way as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. Timelapse by @TheAstroShake #Astronomy #Space

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I don't know what you think, but for me, The Parker Solar Probe, "touching" the sun, has been one of the great achievements of our time. But, why didn't it melt? 1/ #Thread

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This is the result of combining JWST and the Chandra telescope. ❤️

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Physicists propose in a new paper that the universe might be dominated by tachyons, particles that move faster than light & break causality. 1/ 👉

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Friendly reminder: The James Webb Space Telescope images aren’t what your eyes would see. But that makes them science, not faked. It may go without saying, but these aren’t photographs. They are data visualizations! And that data is the impact of photons, light energy, on...1/

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Stunning image taken from Vero Beach, about 65 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. @SpaceX @NASA #LaunchAmerica #Falcon9 @VirtualAstro @wonderofscience #Astrophotography

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The heliopause is a mysterious & fascinating region marking the outer boundary of our solar system. Situated at the edge of the Sun's influence, the heliopause represents the point where the solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun, ... 1/13

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#OnThisDay 104 years ago, Sir Arthur Eddington photographed the total solar eclipse that proved Einstein's general theory of relativity. The eclipse images clearly showed that Sun's gravity bent the path of light from background stars.

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The supermassive black hole M87* is now confirmed to be spinning. According to a new study, the spinning black hole is so massive that it pulls the surrounding fabric of space and time inward in what's called frame-dragging. 1/2 👉

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The Hoag's Object is a fascinating astronomical anomaly that captivates astronomers and stargazers alike. Named after the astronomer Arthur Hoag, who discovered it in 1950, this peculiar galaxy is a stunning example of a rare cosmic phenomenon known as a "ring galaxy." 1/

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Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope have improved the resolution of black hole images by 50% using higher frequencies (345 GHz) and combining data from telescopes in Spain, Hawaii, and Chile. This advancement will allow scientists to capture more detailed

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This is IMO one of the most beautiful objects in the universe. Nestled within the expansive emission nebula NGC 6357, the star cluster Pismis 24 resides ~ 8,000 light-years from Earth. This image captures a fraction of the nebula, the gas beneath the stars illuminates ... 1/

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In the realm of theoretical physics, few concepts captivate the imagination & stretch the boundaries of our understanding of the universe as much as the Einstein-Rosen wormhole. Proposed by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen in 1935, ... 1/ Video YT / Pablo Antonio Cano

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#JWST 2 years...

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The "Theory of Everything" (TOE) is a theoretical framework in physics that aims to explain and unify all fundamental forces and particles in the universe within a single, comprehensive theory. The quest for a TOE has been a central goal in theoretical physics, ... 1/

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Engineers at @NASA have developed and tested NASA’s first full-scale rotating detonation rocket engine, or #RDRE , an advanced rocket engine design that could significantly change how future propulsion systems are built. ➡️

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This small central speck is the first image of a spacecraft on its way home, carrying with it a sample from an asteroid hundreds-of-millions, if-not-billions-of-years old. The spacecraft is NASA's OSIRIS-REX, the asteroid is Bennu. 1/

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Dark energy is a mysterious and enigmatic force that permeates the vast expanses of our universe, driving its accelerated expansion. Discovered through observations of distant supernovae in the late 1990s, dark energy has since become a focal point in ... 1/

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