Amid the Stars
@amidthestarstours.com
Astronomy educator and writer in Southern California.
I post space images with breakdowns, astronomy fun facts, and articles on various space topics.
Amid the Stars is a guided stargazing experience in the San Bernardino Mountains.
amidthestarstours.com
I post space images with breakdowns, astronomy fun facts, and articles on various space topics.
Amid the Stars is a guided stargazing experience in the San Bernardino Mountains.
amidthestarstours.com
This is an up-close photo of Saturn's rings, but it also shows so much more. Those two little dots are actually the Earth and Moon as seen from over 1.4 billion kilometers away by the Cassini spacecraft. Everything you know and love is on that dot.
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January 31, 2026 at 11:48 PM
This is an up-close photo of Saturn's rings, but it also shows so much more. Those two little dots are actually the Earth and Moon as seen from over 1.4 billion kilometers away by the Cassini spacecraft. Everything you know and love is on that dot.
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
We search for worlds beyond our own. We've found over 6,000 exoplanets in the past 30 years. We hunt with methods of all kinds. In my recent article, I break down exoplanets and the strategies used to find them. Read it here: www.amidthestarstours.com/post/planet-...
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#Astronomy #Exoplanets ⚛️🧪
Planet Hunt - The Search for Exoplanets
For as long as humans have been telling stories, we’ve dreamed of worlds beyond our own. Today those worlds are no longer mere stories. We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery.
An exoplanet i...
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January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
We search for worlds beyond our own. We've found over 6,000 exoplanets in the past 30 years. We hunt with methods of all kinds. In my recent article, I break down exoplanets and the strategies used to find them. Read it here: www.amidthestarstours.com/post/planet-...
#Astronomy #Exoplanets ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy #Exoplanets ⚛️🧪
It might rain diamonds on Uranus and Neptune. It's hypothetically possible for diamonds to form thousands of miles deep in the atmospheres of the planets, causing them to rain down on the lower layers.
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#Astronomy #PlanetaryScience ⚛️🧪
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 AM
It might rain diamonds on Uranus and Neptune. It's hypothetically possible for diamonds to form thousands of miles deep in the atmospheres of the planets, causing them to rain down on the lower layers.
#Astronomy #PlanetaryScience ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy #PlanetaryScience ⚛️🧪
NGC 6357, known as the Lobster Nebula, is a diffuse nebula over 1,000 light-years across. This image is actually a composite of three different spectrums. The blue is visible light, the orange is infrared, and the pink is X-ray.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:15 PM
NGC 6357, known as the Lobster Nebula, is a diffuse nebula over 1,000 light-years across. This image is actually a composite of three different spectrums. The blue is visible light, the orange is infrared, and the pink is X-ray.
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪