Meteor Moments

Daily space facts to fuel your cosmic curiosity. 🌌 From black holes to exoplanets—quick bites of the universe, every day.

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@iamCDome Furia

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

NASA releases insane new image of Helix Nebula.

700 light-years away from us.

It's the closest nebula to Earth.

Constantly watching us.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is one of the best space images ever.

You are staring at the Carina Nebula.

This entire structure is three light-years tall.

7,500 light-years away from us.

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

In your opinion, what is the strangest thing about the universe? 🤔

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

BEHOLD! This is the most up-close image of Jupiter ever recorded 👀

📸 Credit: NASA / Juno Mission

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

The icy mountains of Pluto.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A black hole is a celestial object with such a strong gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape it.

It is formed when a massive star collapses in on itself.

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🚀 COSMIC UPDATES

Pluto is warmer than your armpit

Despite being far from the Sun, Pluto's surface temperature of about -227°C (-377°F) is actually warmer than the average human armpit temperature of -230°C (-380°F).

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🌌 SPACE NEWS

Earth is not a perfect sphere

Earth is an oblate spheroid - it bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles. This is due to the planet's rotation.

[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

Chandra doesn’t just study black holes — it also reveals new details across our solar system. This sonification blends X-rays from @chandraxray with a Cassini image of Saturn, turning data into sound. 🪐

Check out more planetary sonifications here: https://t.co/phB2NJzpwu

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A day on Venus is longer than its year

Venus rotates so slowly that it takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation (a day), but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun (a year).

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Neutron stars are incredibly dense

A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6.6 billion tons - that's more than the entire human population combined!

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🔭 STARGAZING

There are more stars than grains of sand on Earth

Scientists estimate there are about 10^22 to 10^24 stars in the universe, while there are only about 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth - that's 10 billion times more stars than sand!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks