#SpaceThreads

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

1 month ago

See the moon glow next to mighty Jupiter in the winter sky tonight The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.

See the moon glow next to mighty Jupiter in the winter sky tonight. Via @spacedotcom #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

1 month ago

Webb reveals a planetary nebula with phenomenal clarity, and it is spectacular The colors show the star’s final breath transforming into the raw ingredients for new worlds.

Webb 🔭 (@jwst_discovery) reveals a planetary nebula with phenomenal clarity, and it is spectacular. Via @arstechnica #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #JWST 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

3 months ago

AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration.

AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets. Via @spacedotcom #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #RocketScience 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

5 months ago

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #EarthScience #RocksForJocks #Geology #Volcanology 🌋

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

5 months ago

AIs in Space: From partners in pioneering to the children of humanity (op-ed) Rather than the fearsome enemies of movies like "The Terminator," as we move into the universe, AIs can be our partners, our children, and perhaps even us.

AIs in Space: From partners in pioneering to the children of humanity (op-ed). Via @spacedotcom #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🧠 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #Robotics 🤖 #Tech ⚙️💾📱🔌

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

6 months ago

Catch Shooting Stars During the Rare Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower This Weekend Learn more about the Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower, a rare shower that seems to grow every five years and will appear this September 2025, peaking between September 13, 2025, and September 15, 2025.

Catch Shooting Stars During the Rare Chi #Cygnid Meteor Shower This Weekend. Via @discover.magazine #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #MeteorShower #meteor #meteors #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

6 months ago

Astronaut puts his mad video game skills to the test | On the International Space Station Aug. 25-29, 2025 "This demo brought me right back, blending elements of real-time strategy, RPGs and first-person play into something very real."

Astronaut puts his mad video game skills to the test | On the International Space Station Aug. 25-29, 2025. Via @spacedotcom #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #ISS 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

6 months ago

What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what…

What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer. Via @sciencedaily_official #ComputerSciences #Science #Physics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

6 months ago

Reining in the sun: Venus, Earth and Jupiter may work together to reduce the risk of extreme solar storms "We consider this phenomenon as a promising candidate to explain the fact that the solar activity is much more benign than that of other sun-like stars."

Reining in the sun: Venus, Earth and Jupiter may work together to reduce the risk of extreme solar storms. Via @spacedotcom #SolarStorms #SolarFlare #CME #CoronalMassEjection #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

6 months ago

NASA and Google test AI medical assistant for astronaut missions to the moon and Mars The new AI tool could help astronauts diagnose and treat medical issues when far from Earth and beyond the reach of doctors.

@NASA and @Google test AI medical assistant for astronaut missions to the moon and #Mars 🔴. Via @spacedotcom #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #NASA #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

7 months ago

Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope suggests High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."

Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope (@jwst_discovery) suggests. Via @live_science #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #JWST 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

7 months ago

Ice In Space Is a Lot Stranger Than We Thought (and Is Quite Important!) Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent…

Ice In Space Is a Lot Stranger Than We Thought (and Is Quite Important!). Via @whatdamath #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 youtu.be/BxAvat0PD8g?...

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

7 months ago

Scientists find temperate planet in nearby system full of rocky worlds Could it have an atmosphere?

Scientists find temperate planet in nearby system full of rocky worlds. Via @mashable #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

7 months ago

What Would Happen if a Baby Were Born in Space? A Scientist Explains The Risks. As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope.

What Would Happen if a Baby Were Born in Space? A Scientist Explains The Risks. Via @sciencealert #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

7 months ago

Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter Nearly 300 current and former employees signed the letter criticizing the ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at the agency

Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter. Via @guardian #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests Mars once wetter than thought Scientists spot traces of 10,000 miles of rivers in area where many believed ‘there wasn’t any evidence for water’

Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests #Mars 🔴 once wetter than thought. Via @guardian #RedPlanet #Martian #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

Three Epic Meteor Showers Are About to Light Up July – Here's Your Guide The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

Three Epic Meteor Showers Are About to Light Up July – Here's Your Guide. Via @sciencealert #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #MeteorShower #meteor #meteors #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

Sound Waves From the Big Bang Suggest Earth Is Sitting Inside of a Void Learn about the theory suggesting that the Earth sits inside of a void, which may explain why the universe appears to expand at an accelerating rate.

Sound Waves From the Big Bang Suggest Earth Is Sitting Inside of a Void. Via @discover.magazine #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

Whooo's there? James Webb telescope spots 'Cosmic Owl,' super-rare structure formed from colliding ring galaxies Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve.

Whooo's there? James Webb telescope (@jwst_discovery) spots 'Cosmic Owl,' super-rare structure formed from colliding ring galaxies. Via @live_science #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #JWST 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

How Trump's budget cuts could affect 2 iconic space telescopes: Hubble and James Webb. Via @spacedotcom #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #JWST #Hubble #SETI 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

First-ever evidence of star 'double detonation' captured in stunning image An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a major cosmological mystery.

First-ever evidence of star 'double detonation' captured in stunning image. Via @live_science #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

'A completely new phenomenon': Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering massive solar flares to erupt. This is the first time a planet has been seen…

'A completely new phenomenon': Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode. Via @live_science #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #CME #CoronalMassEjection

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

New propulsion systems could enable a mission to Sedna In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever discovered. This reddish dwarf planet follows such an extreme orbit that…

New propulsion systems could enable a mission to Sedna. Via @physorg.news #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

Rolling for science: Mars orbiter learns new moves after nearly 20 years in space After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red…

Rolling for science: #Mars 🔴 orbiter learns new moves after nearly 20 years in space. Via @physorg.news #RedPlanet #Martian #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #RocketScience 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Jack C.M

@foxmental.bsky.social

8 months ago

You can see a giant 'hole' shoot across Saturn this summer — and it won't happen again until 2040 There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing surface over the next few months. The rare spectacle is only visible…

You can see a giant 'hole' shoot across Saturn this summer — and it won't happen again until 2040. Via @live_science #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #SpaceThreads #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️