Laura Cole

Cool Astronomy updates and class information for my students and their parents.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is impeachable, if not criminal

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

How big would methane raindrops be on Titan? https://t.co/91S5I7FnK1

[Progress Iowa @ProgressIowa]

Senator @JoniErnst is putting Iowans in danger with her terrible health care votes. #COVID19 #ProtectOurCare https://t.co/fcDPKHzbMQ

[Andrew Rader @marsrader]

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon. His moniker comes from his sister who pronounced "brother" as "buzzer".

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

Planet Nine — a massive world thought to be orbiting the Sun far beyond Pluto ⁠— may be a black hole the size of a baseball instead. https://t.co/FBGAdXiofz

[Planet Green @PlanetGreen]

Astronomy student discovers 17 alien worlds
https://t.co/eULZLfelPf

[Ian J. O’Neill 💾 @astroengine]

Betelgeuse continues to brighten... 😎

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

Ancient Earth might have been blanketed in a huge magma ocean when it was struck by a Mars-sized object called Theia, which helped forge the Moon. https://t.co/ycMqKSMENS

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

Staggeringly huge, surprisingly small, and blisteringly fast — stars come in many sizes and flavors. Here are some of the strangest. https://t.co/rjp5qPVzuZ

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

What are the accepted proofs that Earth revolves around the Sun? When did this realization take place? https://t.co/yuSw3MBDtK

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Last year, astronomers detected clouds of liquid water in the hydrogen-rich atmosphere of an exoplanet 124 light-years away. Now, new research suggests its surface could be habitable. https://t.co/wjm6m01p6z

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

It’s been nearly 30 years since a NASA spacecraft has visited Venus. But that could change, as missions to the planet are two of the four finalists for the agency’s next two $500 million planetary missions. https://t.co/p0CSf32vMN

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

Avoiding space debris might require new legal framework, US lawmakers say https://t.co/I4rCkAIO0F

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

The Moon holds Earth’s 23.5-degree tilt steady. Without our satellite, the planet would wobble, dramatically affecting seasons and climate. https://t.co/WToM0U5Zjt

[NASA @NASA]

Do you ever dream about exploring places like the Moon & Mars? We’re accepting applications March 2-31 for the next class of #Artemis Generation astronauts.

What questions do you have about how to #BeAnAstronaut? Tag them w/ #AskNASA! Learn more: https://t.co/TongSWS4GL

[WIRED Science @WIREDScience]

We can't keep using chemical rockets to put satellites in orbit. They're too expensive, the fuel is heavy—you need even more fuel to carry the fuel. SpinLaunch has a different idea: physically throw a missile off the planet. Let's do the physics: https://t.co/6SFUDb5fhK

[CNN @CNN]

During its flyby of Pluto in 2015, NASA's New Horizons mission captured a now iconic image of a heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet. And new research about Pluto's "frozen heart" has revealed that its heartbeat actually controls wind https://t.co/S6GShVvIP0

[NASA @NASA]

A #SnowMoon will illuminate the night sky on Sunday, Feb. 9, reaching its peak of fullness at 2:33am ET. Be sure to bundle up and take a look! https://t.co/oTuVUxCg7H

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

Any future collision between our observable universe and a bubble universe will presumably happen on cosmological timescales — tens of billions of years or longer. https://t.co/bMk0JDDqDF

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

World's largest solar telescope produces never-before-seen image of our star https://t.co/OkIw3nV6su