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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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šµ Images of broken light / Which dance before / me like a million eyes / They call me on and on across the universe šā£ā£ā£
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@NASAHubble caught this star exploding, scattering stellar matter across the universe. In this zoomed in time-lapse sequence, spanning nearly a year, the supernova first appears as a blazing star located 70 million light-years away on a spiral galaxyās outer edge. At its peak, the supernova burst was 5 billion times as bright as our Sun. ā£ā£ā£
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The star sent elements like hydrogen, helium, and iron zooming through the cosmos. These same elements are in all of our bodies and they were forged in the stars. ā£ā£
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Keep shining.ā£ā£
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Credits: NASA/ESA/J. DePasquale (STScI), M. Kornmesser and M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)/A. Reiss (STScI/JHU) and the SH0ES team/Digitized Sky Surveyā£ā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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A Blue Snowball From Across the Universe!ā£
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Caldwell 22, also cataloged as NGC 7662 and nicknamed Blue Snowball Nebula, is located about 2,500 light-years from Earth. ā£
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It represents a stage in evolution that stars like our Sun undergo when they run out of fuel. ā£
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Stars are nuclear furnaces that spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium. Massive stars have fiery fates, exploding as supernovae, but medium-mass stars like the Sun swell to become red giants as they exhaust their fuel.ā£
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Hajian (University of Waterloo)ā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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What would you take with you on a trip to the Moon? š¤
We are getting ready for an important milestone: The Green Run Hot Fire test. This test will ignite all four main rocket engines for the Space Launch System ā the most powerful rocket ever built ā simultaneously for the first time.
We are one step closer to landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon, and so we would like to know: what would you take with you?
Submit your entry with the hashtag for a chance to be featured! Check out the link in the bio for details ā¬ļø
Image Credit: NASA
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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We Have Liftoff!ā£
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A @NorthropGrumman Antares rocket, with the companyās Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceportās Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 14th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station (@ISS) is carrying nearly 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.ā£
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On Monday, Oct. 5, Cygnus was successfully berthed to the space station. ā£
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Credit: NASA/Terry Zaperachā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Galactic Glamour Shot! šā£
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This spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Wolf sparkles from 60 million light-years away. ā£
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There was recently a supernova in the galaxy. This supernova (2017cbv) was a specific type, in which a white dwarf steals so much mass from a companion star that it becomes unstable and explodes, releasing enough energy to light up that part of the galaxy.ā£
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Credit: @EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamaniā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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šµ Whoa! Amber is the color of our energy šµ
A @NorthropGrumman Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft are ready for liftoff from @NASAWallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Cygnus, named the S.S. Kalpana Chawla after the first female astronaut of Indian descent, will deliver nearly 8,000 pounds of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station (@ISS). Launch is targeted at 9:38 p.m. EDT.
Credit: NASA/Patrick Black
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Mike Hopkins answered some of your questions during an Instagram Live, ahead of their Oct. 31 launch to the @iss on the @SpaceX Crew-1 mission. The crew mates, alongside @jaxajp astronaut Soichi Noguchi, are scheduled to launch aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft āResilienceā that will dock them to the International Space Station for a six-month stay. Once there, they will perform space station upgrades, conduct science experiments, and continue preparing humanity for future missions to the Moon and eventually Mars. ā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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The Doctor Is In!ā£ā£
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Astronauta. Ingeniera. MeĢdica. Astronaut. Engineer. Physician. Weāre with @nasa_es, our Spanish-language counterpart (Ā”hola!).ā£ā£
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Dr. Serena AunĢoĢn-Chancellor is all these things. A member of the 2009 Astronaut Class, her first trip to space was a stint aboard the International Space Station in 2018. Here she examines her eyes with a fundoscope as part of regular physical checkups on the station.ā£ā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Itās time to go to class with an astronaut! Astronauts train all over the world, including at @NASAJohnson. Here, they learn not just how to live aboard the @ISS, but also how to conduct science in microgravity. Come along with NASA Explorers as we head to astronaut science training.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Jupiterās roses: A cosmic bouquet just for you.ā£
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Not actual roses, these are in fact cyclones on Jupiterās north pole. These swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color are a rendering of an image from our Juno mission. The huge, persistent cyclone found at Jupiterās north pole is visible at the center of the image, encircled by smaller cyclones that range in size from 2,500 to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers). Together, this pattern of storms covers an area that would dwarf the Earth.ā£
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Citizen scientist Gerald EichstaĢdt made this composite image using data obtained by the JunoCam instrument during four of the Juno spacecraftās close passes by Jupiter, which took place between Feb. 17, 2020, and July 25, 2020. The greatly exaggerated color is partially a result of combining many individual images to create this view.ā£
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Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSā£
Image processing by Gerald EichstaĢdtā£
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Gazing into the blue, blue eyes of the universe. ā£
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Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. From radio waves to gamma rays, this "multiwavelength" approach to astronomy is crucial to getting a complete understanding of objects in space.ā£
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This is galaxy cluster Abell 2744. Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity, temperatures of tens of millions of degrees, which glow brightly in X-rays, and can be observed across millions of light years between the galaxies. This image combines X-rays from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (diffuse blue emission) with optical light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, and blue).ā£
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Image Credit: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STSciā£
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Oct 05 2020 GMT21:29
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What would you take with you on a trip to the Moon? š¤
We are getting ready for an important milestone: The Green Run Hot Fire test. This test will ignite all four main rocket engines for the Space Launch System ā the most powerful rocket ever built ā simultaneously for the first time.
We are one step closer to landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon, and so we would like to know: what would you take with you?
Submit your entry with the hashtag for a chance to be featured! Check out the link in the bio for details ā¬ļø
Image Credit: NASA
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Oct 08 2020 GMT15:54
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A Blue Snowball From Across the Universe!ā£
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Caldwell 22, also cataloged as NGC 7662 and nicknamed Blue Snowball Nebula, is located about 2,500 light-years from Earth. ā£
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It represents a stage in evolution that stars like our Sun undergo when they run out of fuel. ā£
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Stars are nuclear furnaces that spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium. Massive stars have fiery fates, exploding as supernovae, but medium-mass stars like the Sun swell to become red giants as they exhaust their fuel.ā£
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Hajian (University of Waterloo)ā£
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This post got 63% more likes
compared to @nasa's average. It uses 14% more hashtags
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Oct 02 2020 GMT18:45
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Galactic Glamour Shot! šā£
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This spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Wolf sparkles from 60 million light-years away. ā£
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There was recently a supernova in the galaxy. This supernova (2017cbv) was a specific type, in which a white dwarf steals so much mass from a companion star that it becomes unstable and explodes, releasing enough energy to light up that part of the galaxy.ā£
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Credit: @EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamaniā£
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This post got 61% more likes
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Oct 05 2020 GMT21:29
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What would you take with you on a trip to the Moon? š¤
We are getting ready for an important milestone: The Green Run Hot Fire test. This test will ignite all four main rocket engines for the Space Launch System ā the most powerful rocket ever built ā simultaneously for the first time.
We are one step closer to landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon, and so we would like to know: what would you take with you?
Submit your entry with the hashtag for a chance to be featured! Check out the link in the bio for details ā¬ļø
Image Credit: NASA
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This post got 129% more likes
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Sep 25 2020 GMT14:01
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Jupiterās roses: A cosmic bouquet just for you.ā£
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Not actual roses, these are in fact cyclones on Jupiterās north pole. These swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color are a rendering of an image from our Juno mission. The huge, persistent cyclone found at Jupiterās north pole is visible at the center of the image, encircled by smaller cyclones that range in size from 2,500 to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers). Together, this pattern of storms covers an area that would dwarf the Earth.ā£
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Citizen scientist Gerald EichstaĢdt made this composite image using data obtained by the JunoCam instrument during four of the Juno spacecraftās close passes by Jupiter, which took place between Feb. 17, 2020, and July 25, 2020. The greatly exaggerated color is partially a result of combining many individual images to create this view.ā£
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Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSā£
Image processing by Gerald EichstaĢdtā£
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This post got 72% more likes
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Oct 08 2020 GMT15:54
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A Blue Snowball From Across the Universe!ā£
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Caldwell 22, also cataloged as NGC 7662 and nicknamed Blue Snowball Nebula, is located about 2,500 light-years from Earth. ā£
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It represents a stage in evolution that stars like our Sun undergo when they run out of fuel. ā£
ā£
Stars are nuclear furnaces that spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium. Massive stars have fiery fates, exploding as supernovae, but medium-mass stars like the Sun swell to become red giants as they exhaust their fuel.ā£
ā£
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Hajian (University of Waterloo)ā£
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This post got 47% more likes
compared to @nasa's average. It uses 14% more hashtags
and its caption is 1% longer