I was getting annoyed at this bright artifact in this all sky image...and then I realized it's just Orion Nebula 😅

Stack of astronomical images of the Milky Way

Year of Space Facts: Week 16/52 🔭🧪🛰️

The Milky Way is gorgeous in visible light, but there is so much more to it! In light ranging from radio waves a meter long to high energy gamma rays, our galaxy is beautiful in every perspective.

📸 NASA

I'm thinking ankle and shoulder

Yes, exactly! I'm 6'4" so there's room

I'm just worried one day ads will be gone and I'll have no idea what to do with SciX 😭

Screenshot reading "It would be possible to do a scale model of the Earth and moon as a tattoo... Would be about .6 inches diameter for the moon

Guys I'm 38 years old and have no tattoos and have had this note saved for years now...

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Has the time finally come for me to stop hitting ignore every time I'm on ads and actually visit SciX...

A tourism poster reading "Relax on Kepler-16b The land of two suns Where your shadow always has company"

Year of Space Facts: Week 15/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Planets CAN have two suns in their sky! The first one discovered was Kepler-16b in 2011. It stays stable despite the 3-body-problem-ness because its orbit (at 0.7 AU) is large compared to the orbit between the two stars (at 0.23 AU).

📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech

Welcome home, Artemis II! 🚀

Jupiter against a dark background crowned with bright blue swirls

Year of Space Facts: Week 14/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Bright auroras on Jupiter are driven not just by the solar wind, like on Earth & Saturn, but also from plasma ejected by its super-volcanic moon Io. All the Galilean moons interact with the plasma around Jupiter and cause bright "footprints" in its aurora.

📸NASA

🧡🧡 It's always possible to have fun with math!!

A crescent earth peeking out from behind the cratered moon

A crescent earth small compared to the quarter moon visible but dark in the foreground

The dark moon eclipsing the sun exposing the bright corona with a few stars visible in the background

I am UNWELL!!!!!! These pictures are SO AMAZINGGGGGG

A few of my favorites of the images NASA released from yesterday's Artemis II lunar flyby. The crescent Earth? The solar eclipse?!? The details on the Moon?!?!? perfection

Had some fun playing around with Artemis II ephemeris data!

Thank you ☺️ I love a good bob!

Side by side photos of a woman with long pink hair and a short bob beneath a picture of Halley's Comet with a long and short tail

Did I chop off all my hair and then use that as an excuse to make a video about comet tails?

Obviously! Just living my best scicomm life 👩‍🔬

I very much appreciate that the answer to "Do Papers with Titles Ending in a Question Mark Usually Have the Answer “No”?" is not, in fact, no

"we conclude a Hollyfeld Gambit is a better bet than a federal grant by the end of the decade if current
trends hold"

🥲🥲

Roughly 22 septillion blue whales by mass... 🐳

Year of Space Facts: Week 13/52 🔭🧪🛰️

The hydrogen in water can sometimes be deuterium, a heavier H isotope. Here on Earth, the D/H ratio of water is 156 ppm. But in comets, that ratio can be 1-3x higher! The extra deuterium indicates comets formed farther out in the system.

📸ESA/Rosetta/NavCam

Year of Space Facts: Week 12/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Neutrinos from supernovae can reach us before the light—without going faster than the speed of light! This is because they ignore matter and zip right out of the star's core. In 1987, 25 neutrinos reached us ~3 hours before the light of SN1987A!

Year of Space Facts: Week 11/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Mercury is pretty small, just 0.055 the mass of Earth and 0.38 the radius of Earth, but it's still more massive than Draugr (0.02 M🜨) and larger than Kepler-37b (0.3 R🜨)!

It's fun to say!

Spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters.

Year of Space Facts: Week 10/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Only 6% of galaxies are these iconic "Grand Design" spiral galaxies with two prominent and well-defined arms, like the gorgeous Whirlpool Galaxy. Our lovely Milky Way itself might be one!

📸 NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Year of Space Facts: Week 9/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Celestial bodies are generally spherically due to gravity—but not perfectly spherical due to spinning! Faster spinning = more bulging, like the oblate star α Eridani with an equatorial radius about 40% larger than its polar radius!

Just a girlie sitting on my couch watching Love is Blind while I hand classify inputs for my machine learning model ☺️

Oh good news I forgot about winds so it's only a 14 hour flight!

Feels like it! Sydney to LA

Chandra Release - November 17, 2011 Visual Description: Cygnus X-1 The graphic features two panels on the stellar-mass black hole Cygnus X-1. On the left, an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows a large field around the black hole, outlined in a red box at the very center. Cygnus X-1 is located near large active regions of star formation in our Milky Way, as pictured in this image that spans some 700 light years across. An artist's illustration on the right depicts what astronomers think is happening within the Cygnus X-1 system. Cygnus X-1 is part of a class of black holes that comes from the collapse of a massive star. The black hole is shown pulling material from a massive, blue companion star toward it. This material forms a disk (colored in bright red and orange) that rotates around the black hole before falling into it or being redirected away from the black hole in the form of thin, powerful jets. The Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes combined to determine the spin, mass, and distance to this black hole more precisely than ever before.

Year of Space Facts: Week 8/52 🔭🧪🛰️

Cygnus X-1, the first known black hole, was discovered as an X-ray source in 1964 and is observable only because of mass being accreted from its stellar companion. It is so compact that it has to be a black hole!

📸: DSS; NASA/CXC/M.Weiss