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🚨: This is not our galaxy!
You’re staring at billions of stars in the Andromeda Galaxy—and almost every one likely has planets.
Let that sink in.
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🚨: The size of Phobos, the larger of Mar’s two moons, compared to the size of New York City.
Phobos is only about 14 miles across — small enough to fit within a major city.
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🚨: The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are being pulled toward a mysterious region of space known as the Great Attractor at around 2 million km/h.
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🚨: The black hole ‘Garguanta’ in Interstellar was so accurate, it took about 100 hours for a single frame to render.
It was so scientifically accurate it literally generated new physics discoveries and helped publish scientific papers.
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🚨: SpaceX’s Starship has just reached orbit for the first time.
The historic Flight 14 marks a major milestone for the world’s largest and most powerful rocket system, successfully delivering 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites into orbit.
Congratulations @SpaceX!
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🚨: The true color of the Sun shown from space.
The Sun isn’t orange, it’s white. It appears orange because Earth’s atmosphere scatters light waves.
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☀️ The Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of solar material per second at speeds of up to 1 million mph. Earth remains safe because it’s magnetic field deflects this solar stream.
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🚨: Meet Daphnis, a tiny moon of Saturn.
A rock barely the size of a city is violently carving a 26-mile-wide trench through millions of tons of planetary debris.
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🚨: NASA has released one of the most detailed videos of Mars ever, providing an unprecedented view of the planet’s terrain.
This is a video of a planet 225 million miles away!
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Astronaut Mark Kelly secretly smuggled a full gorilla suit onto the International Space Station without telling anyone. One day, completely out of the blue, he put it on and surprised the entire crew.
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🚨: You’re 400 million times closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length.
Let that sink in.
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Flat Earthers spent $20,000 trying to prove the Earth was flat and accidentally proved it’s round 🌍😂
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🚨: Meet Himalia, one of Jupiter’s largest irregular moons.
A captured asteroid nearly 106 miles (170 km) wide, silently orbiting the largest planet in our solar system over 7 million miles away.
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This is Sol 3070 on Mars.
140 million miles from Earth.
A man-made machine operating on an alien world.
You’re part of the first generation in human history to witness this.
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🚨: Will smith eating pasta has somehow became the official benchmark for AI progression
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🚨: Mount Everest contains marine rocks, proving that the highest point on Earth was once at the bottom of the ocean
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🚨: New quantum theory suggests that alternate universe versions of you may be influencing your fate.
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🚨: A photographer captured the Sun from the exact same spot at the same time for three years straight, then combined every position into one stunning image.
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🚨: When humans brought back moon rocks, it was the first time we made the Earth heavier and almost no one realizes it.
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🚨: Real footage of Earth rising over the Moon, captured by Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter.
Not CGI. Not AI. Just our planet from 380,000 km away.
📽️: JAXA/NHK
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🚨: Footage of Apollo 14 lifting off from the Moon on February 6, 1971.
This video was captured on 16mm film and slowed down 4×.
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🚨: This star exploded when dinosaurs still roamed Earth, and its light didn’t reach us until 2015.
SN 2015F, a Type Ia supernova, is located roughly 81 million light-years away.
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🚨: A rock literally got stuck on a Mars rover’s drill, and it took NASA 5 days to shake it loose.
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🚨: You’re about 400 million times closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length.
Let that sink in.
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