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NASA releases 4 spectacular new images from Chandra Observatory and Webb Telescope:
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The first of 2023's Moon-free meteor showers starts this month:
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It is with great sadness that we've learned this morning of the passing of Heather Couper, a wonderful astronomer, writer and science communicator who we were very proud to work with over the years.
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Hubble images show Butterfly Nebula puffing 'like a fire-breathing dragon'
🦋 🐲
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The Sky at Night returns to our screens this Easter!
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On 21 December, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close in the night sky they'll appear as a single bright 'star'.
@jamieacarter
reveals how to see the
#GreatConjunction
of 2020.
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#COMPETITION
! We're giving away a copy of Moonshots, a new book of NASA's space images. Follow & like/RT to enter!
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The three body problem is one of the oldest quandaries in physics and astronomy. This is it in a nutshell:
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New Webb image shows brief stage of a massive star about to go supernova:
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Happy
#Solstice
!
Tonight and tomorrow night there's a great opportunity to see Mars, Venus and the crescent Moon:
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Just how big is star VY Canis Majoris and how does its size compare to that of the Sun and planet Earth?
⭐️ 🤯
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NASA's Perseverance rover may have found signs of a powerful ancient river on
#Mars
#PerseveranceRover
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#Neptune
, its rings and large moon Triton appear as never seen before in a new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
#jameswebbspacetelescope
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#COMPETITION
! Win a copy of Clarence Augustus Chant's 1928 astronomy guide. RT or like this post to enter! Info:
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Composer Vangelis to release
@ESA_Rosetta
-inspired album! Click the link to see the trailer
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The Sky at Night is back! The long-running BBC astronomy show returns in April for another series
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The winner of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition's 'Best Newcomer 'category has been disqualified, say the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
The new winning image is this wonderful capture of open star cluster Melotte 15.
#APY14
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A first look at some of the amazing
#astrophotos
entered into the 2018 Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition 📸 🌌
#astrophoto2018
@ROGAstronomers
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Michael Collins – the astronaut who remained on board the Apollo 11 command capsule – has died at the age of 90.
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The shortlisted images of the 2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards have been released by
@RMGreenwich
#APY13
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Happy
#Saturday
!
This view of Jupiter almost looks 3D.
It shows the gas giant’s stormy northern hemisphere in incredible quality, and was captured by the Juno spacecraft on 29 May 2019.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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Two views of red supergiant star
#Betelgeuse
reveal how much the star has dimmed over the course of a year.
The 1st image is Betelgeuse captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope in January 2019, and the 2nd is Betelgeuse in December 2019.
Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al.
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Win 1 of 2 copies of a new book featuring a pop-up planetarium! Follow us & like or RT this post to enter. T&Cs:
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See Mars meet the Moon and open star cluster M35 towards the end of March:
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Betelgeuse brightens by 50 percent - will it go supernova?
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An edge-on view of galaxy NGC 4013. It’s difficult to see from
@HUBBLE_space
's viewpoint, but this is a spiral galaxy, located about 55 million lightyears away.
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA
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Venus begins its journey past the Pleiades tonight.
Listen to our latest episode of Star Diary to hear how you can catch the sight for yourself.
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20 amazing facts about space and astronomy:
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In 2023 the
#SummerSolstice
in the Northern Hemisphere falls on 21 June.
On this day at 3:57pm BST the Sun will reach the most northerly point along its path through the sky (the ecliptic) before moving south again.
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Three crescent Saturnian moons, captured by
@CassiniSaturn
in March 2015: Titan, Mimas & Rhea. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
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Comet C/2020 F3
#NEOWISE
should be visible in northern skies this month. Here's how you can see it.
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The 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet saw panic-buying of anti-comet umbrellas, pills and all manner of nonsensical inventions:
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14 of the best astronomy and stargazing apps for smartphones:
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Roy Stewart, organiser of Ireland's annual
#SkelligStarParty
, captured this great pic of
#CometNEOWISE
over the magical landscape of the
#Burren
in County Clare, Ireland.
What a fitting scene from which to watch a comet in the night sky!
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The Moon passes beneath Saturn in the early hours of the morning on 11 June.
Listen to the latest episode of Star Diary to find out how you can see the pair.
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A 1,800km-long cloud over a Martian mountain holds clues about
#Mars
's atmosphere, and provides a key lesson for planetary science:
🌋
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The Sky at Night returns to our screens this weekend!
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If the Universe is infinite, has it always been infinite?
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Happy
#Saturday
!
This is galaxy NGC 5468; a glorious vision of a spiral galaxy perfectly positioned for the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a face-on view.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. Acknowledgements: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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With the Moon out of the way during peak activity, this month’s Lyrids mark the first of many favourable meteor showers in 2023:
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Have you ever wondered how the Universe will end?
We spoke to US theoretical astrophysicist Dr Katie Mack (
@AstroKatie
) to find out more about the end of everything:
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Comet C/2020 F3
#NEOWISE
is visible in northern skies this month. Here's how you can see it.
☄️🔭
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Tonight’s full Moon, will be the last so-called
#supermoon
of 2021, designated a ‘Super Strawberry Moon’.
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Let Katie Mack
@AstroKatie
take you on a tour through the history of the Universe – from explosive birth to dramatic end – in our online lecture on Wed 11 Nov 7pm GMT.
Get your tickets now ->
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A beginner's (quick) guide to cosmology
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Lovely! Our timeline is fast filling up with Comet E3 pics these days!
Here is Comet E3 from last night 1 hour 12 minutes of exposure time.
Full detail here
#Astrophotography
#cometZTF
#comet
#cometE3
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NASA has confirmed that
#Voyager2
is still alive after a human error caused its antenna to misalign.
The Deep Space Network has been able to pick up the spacecraft's carrier signal, but may not be able to establish full contact until later in the year.
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As the sky darkens this evening, mag. –3.9 Venus is south of the Pleiades open cluster.
Closest approach is tomorrow evening when they appear 2.7° apart.
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The ALMA telescope has captured the remnants of a collision between two infant stars.
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Get ready for Comet E3's meeting with Mars this weekend!
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Have you ever wanted a home observatory?
Follow our epic
#DIYAstronomy
project and build your own!
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This is just a tiny bit cool.
It's cloudy with a chance of *checks notes* meteors? ☄️
A bright green meteor went over Tasmania this morning. And our
#RVInvestigator
was able to capture it on our live stream! 🚢
The ship was near south coast of Tasmania where it's currently doing work for
@Parks_Australia
.
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An image of
#Jupiter
's stormy northern hemisphere, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft and processed by citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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Gravitational waves have been detected in the same area of sky as Betelgeuse:
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What to expect from Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF next month:
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The Earth in Our Hands
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet reveals what it's like seeing Earth from the International Space Station
#EarthFromSpace
@Thom_astro
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And
#ESAJuice
is on its way! But the work has just begun as the spacecraft won't reach Jupiter until 2031.
Find out more about the mission via the link below:
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Wow! Amazing views of the Milky Way over
@ESO
's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile (P. Horálek/ESO)
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In tonight's episode of
#TheSkyAtNight
, Maggie and Chris find out about the emerging UK space industry.
Tune in at 10pm on BBC Four or
@BBCiPlayer
@BBCStargazing
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NASA's Perseverance rover may have found signs of a powerful ancient river on
#Mars
@NASAPersevere
#PerseveranceRover
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If you know a young astronomer who's asked for their first telescope this Christmas, our Best Telescopes For Kids guide might be the inspiration you need!
🎁🔭
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An infrared image of the Orion Nebula, as seen by the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This entire view was captured in one single image!
(ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA.
Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)
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Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded $3m for her work on the discovery of pulsars, but is donating her winnings to "fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers" -
@BBCNews
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How bright would the night sky be if we were closer to the centre of the Milky Way?
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Zdenek Bardon sent us this amazing
#StarTrail
image from
@ESO
's La Silla Observatory in Chile. He used a Nikon D810. Thanks for sharing!
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It's officially
#Perseids
season!
In our guide, Pete Lawrence reveals how you can make the most of this year's meteor shower:
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Avani Soares sent us this amazing
#Jupiter
gif showing a transit of Io, captured from Canoas in Brazil. Thanks Avani!
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Astronomers have captured an image of the
#blackhole
at the centre of our Galaxy for the first time.
⚫️📸
#sagittariusa
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This summer, The Sky at Night's Pete Lawrence
@Avertedvision
achieved one of his lifelong astrophotography goals: capturing the atmospheric ring of Venus🌙🔭📷.
To find out how he did it, click here ->
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Just stumbled upon this brilliant image. We've seen plenty of ISS solar transits, but what about a Space Shuttle transit?
This shows the shadow of Atlantis as it crosses the Sun, 12 May 2009, captured near Kennedy Space Centre by astrophotographer
@ThierryLegault
.
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WIN! Tickets to
@Cmdr_Hadfield
's new live show in either London or Bristol. Info and 'how to enter' at the link
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A beautiful image of Saturn’s moon Dione in front of the planet’s rings, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on 17 August 2015.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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The twins, Castor and Pollux, in Gemini form a triangle with the slim crescent moon tonight.
Listen to the latest episode of the Star Diary podcast for more information, as well as other stargazing highlights.
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Happy Saturday!
This star-forming region is known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula, given its similarity to a feline footprint. It is 50 lightyears across and contains stars that are nearly ten times the mass of the Sun.
(ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)
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Mercury reaches greatest elongation tomorrow, making it a great time to start observing the planet in the evening sky:
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We spoke to ESA astronaut
@AstroSamantha
to find out what it's like living on the
#ISS
and the challenges in getting humans to Mars:
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Happy
#Saturday
!
This is spiral galaxy NGC 2008, located about 425 million lightyears from Earth.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini
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The Very Large Telescope captured this image of Antares; the most detailed image yet of any star apart from the Sun.
Credit: ESO/K. Ohnaka
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The crew of
@NASA
's Artemis 2 mission has now been announced.
The team includes the first woman, first person of colour and the first Canadian who will fly to the vicinity of the Moon.
Read more about the crew here ->
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Astronomers have discovered a pair of blazing black hole objects known as quasars on a collision course with one another in the early Universe.
🎆 ➡️ ⬅️ 🎆
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4 of the biggest stars in the Universe and how to see them for yourself:
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Happy
#PancakeDay
!
We’ve been looking at some cosmic pancakes: galaxies that appear edge-on when viewed from Earth.
These images by Hubble show galaxies as pancake-like structures, rather than face-on spirals.
The galaxies are NGC 3717, ESO 373-8, Messier 104 and NGC 5866.
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This nebula is known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, due to the fact that it resembles a feline foot.
It is about 5,500 lightyears across and contains stars that are nearly ten times the mass of our Sun.
(ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA
Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)
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A ring of star clusters surrounds the nucleus of what was once a spiral galaxy called AM 0644-741.
The ring is 150,000 lightyears in diameter - larger than the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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