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Back in the hot seat today. Rover ops continues chugging, despite it all. #mars #nasa #marsrovers #SpaceThreads #engineer
February 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Just passed my two year work anniversary at NASA JPL. It’s been a strange time in JPL’s history, but certainly a few years full of growth and learning. Grateful to be here and to see what the future holds. #SpaceThreads #NASA #Mars
February 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
First Heated Rivalry, then Alysa Liu’s Olympics performance, now Artemis II.
April 9, 2026 at 3:17 AM
If Musk can't focus on rockets and Electric cars instead of dumb shit like Twitter and Trump, then the boards of SpaceX & Tesla should vote him out.

#Starship Explosions Show #SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity. Via @nytimes #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #RocketScience 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity
Consecutive losses of the Starship rocket suggest that the company’s engineers are not as infallible as its fans may think.
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March 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Sunrise on the moon! Private Blue Ghost lander captures amazing shot after historic lunar touchdown (photo). Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #Robotics 🤖
Sunrise on the moon! Private Blue Ghost lander captures amazing shot after historic lunar touchdown (photo)
Blue Ghost is getting to work after its private moon landing.
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March 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Seriously considering dipping into my savings. So many breathtaking items. #SpaceThreads.
July 5, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may not come from its underground ocean. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may not come from its underground ocean
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #ISS 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #Robotics 🤖
Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil - Via nasa #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil - NASA
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the
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March 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Uranus. Via smithsonianmagazine #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
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March 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Astronomers identify first 'good' candidate for controversial Planet Nine deep in our solar system. Via @live_science
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Astronomers spot candidate for potential ninth planet far beyond Neptune
Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in our solar system. However, as with all ninth planet research, the new…
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May 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it
The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring.
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April 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets. Via @spacedotcom #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #RocketScience 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets
From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
White Dwarf Star Explosions May Offer Clues on Dark Energy. Via @discover.magazine #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #Physics
White Dwarf Star Explosions May Offer Clues on Dark Energy
Learn about the explosions that often occur at the end of a white dwarf star's life, allowing scientists to study the acceleration of the universe.
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February 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Watch April's Full Pink 'micromoon' rise this weekend with a free telescope Livestream. Via @spacedotcom #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #PinkMoon #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Watch April's Full Pink 'micromoon' rise this weekend with a free telescope livestream
The farthest, smallest and faintest full moon of the year rises this weekend and you can watch it live online.
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April 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Rocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to support life. Via physorg.news #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Rocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to support life
Since its launch in late 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has raised the possibility that we could detect signs of life on exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system.
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October 23, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Rare quadruple supernova explosion will be brighter than the moon. Via @live_science #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Rare quadruple supernova explosion will be brighter than the moon
A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But humanity —…
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April 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
James Webb Space Telescope (jwst_discovery) investigates the origins of 'failed stars' in the Flame Nebula. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #JWST 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
James Webb Space Telescope investigates the origins of 'failed stars' in the Flame Nebula
"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process."
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March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Comet last seen by Neanderthals 80,000 years ago could be visible again this weekend. Via @metro.co.uk.web.brid.gy #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ metro.co.uk/2024/10/12/c...
Comet last seen 80,000 years ago could be visible again this weekend
It has been labelled 'the comet of the century'.
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October 12, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Most quakes on #Mars 🔴 happen during the summer – and we don’t know why. Via @newscientist #RedPlanet #Martian #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why
NASA’s InSight lander recorded surprisingly large quakes that indicate Mars is more seismically active than we first thought. Mysteriously, they only happen during Martian summers
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March 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For years, SpaceX has been talking about creating a Starlink communication network in Martian orbit. Now NASA is paying SpaceX and eight other companies to flesh out their ideas for supporting future robotic missions to the Red Planet. cosmiclog.com/2024/05/03/s... SpaceThreads
Starlink on Mars? NASA is paying SpaceX to look into it
NASA has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to work out a plan to adapt its Starlink broadband internet satellites for use in a Martian communication network. The idea is one of a dozen proposals that h…
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May 4, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Watch: Why is the latest SpaceX rocket test a big deal? #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
SpaceX: Why is Elon Musk's latest Starship rocket test a big deal?
The BBC's Pallab Ghosh explores why this world first test is a big deal for space exploration.
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October 14, 2024 at 1:43 AM
'Blood Worm Moon' US weather forecast: Best places to see tonight's total lunar eclipse. Via @spacedotcom #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #LunarEclipse #BloodMoon #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
'Blood Worm Moon' US weather forecast: Best places to see tonight's total lunar eclipse
Most of the U.S. should be able to see the total lunar eclipse tonight, but clouds will be problematic for many.
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March 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM