Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️
@SquigglyVolcano
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Award-Winning Science Journalist | Volcanology PhD | Stories in @nytimes @sciam @NatGeo etc | Author: SUPER VOLCANOES 🌋 and HOW TO KILL AN ASTEROID 🚀☄️💥☠️
London, England
Joined May 2011
NEW: @Int_Machines, @Astrolab_Space and @LunarOutpostInc have all built seriously cool, super-futuristic moon rovers. They’re competing to become the official mode of transportation for NASA’s Artemis astronauts. And for @NatGeo, I test drove all three.
nationalgeographic.com
A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride...
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PSA for all you 👽 3I/ATLAS people. *ahem* NASA ISN’T HIDING ANY INFO ABOUT IT. THERE ARE IMAGES OF IT LITERALLY EVERYWHERE FROM TELESCOPES BOTH IN SPACE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD NASA CAN’T TALK ABOUT IT WHILE THE US GOVERNMENT IS SHUTDOWN IT IS ALSO JUST A COMET …cheers.
NEW: The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is many things: a time capsule from an ancient star, an effervescent icy voyager, a clue to the earlier days of the Milky Way. You know what it definitely isn’t? An alien spacecraft. 😜 Me @newscientist
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NEW: Around Halloween, @dfuji1 saw two strange bright flashes on the Moon, one after the other. What were these spooky lights? Aliens having a rave? Nope. They were asteroid impacts: a reminder that the Moon is a constant battleground. Me @NYTScience
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A Japanese astronomer captured a pair of objects slamming into the lunar surface in recent days.
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NEW: Around Halloween, @dfuji1 saw two strange bright flashes on the Moon, one after the other. What were these spooky lights? Aliens having a rave? Nope. They were asteroid impacts: a reminder that the Moon is a constant battleground. Me @NYTScience
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A Japanese astronomer captured a pair of objects slamming into the lunar surface in recent days.
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PSA for all you 👽 3I/ATLAS people. *ahem* NASA ISN’T HIDING ANY INFO ABOUT IT. THERE ARE IMAGES OF IT LITERALLY EVERYWHERE FROM TELESCOPES BOTH IN SPACE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD NASA CAN’T TALK ABOUT IT WHILE THE US GOVERNMENT IS SHUTDOWN IT IS ALSO JUST A COMET …cheers.
NEW: The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is many things: a time capsule from an ancient star, an effervescent icy voyager, a clue to the earlier days of the Milky Way. You know what it definitely isn’t? An alien spacecraft. 😜 Me @newscientist
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NEW: @Int_Machines, @Astrolab_Space and @LunarOutpostInc have all built seriously cool, super-futuristic moon rovers. They’re competing to become the official mode of transportation for NASA’s Artemis astronauts. And for @NatGeo, I test drove all three.
nationalgeographic.com
A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride...
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If you get the chance to send @SquigglyVolcano on a quest to test drive moon rovers, do it:
nationalgeographic.com
A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride...
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Hey there astronomy community! If anyone has any information or new footage of that impact flash on the Moon, please let me know—I’d love to see it/hear about it. 📸: @dfuji1
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And then there were two! Another one caught last night as well. Two lunar impact events in a row caught by @dfuji1
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Hey there astronomy community! If anyone has any information or new footage of that impact flash on the Moon, please let me know—I’d love to see it/hear about it. 📸: @dfuji1
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NEW: The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is many things: a time capsule from an ancient star, an effervescent icy voyager, a clue to the earlier days of the Milky Way. You know what it definitely isn’t? An alien spacecraft. 😜 Me @newscientist
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NEW: Some alien worlds orbiting right next to their stars seem to have a lot of water—but how? A new study, using lasers and diamond anvils, has a wild answer: they are making all that water themselves by mixing hydrogen skies with magmatic hearts. Me @ScienceMagazine 👇
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NEW: The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is many things: a time capsule from an ancient star, an effervescent icy voyager, a clue to the earlier days of the Milky Way. You know what it definitely isn’t? An alien spacecraft. 😜 Me @newscientist
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NEW: Hurricane Melissa was such a monstrous tempest that it was literally shaking the Earth as far away as Florida, where seismometers picked up its stormquakes. Here’s how seismometers can also shine a light on hurricanes long gone. Me @sciam
https://t.co/8MHaey8pMk
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Editors: if you let me write a story that’s essentially called “It’s a fucking comet, people. It’s just a comet” about 3I/ATLAS, with exactly that tone, I will basically write it for free.
🚨 Alright, Let’s Talk 3I ATLAS ☄️ There’s been a wave of speculation around Comet 3I/ATLAS, and for good reason — it’s not behaving like a normal comet. That’s a fact With so much noise online, we wanted to go straight to the data and share what’s actually confirmed as of
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Editors: if you let me write a story that’s essentially called “It’s a fucking comet, people. It’s just a comet” about 3I/ATLAS, with exactly that tone, I will basically write it for free.
🚨 Alright, Let’s Talk 3I ATLAS ☄️ There’s been a wave of speculation around Comet 3I/ATLAS, and for good reason — it’s not behaving like a normal comet. That’s a fact With so much noise online, we wanted to go straight to the data and share what’s actually confirmed as of
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Some of this information is wrong. Either way: it’s a comet. It’s a cool comet from interstellar space. But it’s definitely a comet.
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Just to be clear - given recent drivel on line - Comet 3I/Atlas is a comet, made of carbon dioxide and water ices and bits of other stuff. It is entirely natural in origin, its orbit is as expected and it will whizz around the sun and then disappear off into the galaxy again. If
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NEW: Some alien worlds orbiting right next to their stars seem to have a lot of water—but how? A new study, using lasers and diamond anvils, has a wild answer: they are making all that water themselves by mixing hydrogen skies with magmatic hearts. Me @ScienceMagazine 👇
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