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  1. @NASAAdmin

    is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 

Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult.

    x.com/nasaadmin/status/2060186

  2. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope never ceases to amaze, this time capturing a supermassive black hole beaming with light shining from its center. @sciencefocus has more on this space spectacle for which “supermassive” is barely an adequate description:

    flip.it/GgeRjr

    #Science #Space #NASA

  3. @angryastro

    The FAA says Blue Origin New Glenn can fly again!
    Great news, right?
    Well, before they really know if the problem is fixed, Blue Orgin is giving New Glenn an unbelievably high stakes mission!
    Why?
    And why do these second stages keep failing anyway?
    youtu.be/1pYaPOwqxEg

  4. 🌌 Volunteers of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 doubled the known population of brown dwarfs – over 3,000 new cool objects spotted in WISE/NEOWISE images via Zooniverse in 10 years. A great example of citizen science at scale.

    📅 May 5, 2026
    🔗 science.nasa.gov/get-involved/

    #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy #NASA #Space

  5. 🌌 Volunteers of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 doubled the known population of brown dwarfs – over 3,000 new cool objects spotted in WISE/NEOWISE images via Zooniverse in 10 years. A great example of citizen science at scale.

    📅 May 5, 2026
    🔗 science.nasa.gov/get-involved/

    #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy #NASA #Space

  6. 🌌 Volunteers of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 doubled the known population of brown dwarfs – over 3,000 new cool objects spotted in WISE/NEOWISE images via Zooniverse in 10 years. A great example of citizen science at scale.

    📅 May 5, 2026
    🔗 science.nasa.gov/get-involved/

    #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy #NASA #Space

  7. 🌌 Volunteers of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 doubled the known population of brown dwarfs – over 3,000 new cool objects spotted in WISE/NEOWISE images via Zooniverse in 10 years. A great example of citizen science at scale.

    📅 May 5, 2026
    🔗 science.nasa.gov/get-involved/

    #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy #NASA #Space

  8. 🌌 Volunteers of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 doubled the known population of brown dwarfs – over 3,000 new cool objects spotted in WISE/NEOWISE images via Zooniverse in 10 years. A great example of citizen science at scale.

    📅 May 5, 2026
    🔗 science.nasa.gov/get-involved/

    #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy #NASA #Space

  9. 🌠 Space Image of the Day: NGC 1514: The Crystal Ball Nebula 🗓️ 2026-05-28 What do you see in this crystal ball? The featured image shows NGC 1514, known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, observed by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, in Hawai'i. NGC... #NASA #APOD #Space #Astronomy #Science

  10. Abell 2744, also known as Pandoras Cluster, represents one of the most complex gravitational interactions observed in the local universe. This composite image synthesizes data from multiple observatories to reveal the simultaneous collision of at least four separate galaxy clusters. While the visible galaxies account for only five percent of the mass, the rest is comprised of hot intergalactic gas and a vast reservoir of dark matter revealed through gravitational lensing. Studying these massive collisions allows astronomers to observe how dark matter interacts with baryonic matter, providing critical evidence for current cosmological models and the structural evolution of the universe at its largest scales. #Astronomy #Cosmology #Astrophysics #NASA #GalaxyClusters

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

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  11. Abell 2744, also known as Pandoras Cluster, represents one of the most complex gravitational interactions observed in the local universe. This composite image synthesizes data from multiple observatories to reveal the simultaneous collision of at least four separate galaxy clusters. While the visible galaxies account for only five percent of the mass, the rest is comprised of hot intergalactic gas and a vast reservoir of dark matter revealed through gravitational lensing. Studying these massive collisions allows astronomers to observe how dark matter interacts with baryonic matter, providing critical evidence for current cosmological models and the structural evolution of the universe at its largest scales. #Astronomy #Cosmology #Astrophysics #NASA #GalaxyClusters

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  12. The Spinning Pulsar of the Crab Nebula

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2508/Crab_HubbleChandraSpitzer_1080.jpg

    At the core of the Crab Nebula lies a city-sized, magnetized neutron star spinning 30 times a second. Known as the Crab Pulsar, it is the bright spot in the center of the gaseous swirl at the nebula's core. About twelve light-years across, the spectacular picture frames the glowing gas, cavities and swirling filaments near the Crab Nebula's center. The featured picture combines visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope in purple, X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue, and infrared light from the Spitzer Space Telescope in red. Like a cosmic dynamo, the Crab pulsar powers the emission from the nebula, driving a shock wave through surrounding material and accelerating the spiraling electrons. With more mass than the Sun and the density of an atomic nucleus,the spinning pulsar is the collapsed core of a massive star that exploded. The outer parts of the Crab Nebula are the expanding remnants of the star's component gases. The supernova explosion was witnessed on planet Earth in the year 1054. Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (after 1995)

    Attribution:

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  13. This planetary nebula, the remnant of a dying Sun-like star, faintly occupies an angular region of the Lynx constellation about 1/5th the diameter of the full moon. The red and blue-ish green colors trace hydrogen and oxygen atoms, respectively, that have been excited and ionized by the nebula's central white dwarf. The headphone shape, where two lobes of hydrogen puncture the inner region of oxygen, adds this object to a long list of oddly shaped nebulae. The morphology of such strange nebulae hint at the presence of a stellar or planetary companion, which can stir the material flowing out from the dying star.

    Attrib: Bernard Miller


    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy #astrophotography
  14. A giant warm wave is crossing the Pacific, signaling an El Niño that could alter weather worldwide this year

    Sea level data from a #satellite launched by #NASA and #Europe'an partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the #Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that #ElNiño will likely emerge later in the year. Because water expands as it warms, a rise in elevation of an area of the #ocean indicates increasing ocean temperatures.

    El Niños can cause heavy precipitation in some regions and deficits in others, influencing daily life and commerce around the world.

    phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-pa

    #ClimateScience
    #RemoteSensing
    #GlobalHeating
    #ClimateCrisis

  15. A giant warm wave is crossing the Pacific, signaling an El Niño that could alter weather worldwide this year

    Sea level data from a #satellite launched by #NASA and #Europe'an partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the #Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that #ElNiño will likely emerge later in the year. Because water expands as it warms, a rise in elevation of an area of the #ocean indicates increasing ocean temperatures.

    El Niños can cause heavy precipitation in some regions and deficits in others, influencing daily life and commerce around the world.

    phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-pa

    #ClimateScience
    #RemoteSensing
    #GlobalHeating
    #ClimateCrisis

  16. A giant warm wave is crossing the Pacific, signaling an El Niño that could alter weather worldwide this year

    Sea level data from a #satellite launched by #NASA and #Europe'an partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the #Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that #ElNiño will likely emerge later in the year. Because water expands as it warms, a rise in elevation of an area of the #ocean indicates increasing ocean temperatures.

    El Niños can cause heavy precipitation in some regions and deficits in others, influencing daily life and commerce around the world.

    phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-pa

    #ClimateScience
    #RemoteSensing
    #GlobalHeating
    #ClimateCrisis

  17. A giant warm wave is crossing the Pacific, signaling an El Niño that could alter weather worldwide this year

    Sea level data from a #satellite launched by #NASA and #Europe'an partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the #Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that #ElNiño will likely emerge later in the year. Because water expands as it warms, a rise in elevation of an area of the #ocean indicates increasing ocean temperatures.

    El Niños can cause heavy precipitation in some regions and deficits in others, influencing daily life and commerce around the world.

    phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-pa

    #ClimateScience
    #RemoteSensing
    #GlobalHeating
    #ClimateCrisis

  18. #CienciaYTecnología ✨| Una de las imágenes más impresionantes del año ha sido tomada a más de 4.000 metros de altura y ha fascinado a la mismísima NASA, que la seleccionó entre sus fotografías astronómicas destacadas del mes de abril.

    desdeabajo.info/otras-noticias

    #Nasa #Universo

  19. #CienciaYTecnología ✨| Una de las imágenes más impresionantes del año ha sido tomada a más de 4.000 metros de altura y ha fascinado a la mismísima NASA, que la seleccionó entre sus fotografías astronómicas destacadas del mes de abril.

    desdeabajo.info/otras-noticias

    #Nasa #Universo

  20. #CienciaYTecnología ✨| Una de las imágenes más impresionantes del año ha sido tomada a más de 4.000 metros de altura y ha fascinado a la mismísima NASA, que la seleccionó entre sus fotografías astronómicas destacadas del mes de abril.

    desdeabajo.info/otras-noticias

    #Nasa #Universo