#astronomyday — Public Fediverse posts
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Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids. @unigoettingen
@thegoecampus
#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG -
Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids. @unigoettingen
@thegoecampus
#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG -
Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids. @[email protected] @[email protected] #Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG
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In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets, #exoplanets for kids, #Voyager and much more! In German. More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026
@unigoettingen @thegoecampus#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #Planetarium #Teleskop #AstronomyDay #FPG #FörderkreisPlanetariumGöttingen #IAG #UniGöttingen #MPSGöttingen
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In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets, #exoplanets for kids, #Voyager and much more! In German. More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026
@unigoettingen @thegoecampus#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #Planetarium #Teleskop #AstronomyDay #FPG #FörderkreisPlanetariumGöttingen #IAG #UniGöttingen #MPSGöttingen
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Next on #AstronomyDay is this strange looking lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 by #Hubble.
Those are dust lanes twisting around the galactic nucleus and are likely the result of a merger with a dwarf galaxy about 1.3 billion years ago.
The gas and dust in the galactic disk got twisted by "differential precession" and are seen as the complex shapes seen edge-on from earth.
Most of the unseen mass in the galaxy lies in a slightly flattened, spherical halo of dark matter.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-cosmic-dust-lanes/
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Next on #AstronomyDay is this strange looking lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 by #Hubble.
Those are dust lanes twisting around the galactic nucleus and are likely the result of a merger with a dwarf galaxy about 1.3 billion years ago.
The gas and dust in the galactic disk got twisted by "differential precession" and are seen as the complex shapes seen edge-on from earth.
Most of the unseen mass in the galaxy lies in a slightly flattened, spherical halo of dark matter.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-cosmic-dust-lanes/
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Let's celebrate #AstronomyDay with this image taken today by Mars rover Perseverance's SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI).
This is the first such image of a rock sample since Dec 16, 2023, when the dust cover of the camera and laser spectroscopy instrument got stuck. It is still stuck, but in an open position and its auto-focus mechanism is nonoperational.
The camera took a sequence of images from different distances; the middle ones are in focus.
🎉
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
#Mars
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Let's celebrate #AstronomyDay with this image taken today by Mars rover Perseverance's SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI).
This is the first such image of a rock sample since Dec 16, 2023, when the dust cover of the camera and laser spectroscopy instrument got stuck. It is still stuck, but in an open position and its auto-focus mechanism is nonoperational.
The camera took a sequence of images from different distances; the middle ones are in focus.
🎉
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
#Mars
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What a weekend! Yesterday #AstronomyDay and today #InternationalJazzDay
Tomorrow isn't so ordinary either, it's #Mayday 😆 -
What a weekend! Yesterday #AstronomyDay and today #InternationalJazzDay
Tomorrow isn't so ordinary either, it's #Mayday 😆 -
Happy International Astronomy Day!
Pictured: Conjunction of Moon, Venus, and Mercury the evening of March 3, 2018.
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Happy International Astronomy Day!
Pictured: Conjunction of Moon, Venus, and Mercury the evening of March 3, 2018.
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Happy spring astronomy day! These are planets for a mobile that my wife made. *Not to scale.
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RT @NASAWebb
May 2 is #internationalastronomyday and to celebrate, we have four #NASAWebb astronomers who will answer your questions about Webb + astronomy on our Instagram Stories today! Head over to https://www.instagram.com/nasawebb/ to ask your questions! #NASAAtHome #astronomyday