#JWST

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Watch this very cool video of the ginormous James Webb Space Telescope unfolding its 18 gold-plated hexagonal mirrors!https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/watch-as-the-james-webb-telescope-unfolds-its-18-gold-plated-hex-mirrors 2/ Each one of those hexagons

Ryan MacDonald

MartianColonist

New paper Could we detect alien life on a planet orbiting a dead star?@nasa's announcement today of the 1st transiting planet around a white dwarf could have major implications for

People_of_Space: Julie

People_Of_Space

Is there life in outer space? The answer should be obvious Yes! Of course there's life in space—that's where Earth is! Our planet is one teeny, tiny corner of an

Mark McCaughrean

markmccaughrean

The iconic @nasa/@esa Hubble Space Telescope was launched 30 yrs ago today on the space shuttle Discovery. HST has made amazing scientific breakthroughs & inspired generations in ways many others

Dr. Rachael Beaton

rareflwr41

Heard on a tech podcast "ground astornomy is ruined already by light pollution anyway" ... obviously didn't look up the places where cutting edge observations are actually made made. There

Planetary Society

exploreplanets

Hello everyone It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly round-up of space exploration updates.3, 2, 1... let's go: Researchers at the German Aerospace Center say lab experiments show

Rebecca Leane

RKLeane

New paper!Exoplanets as New Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectorshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00015 @SmirnovJuri and I find that some of the billions of exoplanets peppered throughout our Galaxy can be used to discover Dark Matter! Thread:

Eric Lagadec

EricLagadec

Aujourd'hui on va parler de la capacité de notre cerveau à voir des choses familières dans le ciel, le tout sans forcément abuser de substances prohibées. On va parler de

William Keel

NGC3314

Today in #BeyondSolSys class material - galaxy history. (Astronomers often speak of galaxy evolution - but as population change rather than descent w/modification, biologists and @GrumpyKelson complain). Anyway, galaxies show

Vivien Parmentier

V_Parmentier

Hot Jupiter have been puzzling us for a while ! Their nightside looks cooler than we expect and the thermal structure seems much more symmetrical than expected. Today with @jjfplanet