Happy 1st Mars year, @NASAPersevere! 🎉
During its prime mission, our intrepid rover has explored Jezero Crater’s vast floor and collected 18 samples, which may be retrieved and brought to Earth in the coming years!
Some of you are wondering about the samples I’m putting down. Could the Martian wind blow them away, or cover them with sand over time? Here’s why my team’s not worried: (🧵)
This is what you’ve waited for.
Journey with us through Webb’s breathtaking view of the Pillars of Creation, where scores of newly formed stars glisten like dewdrops among floating, translucent columns of gas and dust: https://t.co/5ea1kCzU5x
Here’s your guided tour ⬇️
It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I
Are you ready to #UnfoldTheUniverse?
Join us July 12 at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC), as Webb’s first full-color images & data are revealed one by one! Watch on @NASA’s streaming platforms: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, DailyMotion.
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The first photograph of the full-disk of Earth.
Taken on 30 May 1966 by the Soviet Molniya 1 satellite, it was released to the public 56 years ago today.
🗓 July 12 — Save the date!
Count down with us to the big reveal of Webb’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data: https://t.co/hyZAYXvwfN
Want a hint on how Webb will #UnfoldTheUniverse? Read more: https://t.co/tv4SBRv9xI
The supermassive #BlackHole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Chandra and many other telescopes observed Sagittarius A* simultaneously. Explore Sagittarius A* like never before: https://t.co/eqFebAnk10 ⚫
That blue dot
That is a whale negotiating heavy vessel traffic as it feeds, what you are seeing is one week of its life under this stress
In the South Pacific alone, up to 1000 vessels can over lap the feeding areas of endangered whales 1/🧵
RECORD BROKEN: Hubble observed the farthest individual star ever seen!
This extraordinary new benchmark detected light from a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang.
Find out more: https://t.co/2ivkk1iqz3