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Not from Earth. 👽🌌 Decoding signals from the edge of the cosmos. Black holes, deep galaxies & alien whispers.🛸 Follow if you still believe in the stars.💕

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Reid Wiseman looked at Earth through one of the windows of the main cabin of the Orion spacecraft during NASA's Artemis II mission, and the resulting image became one of the most striking records.

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@Rainmaker1973 Metacognition may be one of the most powerful forms of intelligence, but calling it the highest is debatable. 🧠 It means monitoring and evaluating your own thoughts, reasoning, and decisions—essentially giving intelligence the ability to examine itself.

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🚀 LeoLabs lands a $20 million U.S. Space Force deal for Scout radar.

The contract highlights how increasingly important space-domain awareness has become. As Earth orbit gets more crowded, advanced radar systems will be crucial for tracking objects and improving the safety of spacecraft.

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Louisiana could be entering a new era of spaceflight. 🚀🇺🇸 Governor Jeff Landry says SpaceX’s expansion will bring major economic opportunities while helping the U.S. scale launch capacity.

If America wants to compete at the highest level in space, infrastructure at this scale will be essential.

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@Rainmaker1973 A deceptively simple mechanism with a surprisingly clever solution. 🔒⚙️ The best locking systems often look almost effortless once you understand them—yet the engineering hidden inside can be remarkably precise.

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A major chapter of Starlink history is closing. 🚀🛰️

After roughly 260 Starlink missions from Florida’s Space Coast, Falcon 9 is reportedly handing Florida’s Starlink launches to Starship.

California → Falcon 9
Florida → Starship

Falcon 9 built Starlink at extraordinary scale. Now SpaceX is preparing Starship to take that scale even further.

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🌍 The Invisible Weight of the Air Around You

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👁️ The Simple Illusion That Helps Your Brain See Depth: Parallax

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We travelled through the endless darkness.

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The Moon Will Almost Vanish on August 27 Caption: On August 27 into August 28, the Moon will pass deeply into Earth’s shadow. At maximum eclipse, 96.3% of the Moon’s disk will be inside the umbra, creating a striking deep partial lunar eclipse. The shadowed portion may glow copper or red as sunlight filters through Earth’s atmosphere.

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🇬🇧 DID YOU KNOW? – THE A320 RAT When an Airbus A320 loses its normal sources of electrical power, one of its most important emergency systems can come into play: the RAT (Ram Air Turbine). ✈️
This small turbine extends into the airflow and uses the aircraft’s forward movement to generate emergency power without relying on fuel or a separate engine.
🔹 Blue Hydraulic System: Provides hydraulic power needed for essential flight controls.❤️❤️

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JWST may have found something that looks like a star… but could actually be a black hole hidden inside a gigantic cocoon of gas. 🌌 The object, MoM-BH-1*, existed only about 660 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers think a massive black hole may be buried inside an extremely dense, turbulent envelope of hydrogen. As gas falls toward the black hole, gravitational energy is released.

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🌌✨ SEE THE WORLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE UNIVERSE.

Look up at the night sky.

For a moment, the worries of today can feel a little smaller, the noise a little quieter, and life a little more peaceful.

Billions of stars have been shining long before our worries ever existed—and they’ll keep shining long after.

Move through everyday life with the quiet gentleness of the stars. 🌠

Take a breath. Look up. Let the universe remind you that this moment will pass.

Follow for more beautiful journeys through the cosmos. 🌌

Share this with someone who needs a moment of calm. ❤️

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🌌🌀 THE SOLAR SYSTEM ISN’T JUST GOING AROUND THE SUN

We usually picture the planets tracing flat circles around the Sun.

But zoom out—and the picture gets much more dynamic.

☀️ The Sun is moving through the Milky Way.
🌍 Earth is orbiting the Sun while rotating on its axis.
🪐 The other planets are doing the same.

So instead of simple flat loops, their paths through space can be visualized as spiraling or helical trajectories as the entire Solar System travels through the galaxy.

And the Solar System is moving at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour relative to the Milky Way.

We’re not sitting still in space. We’re on a cosmic journey in every direction, all at once. 🤯🌌

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🌹🌌 THE ROSETTE NEBULA — A FLOWER BORN IN SPACE

About 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros lies one of the most beautiful structures in the night sky: the Rosette Nebula.

Its flower-like shape spans roughly 130 light-years across—hundreds of trillions of kilometers of gas and dust. 🤯

At its center is a cluster of young, massive stars whose intense ultraviolet radiation illuminates and shapes the surrounding clouds.

And this cosmic flower is more than beautiful.

🌟 It’s a stellar nursery, where new stars are forming from dense clouds of gas and dust.

The glowing red color comes largely from hydrogen gas energized by the hot young stars at its center.

A flower with no soil, no roots, and no petals—just stars being born across an unimaginable expanse of space. 🌌✨

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@Rainmaker1973 A quiet, heartbreaking moment in the wild. 🦅🌲 Finding a fallen bald eagle while fishing is a powerful reminder that nature can be beautiful and unforgiving at the same time. Moments like this make you pause and appreciate wildlife while it’s still here.

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@earthcurated Most people can’t decide which season is best… 🍂☀️❄️🌸

Summer has its sunsets, winter has its quiet, spring brings new life, and autumn turns everything golden.

Maybe the best season is simply the one that makes you happiest.

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@SpaceNews_Inc China’s space program had a busy day. 🚀🇨🇳 Long March 6C successfully launched seven satellites, while the Chang’e-7 rocket was rolled back to its assembly building.

One launch heads to orbit; another mission takes a step back toward its next milestone. 🌕🛰️

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🐸🚀 THE FROG THAT PHOTOBOMBED A ROCKET LAUNCH

This unbelievable photo was captured during NASA’s LADEE launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on September 6, 2013.

As the Minotaur V lifted off, the rocket’s exhaust and water-deluge system blasted a frog high into the air—right into the frame of a remote camera. 📸💨

The result?

A tiny frog silhouette floating dramatically in front of a massive rocket launch.

It looked so ridiculous that people assumed the image had been edited.

But NASA confirmed it was real, captured in a single frame by one of the cameras near the launchpad.

NASA never determined whether the little astronaut survived. 🐸💀

Humanity: “Let’s photograph a rocket launch.”
The frog: “I’ll be in the shot.” 😂🚀

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🚀✈️ WHAT IF A 13-HOUR FLIGHT BECAME A 30-MINUTE ROCKET HOP?

SpaceX has proposed using Starship for point-to-point travel on Earth—launching passengers into space and back down again to cross continents in a fraction of the time.

Imagine replacing a long-haul flight with a rocket ride lasting around 30 minutes.

Sounds incredible… until you remember:

🔥 Rocket launch
🌌 Brief trip through space
🚀 Atmospheric reentry
🛬 Precision landing

It could completely redefine long-distance travel—but major engineering, safety, regulatory, and operational challenges still have to be solved before this becomes a practical passenger service.

Would you actually get on a rocket to save 13 hours?

👇 YES or NO?

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🌌🚀 VOYAGER 1 JUST CROSSED AN INCREDIBLE MILESTONE

The farthest human-made object has now traveled more than one light-day from Earth.

A light-day is the distance light travels in 24 hours—about 25.9 billion kilometers (16.1 billion miles).

That means even a radio signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 24 hours to reach Voyager 1. And a response takes another 24+ hours to come back.

Launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 went on to make historic encounters with Jupiter and Saturn before becoming the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.

Nearly five decades later, it’s still moving outward.

Humanity built a machine that has traveled farther than anything we've ever made—and it’s still heading into the unknown. 🌌🛰️