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Pioneer 10

It's a moon. We checked. @NASA's Cassini spacecraft got many close-up views of Saturn's icy moon Mimas, and still managed to escape and send the data home. Take a tour of Mimas and hundreds of other solar system moons at science.nasa.gov/solar-system/m… — and May the Fourth be With You.

My original thread on terraforming Venus, if anyone is interested. Credit for photos to @Kurz_Gesagt x.com/i/status/20496…

@Skylar_Lorena Bsc ? Msc ?

And for my final project, I'll work with data sets you ain't never seen on Kaggle.

We could’ve been on Mars by the year 2000.

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike. nbcnews.com/science/space/…

@ThePrimalDino she's mine too

Not to brag or anything but that's MY Planet 😏

blue universe

There must be life on one of these dots

For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere beyond Pluto, in the outer reaches of our Solar System—an environment once believed too small and too cold to sustain one. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions and could fundamentally reshape our understanding of these distant worlds.

hubble's ultraviolet and infrared images of saturn, jupiter, mercury and mars

@AstroPnoy @NASA no, new horizon is still functional, they should redirect it towards this body instead...

Awesome. Send a New Horizons-type mission to Trans-Neptunian Object (612533) 2002 XV93, @NASA! 🙂

太陽系の果ての小天体に大気　常識覆す発見　冥王星以外で初、恒星の光の「にじみ」から sankei.com/article/202605… 大気が見つかったのは「2002XV93」という小天体。冥王星に近い軌道で太陽を回り、観測時は太陽から約57億キロ離れていた。直径は約500キロで、月の約7分の1。

@samofolabi Tml

Another year. Another chapter. Another opportunity to build, learn, and leave impact. Happy birthday to me.

Astronomers just dropped the largest single haul of exoplanet candidates ever: 10,091 brand new ones uncovered in one reanalysis. Researchers went back through the first year of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data and applied a new semi-automated pipeline that combines machine learning with traditional methods. By looking beyond just the brightest stars and including fainter ones, they pulled out a total of 11,554 planet candidates, including 10,091 that had never been spotted before. The haul includes everything from hot Jupiters to potentially smaller worlds, dramatically expanding the catalog and setting the stage for massive demographic studies of how planets form and evolve around different types of stars. The work shows how clever re-mining of existing data can still deliver gamechanging results, and hints that even more candidates are waiting in the rest of the TESS dataset. The team thinks they may generate twice the number of candidates when they examine the TESS year two data. Exoplanet science just got a massive boost. Progress (and the hunt for new worlds) marches on. 🪐🚀 📸 NASA Source: iflscience.com/10091-new-exop…

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an atmosphere. cnn.it/48Cgyaz

livro que explica as teorias da ciência que foram utilizadas e desenvolvidas para o filme interestelar ✨🪐

Looking for a planet orbiting twin suns like Tatooine? Our TESS telescope just helped find more than two dozen candidates! By studying eclipses between pairs of stars, astronomers were able to find planets that TESS couldn’t typically spot: go.nasa.gov/4tisHst #StarWarsDay

that’s no moon… actually it is! it’s saturn’s moon mimas! may the 4th be with you