Slooh

The world’s online telescope network. Observe the universe live.
“The Universe Belongs to Everyone.”
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We put observatory-grade telescopes on three continents and let anyone on Earth point them at the sky from a web browser. No $3,000 hardware. No backyard. No clear skies required. This is Slooh. Here's how it works 🧵

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Meet Carol Botha — long time Slooh member, and a lifelong learner and explorer. 🌟 Every day members like Carol are logging in, exploring the universe, and inspiring the rest of us to keep looking up. This is what the Slooh community is all about. 🔭
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Have you had the chance to capture Jupiter on Slooh? 👀
If not, don’t walk, run for your last chance to see Jupiter before it disappears from Slooh’s telescopes.

Log in and capture Jupiter today--> https://t.co/gdX1AisZcr

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Our 24/7 telescope network across Chile, the Canaries, and Australia was built for stargazing. Turns out it's also great for tracking what's in orbit. Now partnering with UT Austin and Dr. Moriba Jah on space domain awareness. What's overhead matters!
https://t.co/SLQ1NhDQfU

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Jupiter is slipping out of view, Venus is taking center stage, and summer is just getting started. Slooh's June newsletter is live — skywatching guide, new NESTA partnership, a Kids of Slooh Quiz, and more --> https://t.co/FVAUSGa1LG 🔭

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... - Supermoon versus Micromoon https://t.co/qC5vd6c8xz #slooh

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Venus-Jupiter countdown: 6 DAYS!
Right now they're about 5 degrees apart. Hold three fingers up at arm's length against the evening sky — that's roughly the gap.

By Sunday? Basically touching. It's going to be WILD!
Go look west after sunset tonight...

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One of our students used Slooh to track an actual asteroid for a science competition. She'd never touched a telescope before this project. Real coordinates, real data, real submission to the Minor Planet Center. This is what hands-on access is all about!

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Join Slooh's Star Party TOMORROW for a rare lunar double feature, Once in a Full Blue Micromoon, as we gather to celebrate Earth's most distant full moon of 2026, and the second full moon of the month, making it a Blue Moon by the calendar's reckoning🥶
https://t.co/Ks9VB34DsW

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Venus and Jupiter are inching toward each other every single night and by June 8 they're going to be SO close it's going to look like the sky is glitching😍

Look west after sunset tonight. You'll see two absurdly bright dots. That's them. They're not done yet.

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Congrats to our May leaderboard leaders! 🥇

Want to make next month's? Earn Gravity Points by:
🔭 Using the telescopes
🔭 Completing a quest
🔭 Sharing an observation
🔭 Posting a thread
🔭 Joining a club

Way to #Sloohtoit ✨ #Slooh

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Did you know our Canary Islands observatory is perched at 9,000 feet on the same mountain as the world's largest optical telescope? The skies up there are just absurdly good.

And yeah — you can point those telescopes from your couch. We know. We still geek out about it too🔭

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Start exploring at https://t.co/wFeWir46LK Explorer accounts give you live telescope feeds, guided quests, and your first missions. And here we post live observations, sky event coverage, and behind-the-scenes from our observatories every week.

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We put observatory-grade telescopes on three continents and let anyone on Earth point them at the sky from a web browser. No $3,000 hardware. No backyard. No clear skies required. This is Slooh. Here's how it works 🧵

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Since 2003, our members have:

• Collected 5 million+ images of celestial objects
• Observed for 8,000+ consecutive nights
• Discovered asteroids, tracked comets, and contributed data to published research

This isn't just a telescope service. It's a global community of explorers looking up together.

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When you look at a star, you're seeing it as it was when its light first began traveling toward Earth.

This week's Birthday Quest: capture a star whose light left the year someone you love was born, then print them a birthday card 🎂

https://t.co/hdzuq551yj
#Slooh #Birthday