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N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-09-05 · 11:18 UTC

🚀🪐 "Sky Map 2000" tries to be a celestial guide but ends up as a cosmic mess of options and settings that even a seasoned astronomer would find dizzying. 🌌🤯 With its endless menus and never-ending list of features, you'd think navigating the stars required a PhD in astrophysics—or perhaps just a degree in patience. 📜🔭
https://skymap2000.com/ #SkyMap2000 #Astronomers #CosmicMess #NavigationChallenges #CelestialGuide #HackerNews #ngated

#skymap2000 #astronomers #cosmicmess #navigationchallenges #celestialguide #hackernews

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 16:47 UTC

#VeraRubin #Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos, the widest, deepest survey yet of the southern sky.
Telescope will drink in galaxies and stars, creating record of how objects streak, pulse and explode in our solar system and beyond.
#Astronomers expect data, known as Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to revolutionize knowledge of galaxy’s birth, invisible matter permeating cosmos, what shaped the universe into the structure it has today and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/science/rubin-telescope.html
https://archive.ph/srQJ9

#verarubin #telescope #astronomers

Hashtag Lists @[email protected] · 2023-05-22 · 16:19 UTC

CW: Long List of Space-related Hashtags & Handles

Space

Physical Sciences
#Astronomy #AstroPhysics #Cosmology

General
#AsteroidMining #Asteroids #AsteroidThreat #Astrodon #Astronomers #AstronomyMastodon #AstroPhotography #AstroTuesday #BlackHole #BlackHoles #CelestialBodyLanding #ClearSkies #Comet #Comets #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #DeepSky #DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) #Exoplanets #Galaxy #Galaxies #Gravity #GravitationalWaves #HallEffectThruster #HumanSpaceflight #HumanSpaceflightBasics #HumanSpaceflightHealth #HumanSpaceflightSecurity #ISRU (in situ resource utilization) #LaunchCost #Lunar3dPrinting #MoonMining #NightSky #Observatory #Planetarium #PlanetsryScience #PrivateSpaceflight #Pulsars #Quasars #ReusableLaunchVehicle #RocketEngine #RocketScience #SatelliteImprovement #SatelliteInternetAccess #Satellites #SBSP (Space-based Solar Power) #SmallSat #SolarPhysics #Space #SpaceAgency #SpaceCommunication #SpaceCompany #SpaceCraft #SpaceColonization #SpacecraftComparison #SpacecraftPropulsion #SpaceDebris #Spacedon #SpaceEnergy #SpaceEvent #SpaceExploration #SpaceFood #SpaceForce #SpaceHabitat #SpaceHistory #SpaceHotel #SpaceIndustry #SpaceInfrastructure #SpaceLogistics #SpaceMaintenance #SpaceMastodon #SpaceMining #SpaceNavigation #SpacePhotography #SpacePlants #SpacePolitics #SpacePort #SpaceRegulation #SpaceRobot #SpaceScience #SpaceSciFi #SpaceShip #SpaceScience #SpaceStation #SpaceSuit #SpaceTelescope #SpaceTourism #SpaceWelding #SpaceX #StarGazing @starrytimepod #TimeToOrbit #Universe

Organisations
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) 🇨🇦
#EuropeanSpaceAgency (#ESA) 🇪🇺
European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) 🇪🇺
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (#JAXA) 🇯🇵
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (#JPL) 🇺🇸
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (#NASA) 🇺🇸
Space Telescope Science Institute (STSciI) 🇪🇺

Missions
#Artemis (#NASAArtemis) #BepiColombo #Cassini COBE #Euclid #EuclidMission #EuropaClipper #Hayabusa2 #InternationalSpaceStation (#ISS) JupiterIcyMoonExplorer (#Juice) #JuiceMission #Juno #Gaia #MMX #Magellan #Voyager1 #Voyager2

Space Telescopes
#SpaceTelescope #Telescope

#ChandraXRay (#Chandra) #ESAEuclid #EventHorizonTelescope #Hubble #HubbleSpaceTelescope (#HST) #IXPE #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST (#Webb) #Kepler #MIRI #NIRcam #NIRISS #NIRSpec #Spitzer

Earth Observatories
#Arecibo 🇵🇷 #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray (#ALMA) 🇨🇱 #CerroTololo 🇨🇱 #EuropeanSouthernObservatory (#ESO) 🇩🇪 #Haleakala 🇺🇸 #Herschel (#WHT) 🇮🇨 #Keck 🇺🇸 #KittPeak 🇺🇸 #LIGO 🇺🇸 #MaunaKea 🇺🇸 #Paranal 🇨🇱 #Parkes 🇦🇺 #RoqueDeLosMuchachos 🇪🇸 #SquareKilometreArrayObservatory (#SKAO) 🇦🇺 #VeryLargeTelescope (#VLT) 🇨🇱

Mastodon Observatories
Abbey Ridge Observatory 🇨🇦 @abbeyridgeobs
Burke-Gaffney Observatory 🇨🇦 @BGO
Hamburg Observatory 🇩🇪 @HambObs
Las Cumbres Observatory 🇦🇺 🇿🇦 🇮🇨 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇳 @lco
Mount Burnett Observatory 🇦🇺 @mbo
Rubin Observatory 🇨🇱 @VRubinObs
Stella-Luna Observatory 🇺🇸 @StellaLunaObs
Westport Observatory 🇺🇸 @WestportObservatory