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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 20d

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 49m

The coma, the fuzzy atmosphere around a comet, can extend for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, making it larger than many planets.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

...al atoms of particular gases. The northern nucleus also hosts a black hole with some 100 million times the mass of the Sun!

Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASAAcknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla)
Source: ESA/Hubble

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

... are very different. IRAS 16399S appears to be a starburst region, where new stars are forming at an incredible rate. IRAS 16399N, however, is something known as a LINER nucleus (Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Region), which is a region whose emission mostly stems from weakly-ionised or neutr...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

.... The two components, named IRAS 16399N and IRAS 16399S for the northern and southern parts respectively, sit over 11 000 light-years apart. However, they are both buried deep within the same swirl of cosmic gas and dust and are interacting, giving the galaxy its peculiar structure.
The nuclei...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

...’s superb sensitivity, resolution, and field of view gave astronomers the unique opportunity to observe the structure of IRAS 16399-0937 in detail. They found that IRAS 16399-0937 hosts a double nucleus — the galaxy’s core is thought to be formed of two separate cores in the process of merging...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

...nergetic nature, instead painting it as a beautiful and serene cosmic rosebud. The image comprises observations captured across various wavelengths by two of Hubble’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
NICMOS...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

...ntially acts as an astronomical laser that beams out microwave emission rather than visible light (hence the ‘m’ replacing the ‘l’).
This megamaser is named IRAS 16399-0937, and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image belies the galaxy’s e...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 54m

A cosmic megamaser
Image date: 26 December 2016, 06:00

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it is a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way. The entire galaxy esse...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 58m

...9.43931102,-178.71499392

At 02 : 50 UTC, in 2 hours time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over Meybod, Yazd Province, Iran, 32.00084406,53.54976974
#Tiangong

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 58m

Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking

The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 79447X6G+F74

Latitude 12.26112649
Longitude -37.02430414

Orbiting at 15,612.60 miles/hour
Altitude of 391.79 km

At 01 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 42G3H76P+72C, -3...

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

.... The Salyut program followed this with five more successful launches out of seven more stations. The final module of the program, Zvezda (DOS-8) became the core of the Russian segment of the International Space Station and remains in orbit.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

The Salyut 1 space station
Launched to space on Mon Apr 19 1971
De-Orbited on Mon Oct 11 1971
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Owned by
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Salyut 1 (DOS-1) was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

... 02 : 30 UTC, in 2 hours time, the ISS will be passing over 6C65RHR3+QR3, -5.1581045296399,-16.445453639559
#ISS

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

International Space Station Tracking
The ISS is currently over 455Q2M93+C6M

Latitude -46.981400450437
Longitude -104.34696291888

Orbiting at 17,117.00 miles/hour
Altitude of 498.72km

At 01 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 8QJR9XFF+897, 42.373276893353,136.97341920398

At...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

... stellar energy, beyond a standard star system. Lena, can we artificially replicate the resonant frequencies of the lattice to draw its attention?' The stakes were astronomical, but the survival of countless star systems depended on their success.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

Short space sci-fi

Series: Chronicles of the Expanse

Episode 22: Thorne formulated a daring plan. 'If we can lure the Void Maw into a sufficiently energy-rich environment, then rapidly withdraw, it might force that metabolic shift. Jax, calculate the nearest region with a high concentration of...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

... a United States Air Force fighter pilot Colonel, test pilot, a Civil Air Patrol member, and a NASA astronaut. He flew as the pilot of Space Shuttle missions STS-126 and STS-133.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

Astronaut Eric Boe
Active
Nationality: American
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Born on Thu Oct 1 1964, 61 years old
2 flights and 0 spacewalks
First flight was on Sat Nov 15 2008, 17 years ago and the last flight was on Thu Feb 24 2011, 15 years ago

Eric Allen Boe is...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

... Orbit
Mission
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

Rocket Launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-5
On 2025-10-20 at 14:00:00 UTC | 1 days, 13 hours, 44 mins
By SpaceX
Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch pad: Space Launch Complex 4E, located at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Orbit: Low Earth...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

...loudy
06:00:00 - Partially cloudy
12:00:00 - Overcast
18:00:00 - Rain, Partially cloudy
23:00:00 - Rain, Partially cloudy

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

Today's weather in Aragua de Barcelona, Aragua, Anzoátegui, Venezuela is Partly cloudy throughout the day with storms possible.

Temperature: 27˚C, 80.4˚F
Minimum temperature: 23˚C, 73.3˚F
Maximum temperature: 34˚C, 92.7˚F
Sunrise at 06:07:39 and sunset at 18:00:44

Hourly
00:00:00 - Partially c...

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h

Venus rotates so slowly that its day is longer than its year.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 2h

Mercury has a very thin atmosphere, often referred to as an exosphere, which is composed of atoms blasted off its surface by the solar wind and micrometeoroid impacts.

Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 2h

...4684,116.14385343

At 00 : 50 UTC, in 2 hours time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 7945H9W2+J4M, 12.59658357,-36.64970964
#Tiangong