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Your next trip: a flight to another world. 🪐
Send your name aboard NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon Titan and get a personalized boarding pass for the journey.
Become a Dragonflyer today: go.nasa.gov/dragonfly-names
ALT Poster with a peach-and-gold background that reads “Journey to Titan” in bold orange text, with a banner beneath it that says “Fly your name to another world!” Below the headline, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft flies through a hazy sky with its rotors spinning, with faint hexagon patterns in the background.
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#ICYMI: our Solar System has a newly-discovered dwarf planet candidate! Meet 2026 ED138, recently revealed by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory ☄
Let's get to know this new world a little bit, shall we?
rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…
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One of the biggest mysteries of the Wow! Signal is its exact location, with two possible positions in the sky. Our #AreciboWow team has solved this mystery using three independent methods. We’ll present our findings in 2027.
We know! 😉
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The Orionid meteor shower, created by tiny pieces of debris from Halley's Comet, peaks on the night of Oct. 21 - 22. Your best chance to see them comes a few hours before dawn, after the bright Moon sets. Find a dark location, give your eyes time to adjust, and look up.
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A blazar is an active galactic nucleus with a relativistic jet (composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed towards the observer.
A quasar is the same kind of object but with its jet directed to another direction.
Illustration: Pablo della Paolera
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
ALT Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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Our Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been switched on for the first time, a major milestone on the way to its 2028 launch.
The ESA-JAXA mission will rendezvous with asteroid Apophis and study it during its exceptionally close flyby of Earth in April 2029.
🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
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:: Á51dC#408 :: The Comsat Angels | Opéra de Nuit | Corps Diplomatique | Mica | Boy Harsher | Buenos Vampiros | Línea Vienesa | Maquia | White Flowers | Band Of Susans.
ivoox.com/408-domingo-20-09-…
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Vamos a desmontar uno de los mitos más extendidos del Camino de Santiago y el mundo jacobeo.
La finalidad del botafumeiro compostelano.
HILO🧵
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Shades on and batteries charging! 😎 🔋
Roman’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Lower Instrument Sun Shade have successfully deployed, powering the observatory and shading its instruments!
go.nasa.gov/4gw2rqc
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#PPOD: Over Lugo, Spain 🌉
The August 12, 2026, total #solareclipse was photographed above the Roman Bridge of Lugo, Spain, and reflected in the Miño River.
Taking this photo took three days of planning—scouting good spots in the city to capture a beautiful, representative shot. Photographer Antonio Rull brought two cameras and took 340 photos during the 84 seconds of totality.
Credit: Antonio Rull
#planetaryscience
ALT Total solar eclipse with a bright corona centered above a historic multi-arched stone bridge at twilight, the darkened sun and glowing ring reflected as a vertical streak on the calm river below, framed by silhouetted trees.
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Busco a dos científicos/ingenieros para trabajar en nuestro nuevo proyecto de Defensa Planetaria.
Más info aquí: lightbridges.es/wp-content/u…
Perfiles abiertos, remoto y flexible. Obligatorio tener doctorado.
‼️We're hiring 2 PhD scientists/engineers to help us build a GPU-accelerated detection platform for hazardous near-Earth objects and space debris, as part as our project CORVUS.
Fully remote, worldwide.
👉More info: lightbridges.es/wp-content/u…
Como se mutean los post con fotos del eclipse?
Dejadnos con la imagen que hemos vivido cada uno, que para edo nos hemos jodido los ojos
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Based on current information, the Cebreros station appears to have remained unharmed. My deepest thanks go to the Spanish emergency services whose efforts helped protect the site as wildfires approached.
The safety of our people remains my highest priority. All ESA workforce is safe and accounted for, although many colleagues continue to be affected by the wider emergency situation. I keep you all in my thoughts.
We remain in close contact with the relevant authorities as the situation continues to evolve. As always, I will keep my workforce and the public informed. Please keep safe.
Extreme heat and subsequent wildfires are the clearest indication that our climate is changing. I pledge to continue to advocate for increased monitoring and understanding of our planet.
More info: esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_n…
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