Ryan M

*The* Ryan M (he/him) // Space Robotics Researcher // Aerospace Software Engineer // Amateur Astronomer

[Ryan M @The_Ryan_M]

you know who it is

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Nothing crazy, but I went camping to watch the Perseids. Didn’t spend too much time photographing because I just wanted to watch, but did get a couple of milky way images from my phone!

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CU Boulder’s Sommers-Bausch Observatory open house! Really incredible instruments and tour guides, and we got this picture of the Ring Nebula with their 20” telescope!

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@SpaceBasedFox @antiAntiperson Told me this might happen…I didn’t believe him

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@joshstelescope Cool! How’d you find it? What were you imaging? Coordinates?

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@astro_jaz @antiAntiperson He looks like a grandpa

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whoops

[Blobifi @Blobifie]

New glenn has yet to explode

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@antiAntiperson mentally ill, but that’s based on personal experiences

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You can also see the effects of the upgrades made to Hubble over the years. The sensor has been replaced, so the resolution and field of view is improved significantly! The first image is a mosaic

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Happy 36th birthday Hubble!
To celebrate, NASA retook an image of the Trifid Nebula (M20) yesterday, mirroring an image taken in 1997. You can actually see the changes that happened in that time span. Here’s a comparison I made between the two images. 🧵

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The ‘horn’ looking shape at the top left is a jet of plasma from a young protostar, and you can see it move between the two images! That’s plasma actively being ejected and traveling away from the star! You can also see the counter jet moving on the top of the nebula, opposite.

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The video is from Artemis I, but the pictures are from Artemis II

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Enduring temperatures half as hot as the surface of the sun and being the fastest humans in history are pretty incredible feats

[cooper! @CULTLECLERC]

genuinely unfathomable video i cannot begin to imagine the feeling of seeing the beauty of earth below you as you go into a firery freefall hoping you don't burn up and die lol

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For reference, Artemis II’s crew was moving at 25,000mph during reentry, compared to the Apollo 10 mission’s previous record of 24,816.1mph. Just barely!

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Thats what i’m sayin!

Better labelling than my post though

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

The Moon and light from at least five objects in our solar system appear in this view from the @NASAArtemis II crew: Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, along with reflected sunlight from Earth and the glow of the Sun's corona and/or zodiacal light scattered by interplanetary dust. 1/2

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@astro_jaz It’s not 100% official yet, so I don’t wanna say anything certain yet, but it’s a smaller company in Colorado that writes flight software for a bunch of NASA and private missions. Including software on Orion!

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

everyone should feel an intense love for space after the artemis mission

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This Artemis II picture only happened because of the delay to April 1st, and was unexpected. It’s an unprocessed image, and probably pretty close to what the astronauts actually saw. Genuinely an unreal experience.

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I can’t stop thinking about this Artemis II picture. This picture was an accident and unplanned, and some of the features in it are genuinely amazing 🧵

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NOT TO MENTION the light illuminating the left side of the moon in the image isn’t sunlight! Since it’s eclipsing the sun, you would expect it to be a completely dark disk. But it’s not! The light on the left side is EARTHSHINE! It’s so incredible.