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The aftermath of a supernova has been mapped and measured in a new way, using our Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). With #IXPE data, scientists can “reverse engineer” what’s happening inside the remnant of this massive stellar explosion: https://t.co/U5mBN7cy57 https://t.co/IED0B0ZPqD

IC1318 - Butterfly Nebula in HαRGB

Sobel Edge Detect Filter Shows Unexpected Detail's - JWST First Deep Field

The Postal Service has a new stamp honoring the women cryptologists, who broke the codes in World War II. Women had never been trusted with such high-level work, let alone counted on to win a war. My mom was one of them. She carried the secrets to her grave. Thank you all. https://t.co/tl4GqIvbkR

My take on the Wizard Nebula :)

After its latest thruster burn, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is still on track to bring samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023

Needle’s Eye Galaxy 🪡 This #HubbleClassic view unveils a galaxy about 11 million light-years away from us. It earned its nickname because one end of the galaxy is strangely empty of stars (not seen in this image of the starry center): https://t.co/EnufT47q4K https://t.co/9EBCfA7P9j

.@NASA is “GO” to resume station spacewalks following an investigation into moisture discovered inside a spacesuit helmet in March. More... https://t.co/oqtD2tbViz https://t.co/CKzC7pO9ry

Howl at the Moon from @Space_Station! 🐺 Staring out the window of station serves multiple purposes. Not only can the crew channel their inner wolf but observations of the Earth below help us monitor the planet’s health and changes! https://t.co/LkQjnPXH6T

Middle & high school educators: your students could fly an experiment on a high-altitude balloon in the NASA TechRise Student Challenge! Winning teams get $1,500, tech support, and insight from experts to build their project. The deadline is Oct. 24. https://t.co/B2uFsTHz3q https://t.co/aQxlKdFHhg

The Exp 68 crew explored how to maintain healthy bodies and grow crops in space today while prepping for the next cargo mission. https://t.co/2Cz8ffHiwk

On October 18, 1993, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-58—the second Spacelab Life Sciences mission (SLS-2). The crew conducted regulatory physiology, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and neuroscience experiments. https://t.co/QBWKhiDl7R

Is it a landscape painting? Look again. This is a piece of petrified wood from Arizona, where silica-rich groundwater permeated the wood with fine-grained quartz. Impurities in the quartz (like iron and carbon) produced colors in the petrified wood, now in our @NMNH. https://t.co/mTQzs12AI6

What do black holes actually look like?

If light was fast enough to barely escape the gravity of the celestial objects that we consider to be black holes now, how would their surface look like?

Your phone can see a lot more stars than you would think