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Jason Major
JPMajor
Saturn's moon Prometheus, imaged by #Cassini on December 6, 2015. The F ring can be seen in the background at top. Here’s a wider view showing Prometheus in contexthttps://twitter.com/jpmajor/status/1291452836631511040 Here's
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Zaeppli 🇿🇦 🇻🇦
zaeppli
Hi! Let me explain this to you! These are the cries of Saturn: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2-P8hG5-EThe sounds recorded near Saturn by satellites are very obviously screaming. Screams of the damned, sent there
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Ash Jogalekar
curiouswavefn
Thread: The wigs of 17th century scientists.Best wig - Leibniz Most intimidating wig - Newton Most symmetric wig - Huygens Most intricate wig - Leeuwenhoek Best interrupted wig - Halley
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Sophia Gad-Nasr
Astropartigirl
Yeah dude I just HATE knowing how things work! Who the fuck CARES how the Universe will die, or that we don't understand 95% of it SO WHAT. I hate
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Matthew Kenworthy
mattkenworthy
Research isn't a nice, linear process. It's like climbing a tree on a moonless light, trying to reach the top. You have a general idea which direction you are headed,
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Dr. James O'Donoghue
physicsJ
Saturn's rings are a rainbow of ice scupted into position by gravity. Here's a natural colour 17 megapixel image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Distances listed are from Saturn's center;
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New Year, New Jasmine 🤩🎉2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣
astro_jaz
Welcome to Space Facts Saturday! Today’s Topic: Subsurface Oceans (1) In our continued search for life outside of Earth, scientists have come to the conclusion that water equals life.
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Dr. James O'Donoghue
physicsJ
Why are Saturn's rings disappearing? An animated thread! We published our work Dec 17, 2018. Full press release / full video: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2018/ring-rain. BEGIN! Saturn's rings cover a surface area 80
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New Year, New Jasmine 🤩🎉2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣
astro_jaz
What would it feel like to fall through the gas giants? A thread (1) Jupiter: You would begin your journey at the high, ammonia clouds, where it is very cold
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Michael J. Malaska
mike_malaska
Here an animation showing valley formation from SOLUBLE rocks. This time the white LEGO layer is soluble. It dissolves deep, along cracks. Then collapses upward to open up the valleys.
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Cherry🕸 CEO of Hayden’s gifs
peakyanakin
Hayden Christensen Cinematography Universe A thread #HaydenChristensen 1992 ~ Forever Knight Hayden Christensen as Andre #HaydenChristensen 1993 ~ Family Passions Hayden Christensen as Skip McDeere#HaydenChristensen 1994 ~ In
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Conor A Nixon
Shamrocketeer
Starting a thread to highlight the research work of 16 (and counting) incredible interns that have worked with me at @NASAGoddard in the last decade. [1/n] I sometimes hear that
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Venkatesh Rao
vgr
Something I’ve been thinking about. The earliest telescopes after Galileo were often very high f numbers to mitigate chromatic aberration because they didn’t know how to make achromatic lenses and
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Rami Mandow 🏳️🌈
CosmicRami
Few days back the team from NANOGrav made an awesome announcement, up there with my studies & was similar subject to my last major research project for my #AstronomyMasters! A
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