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Athena Brensberger retweeted
Welcome to our new series, “Listening to the Universe,” where we explore techniques and tools to better understand the universe and our place in it.
Hosted by Athena Brensberger @Astroathens, we will post a weekly video for the next 8 weeks highlighting the various SETI Institute scientists and their research. So tune in every week to learn something new about how we “listen” to the universe!
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Athena Brensberger retweeted
Let's see… a five-letter word for happiness: space! 🦀
@NASAHubble captures the intricate structure of the Krab, er, Crab Nebula in this image.
ALT A colorful nebula in space with a white haze throughout that is more concentrated in the center with a rippling effect. Gas filaments appear to splash outward from the nebula center, colored yellow, magenta, and blue. A faint black border with right angles at the corners of the images show where the telescope\u2019s field of view stops. Small white stars dot the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, William Blair (JHU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Did you know that one teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons? Neutron stars are incredibly dense remnants of massive stars that have exploded in supernovae.
Quick note: 6 billion tons is the upper limit based on the estimated density of a neutron star. The average limit may be closer to 2 billion tons. (Just did the math on threads lol)
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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus! It takes 243 Earth days to rotate once, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. #SpaceFacts
🌞🌏⚪️(my version of Venus)
Athena Brensberger retweeted
Feast your eyes on this: the moment @fireflyspace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the Moon’s surface.
Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
Athena Brensberger retweeted
🚀🏗️ Building a Permanent Lunar Colony: Challenges & Opportunities 🌕🏗️
A future where humans live and work on the Moon is closer than ever—but getting there is no small feat. Let's break down the key challenges & innovations shaping our lunar future. 🧵⬇️
Athena Brensberger retweeted
⚡ Mining the Moon for the Future of Energy? 🌕
Imagine a clean energy source with no greenhouse gases and no long-lived nuclear waste. That’s the potential of Helium-3 (³He), a rare isotope that could revolutionize fusion energy. But there’s a catch… 🧵👇
EPISODE 1 JUST AIRED OF THE SHOW I’VE BE WORKING ON WITH PBS NOVA!! 🥳🎉
WHAT THE PHYSICS?! ⚛️🤓🔭
Check it out let me know what you think !! And please like & share the video with any fellow physics lover you know!!!! 📐🧮🌌
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Athena Brensberger retweeted
Experts believe it’s only a matter of time until we find intelligent extraterrestrial life. With new tools and technologies, we search more of the cosmos every day. But what happens when we detect ET? Vote for our #SXSW2025 PanelPicker proposal here: buff.ly/3M10Bz1 @sxsw
ALT SXSW 2024 Logo. Text: PanelPicker (registered) Beyond First Contact: Exploring our Relationship with ET. Photos of the four panelists in dark green frames: Franck Marchis ourdoors with dog; Doug Vakoch, outdoors in the show at a radio telescope; Athena Brensberger, outdoors in front of SpaceX rockets; and Gregory Betts, outdoors in front of a bush and wearing a white hat. The background is a gradient from a sunset orange to a sky blue, going from left to right.
Athena Brensberger retweeted
I tweeted a tweet about Science! I read the article myself, and wrote the tweet myself and posted it myself. 🥹🥹🥹
I haven't been able to do anything like that for a year and a half. 😭
It only took me three days lol. But I did it.
Why is this cool?? Because it’s one step closer to making a new element - unbinilium - which would be the heaviest element ever synthesized.
What’s cool? Scientist at Berkeley found a new way to make Livermorium (an element with 116 protons! So, just 4 protons away from Unbinilium) by putting titanium-50 in a cyclotron for 22 days and smashing it into another atom. And with all that energy, they only got out two atoms of Livermorium. 😅
Yes, this was tweeted by Dianna!
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Athena Brensberger retweeted
Liftoff! 🇺🇸🚀🚀🚀 Falcon Heavy launches the GOES-U satellite, furthering NASA and NOAA’s on-orbit weather forecasting capabilities
Made it to NASA Johnson Spaceflight center in Houston, TX !! @NASA_Johnson
Athena Brensberger retweeted
The universe as a network of rivers:
This remarkable new map reveals how galaxies flow like water, following the pull of gravity across hundreds of millions of light years.
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Starliner arrives at the pad for crewed test flight spacenews.com/starliner-arri… via @SpaceNews_Inc
☕️ Please vote for the show I'm on - Mission Unstoppable for a #Webbys Award!! People’s Voice ends TODAY and @CBSUnstoppable needs your votes to win! RT & VOTE: wbby.co/40230N
Athena Brensberger retweeted
On 13 April 2029, five years from today, the asteroid Apophis will pass so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. Any chance of impact has been ruled out, but its close approach will offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for science and public outreach 👇🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
ALT Artist's impression of the asteroid (99942) Apophis.
Athena Brensberger retweeted
This workhorse rocket has been reused a record 20 times - it previously launched GPS III 04, GPS III 05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb 17, ARABSAT BADR-8 ...
Leading the world @SpaceX.