The sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy. This is what a trillion stars look like! (Credit: NASA/ESA) : https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/1119039189939642368
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Hubble Celebrates its 29th Birthday with Unrivaled View of the Southern Crab Nebula: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1907/
😲😍💖✨
A 1,060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): A mind-blowing view which might be the world's longest exposure picture in amateur astronomy. Taken by "Ciel Austral" in Chile. https://astrospace-page.blogspot.com/2019/04/1060-hours-image-of-the-large-magellanic-cloud-chile.html
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SpaceX has successfully landed all 3 boosters of its Falcon Heavy rocket at 3 separate locations - and it's only the 2nd flight of the Falcon Heavy.
Space is hard, and in a very busy week for our accelerating journey into the stars, 2 huge success and one near miss isn't too bad. 🤗
Here's some insane footage of the side booster landings from multiple cameras at once: https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1116472530531958784
Credit for the images below: Jason Major (https://twitter.com/JPMajor/status/1116471931002400776) and Roman Tkachenko (https://twitter.com/_RomanTkache…/status/1116471879093620736).
For a ton of jaw-dropping images of the launch, including the ones below, check out astrophotographer Trevor Mahlmann’s Twitter feed and website.
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The Israeli Beresheet lunar lander encountered engine trouble during the final minute of its descent, and the craft wasn't able to slow down enough, resulting in a crash landing. 😔
Space is hard, guys. And the moon is a MFing harsh mistress.
Below is the last image Beresheet beamed back before its crash landing. So beautiful!
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Here you go, space nerds: the first ever image of the event horizon of a black hole! The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 is 54 million light-years from earth and has a mass of 6.5 billion suns.
The close-up image is from the Event Horizon Telescope, the wide-field view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Early analysis suggests the observations are consistent with Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (some were hoping they would conflict, because having to redo all the theories is kind of exciting).
Download a high-res version of the image here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightsinthedark/47579266551/
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Shimmering like gems strewn across the sky, this cluster of stars is one of the largest of its kind. A spherical group of stars tightly bound together by gravity, this globular cluster is populated with 150,000 stars. Check out this @NASAHubble image: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-snares-bevy-of-shimmering-stars/
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In the arms of the maelstrom: in this view from JunoCam, bright white clouds can be seen popping up in and around the arms of a rotating northern hemisphere storm: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/jupiter-spiral
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Tigaer-Design (Christian Hecker) is one of the finest artists creating spacescapes and futuristic art today. This piece in particular, "Artificial," served as partial inspiration for the design of the anarchs' Post Epsilon base on Palaemon, which figured prominently in the events of Rubicon and the first half of Requiem.
You know, the post with the floating landing pads, the scene of Alex and Kennedy's first Caeles Prism test and one bar fight. 😝
You can see all his work on Art Station (https://www.artstation.com/tigaer) or Deviant Art (https://www.deviantart.com/tigaer)
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Hubble Telescope Reveals What 200 Billion Stars Look Like: https://www.space.com/hubble-billions-of-stars-photographs.html
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From astronaut and ISS resident Anne McClain: “Coming out of the hatch last Friday is a moment I will not soon forget – and a moment I look forward to repeating on 8 April! What did it look like to me? Exactly what you see reflected on my visor.”: https://twitter.com/AstroAnnimal/status/1110627935239712770
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Absolutely stunning shot of Galaxy UGC 1810 by NASA-ESA-Domingo Pestana, displaying violent interactions with its smaller galactic neighbor
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Guys, this video.
From the Chandra Observatory: “Want to take a trip to the center of our Milky Way? A new visualization using Chandra data & @NASAAmes supercomputer simulations provides viewers with an immersive, 360-degree view of the center of our Galaxy! “
YouTube link in case the embed doesn’t work for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBxW2_B9_Is .
Originally posted on Twitter.
The article is interesting, but we’re all here for the jaw-dropping image. While extremely processed, this image is from the Very Large Array radio telescope, and it captures a pulsar getting kicked out of its own supernova: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2197328-stunning-picture-shows-dead-star-racing-away-from-a-massive-explosion/.
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Opportunity's final image mosaic from #Mars shows the mission's last tracks and pristine terrain waiting for visits from future explorers. See the full high-resolution panorama at https://go.nasa.gov/2F7JWbn
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It’s crazy - Jupiter continues to look beautiful and wondrous in new and different ways every Juno orbit! From Perijove 15, processing by Sean Doran.
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From NASA: “Are you ready for your vacation on the Moon? Are you looking forward to setting up camp on Mars? Can you get excitement to use the Gateway to access #Moon2Mars? Show everyone your new favorite exploration destinations with these free downloadable posters: https://go.nasa.gov/2J5SRhx”
Le Sigh. I have no more wallspace, dammit! These are beautiful, though....
For the last year, this image, titled "Command Deck" by artist Krystian Biskup (https://salierri.artstation.com/projects/a6ReX) has far and away been my most popular pin on Pinterest (the background of the Requiem cover being the second-most popular).
Given that, I thought you all should get the chance to enjoy it, too. I imagine this is how Valkyrie sees a planet on the Siyane's approach.
Originally posted on Facebook.
“We want the things in Science Fiction novels and movies not to be Science Fiction forever, we want them to be real one day.” - Elon Musk
Photo from right outside Pad 39a of the very real #SpaceX #CrewDragon #dm1 launch. Photo credit: Erik Kuna (@erikkuna)
I am loving this quote so much - not surprisingly :). Loving the photo, too!
Originally posted on Twitter.