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Liz Woodard
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Astronomy enthusiast 🔭

Amateur astronomer ✨

Talk physics to me 🔬
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New retirement plan.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...
Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University
www.ox.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
With Asteroid 2024 YR4 starting to make news, impacts come to mind. Here is my impression of the space rock that passed above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on February 15 2013, shattering windows for miles. This digital portrayal shows an overview just before the terminal explosion.
On February 15 2013 a space rock nearly 20 meters wide entered the atmosphere near the industrial Russian city of Chelyabinsk. It exploded into a careening fireball leaving a dense smoke trail which rose up in a vortex at the end of the path after the terminal burst. The shock wave hit the ground and rolled across the city below, shattering innumerable windows which injured about 1500 people and damaged 7200 buildings, most notably a factory building whose wide roof was caved in. This digital painting of an overview of this event used a 3D render of a map I prepared of the region as a 'template' to paint over in Photoshop. #SciArt
January 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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astrobiology.bsky.social
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,133 24 January 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)
astrobiology.com/2025/01/nasa... #astrobiology #spacebiology #spacemedicine #microgravity #ISS
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,133 24 January 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results) - Astrobiology
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness
astrobiology.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
Perseverance's attempt to collect a sample earlier today. The larger diameter shallow hole is the Sol 1395 abrasion patch from six days ago 🧪🔭

#Mars Jan. 28, 2025 (Sol 1401)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An ochre toned picture of the instrumented turret of the Mars rover Perseverance drilling a rock outcrop. An ochre toned picture of a rock outcrop drilled twice. An ochre toned picture of a rock outcrop drilled twice.
January 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Pluto and Charon - Two Worlds in the Kuiper Belt - NASA's New Horizons - 2015 - 350 MP (26000 × 14627) - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2ocJWid
Composite Image created using data processed from NASA's New Horizons during its Pluto Encounter 2015-07-14 Easyzoom on 350MP here: www.easyzoom.com/image/399206 Download full resolution 350MP here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/52641400254/sizes/o/ Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck NASA's New Horizons Raw Data from PDS Opus Charon: 72680 km Time 10:42 OPUS ID: mc2_0299176432 Filter IR mc0_0299176432 Filter Red mc1_0299176432 Filter Blue opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/view=detail&detail=nh-... Pluto: 33958 km Time 11:09 Instrument: New Horizons MVIC OPUS ID: mc2_0299178092 Filter IR mc0_0299178092 Filter Red mc1_0299178092 Filter Blue opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/view=detail&detail=nh-... NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
January 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
guys i’m in a planetary science class and i love it so much and oh my god i love space and planets and moons and everything about our solar system and i can’t believe i get to study the beauty of our universe for a LIVING 🥹

NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!! NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY TAKE! 💫
January 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Take a 10 minute break to relax and soar with Juno over the clouds of Jupiter in real time.

Sound on, full screen recommended.

youtu.be/jNkKg_iUV-Q?...

🔊 Chris Zabriskie
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Juno Perijove 7 in Real Time
YouTube video by Kevin Gill
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January 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
i will be reunited with my telescope in 3 days who is excited for more pretty pictures!!!!!
A selfie of me smiling next to my orange Celestron telescope. A photo of me looking through my telescope and crouching while trying to align it and set it up for the first time. One of my eyes is closed and I’m holding the remote.
January 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Jupiter timelapse.

I managed to capture enough images last night to make a short timelapse movie.

Just over 1 hr of data speeded up to about 1000x real-time speed, showing the rotation of the cloud belts.

#astrophotography 🔭
January 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The Ptolemy Cluster (Messier 7), imaged in January 2017 by Cassini.

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An open cluster of stars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
January 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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#OTD 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humankind's first successful landing on a world in the outer Solar System. Relive those moments with this narrated video made with Huygens data 🔭👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmG...
Huygens's descent to Titan's surface
YouTube video by ESA Space Science Hub
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January 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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xkcd.com
Photo I just took of Mars setting behind the Moon
January 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
In the news, our ongoing efforts to explore the possibility of alien life, our initiatives to help teachers bring space science into classrooms, researching extreme environments like Antarctica, and analyzing data from the Arecibo Observatory. https://buff.ly/4heKVph 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
January 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
my jaw genuinely dropped at how beautiful the new jwst image is.
These shimmering cosmic curtains show interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The gas then glows infrared light in what is known as a thermal light echo. As the supernova illumination travels through space at the speed of light, the echo appears to expand. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed this light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) These shimmering cosmic curtains show interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The gas then glows infrared light in what is known as a thermal light echo. As the supernova illumination travels through space at the speed of light, the echo appears to expand. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed this light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) These shimmering cosmic curtains show interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The gas then glows infrared light in what is known as a thermal light echo. As the supernova illumination travels through space at the speed of light, the echo appears to expand. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed this light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) These shimmering cosmic curtains show interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The gas then glows infrared light in what is known as a thermal light echo. As the supernova illumination travels through space at the speed of light, the echo appears to expand. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed this light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC)
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Feeling a bit emotional seeing this photo from CERN pop up in my memories - a whole decade ago! Has it really been this long?
This was when I truly started enjoying my degree after some rough years, and made some of my closest friends - the same friends I said goodbye to just three days ago:')
A photo of me ten years ago, standing in front of a metal sculpture covered in various equations
January 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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sjbastro.bsky.social
This evening Ganymede transits across the face of #Jupiter from 15:01 to 17:26 UT. It may be tricky to see as the sky isn't quite dark at that time. Ganymede's shadow transits from 18:29 to 21:00 UT, which will be easier to see. Should be a good telescope view. Graphic from Stellarium. #Astronomy
Graphic from Stellarium showing the shadow of Ganymede transiting across the face of Jupiter on 13 January 2025.
January 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Don't forget about the lunar occultation of Mars tonight!

lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets...
January 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Action on the edge of a black hole! @esa.int #XMM-Newton discovery and implications for our future space-based gravitational wave interferometer @esa.int #ESA_LISA mission:
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays coming from the very edge of a supermassive black hole in the heart of a nearby galaxy. The results paint a fascinating p...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Nearly Full Moon through clouds. 2027UT 13 January 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #MoonHour
The Moon nearly full.
January 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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As we approach the full moon, there's a great colourful corona around it in photo 1, with Mars sitting on the edge. #WolfMoon #FullMoon #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
oh my god.

look at this BEAUTIFUL image from the iss taken by astronaut don pettit.

space is SO gorgeous.
A picture of the Earth and Milky Way from the ISS. There are streaks from satellites, the orange glow of the atmosphere, and many small white stars and the Milky Way above the Earth.
January 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The @esa.int Gaia satellite will take its final scientific measurements on Wednesday. 🔭

This will conclude a 12 year series of continuous observations.

Larger Gaia data releases are still in progress, but Gaia has already had a HUGE impact on our understanding of the #milkyway.

(Image: ESA)
An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft.
January 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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All at #aas245: be sure to see Congressman Glenn Ivey from Maryland's 4th Congressional district (which includes NASA Goddard and College Park) speak Monday at 9:20am at the @aasoffice.bsky.social booth in the exhibit hall! 🔭
Image of Congressman Glenn Ivey in front of an American flag.
January 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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On Monday night, essentially the entire US will be able to see the Moon occult Mars, passing directly in front of the Red Planet and eclipsing it! This happens around 9:00 Eastern time, but can vary wildly depending on your location.

This site has timings:

lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets...

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Occultation of a Planet
International Occultation Timing Association
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January 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
this planet is the only one we’ve got, so let’s treat it that way
View of the Moon on the left and the Earth on the right, half lit. The two objects appear very tiny as they were photographed by Juice's scientific camera from over 5 million km away. A red sprite is pictured above the white light of an active thunderstorm as the space station orbited above North America in August of 2015. The Earth viewed from the ISS, the Sun shining off screen to the right, the sunlight bouncing off the ocean and clouds. Gray mottled curved horizon with a half-lit blue and white sphere in the background. The Moon is in the foreground and the Earth is seen far away in space.
January 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM