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The ESA Solar Orbiter spacecrafts orbit close to the Sun is enabling it to take the highest resolution complete views of the Suns disc to date. Its now slowly increasing its orbit tilt to take images of the Suns poles. 📷: ESA

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Looking for something to do this weekend? 🤔 Why not visit a planetarium? 🔭📺 Dry ✅ Warm ✅ View of the stars ✅ National Astronomy Week doesn't kick off until a week tomorrow, but you can get a head start on the festivities with our special 'Chasing the Moon' experience ⤵️

Looking for something to do this weekend? 🤔

Why not visit a planetarium? 🔭📺 
Dry ✅
Warm ✅
View of the stars ✅

National Astronomy Week doesn't kick off until a week tomorrow, but you can get a head start on the festivities with our special 'Chasing the Moon' experience ⤵️
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Space Read #4 Our Accidental Universe by Prof. Chris Lintott. 'It is the stars, the stars above that govern our conditions. (King Lear, Act IV) #astronomy #accidentaluniverse

Space Read #4
Our Accidental Universe by Prof. Chris Lintott.
'It is the stars, the stars above that govern our conditions. (King Lear, Act IV)
#astronomy  #accidentaluniverse
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Andrew McCarthy Not just defunct satellites. Could also be the varying angle of the Sun on the arrays, antenna dishes, thermal panels, etc causing the reflected light to vary or flare. Thermal design of spacecraft is often thought of as a "black art" due to its complexity and to take all those

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40 yrs ago the ESA Giotto spacecraft was launched to Halley's Comet and later became first spacecraft to flypast and image a comet nucleus. Built in the UK, seen here being tested. Halley's nucleus from 600km. #astronomy #spaceflight Credits: 1. ESA/BAe Space Systems/ Intespace

40 yrs ago the ESA Giotto spacecraft was launched to Halley's Comet and later became first spacecraft to flypast and image a comet nucleus.
Built in the UK, seen here being  tested.
Halley's nucleus from 600km.
#astronomy #spaceflight
Credits: 1. ESA/BAe Space Systems/ Intespace
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Curiosity Mars atmos is 100x less dense than Earth. Sounds are much fainter than Earth. High pitch would be almost inaudible. The faint sounds recorded by Perseverance (Curiosity doesn't have a mic) are Highly Amplified and just the wind blowing on the microphone. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2…

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Space Book #5 The Sands of Mars, 1951. ....At last the wail of the wind died away. The rocket had shed its surplus speed; the nose and knife-edge wings cooling from cherry-red....the ship racing across desert.....riding the radio beam into Port Lowell. - A.C.Clarke #spaceflight

Space Book #5
The Sands of Mars, 1951.
....At last the wail of the wind died away. The rocket had shed its surplus speed; the nose and knife-edge wings cooling from cherry-red....the ship racing across desert.....riding the radio beam into Port Lowell.  - A.C.Clarke
#spaceflight
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Jure Atanackov Several years ago driving along one of highways around Titusville, Florida. Pure luck as was taking snaps of the heavy storm we got caught in. About 100-200 feet away.

<a href="/JAtanackov/">Jure Atanackov</a> Several years ago driving along one of highways around Titusville,  Florida. Pure luck as was taking snaps of the heavy storm we got caught in. About 100-200 feet away.
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Picture by NOAA winterover Ian Crocker, of a drifting sastrugi wave, with the #sunset behind the ceremonial #southpole and the profile of the SPT and dark sector telescopes in the distance on the right.

Picture by <a href="/NOAA/">NOAA</a> winterover Ian Crocker, of a drifting sastrugi wave, with the #sunset behind the ceremonial #southpole and the profile of the SPT and dark sector telescopes in the distance on the right.
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This seems a good time to remind everyone about Valentina. The first woman in space, and probably the last woman who will ever be alone in space, Valentina Tereshkova. She orbited the Earth 48 times in June 1963, spending almost three days in space. She is 88 years old.

This seems a good time to remind everyone about Valentina. The first woman in space, and probably the last woman who will ever be alone in space, Valentina Tereshkova.  She orbited the Earth 48 times in June 1963, spending almost three days in space.  She is 88 years old.
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The Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) another of our nearby galaxies, from the dark skies of Canyonlands, Utah. Fuji XT30 #fujifilm #fujix

The Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) another of our nearby galaxies, from the dark skies of Canyonlands, Utah.
Fuji XT30
#fujifilm #fujix
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SPACE.com Of course its going to be older than the Solar System. Hydrogen was formed in the Big Bang. Oxygen was formed in previous star Supernova and ejected into universe. Hydrogen then meets Oxygen = Water.