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IFT-8 orbital velocity test flight is NET February 26, 2025.

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT8

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In this week’s public lecture, #mpsgoettingen scientist Paul Hartogh takes us on a trip through the extreme atmosphere of #Venus. Is there evidence of life in the planet’s clouds of sulfuric acid? Find out more this Thursday! In German.
https://www.mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und-ihre-geschwister
@thegoecampus

#Göttingen #MaxPlanck #Astronomie #Sonnensystem #Planeten #Planetenforschung #Venus #ÖffentllicherVortrag #Vortragsreihe #MPSGoettingen #Astrodon

Die Erde und ihre Geschwister
Neues von den Gesteinsplaneten in unserem Sonnensystem
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025, 19 Uhr
Dr. Paul Hartogh (MPS):
Teibhauseffekt, Wolken und Lebensspuren? Was ist los in der Atmosphäre der Venus?

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IFT-8 orbital velocity test launch and landing is currently NET Monday, 03 March 2025, 1730/5:30pm CST.

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT8

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Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543 as seen by ESA Euclid Space Telescope

Full size 3K & full info: https://flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj
Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/NAOJ/AndreaLuck CC BY

Latest data release available on: https//eas.esac.esa.int/sas
Mission: ESA Euclid
Instruments: VIS and NIS
Product Type: MER Mosaic
Release Q1 R1
Filters: HSC G (Subaru Telescope), VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y

#Space #Astronomy #Euclid #ESA #Astrodon #Nebula

$This image presents a stunning deep space view centered on the Cat’s Eye Nebula, with intricate structures and vibrant colors. The nebula itself glows in an ethereal blue and violet hue, surrounded by delicate, symmetrical, and concentric gaseous layers that form its iconic shape. The surrounding space is filled with an intricate web of faint reddish and brownish wisps on the outer region surrounding the nebula. Bright stars with distinct diffraction spikes punctuate the scene, adding depth and contrast to the dark, star speckled background. Numerous galaxies are also visible in the background. The image showcases a great balance between sharp details in the nebula's core and the softer, ghostly tendrils of interstellar gas beyond.$

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Celebrating the women working on ESA/NASA #SolarOrbiter mission on this #WomenInScience day.

▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/02/Celebrating_Solar_Orbiter_and_the_women_behind_the_mission

#esa #astrodon

This image is a collage of 130 portraits, arranged in a 10 by 13 grid. The portraits show selfies and photographs of women who have contributed to the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission

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Really epic image featured on @apod today!

Captured by AJ Smadi from Washington (state), in daytime skies (11:57am) on April 5th — the image shows ISS and the crescent of Venus.

The planning this would have taken to get right — very nice work!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

(I annotated the rough distances)

#SpaceStation #Venus #ISS #astrodon

Small portion of daytime sky showing a bright crescent which is Venus and a blurry image of the ISS. The distances to both objects are annotated on top of the image.

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Astronomers have a love-hate relationship with the atmosphere: it's great for, you know, not dying, but it blurs astronomical images. In the latest episode of Chasing Starlight we tell you the inner workings of adaptive optics, a technique where we use powerful lasers and fast shape-shifting mirrors to measure and correct atmospheric turbulence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QC2cLroDc

#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #space

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At the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, we do cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Posts will be in English und manchmal auch auf Deutsch.

#mpsgoettingen #introduction #reintroduction #movinginstance #astrodon #neuhier

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You'll be hearing a lot about the amazing new Vera Rubin Observatory today. Here's a peek at its most important feature: an unusual optical design that gives it a HUGE field of view, allowing it to scan the entire visible universe, over and over.

https://www.lsst.org/about/tel-site/optical_design #science #technology #astrodon

$Rubin Observatory views a 9.62 square-degree patch of sky, more than 40 times the area of the full moon. This huge viewing area is the result of the telescope's unique optical design: a compact three-mirror telescope augmented by a large refractive corrector, the whole capable of delivering a 3.5 degree field of view covering a 64 cm diameter flat focal plane. The starting point for this design was the Dark Matter Telescope proposed by Roger Angel, director of the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona, and his collaborators in 2000.$

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