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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Good afternoon!Look at the awesome pics my kid got of the moon last night!I hope you have a fantastic Friday!<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/greetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greetings</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LunarEclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LunarEclipse</a>

Corey S PowellHere it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Science | The GuardianSwollen eyeballs, baby-like skin, and the overview effect: how astronauts feel when they return to earth <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/swollen-eyeballs-baby-like-skin-and-the-overview-effect-how-astronauts-feel-when-they-return-to-earth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/swollen-eyeballs-baby-like-skin-and-the-overview-effect-how-astronauts-feel-when-they-return-to-earth</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/InternationalSpaceStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalSpaceStation</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Nasa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nasa</a>

Frankie ✅Images from last night's Lunar Eclipse.Credit to u/Rainman_72 Source: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ypsi/comments/1jb04g6/while_you_were_sleeping/#lightbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/ypsi/comments/1jb04g6/while_you_were_sleeping/#lightbox</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eclipse</a>

Corey S PowellHere's the other Mars moon -- Phobos, a bit larger and closer, but still not much more than a space potato.The Mars Express orbiter captured Phobos circling over the Martian surface, looking like a rock just hanging out in space. (Which is basically what it is.)<a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230731.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230731.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>

Corey S PowellSee that little gray rock?That's Deimos, the mysterious outer moon of Mars, spied yesterday as the Hera spacecraft buzzed by the Red Planet. Little Deimos is just 12km (8 miles) wide.Such a cool shot.<a href="https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a>

Corey S PowellThe "smallest known galaxy" sounds like an oxymoron (akin to the old joke, "jumbo shrimp"). But the discovery of Andromeda XXXV, just one-millionth the size of our Milky Way, offers serious clues about how coherent structures form & survive in a chaotic universe. <a href="https://news.umich.edu/small-faint-and-unexpected-in-a-lot-of-different-ways-u-m-astronomers-make-galactic-discovery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.umich.edu/small-faint-and-unexpected-in-a-lot-of-different-ways-u-m-astronomers-make-galactic-discovery/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a>

Texas Observer“The environment is very cluttered already. Satellites are constantly dodging right and left. As long as we are emitting greenhouse gases, we are increasing the probability that we see more collision events between objects in <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>.” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/earth-orbit-satellites-greenhouse-gases-spacex/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/earth-orbit-satellites-greenhouse-gases-spacex/</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

TSL PublicationsCraig Carter The Impossible Mission – Ilona Hawkins <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Preview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://tslbooks.uk/craig-carter-the-impossible-mission-ilona-hawkins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tslbooks.uk/craig-carter-the-impossible-mission-ilona-hawkins</a>

Frankie ✅Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning <a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a64162022/space-three-body-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a64162022/space-three-body-problem/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>

65dBnoiseAnd this is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a>'s animated approach of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deimos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deimos</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hera</a> from the post:𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀’𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻<a href="https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon</a>Images: ESA<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solarocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solarocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

65dBnoise<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hera</a>'s Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager took this image, shown here in raw form; the Sun's contribution makes Mars appear blue, but that will be later on removed to reveal Mars' spectral response.The dark spot is Deimos (Δείμος, pronounced [deemos] in modern Greek)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deimos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deimos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solarocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solarocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

65dBnoise<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hera</a>'s Mars flyby occurred yesterday and today <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a>'s live stream revealed images from its closest approach, featuring the far side of the tidally-locked moon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deimos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deimos</a>, and a lot more.Images and animation are from the live steam.Recorded live stream (at start of live coverage): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cHiASEowrio?t=539" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/embed/cHiASEowrio?t=539</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solarocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solarocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Didymos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Didymos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

AkaSci 🛰️Coming up at 10:50 UTC (06:50 EDT), a star-studded event on the Mars flyby of the Hera spacecraft performed yesterday.The Hera science team will present images from the flyby, joined by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, renowned science fiction writer Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary, and astrophysicist, stereoscopist and guitarist Dr. Brian May.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEowrio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEowrio</a> <a href="https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Watch_live_Images_from_Hera_s_Mars_flyby" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Watch_live_Images_from_Hera_s_Mars_flyby</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a> 4/n

Glyn MoodyScientists hunted for planets around our cosmic neighbor. They found 4. - <a href="https://mashable.com/article/planets-discovery-barnards-star-cosmic-neighbor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mashable.com/article/planets-discovery-barnards-star-cosmic-neighbor</a> "It’s a really exciting find." it is, its... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>

AkaSci 🛰️Having completed its close flyby of Mars, the Hera spacecraft has turned its antenna towards Earth and has been downlinking telemetry, science data and images to ESA’s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.The science team is busy processing the images – including astrophysicist, stereoscopist and guitarist Dr. Brian May 🎸 Images will be unveiled during tomorrow's webcast!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hera</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a> 3/n

YogthosChina unveils new 100 kW high-thrust magnetoplasmadynamic thruster they tested is poised to pave the way for future space travel, with applications in interstellar journeys, interplanetary cargo transport and deep-space exploration.Looks like China will be the one building the Star Trek future.<a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/11/WS67cf94a7a310c240449da0b8.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/11/WS67cf94a7a310c240449da0b8.html</a><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>

David AugustToday I learned there’s a crater on the planet Mercury named for the actress Billie Burke, most famous for playing Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Wizard of Oz; it is near the North Pole on Mercury. <a href="https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15433" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15433</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/actors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actors</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/acting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WizardOfOz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WizardOfOz</a>

Texas ObserverFrom our friends at <a href="https://journa.host/@grist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@grist</a>: At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. But <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> is getting crowded. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/earth-orbit-satellites-greenhouse-gases-spacex/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/earth-orbit-satellites-greenhouse-gases-spacex/</a><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a>

AkaSci 🛰️The largest camera ever built for astrophysics (3200-megapixels, >3000 kg) was installed this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, the final major component of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope, was transported to the summit in May 2024.After a few more months of testing, first light is expected around 4 Jul 2025.<a href="https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2511/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2511/</a> <a href="https://www.lsst.org/about/project-status" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lsst.org/about/project-status</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> 1/n

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