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"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."

- Carl Sagan

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Solar flares and massive magnetic loops erupting in real time. Proof that the cosmos is as terrifying as it is breathtaking. 🌞🌌

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What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? ⚫

📹 NASA

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Mark your calendar! Halley’s Comet left us a cosmic souvenir, and the Orionids peak overnight from Oct 21–22, 2026. Look toward Orion after midnight for the best view! ☄️

📷 Ben Goldstein

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Space view of India. 🌏

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Visualizing planetary tilts and day lengths across our solar system. 🪐

📹 Dr. James O'Donoghue

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@DLoose @Excellion Ah yes, everything in space is CGI until you look up basic physics 🫠 Search 'David Saint-Jacques honey in space'! It’s a real experiment by Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques on the ISS.

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Opening a jar of honey in space looks like pure magic. 🍯💫

📹 Canadian Space Agency

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Crab Supernova Explosion

📹 ESA/Hubble

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Imagine seeing this with your own eyes.

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South Africa's Vredefort Dome is Earth’s largest known impact crater! ☄️🌍

Created 2 billion years ago by a massive asteroid, it reshaped the land into a giant ring visible from space! 🛸

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Is this the most Earth-like world we’ve found so far? 🌍

Journey across the cosmos to KOI-4878.01, a candidate world almost identical in size and orbit to Earth.

📹 Cosmic Zoom

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Earth's atmosphere at a glance. 🌎✨

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A Blood Moon rising over Stonehenge is pure magic. 🔴✨

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A timeless lesson in how human curiosity and simple geometry proved the Earth is round over 2,000 years ago.

#Science #CarlSagan #Cosmos

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Cruising through Mars. 🚗💨

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The Sun has unleashed a massive ribbon of plasma into space! Luckily, the main blast will bypass Earth, but a glancing blow could hit us on Oct 2nd. Do you think we’ll catch any high-latitude auroras? ☀️

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Starship makes history! 🚀

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Starship performs its orbital insertion burn and enters orbit of Earth for the first time

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Apollo 12, 1969.

📸 NASA

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Uranus and its stunning ring system.

📹 NASA

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Paranal Observatory, Chile.

📸 Osvaldo Castillo