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1/22/19
'The Jurassic Way...'#worbarrowbay on the #Dorset #jurassiccoast, plays host to the #milkyway @B_Ubiquitous @BBCEarth @StormHour #nikon #samyanguk #astrophotography #nightsky #astronomy pic.twitter.com/kqgZce2tVC
— Naturehawk Photo (@NaturehawkPhoto) January 22, 2019
2/6/19
This was a sweeping shot of the 70M antenna surface. Just when you think it isn't that big @Astro0Glen kindly walks into view to put it all into perspective ... No, its jaw dropping big! @CanberraDSN pic.twitter.com/dyks3B8i7J
— Richard Stephenson (@nascom1) February 6, 2019
2/6/19
John Carter in Australia captured this image last weekend. He told us: “Being a hot night, I couldn't sleep. So I got up and drove out to the local Mullinger Swamp ..."
— EarthSky (@earthskyscience) February 6, 2019
View at EarthSky Community Photos: https://t.co/huqOWr9gVe
Here's John https://t.co/30JviSaqpx pic.twitter.com/GEBi27rHAU
2/12/19
NASA shares some of its greatest hits... the impact crater variety! Take a journey through Martian blast patterns, the Death Star-like moon of Saturn and the Mercury basin bigger than Texas: https://t.co/1tzWvuCjvX pic.twitter.com/t0Rzo8mv6o
— NASA360 (@NASA360) February 12, 2019
2/22/19
#HubbleFriday We see two dominant elliptical galaxies near the center of the image. The gravity from the galaxy cluster where these galaxies reside is acting as a gravitational lens, allowing us to view the more distant galaxies sitting behind them: https://t.co/jyaZsr9ebM pic.twitter.com/8JISzYS8jE
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) February 22, 2019
3/12/19
Sound up!
— Johns Hopkins APL (@JHUAPL) March 11, 2019
These are chorus waves, radio waves emitted by energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere. The sound was captured by the #VanAllenProbes' EMFISIS Instrument. Today the team performs burn 1 on spacecraft A to lower the perigee. https://t.co/PHUZfqPRW4 pic.twitter.com/poqbtfvwdr
3/14/19
I took this shot of he Milky Way through a crystal ball a few days ago at Paranal Observatory. It looks like a cosmic marble!#AstroPhotography pic.twitter.com/gyUYQffblj
— Juan Carlos Munoz (@astro_jcm) June 19, 2018
3/19/19
The White House is considering cuts of nearly $500 million to NASA’s budget for FY 2020. We cannot let this happen!
— Planetary Society (@exploreplanets) March 19, 2019
Donate now to advance our critical face-to-face space advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C. at https://t.co/O4cvPhZ4tl pic.twitter.com/4u4REKdcpl
7/8/19
"27 years ago #Today, comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 flew by Jupiter and broke into several fragments https://t.co/s1AVLTrWDV"
Read more from Twitter6/29/20
Some of you might be interested in watching this particular account, run by Kevin Jardine:
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/
Jardine also runs this website:
http://galaxymap.org/
Jardine's main project is mapping our galaxy as accurately as possible.
Dwight