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Hello, world! First-light images from @NOAA's GOES-18 weather satellite reveal our home planet in high resolution. We oversaw development and launch of this mission, which will provide data to improve weather forecasts, and monitor our changing climate: https://t.co/pR6xXwzDVc https://t.co/o5wGnlt540

As time GOES by. 🛰 A little more than 22,000 miles (34,000 kilometers) above Earth, the newest NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) has released its first photos. Locked in a geostationary orbit, GOES-18 covers the same section of Earth – over the western contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America and the Pacific Ocean. The GOES satellites are the most advanced weather-monitoring satellites in the Western Hemisphere; they provide high-resolution imagery, atmospheric measurements, and lightning maps of our home planet, all in real-time, and monitor space weather with enhanced solar imaging and an upgraded magnetometer - which measures magnetic field variations. GOES-18 will help meteorologists and scientists monitor storms, wildfires, hurricanes, and climate change. ⁣ Credit: NOAA/NASA #Planet #Space #Weather #SolarSystem #Science #Climate #NASA #Earth

Caldwell 5 glitters in this new #GalaxiesGalore image! This spiral galaxy lies about 11 million light-years away. At its core is an energetic star nursery that can create thousands of stars over the course of a couple million years. Read more: https://t.co/nDUaMJF255 https://t.co/KksdpBIqPv

Kleptocracies are good at stealing from their citizens. That seems to be about it. When public corruption is rampant everything and everyone suffers (except for the thieves.) https://t.co/rg029VVSNq

Starliner, we are go for launch. In today's Flight Readiness Review, Boeing, @NASA and its international partners gave a "go" for Orbital Flight Test-2. Thank you, NASA, for working side-by-side with us to prepare for #OFT2. Learn more: https://t.co/AsIXVDWQHn https://t.co/DeiOdXFND9

Who are all these people?

The Exp 67 crew preps for next week's @BoeingSpace #Starliner mission while working on human research, spacesuits, and lab hardware. https://t.co/KpYYpOTkk9

Galaxies are pretty to look at, but they can also be pretty to listen to – and scientifically valuable! In this sonification of Hoag's Object, bright light is represented as louder volume, and light farther from the center is higher: https://t.co/nY3Wo1e6bc #GalaxiesGalore https://t.co/GesAR658K7

✨ The Milky Way rising over Balanced Rock ✨

LIVE: Teams from NASA and @BoeingSpace give an update on OFT-2, the second test flight of Boeing’s #Starliner spacecraft. Launch to the @Space_Station for the human-rated capsule is targeted for May 19: https://t.co/5UzSaMxHhv https://t.co/GUVrQa3wTU

Tracking small ocean currents 🌊 The SWOT (Surface Water & Ocean Topography) mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating climate change. It'll also measure freshwater bodies and launch no earlier than November 2022. https://t.co/gTuCTgSAjx https://t.co/4VHcqbxm63

The Chandrasekhar limit: Why only some stars become supernovas https://t.co/aJYUwq9C4K https://t.co/rJiILOr6F0

Solar System Planets

Astronauts on NASA mission STS-125, which launched today in 2009, brought Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (pictured here) and COSTAR back to Earth. We now have these pieces of space exploration history in our collection. https://t.co/cb76YSAViF

Water may have been on Mars much more recently than scientists thought, China's rover suggests https://t.co/SOsW69LLBx https://t.co/uBAUQtvpOe