Julie Allion

🏳️‍⚧️🌹 Transgender woman and citizen of the world ✨ I writing my first sci fi novel 🌹🏳️‍⚧️

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

https://t.co/5IBNIoJTWj

Alert: April 8th ....NASA mission to be launched into the darkness of the solar eclipse using three rockets.

The mission has been named APEP.

APEP was an Egyptian god who was the nemesis of Ra the sun god. APEP is also known as the god of destruction and chaos in darkness.

A rather interesting choice of name for their mission.

NASA is gearing up to launch three sounding rockets during the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Notably, sounding rockets are suborbital rockets designed to carry scientific instruments or experiments into the upper atmosphere of the Earth for the purpose of gathering data. They are typically used for atmospheric studies.

The mission rockets - Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) - will see what effects the eclipse have on Earth's upper atmosphere. Led by Aroh Barjatya from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the rockets will lift off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
#APEP #NASA

https://t.co/xhoJY0leTd

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Congratulations to our Mid-Infrared Madness tournament champion, the Pillars of Creation! 🥇

If you haven't already, you can download this image as a wallpaper here: https://t.co/opDPSeTGBC

Thanks for playing, everyone!

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

Ancient Jungle Kingdom

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

“wow, there must be a lot going on in your head”

my brain 24/7:

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Previously astronomers considered that a magnetic bubble produced by the Sun (called the heliosphere) is shaped like a comet, but our solar system is shaped like a giant croissant.

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

We are all made of stardust!

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Helix Nebula ● Human Eye ❤

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Dope or nope?

[AstroBin.com @AstroBin_com]

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "SH2-308 The Dolphin Nebula (with brains)" by Jari Saukkonen

https://t.co/ZxnwLmF1b0

#astrophotography #astronomy #astrobin #imageoftheday

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave

This supernova shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Centered and moving upward in the sharply detailed color composite its thin, bright, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a cosmic sheet of glowing gas seen almost edge-on. Discovered in the 1840s by Sir John Herschel, the narrow-looking nebula is sometimes known as Herschel's Ray. Cataloged as NGC 2736, its pointed appearance suggests its modern popular name, the Pencil Nebula. The Pencil Nebula is about 800 light-years away. Nearly 5 light-years long it represents only a small part of the Vela supernova remnant though. The enormous Vela remnant itself is around 100 light-years in diameter, the expanding debris cloud of a star that was seen to explode about 11,000 years ago. Initially, the section of the shock wave seen as the Pencil nebula was moving at millions of kilometers per hour but has slowed considerably, sweeping up surrounding interstellar material.

Image Credit & Copyright: Helge Buesing

[House of the Dragon News @HOTDNewsHBO]

Season 1 was full of 🔥🔥

Season 2 coming summer 2024!

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The Earth and Moon as seen by the Cassini probe from Saturn's orbit. All of humanity in one small dot in space.

[Space @redditSpaceView]

Saturn’s aurora captured by the Hubble Space Telescope

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Lightning and volcanic lightning on the Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala

[📹 Douglas Steele]

[ΛIBΞN @aibenxyz]

Hazy.

[Julio Maiz @maiz_julio]

METALLICA : Orion https://t.co/2c5KA0HOIY 📷NGC2244 Magical Rosette Nebula.

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Taken with my phone

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Optimus strolling around the lab

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

The Shark Nebula 🦈