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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 12h ago
Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running. With the first light planned for the end of the decade, the ELT and its groundbreaking 39-metre main mirror will take on some of the biggest challenges in #astronomy and, ultimately, help us understand our place in the #Universe. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2617a/ 📷 ESO/G. Vecchia #astrodon #astrophysics #space #science
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@CosmicRami@aus.social · 6d ago
Hubble vs. My Backyard's Scope! First of all, happy B'day Hubble Space Telescope! Still the OG space-based telescope that changed our perspective of the Universe. For the B'day, NASA/ESA released an image of a section of the Trifid Nebula (left). You can see a nodule from inside the nebula and a thin stellar jet formed by a young stellar object buried inside the cloud. That's about 0.75 light-years in length. On the right is my 1-hour photo from my backyard - and the jet appears there too! Unlike Hubble, my backyard rig only has a 20cm aperture and has a whole lot of atmosphere, as well as city lights, to deal with. So it is really neat to be able to get that level of detail in 1 hour of observing. See the original Hubble image here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_turns_36_with_a_dazzling_Trifid_Nebula_portrait #TrifidNebula #Astrophotography #Science #Hubble #Astronomy #Astrodon
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
This isn't a scene from Star Wars. What you're looking at is the Tarantual Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets. But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/ 📷 A. Berdeu/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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@pomarede@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years. https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/ #Voyager #science #news #space #spacecraft #astrodon
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Apr 17, 2026
At long last -- our #GoldStar winner for the #constellation Sagitta! Learn more here (and tune in tomorrow for our new episode on the #mythology of Sagitta): https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/sagitta-cosmic-background/ 📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/potw2117a/ #astrophotography #space #science #Astrodon #astonomy #Sagitta #NecklaceNebula #Hubble #ESA #NASA
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Apr 15, 2026
It might not have won my #GoldStar for our #constellation Sagitta (listen here for more https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/sagitta-cosmic-background/) but I'm always gonna celebrate a globular cluster!!! This is Messier 71, it's located 13,000 LY from Earth & 27 LY across. 📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/potw1018a/ #astronomy #AstroDon #astrophotography #space #science #stars #GlobularCluster #Sagitta #Constellations
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@CosmicRami@aus.social · Apr 15, 2026
ohhhh, this is good! Using the 3.9m AAT, Sarah Caddy and Lee Spitler (from our school!) were able to track Orion on its return trajectory ... ... when the astronauts were still 200,000 km away from Earth! 🤯 That's at a distance of ~16 Earth diameters away, and Orion is a tiny tiny tiny spaceship at such great distances .... But a big 3.9m telescope is also a handy toy to play with! via AAL LinkedIn #ArtemisII #Astrodon #Australia #Telescopes
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
Taxi, please! 🚖👋 ALMA consists of 66 antennas that work together like a single gigantic telescope in the Chilean Andes. They can be rearranged in different layouts to discern various levels of detail. This is where these yellow trucks come in. Each truck can carry a 100-tonne antenna and put it in place with a precision of a few millimetres! Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2615a/ 📷 S. Otarola/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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@pomarede@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls https://flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis #ChristinaKoch #Orion #spacecraft #orionspacecraft #space #science #news #NASA #astrodon #photography #Artemis2
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Apr 10, 2026
Live stream of the #Artemis2 return -- currently in scheduled communication black out -- ~10 min to #splash down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A #NASA #Artemis_II #artemis #space #science #astrodon #astro
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@simonbp@social.linux.pizza · Apr 06, 2026
Saw an old friend yesterday. I got to fly on SOFIA for the Arrokoth occultation in 2017. I calculated the ground track we used, and extracted the occultation light curve from very noisy data. Now at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA. #astrodon #avgeek
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Apr 02, 2026
Our pale blue dot as seen from the Artemis II mission 📷 :https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-update-perigee-raise-burn-complete/ #artemis #Artemis2 #Artemis_II #Orion #Astrophotography #space #science #astronomy #Earth #astroDon #NASA
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Apr 02, 2026
There's really only one way to come back from #hiatus / getting lost in the woods with Chiron ... coming Saturday! 📷 :https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25966-jovian-family-portrait/ #Astrophotography #astronomy #astrodon #podcast #Jupiter #moons #return
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Mar 12, 2026
Ooo! These new sonifications are so fun -- I think Jupiter is my favorite -- what about y'all?? 🎥 :https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/sonify11/ #jupiter #NASA #Chandra #Sonification #music #SolarSystem #astronomy #AstroDon #astrophotography #XRay #Hubble #Cassini #Keck #telescope #space #science #SciComm
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Mar 03, 2026
Me, getting home, noticing the full moon as I pull into my garage: Goodnight, Moon! 📷 : https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00132 #Moon #Goodnight #FullMoon #Astrophotography #space #science #astronomy #AstroDon #NASA #Galileo
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Mar 01, 2026
#JPL posters ... they just crush it. Here's a new(ish) one for NASA's SPHEREx -- which obviously stands for: Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer ... duh 😄 more posters here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/other-posters/ & here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spherex-poster/ #space #science #Art #SciComm #NASA #SPHEREx #astrodon #astronomy
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
New #JWST image showing that dark matter is... all around! 📷 / more info: https://flic.kr/p/2rYADqJ #JWST #Astrodon #astrophotography #space #science #DarkMatter #astronomy #Webb #NASA
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@simonbp@social.linux.pizza · Feb 26, 2026
It's that time of the year when I stare at Betelgeuse on my walk home, hoping against hope to catch it go off. #Astrodon
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Feb 23, 2026
Don't worry -- #JWST heard you -- here's aurora on #Uranus (heh) 📷 :https://flic.kr/p/2rXrWvK #Aurora #SolarSystem #Space #Science #Astrophotography #astrodon #astronomy #Webb #NASA #ESA
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@astro_jcm__dup_21554@mastodon.online · Feb 23, 2026
🚨 #JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you passionate about #astronomy communication? At @esoastronomy@mastodon.social we're looking for a Visits & Outreach Coordinator for our Paranal Observatory in #Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and soon the Extremely Large Telescope. You must be fluent in English and Spanish, and have experience guiding visitors in a scientific institution, museum, observatory... Apply here: https://recruitment.eso.org/jobs/2026_0016# 📷 ESO/G. Hüdepohl #fedihire #getfedihired #astrodon #astronomy #science #scicomm
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