The world’s favorite orbiting observatory has transformed our knowledge about exoplanet atmospheres, the fate of the universe, and almost everything in between. pst.cr/9A9eE

European starlings are exceptional mimics, including human speech. Their ability at mimicry is so great that strangers have looked in vain for the human they think they have just heard speak buff.ly/37Mny47 Stella the starling is an example: buff.ly/2ATavSg

The SLS structural qualification test campaign concluded on June 24 as NASA Marshall engineers purposely pushed a liquid oxygen tank test article to its limits. Water gushed out of the tank as it buckled within 2% of the predicted failure value. MORE >> go.nasa.gov/3eAZio7

One of our neighbors, M81! It’s part of a neighboring group of 34 galaxies in our cosmic city, the Virgo Supercluster. The Virgo Supercluster, which includes the Milky Way, consists of ~50,000 galaxies & is one of 10 million other known superclusters in the observable universe

Spectacular Amethyst with Calcite available from Mine Las Torres in Artigas Uruguay. Credit: @UruguayMinerals #minerals #crystals

MANY people in custody, with many others being sought for Vandalization of Federal Property in Lafayette Park. 10 year prison sentences! FBI Washington Field

Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars - universetoday.com/146699/curiosi…

Young inventors, ready to think like a NASA engineer? Use your creativity in this design challenge for K-12 students in U.S. schools. Come up with a 3D model and reinvent a Mars rover wheel you think could best explore the Red Planet. Entries due: July 26 futureengineers.org/reinventtherov…

RT if Washington DC should NEVER become a state!

Cosmic embrace - oil on Belgian linen. Sometimes I just paint how I feel inside, this is one of those times :)

What a great congratulatory email from Brian May on the anniversary of todays’s Ruang 2 discovery of KBO Arrokoth!

When ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover touches down on Mars next spring, it will carry the first helicopter to fly on another planet – but getting it running will take a lot of ingenuity >> go.nasa.gov/3dtNSAZ

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🎸House of Hair Weekly Headbanger - June 26, 2020 🎸 - mailchi.mp/houseofhaironl…

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Have you ever wanted to take a life-size ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Mars rover for a walk in the park? Ever wanted a detailed 3D model of the Ingenuity helicopter on your desktop? Try our Spacecraft AR app, a free download for iOS and Android: eyes.nasa.gov/mobile-apps.ht…

NASA will test a technique to deflect dangerous asteroids by ramming this one with a spacecraft. sciencenews.org/article/astero…

Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region buff.ly/3gnajtI

The so called 'Lady of Cavillon' is a fossilised skull of a palaeolithic Cro-Magnon woman decorated with 200 sea-snail shells and covered in red ochre: it gives us the evidence of a ceremonial burial held ~25,000 years ago in a cave in Liguria, Italy buff.ly/2HkwlMz