A David Weigel

Hey 2023! Time for a #YearInReview of my various project highlights from a travel laden 2023! First up, my fav #dataviz @WWTelescope interactive that I made this year. Explore the Orion Nebula in all its spectacle from JWST and more! web.wwtassets.org/specials/2023/… 1/

You can now pan & zoom the full Rubin First look images in their glory here: projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-lo…

Thx to the @VRubinObs and WorldWide Telescope, everyone can go explore these GIGANTIC SPECTACULAR images of our Universe!! Experience the full richness of the 3.2 GigaPixel images at projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-lo… @CosmicDataStory @WWTelescope @RocketCenterUSA @NSF DOE @CenterForAstro

You’re a good dude, @rookisaacman. I went to space academy in middle school in Huntsville and it was totally magical, really lit my fire. I was the “pilot” of our simulated shuttle mission and I nearly believed it was real. I’m sorry for all of this.

🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle. For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view. In 2025, Solar Orbiter gave us a first-ever look at the Sun’s south pole. Remarkably, it found both north and south magnetic fields tangled together. This is a sign that the Sun is at the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, when its magnetic poles are ready to flip...

New observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile may have caught a Jupiter-like planet at its moment of birth around another star. The universe just keeps on building more cool things. eso.org/public/images/…

Well over $20B in taxpayer, paid for assets being thrown away for a savings that's literally pennies on those dollars. I'm all for shrinking waste and increasing efficiencies in our government, but this is neither. science.org/content/articl…

Hosted by the INTUITIVE® Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the "Rubin First Look" Domecast will connect Digistar domes across continents for a unified, real-time experience as history unfolds with an epic image reveal from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

🚀 From a remote mountaintop to #Digistar domes worldwide - join us for a live "Rubin First Look" Domecast on June 23 in celebration of one of astronomy’s most anticipated milestones.

I appreciate the honor of hosting you!

Using adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing. This video shows coronal rain: loops of plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. nso.edu/press-release/…

@NWSHuntsville Do you have these paths as a kml or geojson?

9:30 PM: Preliminary Storm Surveys - Tornadoes in Madison and Limestone Counties, and wind damage in many portions of Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, and Limestone Counties. Additional surveying may necessitate changes to these tornado tracks. #HUNwx

Join us DAILY at the INTUITIVE Planetarium for a guided tour of our solar system in Our Place in Space! 🪐 Get a tour of the galaxy as we take you from fiery solar flares on the Sun to diamond rain falling through Neptune's skies! 🤯 Get your tickets now: bit.ly/3xH4i9D

Luuucy, 'splain that if you can! The first images from the #LucyMission's asteroid Donaldjohanson flyby show an elongated contact binary shape, with an odd narrow neck between the two lobes. More data from Lucy will be analyzed in the coming weeks. go.nasa.gov/42mUZrJ

These dots are gas giant exoplanets captured by Webb's camera - the clearest infrared look we've gotten yet! Webb also detected carbon dioxide and heavy elements in the planets - evidence they may have formed in the same way as Jupiter and Saturn. go.nasa.gov/4iAM9Mt

#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1

Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon. This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing! flickr.com/photos/firefly…

Birds of a feather, we should stay together 💞 A binary pair of actively forming stars created this shimmering hourglass of gas and dust. Here, Webb’s ability to see near-infrared light reveals incredible detail and structure in Lynds 483. go.nasa.gov/4i4cOBl

Athena landing on at the south pole of the Moon is looking good so far! These images just arrived on the way down. @Int_Machines #Athena

Bring breathtaking astronomical images from @NASAWebb and more into your planetarium! 🌟 Join David Weigel (@rocketcenterusa) & Micah Acinapura (@AMNH) this Thursday, March 6 at 3pm ET to learn the basics of OpenSpace’s SkyBrowser feature. 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/3arTj