A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its staff amid “stories of possible harassment.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nasa-official-warns-staff-trump-harassment-federal-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NASA #Space #Government #USPolitics #Trump

A Halo for Andromeda
Credits: #NASA, ESA, STScI
#nature #space #astrophotography

Even rightwingers are mocking the ‘Epstein files’ as a lot of redacted nothing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/01/epstein-files-trump-administration #Contraceptionandfamilyplanning #Trumpadministration #Capitalpunishment #GhislaineMaxwell #Thespaceshuttle #JeffreyEpstein #Lifeandstyle #AndrewTate #USpolitics #JeffBezos #KatyPerry #PamBondi #Feminism #Abortion #Children #PeppaPig #Society #Gender #CardiB #USnews #Women #Media #Women #Space #Gaza

Auroral Storm over Lapland
Credits: Juan Carlos Casado, Starry Earth, TWAN
#nature #space #astrophotography

🚨 2024 YR4 asteroid impact update!

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the #asteroid with our planet. The asteroid has been closely monitored in the past couple of months as its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to around 3%, the highest impact probability ever reached for a sizable asteroid. After the latest observations, the odds of impact dropped to nearly zero.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2505/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

1/ When we first joined #mastodon we posted an image of our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile, and we loved the enthusiasm it generated! Today we share with you a stunning time-lapse of the construction during last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcVJf0imso

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

We can now safely say, asteroid 2024 YR4 is not coming for us after all.

Latest observations indicate that the asteroid has just a 0.0039% risk of hitting Earth in 2032. But there's still a small chance it could hit the Moon.

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4 #science #space #2024YR4

Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant
Credits: David Lindemann
#nature #space #astrophotography

The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
Credits: Voyager Project, #JPL, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

Elon Musk Loses It After Astronaut Dares Calls Out His Lie

#ElonMusk called a famous astronaut a slur simply because he countered one of his newest talking points.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191782/elon-musk-loses-astronaut-dares-calls-lie

“What a lie,” Danish #astronaut Andreas Mogensen wrote... in reply to #Musk parroting the talking point yet again on #FoxNews. “And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream #media"

Musk exploded."

#Musk #Lies #Space #Astronauts #ISS #SpaceStation

Very nice zoom-out from our recently discovered Einstein Ring in the very center to the whole galaxy NGC 6505 (on #ESA's
Instagram):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGTUyumMWsc/

#science #space #astronomy

Proba-3 is a highly under-publicized new space mission.

Two spacecraft will fly in formation to create solar eclipses on demand. The same basic technology could eventually lead to huge, virtual space observatories & to telescopes that can bring other Earths into view.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba_Missions/Proba-3_Technologies #science #space #astronomy #esa

Gerade über Königs Wusterhausen (Blickrichtung Norden) gesehen. Zugrichtung der Lichtpunkte von West nach Ost. Kurz vorher waren die einzelnen Lichtpunkte noch kompakter. Was war das? #konigs_wusterhausen #wildau #space #orbit @DLR @ntv @rbb @heiseonline

To all you #SciFi #writers out there,

Please please please please have an astrophysicist or aerospace engineer review your book before publishing.

I'm reading an award-winning scifi book right now and while the writing is good and the author obviously tried to get the science details down, they also obviously didn't do much more than read wikipedia. It's getting painful to read.

#Authors #bookstodon #books #writing #ScienceFiction #Space

How long does it take for each planet to orbit the Sun?

#space #science

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
Credits: Jason Ware
#nature #space #astrophotography

... and how could we miss

Solar Orbiter's 5th birthday on February 10!

ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission lifted off on an Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new perspectives. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Liftoff_for_Solar_Orbiter_ESA_s_mission_to_face_the_Sun_up_close

See the many exciting things it has accomplished since: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter

And in ESA's new blog post, meet the women behind the mission https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/02/Celebrating_Solar_Orbiter_and_the_women_behind_the_mission

Can you spot all the #MPSGöttingen scientists, engineers and #IMPRS doctoral researchers and alumni in the mosaic image?

#Sun #SolarPhysics #Space #SolarOrbiter #ESA #NASA

Happy 15th birthday SDO!

The Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched on this day 15 years ago: SDO launched on February 11, 2010, 10:23 am EST on an Atlas V from SLC 41 from Cape Canaveral.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/
http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory

SDO continues to provide our scientists with valuable data for solar physics research ...
https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/SearchResultListPage.jsp?q=%28+TITLE%3D%22SDO%22+%29+&searchType=advanced

... and to allow @dlr_next to brighten up Fediverse's mornings with their treasured daily posts of our favorite star!

#OTD #SDO #NASA #Sun #SolarPhysics #Space

This was a challenging photo. I captured it about 7 years ago while driving from Salt Lake City up to southern Montana to be in a friend's wedding. When I started looking into the logistics of my arrival time, I realized there would be an opportunity to photograph the Milky Way somewhere under the dark skies of northern Utah or southern Idaho. Not wanting to stray too far off the highway, I looked for areas that might offer a unique foreground for the composition.

I soon realized that the highway alignment (northwest to southeast) would allow for a "highway to the stars" type of image, and started looking for an ideal overpass. This one caught my eye and I couldn't have been happier with the results. It took some time to capture, as it was necessary to get all of the Milky Way images without traffic on the highway, and then of course I needed to get a few images with light trails from the cars on the highway below.

I didn't have star tracker at the time, but other than that there are few things I would've changed considering the challenge and how it turned out!

#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #MilkyWay #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Credits: Robert Gendler, Stephane Guisard
#nature #space #astrophotography

#Gaza from #Space

Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturns Enceladus
Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, #JPL, ESA, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

Coming Monday, 10 February, #ESAEuclid will present a new science result. Something something ... special nearby galaxy something... 😀 #ESA press release is being finalized, consortium blog post being written, paper will be in A&A. It will be cool and beautiful and colourful and amazing. 🤩 We are excited to finally share this with the world.

#astronomy #galaxies #space #EuclidLeaks

Der Gemini Digital Computer ist der erste in einem bemannten Raumfahrzeug eingesetzete Digitalrechner. Er wurde 1962 von #IBM entwickelt und verfügte über eine Taktrate von 7,142 kHz und einen Speicher von 19,5 kB. Er wog 26,75 kg.

#IT #NASA #Space

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Digital_Computer

Concern about SpaceX influence at NASA grows with new appointee. “Morale at the space agency is absurdly low, sources say.” https://www.byteseu.com/712909/ #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceTechnology

Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Credits: Viking Project, USGS, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

#PPOD: Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, measures 27 x 22 x 18 kilometers. It orbits Mars three times a day and is so close to the surface that it is not always visible from certain locations on Mars. This colorized image was created using a single shot from ESA's Mars Express, not a composite image. The satellite's camera scans the Martian surface, stretching the view as it moves by. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin; Andrea Luck

#space #science #scicomm

1/ We have to agree with astronomer David H. Levy here: "Comets are like #cats : they have tails, and they do precisely what they want."

Since you loved the images of #comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) that we shared recently, here are some more, taken from our Paranal Observatory in #Chile. This lovely #BlackAndWhite image was taken by our colleague Juan Beltrán, an engineer at Paranal.

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2505a/

📷 J. Beltrán/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space

#space #ISS #Earth #livevideo

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Hello! Nice to meet you!
My name is Benedetta (Benny) and I am Italian. 🇮🇹
I am a science communicator and an Analog Astronaut. 👩🏻‍🚀
My goal is to become the next Italian woman to fly to space! 🚀
I am a citizen scientist for NASA and also an asteroid huntress ☄️

#space #moon #mars #nasa #aerospace #astronaut #astronauta #cosmonaut #spacewalk #spacesuit #rocket #rocketscience #spacetravel #spaceflight

A Jupiter-Io Montage from New Horizons
Credits: #NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI
#nature #space #astrophotography