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Utterly amazing. A "scratch" thought to be cosmic ray noise on Hubble's detected images ended up being a 200k LY trail of blue-white star formation from a supermassive black hole being flung from its home galaxy.
Nothing like it has ever been spotted before (or perhaps has, but everyone thought it was a "scratch".... =] ).
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010
The cosmic ocean 🌊
This #HubbleClassic image shows a sea of glowing hydrogen gas, along with small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur.
Known as M17 (or the Swan or Omega Nebula), this starforming region resides 5,500 light-years away: https://go.nasa.gov/3ReWzVr
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NASAHubble/status/1620164957147996161
The mouth of an Arctic lamprey
[source, read more: https://buff.ly/3RjZI6y]
[📷 Randy Brown, USFWS]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1619788771633012736
Giraffes have a very familiar skin/fur pattern, but you probably never knew that there's more than one and that they are different on a regional and genetic basis
[source, read more: https://buff.ly/2TLKoSr]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1619676859880325123
Photographer Vadim Trunov has had close encounters with squirrels in his career, but these photos of squirrels shooting photos of each other and of birds are probably the most captivating he took
[read more: https://buff.ly/2ScNeji]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1620044997482668035
Talented Russian nature photographer Vadim Trunov has had close encounters with squirrels before, but this is the first time we've seen his photos of squirrels playing or shooting photos of each other! The photographer recently published some photos he's captured of squirrels that seem to be building snowmen or playing volleyball with nuts.
Sandboarding is the analog of snowboarding, but done on desert dunes. This performance has been filmed in Duna Cerebro, Iquique, Chile
[read more: https://buff.ly/3iSvsTk]
[📹 Sofia Mangini: https://buff.ly/3wjCpQp]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1616738466129186819
Scour the predawn skies for a comet ☄️
If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, use binoculars or a small telescope to find Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which has been passing through the morning skies all month.
🔭 Skywatching tips: http://go.nasa.gov/37ePy0B
The Andromeda Galaxy, using a regular DSLR camera and a 75-300mm lens (no tracking). I took 960 x 2s photos, and stacked them with @[email protected]
Using an end-to-end model, @[email protected], @[email protected] et al. find that the parents of the first binary neutron star merger were stars of 10+ solar masses born during Cosmic Noon that interacted repeatedly, but remained bound even through two supernovae: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01873-y?utm_campaign=natastronTWT
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NatureAstronomy/status/1613571153876094979
From an end-to-end model that characterizes the host galaxy, environment and progenitors of the binary neutron star merger gravitational wave event GW170817, the preferred solution is 2 low-metallicity stars of >10 solar masses that were born during Cosmic Noon, interacted repeatedly and remained bound even through 2 supernovae.
In the 19th century Paris was torn down and totally rebuilt according to the urban plan of just two men.
It might be considered one of the world's most beautiful cities now, but people at the time hated this new version of Paris...
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1613487175752093698
