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Today's Moon Phase!

Keep track of the Moon on MoonGiant as it does it's monthly dance around the Earth

Tonight’s a New Moon!

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Well TECHNICALLY it’s a helium-4 nucleus

I guess I can see where the confusion comes from

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first post on Reddit lets go

I was researching nebulae for my next article and I wanted to share some images for you guys :)

Nebula are some of the most beautiful things in space. We mostly focused on galaxies and the stars within them, but we forget that in-between galaxies exists the interstellar medium. This is where the nebulae live.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Bad Astronomy

The Bad Astronomy blog is all about real-world science — it covers the entire Universe, from subatomic particles to the Big Bang itself. Astronomy, space exploration, the effect of politics on science... you'll find it all here, as well as anything else that pops into the science-drenched brain of Phil Plait - astronomer, author and communicator. And you'll find it described with obvious joy and love for all things cosmic.

So I just finished re-watching Crash Course Astronomy - and I didn’t know that Phil had a blog :OOOOOOOO

Welp I know what my next read is gonna be

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Dark matter is one of my favorite mysteries in Astrophysics, oh I would just love to study it. Some are using particle accelerators to try to study DM and figure out what it is - and it’s so so exciting!!!

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I love this meme format

Yeah, Mercury did kinda kick Newton in the balls, didn’t it?

Guess that’s why it’s my favorite planet

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Ah yes, the science

Best Star Wars movie can’t deny it

Prequels and sequels eat your heart out

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The Empire Strikes Back opened in theaters on this day in 1980.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

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How do I constantly forget how beautiful the universe is?

Also, this is true, Jewels DEFINITELY aren’t as bright as stars!

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A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290 : Jewels don’t shine this bright – only stars do. Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. The photogenic cluster, pictured here, was captured in 2006 by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Open clusters of stars are younger, contain few stars, and contain a much higher fraction of blue stars than do globular clusters of stars. NGC 290 lies about 200,000 light-years distant in a neighboring galaxy called the Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC). The open cluster contains hundreds of stars and spans about 65 light years across. NGC 290 and other open clusters are good laboratories for studying how stars of different masses evolve, since all the open cluster’s stars were born at about the same time. via NASA

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I haven’t done a lot of research on comets. Maybe one day I’ll do an article on one, in the future. They sound so cool xD

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Comet Halley vs Comet SWAN via NASA https://ift.tt/2y0UdFr

The pre-dawn hours of May 3rd were moonless as grains of cosmic dust streaked through southern skies above Reunion Island. Swept up as planet Earth plowed through dusty debris streams left behind periodic Comet 1/P Halley, the annual meteor shower is known as the Eta Aquarids. This inspired exposure captures a bright aquarid meteor flashing left to right over a sea of clouds. The meteor streak points back to the shower’s radiant in the constellation Aquarius, well above the eastern horizon and off the top of the frame. Known for speed Eta Aquarid meteors move fast, entering the atmosphere at about 66 kilometers per second, visible at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so. Then about 6 light-minutes from Earth, the pale greenish coma and long tail of Comet C/2020 F8 SWAN were not to be left out of the celestial scene, posing above the volcanic peaks left of center. Now in the northern sky’s morning twilight near the eastern horizon Comet SWAN has not become as bright as anticipated though. This first time comet made its closest approach to planet Earth only two days ago and reaches perihelion on May 27.

(Published May 14, 2020)