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🔭 The Solar System from an unusual point of view.
✨ Print your custom poster, based on NASA ephemerides.
🎁 Awesome astronomy-oriented gift idea!

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

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#astronomyposter #giftideas #Christmasgifts

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

@BaytAlFann is an awesome project about islamic art.

Today they have published an awesome thread on the relation between geometrical Islamic art and the relative movements of planets that inspires many contemporary artists.

Check it out!

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

This is the dance of Jupiter & Mars, as they orbit around the sun. A spectacular display of geometry!

Islamic geometry has a spiritual dimension, reflecting the order of the universe.

Here are 21 contemporary Islamic artists, inspired by the wonders of the cosmos…

A thread…

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

A very good job by @bigthink in reconstructing a dramatic phase of the history of astronomy!

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

https://t.co/JyehBldU4S

[Cosmic Watch @CosmicWatch]

Today!! It’s perihelion 🌞🌍The Earth is closest to the Sun! In it’s Today Earth is 147.105.153 km from the Sun (the average distance is 149.700.000) it’s also Earth reaches its maximum orbital speed 30,75km/s (average it’s 29,8 km/s).

Also Moon-Mercury and Saturn at sunset 🌙

[Cosmic Watch @CosmicWatch]

Today! HAPPY SOLSTICE everyone 🌞🥳
The Sun it’s located at it’s southernmost latitude for us in Earth. It will stand still for a couple of days, to start moving north.. the shortest days in the northern hemisphere and the longest for the south! Enjoy!
#Solstice #Cosmicwatch

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

Happening now 👇

[Gabriella Bernardi @Vindunno]

#mercury's #orbit

[Syahirah Stargazer 🇵🇸🌟 @AstroSyahirah]

For me, being an astronomical artist is to educate people about the cosmos, to connect people to the celestials above through human touch, to share our personal perspective of the universe, to bring awareness of the night sky and to close the great divide between science & art✨

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

@ItsAstrobiology @latestinspace And now you can print them on high-quality posters! https://t.co/ctmKPFyRtj

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

@Archin50001 @latestinspace Yep, what about print them on high-quality posters? ;) https://t.co/ctmKPFyRtj

[Monica T. Rodriguez @docmon67]

Rosetta s Comet in Gemini: Returning along its 6.4 year orbit, periodic comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) is caught in this telescopic frame from November 7. Sweeping past background stars in the constellation Gemini the comet's dusty tail stretches toward the upper right to…

[Nereide @Nereide]

Some years ago, @Cambridge_Uni put the papers of Sir Isaac #Newton online for the 1st time, including his own annotated copy of #PrincipiaMathematica, with notes and calculations in his handwriting revising the book and answering critics.

➡️https://t.co/8tZBKkIX7z

#iteachmath

[Whipple Museum @WhippleMuseum]

#OnThisDay in 1738, William Herschel was born!

Herschel was a musician & astronomer, best known for discovering Uranus.

The huge reflecting telescope in our Main Gallery was made by Herschel c.1790.

[History of Astronomy @HistAstro]

The al-Khujandi astrolabe (Iran or Iraq, 984/5 CE) and some later derivatives @MIAQatar https://t.co/uE5WlN870A

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

Just some postcards from Mars. These are unprocessed images taken during the past few days in Gale Crater by @MarsCuriosity. Catch up on the the rover's latest science work, nearly a decade into its mission: https://t.co/EtJImnDQUF

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

Filming in the History of Science Museum in Oxford today and couldn't resist taking photos of two of my favourite exhibits: Robert Hooke's microscopes and Einstein's blackboard.

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

4,566
That's how many worlds beyond our solar system we've confirmed so far. We add new exoplanets to the known worlds nearly every week. We live in an age of discovery! https://t.co/G8HwE04ACN

[Almagesto 🪐 @AlmagestoDesign]

Want to work with us through our #affiliateprogram we have just published? Check it out!

https://t.co/tQm7hB7wbW

[History of Astronomy @HistAstro]

Plate from The Bakerian Lecture: On the Total Solar Eclipse of July 18th, 1860, Observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain, by astronomer Warren de la Rue F.R.S.; the lecture was read at the Royal Society on 10 April 1862 @royalsociety, via https://t.co/16GAXhkng1