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Astrophysics PhD student // Baylor University Alum 🇺🇸 ⮕ 🇮🇹

[Yuri Beletsky @YBeletsky]

🚨‼️ BREAKING NEWS: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory just unveiled its FIRST jaw-dropping images from its cutting-edge 8.4-m survey telescope ! ✨ Stunning views of the Trifid & Lagoon nebulae and the Virgo Cluster reveal millions of galaxies and thousands of asteroids in unprecedented detail. With its 3.2-gigapixel camera, Rubin’s 10-year sky survey kicks off, promising to rewrite astronomy ! #astronomy

[Astro Alexandra 🪐 Space Communicator @astro_alexandra]

Laying off thousands of NASA employees isn’t going to make anything better. NASA is the scientific envy of the world.

I’m horrified by the number of people who think SpaceX can “replace” NASA. SpaceX doesn’t do astronomy. They do spacecraft.

[Bryce @captaingandalf]

Totality, Waco Texas, 2024

1: The sun's corona
2. "Diamond Ring"
3. "Bailey's Beads"
4. Solar flares

One of the most incredible visual experiences I've ever seen.

#Nikon D500 + 200-500mm f/5.6 #eclipse #Eclipse2024

[📸Trevor Mahlmann🚀 @TrevorMahlmann]

Holy moly, captured so many solar prominences today during the eclipse!

[Caitlin Cruz @caitlinrcruz]

UPDATE: BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, who asked for an abortion due to medical exceptions. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s opinion reads. https://t.co/k8UNwZJkFv

[Bray Falls @astrofalls]

The eclipse from the temple of the sun and moon!

[Galactic Hunter @GalacticHunter_]

255 hours on the Whirlpool Galaxy collab with 15 other astrophotographers. The longest integration ever done on this target.

We have a full in-depth write-up available here: https://t.co/hOuQoBTzFd so be sure to check it out!

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Q: How exciting is this, really?
A: Hugely exciting! We’re using RADIATION JETS from DEAD STARS to detect RIPPLES IN SPACE from the COLLISIONS OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COSMOS. Honestly that’s just frickin’ awesome.
14/n

[Bray Falls @astrofalls]

This is what the Milky Way looks like from some of the darkest skies in America!

[ken @ken_shep1]

A nice thing about doing my research on stars, is that my work is always “stellar”

[ken @ken_shep1]

pretty pictures

[Cari Cesarotti @caridoesphysics]

genuine question for my non physicist readers: why do we all agree that stars and galaxies are cool af but physics is lame

right answers only

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope

[ken @ken_shep1]

This is what weekends are like when all your friends are theoretical physicists

[She hopf on my fibration @girlbossmoder]

Hot ones but it's physicists being asked to explain things in between shots of various hard liquors

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

"A kind of celebration of ignorance"--Carl presaged you and your followers, @ElonMusk

[Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke]

Everyone reply with how Greg Abbott has failed you:

[Astro Alexandra 🪐 Space Communicator @astro_alexandra]

Jupiter will make its closest approach to earth in 59 years on Monday… it won’t be this close for another 107 years 🤯 here’s everything you need to know:

[Phil Clifton @philclifton]

Same tbh

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

The rings of the Solar System ✨

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

Lately there’s been so much hype about Hubble and JWST that I wanted to just remind everyone of the most beautiful Voyager images