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#Slooh #SummerScienceProgram #Astronomy #SpaceScience
October 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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What happens to asteroid impact debris after it lands? ☄️

PSI's Kirby Runyon used a miniature catapult aboard a reduced-gravity airplane to find out!

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#PlanetaryScience #ImpactCraters #Moon #Mars #SpaceScience #WorldSpaceWeek
October 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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🚀 James Webb found the farthest Fast Radio Burst ever — from a galaxy 11 billion light-years away! It’s like hearing a supernova echo from the early universe. 🌌 What if this burst is a cosmic signal from a magnetar? 🌑 #SpaceScience https://tinyurl.com/29lfwtyx
October 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Earth orbit offers what Mars never can — the ability to fail safely. Before Mars argues for rotating orbital cities first, so patience makes the dream survivable.
#CriticalThinking #BeforeMars #Education #AI #mars #spacescience #lifeinspace #spaceexploration #space
Before Mars: Fail Safely in Orbit First
YouTube video by Future Civilization Realization
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October 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Forget the clouds blocking our view; a 2024 balloon mission lifted a telescope above them to capture the Sun in unprecedented detail. #SpaceScience sugataai.com/blog/stratos...
Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun
We often look up to the sky expecting to find the stars, distant suns that dictate our seasons, yet the Sun itself is frequently obscured by the very atmosphere we breathe.
sugataai.com
October 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
orbitalradar.bsky.social
31,576 objects are in orbit right now, but where's NuSTAR? 🌌

Our tracker shows its exact position as it probes black holes and supernova remnants with hard X-rays.

See the real-time science unfolding over your sky: orbitalradar.com/nustar-tra…

#NuSTAR #SpaceScience
NuSTAR Live Tracker | Orbital Radar
Live position of NASA
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October 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#neutrinos #particles #spacescience #standardmodel #icecube
IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Webb's NIRCam view of the "Cosmic Cliffs" in the Carina Nebula — towering gas ridges about 7 light-years tall, sculpted by radiation from newborn stars. Star birth, caught in the act, 7,600 light-years away. #JWST #Astronomy #SpaceScience
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October 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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The universe is silent because intelligence is a rare spark in an indifferent void. No circumstance, just physics. Learn more at klytron.com.

#FermiParadox #SpaceScience #Cosmos #Rationalism #Klytron
October 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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NASA’s IXPE mission offers new insights into the blazar Markarian 421. By measuring X-ray polarization, researchers found a helical magnetic field fueling particle acceleration within its jet. #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHole #IXPE #SpaceScience #SpaceExploration
October 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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#WorldSpaceWeek: talking to Prof Sarah Matthews about unexpected career turns and unanswered scientific questions ✨ www.youtube.com/shorts/FQ9ko...

Sarah Matthews is the Prof of #SolarPhysics at UCL’s Mullard #SpaceScience Lab, as well as the Course Lead for MSc Space Science and #Engineering.
#WorldSpaceWeek: talking Professor Sarah Matthews of UCL’s Mullard #SpaceScience Lab 🛰️
YouTube video by UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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October 9, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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#aberystwythuniversity #aberuniversity #aberuni #EuropeanSolarTelescope #SolarPhysics #SpaceWeather #SolarResearch #EuropeanResearch #Astronomy #SpaceScience #SolarAtmosphere
Scientists Welcome European Solar Telescope Milestone
Scientists at Aberystwyth University have welcomed the news that the European Solar Telescope (EST) has been granted Landmark status.
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October 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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A closer look at how heat shields protect spacecraft during their return to Earth.

🔗 phys.org/news/2026-09...

#HeatTransfer #SpaceScience #MaterialsScience
A real-time look inside spacecraft heat shields during extreme heat conditions
When a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic velocities, its protective heat shield faces extreme conditions, including temperatures beyond 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsi...
phys.org
October 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Read about the fascinating possibilities that emerge when the communities from Symplectic Geometry and Astrodynamics come together in our new blog post by Arthur Limoge: structures.uni-heidelberg.de/blog/posts/2.... Enjoy.

#Geometry #SpaceScience #Mathematics
October 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Could NASA and ESA put a gravitational-wave observatory in space together? The LISA mission is advancing, but NASA’s funding commitment remains unsettled. #NASA #ESA #SpaceScience www.cryovex.com/nasa-esa-col...
October 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Saturn apparently likes geometry. 😂

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#Saturn #Hubble #Astronomy #SpaceScience #DarkCosmicInsights
Saturn's Hexagon: Why Saturn Has a Six-Sided Storm
Saturn's hexagon is a six-sided jet stream wider than two Earths at Saturn's north pole. What's measured, what's modelled, and the new 2026 south-pole decagon.
codeofascension.com
October 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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It’s #SpaceScienceWeek! For more than 60 years, our decadal surveys have helped guide the future of #SpaceScience, setting priorities for research, missions, technology, and more across five major disciplines.

Explore the reports: https://ow.ly/UZ2650ZVBG5
October 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Mars' strangest cloud may reveal physics never before seen in a planetary atmosphere. ESA's Mars Express data and new modeling suggest water vapor can freeze directly into ice particles without dust. cosmicreader.app #Mars #SpaceScience
October 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
astrobiologyou.bsky.social
Today we celebrated the unveiling of a Beagle 2 commemorative plaque at The Open University and the launch of OU Space.

#OUSpace #Beagle2 #Astrobiology #SpaceScience
Group photo of speakers and guests at The Open University's Beagle 2 plaque unveiling and OU Space launch event.
October 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Appreciating @eurospacehistory.bsky.social for revisiting Ulysses, a mission that expanded our understanding of the Sun and heliosphere.
#AcadeMax features research covering astronomy and aerospace science.
Explore more: www.academax.com/ARC/home

#SolarScience #SpaceScience #Astronomy
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#ThisWeek in 1990: the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses spacecraft was launched on Space Shuttle STS-41 from Kennedy Space Center on 6 October. Ulysses was the first mission to study the environment above and below the poles of the Sun 🧪🔭

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Technicians at work on Ulysses in ESA's ESTEC test centre, in the Netherlands A photograph of the liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery with the Ulysses spacecraft on board. The launch took place during the day, the clear blue sky can be seen in the background with the smoke and flames from the boosters blowing out from underneath the Shuttle. ESA's Ulysses, attached to the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) and Payload Assist Module (PAM)-S, seen from STS-41 drifting above Earth in the moments after deployment on 6 October 1990. Shortly after this image was taken, the attached upper stage boosters would propel the craft faster than any previous human-made object out of Earth’s gravitational clutches (pic: NASA)
October 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel #NobelPrize #Physics #SpaceScience #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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October 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel #NobelPrize #Physics #SpaceScience #Particles
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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October 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel #NobelPrize #Physics #SpaceScience #Particles #Astrophysics
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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October 6, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel #NobelPrize #Physics #SpaceScience #Particles #Astrophysics
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
dlvr.it
October 6, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Find events and activities here: www.worldspaceweek.org

Photo Credit: M35, Professor Glen Cowan

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World Space Week | Celebrate UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, the largest space event in the world
Celebrate UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, the largest space event in the world
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October 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM