Florian Engels

Projekte leiten, die die Sterne berühren 🌟🚀

[Leo Edge @LeoCapital_01]

People wrote off Blue Origin after the static fire. They're already moving stages and rebuilding the pad. Dave Limp said before year end. The pace of this recovery says it might be sooner than most expect. This is very bullish for the entire launch ecosystem.

[wxKobold @wxKobold]

Our positively beloved January 19, 2026 CME as seen through the HI1 imagery aboard STEREO-A.

[Weltraum-Nerd @NicosPanoptikum]

Eigentlich wollte der Optiker aus Bayern nur die Herstellung von Teleskoplinsen perfektionieren, doch dann wurden die sog. Fraunhoferlinien zu seiner wichtigsten Entdeckung und sogar zur Grundlage der Astrophysik.

Heute vor 200 Jahren starb Joseph #Fraunhofer mit nur 39 Jahren.

[fra @frapepppemaria]

ELEvo has it for around 1-2 UTC AM, Monday 8th. Depending on how the CME interacts with ambient solar wind, and how much it gets slowed down, i believe this is the most realistic one.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Happy birthday to the first astronaut to drive on the Moon, David Scott! 🥳

Scott flew on the Gemini VIII and Apollo 9 missions before landing on the Moon in 1971 for Apollo 15.

⬇️ 60 years ago in March 1966, Scott before the Gemini VIII launch

[MARCUS REYNOLDS @marcusreynold19]

Reminder that with flipped BZ, this would’ve been generational

[MetJam @MetJam_]

One of the men (Alan Hale) who first discovered C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th Century, has sadly passed away this morning at the age of 68.

[Landon Moeller @landon_wx]

Much of the country will be clouded out for this event, with the exception of:

- Montana
- Central and Southern Great Plains
- Northeast
- Great Basin

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

In microgravity, crystals experience "hopper growth," where the outer edges and corners grow at faster rates than the flat faces, creating a step-like appearance. This timelapse records their growth inside a thin water film. Look closely, and you will see the patterns emerge!

[World and Science @WorldAndScience]

Gorgeous: HH 49/50

Over thousands of years, its boundary will move outward, eventually visually covering the distant background galaxy from Earth's viewpoint, demonstrating the dynamic, changing nature of astronomical phenomena.

(Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SSC)

[Lee-Anne Gibbon @LeeAnneGibbon1]

The Pisces Dwarf Galaxy is a small, remarkable, dwarf irregular galaxy located about 2,51 million light years from Earth in Pisces. Spheroidal in shape, the galaxy is a companion to the much imaged Triangulum Galaxy (M33) which is a member of the Local Group. 📷 ESO #PiscesDwarf

[David Mimoun ✨ @MoonNext]

Wow. That’s a big change

[The Space Investor 🚀 @SpaceInvestor_]

News: $PL Enters Into Equity Distribution Agreement up to $1.5B
https://t.co/QkI46KjCKE

[The Mars Society @TheMarsSociety]

An unexpected Mars Society dilemma: 2 of our chapters are rooting from opposite sides of the @NBA Finals! With Mars Society of San Antonio & Mars Society New York City (https://t.co/0vobau6gmU) both represented, we'll avoid picking favorites & cheer for great basketball instead!

[Universal-Sci @universal_sci]

This breathtaking image offers a detailed close-up of the spiral galaxy NGC 4603, situated over 100 million light-years distant in the constellation Centaurus.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund)

[NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center @NWSSWPC]

G2 geomagnetic storm levels reached following the likely arrival of the anticipated CME(s) from 3 Jun. Stay tuned for updates!

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

Modeling the Seasonality of Wind-Driven Hydrocarbon Waves in Titan's Polar Lakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
https://t.co/5FxBUEM568 #astrobiology #astrogeology #astrochemistry

[National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NSF NRAO @TheNRAO]

NEW: Milky Way’s Black Hole Finally Caught “Breathing”

Astronomers using @almaobs have finally found clear evidence that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is blowing a hot cosmic wind, solving a 50-year mystery.

https://t.co/9CAAbyXGEd

[World and Science @WorldAndScience]

Messier 96 is a dazzling spiral galaxy, 35 million light-years distant, whose warped structure—an off-centre nucleus and irregular arms—reveals the influence of its galactic neighbours.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team - Acknowledgement: R. Gendler)

[Xavi Bros @Xavi_Bros]

Incredible view of Saturn few days before “the grand finale” when the probe Cassini finished its trip after 13 years orbiting the planet (2004-2017).

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas via APOD website.