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Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy

Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis • Planetary Evangelist • he/him/Sir • 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸

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A snapshot of an evolving solar prominence—plasma shaped by looping magnetic fields above the Sun's surface—gives us this Forbidden Dorito Image credit and copyright: Andrea Vanoni

A snapshot of an evolving solar prominence—plasma shaped by looping magnetic fields above the Sun's surface—gives us this Forbidden Dorito

Image credit and copyright: Andrea Vanoni
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You know who you are! NASA Invites Social Creators to Experience Launch of Europa Clipper Mission nasa.gov/general/nasa-i… via NASA

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This video was taken about an hour ago. But the incoming meteoroid was detected BEFORE impact, allowing scientists to predict where and when it would slam into the atmosphere. This is only the ninth meteoroid we've found prior to impact. But we're getting better at this!

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New #JWST image! This is MACS-J0417.5-1154, a supermassive galaxy cluster so big it's VISIBLY WARPING SPACETIME. Those thin, strung-out shapes aligned around the cluster are yet-more distant galaxies, their light being distorted by the sheer mass of MACS J0417. Holy shit.

New #JWST image!

This is MACS-J0417.5-1154, a supermassive galaxy cluster so big it's VISIBLY WARPING SPACETIME.

Those thin, strung-out shapes aligned around the cluster are yet-more distant galaxies, their light being distorted by the sheer mass of MACS J0417.

Holy shit.
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MACS J0417 is about 4.65 billion lightyears away. This field of view is 2.4 arcminutes across (spanning ~3.3 million lightyears). Read more about this image: webbtelescope.org/contents/media… Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/ V. Estrada-Carpenter