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PRESS RELEASE
Dr. Matthew Tiscareno will receive the 2026 Carl Sagan Center Director’s Award for scientific leadership, planetary rings research, and mentorship at the SETI Institute. The award recognizes excellence in astrobiology, technology, exploration, public engagement, and mentoring future scientists. Tiscareno’s research includes major discoveries involving Saturn’s rings and Enceladus’ subsurface ocean.

#seti #space #science #drakeawards

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Sunset from the International Space Station
Credits: Expedition 23 Crew, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

Sunset from the International Space Station

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Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. 'This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars'. Via @spacedotcom #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Astronomers trace massive cosm...

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Since this https://chaos.social/@Skorpy/115037963703138114 is getting some traction right now, I would like to alert #astrodon folks that I have created this starter pack https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/ and that you may be in it: for a *very* loose definition of Germany, it's "Astronomy in Germany".

Accounts that have opted in to discovery features can be added to starter packs without further confirmation. So if you find yourself a part of this and want me to *remove* you, please let me know and I'll try to do this quickly, before it spreads too widely.

If you think you should be on that list, but are not, because of oversight on my part, or because of missing opt-in to account discovery so far, which you would now like to change, also feel free to let me know.

The idea is to have a presentable starter pack ready at the time of #ag2025goerlitz for https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_abstract.php?id=39

#astronomy #astrophysics #space

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UPCOMING DEADLINE: The SETI Institute invites outstanding undergraduate interns to apply for the 2025 SETI Forward Award, open from August 4 through September 7, 2025.

Undergraduate student interns who participated in SETI or astrobiology-related research between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025, are eligible to apply.

Recipients receive a $1,500 award.

Learn more and apply:
https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-opens-applications-for-the-2025-seti-forward-award/

#science #space #undergrad #reu

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"Soot Planets" Might Be More Common Than "Water Worlds" https://www.universetoday.com/articles/soot-planets-might-be-more-common-than-water-worlds 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science

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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/perseverance-rover-uncovers-clues-to-ancient-martian-chemistry/

SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop and University of Massachusetts Engineering Professor Mario Parente analyzed orbital hyperspectral images from the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, producing a detailed mineral map at the tens-of-meters scale of the crater documenting deposits of clays and carbonates signaling abundant water on ancient Mars.

#space #science #planetaryscience

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New comet SWAN25B already bright, but near sun

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I love changing my #perspective by slipping into the most impossible roles. It helps me see everyday things with new eyes. When I became this cute little green #alien, this is the result:

🐸 a downloadable mini #zine as #HowTo #shift your perspective: https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138

🌱 a photo reportage about a #space #moss #expedition: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039

🐸 more infos about #zines and how to fold them: https://www.cronenburg.net/zines/

#reciprocity #natureWriting #nature #solarpunk #cartoon #education

Back and Cover of a mini-zine with a cute green cartoon alien, a little bit frog-like. Title: Reconnection for Aliens.

2 pages inside the mini-zine. At the left the alien standing on a mini continent on a blue planet. Beside a rocket with the words "open your mind" and on the continent: "and trust yourself". At the right many small green aliens stand on bright blue mycelium, some take the hands of others. Text: share & connect!

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On the occasion of the International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, where a joint effort is happening right now to connect existing #fediverse accounts and to invite more members of the community to participate, here is a starter pack of accounts with a relation to Astronomy in Germany:

https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/

Are you all already following each other? Did you just get started and want to ask to be included, too? Would you like to suggest further additions to the starter pack? Are you discovering accounts in the list whose introductions should get boosted around a lot more? Are astronomy aficionados out there finding this list useful?

#Starterpack #FediFollows #Astronomy #Astrodon #AG2025Goerlitz #GermanAstroSoc #Space

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Available Now! Pearl the Space Girl: The A to Z Adventure of Exploring Space Careers

Dr. Michaelyn Thomas (aka Spaced Out Doc has written a children's book that is available now in both hardcover and paperback. It is also available from all major online book retailers. For background on Pearl the Space Girl, see these blog posts from Dr. Thomas:

Pearl the Space Girl | Exploring Space Careers

Pearl the Space Girl | Did you know?

#PearlTheSpaceGirl #ChildrensBook #ChildrensBooks #ForKids #AToZ #SpaceBook #SpaceBooks #PictureBook #PictureBooks #Space #STEM #STEAM #SpacedOutDoc #Education

Artwork of a girl and her dog wearing spacesuits floating in space. The artwork is for the front cover of Pearl the Space Girl: The A to Z Adventure of Exploring Space Careers. Written by Dr. Michaelyn L Thomas. Illustrated by Saz Ross.

The back cover of the book is artwork of a girl wearing a pink shirt with a rocket on it. About the book. Join Pearl the Space girl as she goes on the exciting A to Z adventure of exploring space careers. She will take kids and adults on an educational journey of fascinating careers in the space industry. Get ready to learn more about space systems technologies and how space exploration improves life on earth. This children's book aims to inspire all kids, especially underrepresented kids, to pursue space education and space careers. The space industry is vast and requires a multitude of skillsets, and often, children and adults do not realize what is within their reach. Join Pearl the Space girl for lift-off as she reaches beyond the stars!

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On Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, at 7 pm (PT), Dr. Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled:

"The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Surveying the Universe"

in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos (see directions at the link below).

The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 26th year.

Learn more: https://www.seti.org/events/the-new-vera-c-rubin-observatory-surveying-the-universe/

#space #science #bayarea

Photograph of the building how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory set against a backdrop of time-lapsed star trails overhead.

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A mysterious visitor from beyond the stars zipped through our solar system, no tail, strange speed, bizarre shape. Was it just a rock… or something more?

Read More: https://t.co/qmhNO5xmuR

#Oumuamua #SpaceMystery #NASA #Alien #aliens #astronomy #science #Space #astrology

What is Oumuamua and Why Did it Puzzle Scientists?

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The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig

The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, is now a permanent fixture in doctoral training in Göttingen and Braunschweig. The Max Planck Society will continue the International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen and at TU Braunschweig for an indefinite period. The IMPRS doctoral program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in the field of solar system research... https://www.mps.mpg.de/bright-future-for-solar-system-school

@tubraunschweig @unigoettingen @thegoecampus @maxplanckgesellschaft @mpsgoettingen @sonjaschuh01

#IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool #SolarSystem #MPSGoettingen #UniGoettingen #TUBraunschweig #Goettingen #Braunschweig #Space #PhD

A collage of four photographs showing doctoral researchers in various work settings. From left to right and from top to bottom, the four pictures show: Two young women, one sitting and one standing, in front of computer screens on a desk in an office, looking at the screens and pointing. A young man in a light mint green T-Shirt in a lab environment, standing with his back to the viewer, his body facing machinery but his head turned back over his right shoulder to face the viewer. A person in white clean room attire including gloves and a hair net bent over a lab bench with equipment sitting on it, their hand stretched out to the piece's end that's oriented towards the viewer. Bottom right, a control room with desks and monitors as well as a large screen on the wall, operated by two young researchers sitting at the desks and focusing on the monitors and screens.

A seminar room with a group of roughly thirty young people sitting around a U-shaped conference table, looking up at the camera.

People posing for a group photo at the entrance of a historical building. It's round and extends upwards beyond the frame of the image.

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So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising. It's the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface of Mars.

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#MPSGoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!

Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️

During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recently been tilted 17 degrees relative to the Sun's equator, allowing measurements from this unique perspective for the first time. As the new observations impressively show, the magnetic field at the poles is currently in a state of turmoil.

In addition to the images of the sun's south pole taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, the past year has brought us many other highlights: exciting scientific results and important awards. Read more at https://www.mps.mpg.de/en/season-s-greetings-2025

#2025 #wrapped #wrapped2025 #Jahresrückblick #SolarOrbiter #Sun #Space #SolAustralisIncognitus #2026 #NewYear #Goettingen #Astrodon

A view of half the Sun in short wavelengths, with the disk surface appearing very active and the inner corona outside the disk glowing bright. Towards the bottom of the disk, a map is superimposed that is labelled "Sol Australis Incognita". At the bottom right just outside the disk, a space craft has been inserted, and below that centered the words "Season‘s Greetings".

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NASA Chief Gives Serious Warning About 3I/ATLAS Collision with Earth

3i Atlas came from deep space, silent and unseen, slipping into our solar system on a path no one expected.
#space #sciencefiction #science

https://www.simply-amazing-stuff.com/nasa-chief-gives-serious-warning-about-3i-atlas-collision-with-earth/

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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
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The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Starship #Aviation #Space #Safety #Musk

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What is Hubble observing?

https://spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId=01KKPMD8KRV8VX8NPK5QZNBBYA

#hubble #space #astronomy #telescope

A photo captured by a space telescope from the linked website, typically showing a wide image of distant galaxies with stars and interstellar gas.

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Everything set up to follow the ESA live stream on the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) separation: The BepiColombo team at MPS Göttingen and colleagues are glued to the screen and are eagerly awaiting to see the outcome of the maneuver! Join us watching live via https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Watch_live_BepiColombo_begins_its_arrival_at_Mercury

YT https://youtube.com/live/oC7lQngNG3o

More on MPS contributions to BepiColombo at https://www.mps.mpg.de/planetary-science/bepi-colombo-mission

#Mercury #ESA #JAXA #Bepicolombo #MTM #MPSGöttingen #Space #SolarSystem #livestream

A setup oft large monitors in the corner of a high-ceilinged building. The ESA live stream is playing on the central monitor. To both sides there are BepiColombo posters. A crowd is seen from behind, watching.

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The SETI Institute invites nominations for the 2026 Jill Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, an international honor recognizing individuals whose ideas, work, or leadership have meaningfully advanced humanity’s efforts to understand life and intelligence in the Universe. Artists, journalists, media, scientists, educators, law & ethics, philosophers, and more – all disciplines are welcome.

#seti #space #science

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#Space video accounts to follow:

(If an account looks blank to you, see https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank)

➡️ @lightcurvefilms_socialmedia - Planetary science videos

➡️ @europlanet_media - European org for planetary science

➡️ @issi_media - Research on Solar System, planetary sci, astrophysics etc

➡️ @geo.x_media - Geoscientific competence network based in Berlin & Potsdam, Germany

➡️ @openplanetary_media - Helping planetary scientists & software developers to share data & tools

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Astronomers sure do conjure up a lot of spooky images when they look out into deep space. A short Halloween thread:

Let's start with the Cosmic Bat Nebula (LDN 43).

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241027.html #space #science #art #halloween

What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars.

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Three Chinese astronauts who have been living on China's Tiangong space station since April 24 were set to return to Earth Wednesday when a piece of suspected “space junk” struck their return capsule — just hours ahead of departure. Looks like they’re going to be there for a while. Read more from @LiveScience:

https://flip.it/SGZBwV

#Science #Space #China #SpaceExploration

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I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our Sun has a lot of dust around it that we can rarely see. This so called Zodiacal light is giving the moon this eerie backlit glow.

And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind!

Credit: NASA
Processing: Simeon Schmauß

Full quality: https://flic.kr/p/2s6ionW

#Artemis #Nasa #Moon #Eclipse #space #zodiacallight #orion

The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA’s Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II mission. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars.

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