AstronomyBit
@AstronomyBit
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
- Carl Sagan
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Scale in the universe is genuinely mind-bending. 🌌
📹 Universe Dimensions
A rainbow where it shouldn't be? 🌈
While standard rainbows require the Sun to be behind you, this optical illusion in Presenzano, Italy happened when cloud gaps let rays cross the sky to converge in front as anticrepuscular rays. Nature is wild!
📷 Aurelia Degli Esposti
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This is what it might look like if Saturn slammed into Jupiter.
📹 nerlfield
Working miles above the Earth. The ultimate office view. 🌍✨
The glowing remains of a historic stellar explosion first spotted in 1181 AD: Supernova Remnant Pa 30. ✨
Tropical cyclones need the Coriolis effect to rotate. Near the equator that force is too weak, so storms almost never form there, and none have ever crossed it. 70 years of data make it clear.
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Did you know @museband’s “Hexagons” channels one of the solar system’s strangest geometries? Saturn’s massive north polar hexagon, a six-sided jet stream wider than Earth, is the perfect cosmic inspiration.
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Solar flares and massive magnetic loops erupting in real time. Proof that the cosmos is as terrifying as it is breathtaking. 🌞🌌
What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? ⚫
📹 NASA
Mark your calendar! Halley’s Comet left us a cosmic souvenir, and the Orionids peak overnight from Oct 21–22, 2026. Look toward Orion after midnight for the best view! ☄️
📷 Ben Goldstein
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Visualizing planetary tilts and day lengths across our solar system. 🪐
📹 Dr. James O'Donoghue
Opening a jar of honey in space looks like pure magic. 🍯💫
📹 Canadian Space Agency
Imagine seeing this with your own eyes.
South Africa's Vredefort Dome is Earth’s largest known impact crater! ☄️🌍
Created 2 billion years ago by a massive asteroid, it reshaped the land into a giant ring visible from space! 🛸
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Is this the most Earth-like world we’ve found so far? 🌍
Journey across the cosmos to KOI-4878.01, a candidate world almost identical in size and orbit to Earth.
📹 Cosmic Zoom
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Earth's atmosphere at a glance. 🌎✨
A Blood Moon rising over Stonehenge is pure magic. 🔴✨
A timeless lesson in how human curiosity and simple geometry proved the Earth is round over 2,000 years ago.
#Science# #CarlSagan# #Cosmos#
Cruising through Mars. 🚗💨
