Inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), @NASAWebb shows stars bursting forth spectacularly, and reveals otherwise invisible glowing gas and dust. Webb's sensitivity can help us detect the disks of gas and grains that will someday form worlds.🤩 https://t.co/lHurk2Hw2r
🍂 This Friendsgiving, you’re all invited to our universal table. Here’s what some of our missions are bringing to the potluck.
Take in the spread, then tell us what you’ll be putting on your plate!
We had safety glasses, but during the last eclipse, tip-top scientist @starsarecalling taught us that a colander is the way to go. Always listen to the experts! Happy Eclipse, everybody!
Take a moment to take in the Spirograph Nebula. Stare as long as you like. It's 3,900 light-years from Earth and ~0.3 light-years across — about 1.76 trillion miles (2.84 trillion km).
Repeat as needed.
Managing social media at this time: Wake up, see news. Cancel light-hearted Halloween posts. Pick lovely, science-timely astro image. End with blue heart to match ''heart'' of image. Wait. Could the blue heart be seen as political?! Ditch it. Slip a bit of other into the world.🤷🏻♀️
This is a test image from @esa's Euclid space telescope. It has an instrument that will break down the light from every star or galaxy into wavelength, which is what you see here.
I created this quiz and wrote some words, but the glorious character creation was led by @FoxanneOfficial and visual strategist Joby Harris at @NASAJPL. I love each one, but the Captain is particularly glorious!
You may say ‘‘zany,’’ I say ‘‘zesty!’’ My passion for adventure and for my friends rivals even the fiery intensity of a lava world. What kind of explorer are YOU? Take NASA’s Exoplanet Quiz to see. https://t.co/9oMZQ7RQEv
This Saturday, July 1, @ESA's Euclid spacecraft is scheduled to lift off, shedding light on dark matter and dark energy—two of the biggest modern mysteries about our universe. We'll stream ESA's broadcast live on NASA TV starting at 10:30am ET (1430 UTC): https://t.co/OGAULAtEn6
This is absolutely one of my favorite images, created and rendered beautifully by scientist and artist @AstroRob. From infrared to ultraviolet, we're better together. Happy Pride, y'all!
Denée Benton at the #TonyAwards on Ron DeSantis: "While I’m certain that the current Grand Wizard ... I’m sorry. Excuse me, governor of my home state of Florida..."
Discovery Alert! 📣
@NASAWebb viewed an exoplanet eclipse and made a brightness map of a well-known world. From these measurements, scientists mapped WASP-18 b's day side temperatures, showing a range of 2,800 to 4,800 degrees F (1,500 to 2,600 C). https://t.co/D7Ph6FzBPc
Two bros took things over and made them worse. They came together to do a big thing in the most nincompooperly way and it was a spectacular disaster.
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'Quenching in purple' 💜
A star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, ~200,000 light-years away, glows with arcs of the material that stars and planets need to form. The purple cloud at left is the remains of a supernova explosion from a massive star. https://t.co/NDsHWojuZq