Jamie Carter 🔭🌗💫
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This week I'm in
#Tenerife
with
@OllieTPhoto
on an
#astrophotography
workshop! Here's my view of last night's rare triple conjunction of a 4%-lit crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades.
@DavidBflower
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Our home, the
#MilkyWay
– 400 billion Suns – from Lower Llandewi Fach,
#BuilthWells
,
#Wales
#EpicWales
#stargazing
#astrophotography
#darkskies
@DaniDarkSkies
@DavidBflower
@AlDarkSkyWales
@amazingskyguy
@visitwales
@IDADarkSky
@JohnBarentine
3
21
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Like my articles? Here's a great way to stay up-to-date with my latest writings on science, nature and travel.
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By me for
@ForbesScience
–
#HappyBirthdayHubble
: The
#Space
#Telescope
’s Most Beautiful Images (Briefly) Explained via
@forbes
#Hubble
@HUBBLE_space
@NASAHubble
@stsci
@HubbleTelescope
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#NASA
’s next flagship mission will a
#Uranus
Orbiter and Probe says
#PlanetaryDecadal
… and the
#Enceladus
Orbilander!
@LeighFletcher
@theNASEM
@SETIInstitute
@NASAVoyager
@exploreplanets
@IcyGiants
#planetaryscience
#decadalsurvey
5
34
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The
#moon
last night displaying
#earthshine
on its “dark side” - reflected sunlight from our planet.
#moongazing
#digiscoping
#celestron
@GoStargazing
@DavidBflower
7
12
94
I’m excited to announce that I’ve won the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award for journalism for my coverage (during 2023) of the
#totalsolareclipse
on April 8!
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6
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Anyone else excited about
@TheNextEclipse
in the UK next Thursday? I'm loving this map from Robin Scagell and the
@RoyalAstroSoc
#partialsolareclipse
#eclipse
7
42
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“There are countless planets—it’s just the data!" Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– Yes
#Pluto
Is A Planet Says
#NASA
Scientist At The Site Of Its Discovery 91 Years Ago This Week
@LowellObs
@AlanStern
@DrPhiltill
@Jeff
Hall
@NewHorizons2015
#PlutoIsAPlanet
3
15
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By me for
@ForbesScience
– Has NASA Found A Parallel Universe ‘Where Time Flows Backwards?’ The Truth Behind The Headlines via
@forbes
@uw_icecube
@NSF
@IbrahimSafa1
@UWMadison
#paralleluniverse
#astronomy
7
27
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By me for
@ForbesScience
– Here Is The Most Detailed Photo Of The Sun Ever (And It Could One Day Save Your Life) via
@forbes
#solar
@NatSolarObs
@AURADC
@matt_mountain
@vmpillet
@TheNextEclipse
#Inouye
2
17
58
The crescent
#moon
last night from
#Cardiff
through a
@Celestron
spotting scope
@DavidBflower
@GoStargazing
1
5
58
Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– The Last Comet? The Sad Truth About Why Seeing
#NEOWISE
With Your Naked Eyes Is Harder Than It Looks
@IDADarkSky
@JohnBarentine
@TrentUni
#cometNEOWISE
#comet
#lightpollution
#darkskies
#stargazing
4
21
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By me for
@ForbesScience
– Will
#Betelgeuse
Explode? After ‘Unprecedented’ Dimming The Giant Star Is Now Changing Shape via
@forbes
@ESO
@Astro_MiguelM
@IvS_KULeuven
@PierreKervella
#stars
#astronomy
#space
#supernova
#beetlejuice
3
22
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Some insanely great images by
@TaraMoonHunter
@kevinmgill
@johnkrausphotos
and others – In Photos: 10 Jaw-Dropping
#Space
Images From A Spectacular Year via
@forbes
2
6
52
Another
#eVscope
success! Point a telescope or binoculars at
#Aldebaran
(Alpha Tauri) tonight and you’ll see
#Asteroid
1
#Ceres
beside it. It’s the largest object in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
@Unistellar
@DavidBflower
1
9
51
Capture it while you can! Words by me for
@ForbesScience
- How To Photograph
#CometNEOWISE
, Our Most Spectacular
#Comet
For 23 Years - with expert tips from
@DavidBflower
@OllieTPhoto
@mathewbrowne
@forbes
3
19
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Today's pre-dawn planetary
#conjunction
:
#Jupiter
and
#Venus
less than a degree apart in the early morning sky from
#Cardiff
#Wales
.
#stargazing
#astronomy
@skyatnightmag
@SkyandTelescope
@earthskyscience
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“There have been tears today. Tears of happiness because we felt a small part of our normal life return.” Awesome experience tonight with 5,000 others at
@fcunion_en
thanks
@IFA_Berlin
#IFA2020
2
9
49
Over 80% of us live with
#lightpollution
where artificial light threatens our health and wildlife and snuffs out the stars. Now a major new exhibition at
@NMNH
will highlight the threat—and pose some simple solutions.
@DaniDarkSkies
@IDADarkSky
#DarkSkies
4
23
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Words by me for
@ForbesScience
- How, When And Where To See
#CometLeonard
: The Ultimate Guide To Seeing The
#ChristmasComet
In December And On Christmas Day via
@forbes
3
20
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Just back from a great w/end at
@TheAstroCamp
in the
#BreconBeacons
reporting for
@skyatnightmag
#astronomy
@IDADarkSky
@AwesomeAstroPod
4
11
46
Such a pleasure to report for
@ForbesScience
from
#NAM2023
in
#Cardiff
on
@jgreaves6
finding more traces of
#phosphine
in the clouds of
#Venus
.
#nam2023
@NAM2023_Cardiff
@RoyalAstroSoc
@megoizzy
via
@forbes
2
14
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Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the
#MilkyWay
, revealing 3.2 billion celestial objects.
@CenterforAstro
@NOIRLabAstro
@cerrotololo
#astronomy
#space
#astrophotography
via
@forbes
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Go outside after dark this week. Last night I saw
#Jupiter
,
#Saturn
, two passes of the
@Space_Station
, three
#shootingstars
(
#DeltaAquarids
), dozens of glinting satellites and the incredible
#SummerTriangle
stars.
@GoStargazing
@VirtualAstro
@DavidBflower
#stargazing
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The
#SevenSisters
star cluster - a.k.a. the
#Pleiades
and
#M45
- photographed using a
@benro_uk
Polaris while I was, err, travelling at light-speed towards it in a giant spacecraft (either that or the lens slipped!).
@DavidBflower
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6
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3pm sunset ... icebath, anyone?
@Aurora_Zone
@OurFinland
@GarethHutton
@Travel__PR
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
http://t.co/y8Xibw91Lv
1
12
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Has
#stargazing
or
#moongazing
helped you during
#lockdown
? I'm exploring some articles about our connection to the
#nightsky
and how it can help people's mental health. Please DM me if you have a story to tell.
#journorequest
#darkskies
12
12
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Exactly When You Can See A 100% Red Moon During Sunday's
#SuperWolfBloodMoon
#TotalLunarEclipse
1
21
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So great to be on the cover of
@skyatnightmag
magazine this month writing about
@thenexteclipse
#ringoffire
annular
#eclipse
.
@AmericanEclipse
1
4
39
By me for
@ForbesScience
(thanks to Nick James at
@BritAstro
) – The Truth About
#CometSwan
, Today At Its Closest To Us. Will This Snowball Put On A Bright Show? via
@forbes
#comets
#comet
@c2020f8
@TheSkyLive
#cometc2020f8
#C2020F8
#FollowTheComet
3
10
35
By me for
@ForbesScience
– The World’s Largest
#Telescope
Is Underway. All You Need To Know About The Giant Magellan Telescope
@GMTelescope
via
@forbes
@GMTPatMcCarthy
@TheNextEclipse
#Chile
#space
#astronomy
#exoplanets
3
19
34
The
#Perseids
have started! Here's why to ignore the mainstream media and look 10 nights prior to their peak night.
#Perseidmeteorshower
via
@forbes
0
11
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So impressed with the
#stargazing
signage at
@Elan_Valley
International
#DarkSkyPark
in the stunning Cambrian Mountains in beautiful
#Wales
@CMInitiative
@DwrCymru
@visitwales
@AlDarkSkyWales
@AppgDarkSkies
@IDADarkSky
@GoStargazing
@DaniDarkSkies
#DarkSkies
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6
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Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– There Are 36 Intelligent
#Alien
Civilizations In Our Galaxy, Say Scientists
@conselice
via
@forbes
@UoNEngineering
@UniofNottingham
#exoplanets
#SETI
#CETI
#aliens
#astronomy
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The use of artificial light to illuminate foregrounds at night is increasingly frowned upon – and gradually being banned. Here's why – and what to do instead. With thanks to
@bettymayafoott
@IDADarkSky
#lightpollution
#astrophotography
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13
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Could we see solar activity during the
#totalsolareclipse
? If we get lucky, a CME will present itself as a twisted, spiral-like structure, high in the atmosphere of the sun,” says
@RyanJFrench
.
@SPACEdotcom
@thenexteclipse
2
13
32
This could be a good one ... G3 or G4 geomagnetic storms predicted. That's big! Get the tripods ready, UK and northern US! Thanks to
@RyanJFrench
@TamithaSkov
@forbes
3
7
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Iridium 61, -3.9 mag at 20.15 this evening above
#Cardiff
#Wales
#flarewell
#iridium
@sjb_astro
@astro_niks
@IridiumBoss
@IridiumComm
@catchtheiridium
@DFWSkyWatchers
@CanonUKandIE
#Astronomy
#Satellites
#IridiumFlares
#iridiumflare
#catchtheiridium
2
12
31
How to photograph the Perseid meteor shower on 10-12 August 2018
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9
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By me for
@ForbesScience
– good luck ☄ comet-hunters! Be very, very patient ... It’s ‘Comet SWAN’ Week. Here’s How You Can See The ‘Comet Of The Year’ via
@forbes
@c2020f8
!
#FollowTheComet
#CometSWAN
#C2020F8
#comet
#comet
#stargazing
3
8
25
My highlight of the week? Being in the
@northyorkmoors
#DarkSkyReserve
to go
#stargazing
with the inspirational
@RichDarn1
on a Dark Skies Experience with
@TheGrandYork
.
@IDADarkSky
#DarkSkies
#lightpollution
@A2BPR
@yorkshire_dales
2
3
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Why You Owe It To Yourself To Witness April 8’s Total Solar Eclipse
6
12
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A new partnership between
@GoStargazing
and
@FredOlsenCruise
is making it easier than ever to see stars and
#aurora
from a
#cruise
ship.
@DrJeniMillard
@PatrickPoitevin
1
5
27
Wishing clear skies and wide eyes to
@DaniDarkSkies
@LesleyBound
@GoStargazing
@YrUniverseYoga
@PeterLewis55
@pipsmithe
. By me for
@ForbesScience
– Why Millions Of Us Looked Up In Lockdown And Got Hooked On The Night Sky
#astronomy
#nightsky
#darkskies
3
9
27
“I want you to fall in love with the night ... protect it and fight for it before it's gone forever.” Landmark new book 'All Through The Night' by
@DaniDarkSkies
out Monday in the U.S.
#LightPollution
#DarkSkies
#stargazing
@HarperCollinsUK
@IDADarkSky
3
11
27
@DavidBflower
There are some wonderful images of it already from the southern hemisphere. By me:
0
11
27
By me for
@ForbesScience
- Last Seen In 1986, Halley’s
#Comet
Will Make Its Presence Known This Week With
#ShootingStars
Show via
@forbes
#orionids
#orionidmeteorshower
#astronomy
#stargazing
#space
5
16
21
Look west! Venus ‘in’ the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) star cluster tonight (and tomorrow). Look carefully for the shape of a close run of seven smaller stars middle-left - that’s (my) asterism ‘Carter’s Whip’! Thanks
@tomkerss
for the photo tips!
0
7
25
#Iridium23
satellite flaring above the
#ElanValley
Dark Sky Park tonight
#Iridiumflare
#flarewell
@IDADarkSky
#darkskies
1
14
25
Why Venus is now a slim crescent and will disappear from the evening sky this weekend
@LiveScience
0
7
22
By me for
@theipaper
in
@IDADarkSky
's
#InternationalDarkSkyWeek
: how to learn to recognise the
#stars
and
#planets
with these simple tips Thanks to
@tomkerss
and
@JohnBarentine
#lookuptogether
#idsw2020
#DarkSkies
0
11
22
From a James Bond sightseeing tour to a ‘jellyfish tunnel’ I give you the magical
#FaroeIslands
! Words by me for
@TelegraphTravel
– 10 reasons you should visit this remote, green-listed European archipelago
@VisitFaroe
@TheFaroeIslands
#travel
#ttot
82
10
25
15 of the best
#photo
#apps
: top editing apps for iOS and Android devices
@DigitalCameraW
#photography
#tech
1
9
23
Here’s what's going to happen above our heads in April. Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– A Spectacular
#SuperPinkMoon
,
#ShootingStars
And A Galaxy-Rise: Your
#Stargazing
Guide To April 2021 via
@forbes
#nightsky
#astronomy
0
8
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All hail
#Jupiter
, the
#BluePlanet
! By me for
@ForbesScience
– See 7 Breathtaking New Photos Of The ‘King Of Planets’ Taken This Week By NASA’s
#Juno
Spacecraft via
@forbes
Kudos to the incredible
@kevinmgill
@b_swift
@bjorn_jons
@andrluck
2
6
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Rage, rage against the dying of the night ...
#lightpollution
#energycrisis
@GLOBEatNight
@NSF
@NOIRLabAstro
@IDADarkSky
@cfds_uk
@AppgDarkSkies
via
@forbes
1
15
23
Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– You’re Noticing The
#Stars
And
#Planets
More. Now We’re All
#Stargazers
—And This Is Our Bucket List via
@forbes
#lockdown
#space
2
10
24
See The Jaw-Dropping First Image Of The Black Hole ‘Enigma’ At The Heart Of Our Galaxy Just Revealed ... via
@forbes
2
5
19
Will a whole generation exist in twilight? Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– Global
#LightPollution
Has Increased By Up To 400% In The Last 25 Years And It’s Quickly Getting Worse Say Scientists via
@forbes
@JohnBarentine
@DaniDarkSkies
#darkskies
6
15
23
Just back from
@bluedotfestival
at
@jodrellbank
in
#Cheshire
,
#England
. Best lecture was by
@ChrisLintott
, best music from
@Bjork
and the best massive telescope was this one – the Lovell Telescope – which at one point became the
#Moon
!
#bluedotfestival
2
4
22
By me
@TheNextEclipse
for
@Forbes
: Looks like
#Albuquerque
in
#NewMexico
could be “ground zero” for the
#ringoffire
#solareclipse
on Oct. 14, followed by
#SanAntonio
,
#Texas
.
@VisitABQ
@balloonfiesta
@newmexicotravel
@VisitSanAntonio
@TravelTexas
1
7
22
Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– Now A Naked-Eye
#Comet
After Dark, Nobody Saw
#CometNEOWISE
Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Going via
@forbes
#followthecomet
3
4
20
Here comes a great week for
#stargazers
! Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– Watch One Spacecraft Blast-Off As Another Returns, The
#Moon
Wane And A ‘Dwarf Planet’ Shine: What You Can See In The
#NightSky
This Week via
@forbes
0
5
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By me for
@ForbesScience
–
#BREAKINGNEWS
– NASA’s $3.2 Billion Planet-Finder Space Telescope
@NASAWFIRST
Re-Named For ‘Mother Of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman via
@forbes
@NASA
@NASAHubble
#NASAScience
#NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope
#NancyGraceRoman
3
7
21
By me for
@ForbesScience
– How Bad Is
#LightPollution
? Ask An Astronaut via
@forbes
@cities4tnight
@AAS_Press
@UniofExeter
@Space_Station
#citizenscience
@ESA_EO
1
14
21
What’s Next After
#Percy
on
#Mars
? Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– The 8 Spectacular
#Space
Missions In 2021 You’ve Not Heard Of Yet via
@forbes
@NASAPersevere
@CNSA_en
@Astrobotic
#DART
#Asteroids
@Int_Machines
@LucyMission
@NASAWebb
@NASAArtemis
@isro
1
10
21
Great start to the trip!
@Aurora_Zone
@OurFinland
@GarethHutton
@Travel__PR
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
http://t.co/QbiDrWVn9q
0
10
20
How to take
#nightsky
images with your
#smartphone
@techradar
@mweasner
@FailedProtostar
@NightCapApp
@SpotTheStation
@andy_stones
#astrophoneography
#astrophotography
#darkskies
#iPhone8
#iPhoneX
#iPhone7
#SamsungS8
#moon
3
7
21
By me for
@ForbesScience
– Is The Night Sky Getting Darker During
#Lockdown
? The Answer Is Not What You Think via
@forbes
@JohnBarentine
@IDADarkSky
@underluckystars
@Visitflagstaff
#darskies
#lightpollution
#covid19
5
13
21
By me for
@skyatnightmag
-
#TransitofMercury
, 11 November 2019: what it is and how to see it
Thanks to
@RoyalAstroSoc
@RobertMMassey
@XavierJubier
1
11
20
You thought the brightest star is
#Polaris
, right? Or one of the stars in
#Orion
? Nope! It’s
#Sirius
—the “Dog Star”—and it’s looking awesome right now! Thanks to
@sjb_astro
!
#stargazing
via
@forbes
3
4
20
0
2
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Great week of Lappish aurora thanks to
@GarethHutton
and
@Aurora_Zone
#lapland
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
http://t.co/49MXi7zfYt
0
9
20
More Finnish lights!
@Aurora_Zone
@OurFinland
@GarethHutton
@Travel__PR
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
http://t.co/LafhJoIInb
1
11
20
By me for
@ForbesScience
– How You Can See Dazzling
#Venus
Have A Rare Once-In-Eight-Years Close Encounter This Week via
@forbes
@DavidBflower
@saevarhb
#stargazing
#astronomy
#space
#astrophotography
0
9
20
The
#GreatConjunction
or
#ChristmasStar
as
#Jupiter
(below) and
#Saturn
(above) align, taken from
#Cardiff
#Wales
tonight.
#JupiterSaturnConjunction
1
4
19
Stunning
#sunset
and
#moon
view from the Optical Observatory of Pico do Areeiro on the island of
#Madeira
at 1,818m. It’s tracking
#spacejunk
0
3
19
Go
@Mo_Farah
– at Mile 9 in today's
@CardiffHalf
#runwithMo
#CardiffHalf
@Cardiff2016
@WeAreCardiff
@roathcardiff
2
8
19
“Perhaps the Universe evolved intelligent beings in order to observe itself.” Carl Sagan.
#Webb
1
3
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2
5
16
Proof that if you want to see the
#NorthernLights
with your naked eyes and be truly impressed go to the Arctic Circle.
Gotta love my drives to work!😍
This morning near Lacombe. Nov 5/2023
#aurora
#TeamTanner
@treetanner
@TamithaSkov
@weathernetwork
@mikesobel
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1K
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The
#Sun
right now! Preparations complete for
@thenexteclipse
on Tuesday.
#VanoisVespera
@Vaonis_fr
@DavidBflower
#eclipse
#solareclipse
1
4
19
One of the largest, brightest and closest supernovae seen for a decade,
#SN2023ixf
, has been imaged in spectacular detail by the Gemini North telescope at the
@GeminiObs
in
#Hawaii
.
#supernova
via
@forbes
0
5
18
Ready for the
#RingOfFire
? “There will be no time on October 14 when anybody can look directly at the sun without eye protection,” says Dr. Rick Feinberg at the
@AAS_Eclipse
.
@AAS_Office
@stardustspeck
@PatrickPoitevin
#annular
#solar
#eclipse
#eclipses
1
8
19
This Sunday's
#totallunareclipse
has a twin! Here are some more odd things about it.
#bloodmoon2022
#bloodmoon
#eclipse
@TheNextEclipse
via
@forbes
0
8
19
0
2
18
Last time I saw this I was in
#Antarctica
in December 2021! Today my eclipse-chasing for
@TheNextEclipse
took me to my back garden in
#Cardiff
#Wales
where I shot these images of today's
#SolarEclipse
. Here’s the max. 12% eclipse at 10:56 a.m.
@WalesOnline
@visitwales
@Vaonis_fr
2
3
17
The
#AndromedaGalaxy
photographed from the Griffon Obs in El Bosque,
#Spain
@skyatnightmag
#Astrophotography
#stargazing
#space
#m31
#darkskies
0
8
18
Congrats
@Enlli_Bardsey
! A fine example of how to prevent harmful
#lightpollution
everywhere – and not an excuse for us to do whatever we like in towns and cities.
#Wales
#DarkSkies
@DaniDarkSkies
@IDADarkSky
@BreconBeaconsNP
@eryrinpa
@forbes
2
5
18
The ‘summer of
#planets
’ just began. Words by me for
@ForbesScience
– Here’s When To Get The Best Views Of
#Venus
,
#Jupiter
,
#Saturn
And
#Mercury
via
@forbes
#stargazing
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Why do we have better light for
#photography
earlier and later in the day, rather than at midday?
@DigitalCameraW
#bluehour
#goldenhour
#science
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It’s been a few weeks delayed but finally here’s the
#NASA
#Juno
spacecraft’s close-up of
#Jupiter
’s moon
#Io
- the most volcanic place in the
#Solarsystem
@NASASolarSystem
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)
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