Amount of daylight throughout the year changes based on Latitude Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply Amount of daylight throughout the year changes based on Latitude Took me a little bit to understand this animation. It shows how the amount of daylight changes throughout the year based on latitude. Source: https://t.co/0SWHb83QwN pic.twitter.com/r0OP3zPbq2— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) February 20, 2022
APOD: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille Reply APOD: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273 Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273: https://t.co/j0I6QNOZKO— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) February 19, 2022
The Massive Chunk of Metal Hiding in the Moon Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply The moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in existence, and there's something big hidden underneath!https://t.co/tr82p6DsXW pic.twitter.com/4eHnnHRvn6— SciShow (@SciShow) February 12, 2022
The 18 random dots featured in this video might not look like much, but they represent a big step forward in Webb’s 3-month mirror alignment process Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply The 18 random dots featured in this video might not look like much, but they represent a big step forward in #NASAWebb’s 3-month mirror alignment process and its quest to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/YVrW6RTvOyLet’s connect the dots with a thread ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/yT8Chn1LSb— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) February 11, 2022
This “selfie” taken by Webb of its primary mirror was not captured by an externally mounted engineering camera, but with a special lens within its NIRCam instrument Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply Bonus image! When it’s time to focus, sometimes you need to take a good look at yourself.This “selfie” taken by Webb of its primary mirror was not captured by an externally mounted engineering camera, but with a special lens within its NIRCam instrument. #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/XtzCdktrCA— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) February 11, 2022
My favorite asteroid is 3753 Cruithne Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1490378745319878656?s=20&t=OtHUZRF16nGVYgh6JPo4xQ
APOD: The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply APOD: The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT [RPT] The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT: https://t.co/fL3xMACSYa by Ian Heywood (Oxford U.), SARAO;sColor Processing:s@astro_jcm (@ESO ) pic.twitter.com/21TvnfgfFR— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) February 2, 2022
Project Lyra: A Mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille Reply Project Lyra: A Mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre To study better the interstellar object 1I/’Oumuamua: a proposed mission to be launch in 2028 with a 4 gravitational assistences and a Jupiter Oberth Manoeuvre (JOM) reaching the asteroid in 2054, with an arrival speed of 18 km s−1: https://t.co/HuKV9b5Uj0Illustration: NASA pic.twitter.com/smSrubhnLb— Xavi Bros (@Xavi_Bros) January 29, 2022