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https://astrodon.social/@esoastronomy/113669009506943775 esoastronomy@astrodon.social - After all, black holes are not as destructive as we thought! 😮

Using our Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered, for the first time ever, a binary star close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole. Binary stars are extremely common throughout the galaxy but not close to the black hole, which makes this new system really interesting!

Named D9, it looks like a single dot, but its speed wobbles periodically back and forth, revealing that this is in fact two stars orbiting each other as they move together around the black hole.

Interested? Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2418/

Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQVG7pqcHTc

📷 ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

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https://mastodon.social/@pomarede/113634627641047671 pomarede@mastodon.social - The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University, led by Jim Bell, has just released a new batch of their calibrated images, captured earlier by the Perseverance rover.

Check these out, natural versus enhanced colors, captured December 5, 2024, Sol 1349  (1/4)

#Mars #Perseverance #MastcamZforAll #space #science #Astrodon #news

Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede@mastodon.social)

Attached: 2 images The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University, led by Jim Bell, has just released a new batch of their calibrated images, captured earlier by the Perseverance rover. Check these out, natural versus enhanced colors, captured...

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https://mastodon.social/@pomarede/113539287940146156 pomarede@mastodon.social - Another beautiful Martian vista, made out of just a small segment of a larger, 80-images mosaic, captured yestersol by Perseverance from the Pico Turquino outlook, somewhere on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater.

#Mars Nov. 23, 2024 (Sol 1337)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #rover #Sol1337 #PicoTurquino #SummerlandTrail #space #PerseveranceRover #Astrodon #science #geology #Mastcam #photography #STEM #Mars2020 #solarocks #rocks #landscape #RimCampaign #Martian #RimScience

Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Another beautiful Martian vista, made out of just a small segment of a larger, 80-images mosaic, captured yestersol by Perseverance from the Pico Turquino outlook, somewhere on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater. #Mars Nov....

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://mastodon.social/@AstroHyde/113499580274522138 AstroHyde@mastodon.social - Air filter cleaning day at the observatory! I highly recommend CR boxes (see https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/), I made several and even the easy filter+fan are so good. Clean air circulation helps seeing, mirror longevity, and humans. Of course if you have actual scope filters don't forget those too 🙂

For comparison, the expensive PW1000 filter covers vs a super simple CR over at the Allan I Carswell Observatory #yorkuniversity #Astrodon #astronomy #observatory #cleanair #corsirosenthalbox #airquality

AstroHyde (@AstroHyde@mastodon.social)

Attached: 2 images Air filter cleaning day at the observatory! I highly recommend CR boxes (see https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/), I made several and even the easy filter+fan are so good. Clean air circulation helps seeing, mirror...

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://fosstodon.org/@andrealuck/113367852197654326 andrealuck@fosstodon.org - Epic Dust Storm on Mars!

Full size video (1920x1080): https://flic.kr/p/2qpY8HT
Full res image (9770x5500):  https://flic.kr/p/2qpZ51C

Credits:
Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin
 
ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit 21940
Frames
1 HL940_0000_S14.IMG Time: 2021-05-12T12:42
2 HL940_0000_ND4.IMG Time: 2021-05-12T12:44
3 HL940_0000_S24.IMG Time: 2021-05-12T12:46
Colours
HL940_0000_RE4.IMG HL940_0000_GR4.IMG
HL940_0000_BL4.IMG

#Space #Astronomy #Astrodon #Solarocks

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://mastodon.social/@pomarede/113341074898405550 pomarede@mastodon.social - Mars: red alert

The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has just released a new batch of 52 Martian sols of images, captured by the Perseverance rover, and treated with their beautiful color processing. Check out these wonders!

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#Mars #Perseverance #rover  #MastcamZForAll #color #colors #red #RedPlanet #news #NASA #JPL #Caltech #ASU #Mastcam #MastcamZ #camera #space #Astrodon #science #STEM #engineering #geology #Mars2020 #solarocks #landscape

Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede@mastodon.social)

Attached: 4 images Mars: red alert The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has just released a new batch of 52 Martian sols of images, captured by the Perseverance rover, and treated with their beautiful color processing. Check out these...

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/113153268722619065 astro_jcm@mastodon.online - 1/ This pic I took a few years ago at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile almost didn't look like this! I was about to go to sleep when I saw that the folks at the UT4 telescope were using the lasers, so I decided to snap a quick shot.

But when reviewing the image on my camera's screen I noticed something was off. I looked up and saw that some clouds had rolled in within seconds! Here you can see the lasers going through two cloud layers.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #science

Juan Carlos Muñoz (@astro_jcm@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image 1/ This pic I took a few years ago at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile almost didn't look like this! I was about to go to sleep when I saw that the folks at the UT4 telescope were using the lasers, so I decided to snap a...

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https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/112802224871780716 markmccaughrean@mastodon.social - Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.

I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.

The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #SpaceScience #PlanetaryProtection

Mark McCaughrean (@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter. I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at...

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https://mastodon.social/@pomarede/112452337550259791 pomarede@mastodon.social - How amazing is that? A Martian Dust Devil captured in Stereo3D by the Opportunity Rover, March 31, 2016 (Sol 4332)

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Opportunity #Mars #DustDevil #Sol4332 #rover #OpportunityRover #MERB #space #KnudsenRidge #MarathonValley #MeridianiPlanum #Martian #dust #devil #science #STEM #3D #Stereo3D #steoroscopic #photography #blackandwhite #Astrodon

Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image How amazing is that? A Martian Dust Devil captured in Stereo3D by the Opportunity Rover, March 31, 2016 (Sol 4332) To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye Credit images:...

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/109988700726718600 astro_jcm@mastodon.online - Did you know that water on Earth could be older than the Sun? Using ALMA, astronomers have found a new piece in this puzzle.

We know how water goes from proto-stellar clouds to young stars, and then from comets to planets, but the link between them was missing.

ALMA spotted gaseous water in the disc around the star V883 Ori. Turns out that the composition of this water is very similar to that of comets in our Solar System!

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2302/

#astronomy #astrodon #astrophysics #space

Juan Carlos Muñoz (@astro_jcm@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image Did you know that water on Earth could be older than the Sun? Using ALMA, astronomers have found a new piece in this puzzle. We know how water goes from proto-stellar clouds to young stars, and then from comets to planets, but...

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