CuriousAlien

Just an alien from a different planet observing all of the creatures and taking research notes. Currently studying this weird black bird I found. Parody

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

My personal thoughts on my best researcher? They're the Admiral Rickover in my research on the ghost owl. They're an asshole who gets things done. Naturally gonna defend my best asset.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

@PuddieVA Go to sleep, you silly researcher!

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

i wish every kid had access to astronomy education

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

Happy day to those people!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

International Non-Binary People’s Day

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

@PuddieVA Now we are researching monsters... You still need to start writing that comprehensive guide on that ghost owl.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

@AJamesMcCarthy Galaxy milk!

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

Birb!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My first "solar transit".

Not long after getting my first solar telescope, I caught this turkey vulture circling overhead.

You can tell this was taken during a time of low solar activity, zero prominences or active regions visible.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I meticulously color-balanced and incrementally saturated this photo of the back side of the moon until I could see how impacts "paint" the lunar surface with different minerals

This is just a snippet of my collaboration with @astro_reid, who took this during a lunar flyby.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

Does being undead count? Like have died but became something else as "rebirth"? Asking for scientific information.

[b @wwxwashere]

happy easter! show me a fictional character who came back to life

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

A talking loaf?

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

You thought I was joking

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Pleased to share my favorite high-resolution capture of the Artemis II launch- the moment the SLS is clearing the tower, captured by a sound-triggered camera placed near the pad.

I'll have prints linked in my bio for this one, and here's a short thread about how it was captured

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

Should mathematics be considered a language or a tool?

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

A reminder that humans can do incredible things when we work together with purpose.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

The rumors are true. The Artemis II Crew's zero-g indicator "Rise" has indeed been replaced by Gregory.

This announcement was delayed until the morning of the launch because he kept outgrowing his custom-made OCSS and needing to be refitted.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

Zw pfl tre ivru kyzj, pfl riv jklgzu. Rgizc Wffcj.

[Moon @moondailys]

On the night of April 1, the full moon known as the “Pink Moon” will be visible in the sky.

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

The universe just pulled off something almost impossible… over Iceland. 🌌🌑

This is the kind of moment that doesn’t just feel rare… it feels unreal.

Seeing the Aurora Borealis is already a bucket-list experience.
Witnessing a Solar Eclipse is rare on its own.

But both… perfectly aligned in the same sky?

That’s the “double crown” — and it might be a once-in-a-lifetime sight.

What looks like pure magic is actually a perfect storm of timing:

✨ A powerful geomagnetic storm ignited vivid auroras across the polar sky
🌑 At the exact same time, the Moon slipped into the Sun’s path of totality
👁️ From the perfect angle, the Sun’s glowing corona formed one crown… while shimmering green auroras painted another behind it

Two crowns. One sky. One fleeting moment.

This is what happens when cosmic precision meets Earth’s atmosphere — a reminder that the universe doesn’t just work in equations… it performs.

And sometimes, if everything aligns just right… we get to witness it.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

@BARNEYPARTYOWL I have to ask as an alien researcher. Did you happen to have 12 tons of KitKat candy bars delivered to your house within the last 48 Earth hours? Asking because my best researcher loves KitKats.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is not AI. This is not a painting. This is real. 🦋🔥

You're looking at the Butterfly Nebula — a dying star 3,800 light-years away throwing a tantrum so beautiful it looks like the universe made art on purpose.

That "butterfly" is actually superheated gas being blasted outward at over 600,000 mph. The star at the center? One of the hottest objects ever discovered in our galaxy.

Let that sink in.

A star died… and became a butterfly.

The universe doesn't need filters. 🌌

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Ever seen a rainbow at night?

This is the most vivid I’ve ever seen one, with beautiful color visible to the naked eye. Surreal.

[CuriousAlien @alien_curious1]

Are Earthlings always this prone to illness? PUDDIE! GO BACK TO SLEEP! GWIZKEN... You're too sick to help me research, much less stream! Go drink that magic tea stuff you always ramble about!