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John Lewis @astrojthe3.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why Roman? Learn more from Prof @alyssagoodman.bsky.social about why we are launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope using our new interactive projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/why-roman/ #astroedu #astro www.youtube.com/shorts/-4kAL...

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Why Roman? A quick explanation of why NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is so great!

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dome-to-Phone! The inspiration for this one was to create a mobile friendly, high fidelity 3D explorable map of Jezero Crater that mimics the data products we are visualizing in the INTUITIVE Planetarium show Our Place in Space! Let me know what you think! 🔭 astrodavid10.github.io/jez-explore/

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Recovering from knee surgery - I can't zoom around, so with a little extra time on my hands I started a Dome-to-Phone web interactive that mimics the visuals we use in our planetarium to share with our audiences and keep them engaged after they leave a show. 🔭 astrodavid10.github.io/sol-solar-vi...

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Sol — the Sun Right Now

See the Sun as it is right now: live imagery from NASA SDO, its magnetic field in 3D over the last 72 hours, and the spacecraft flying through it.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Listen to exoplanets! 🔭 projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/exoplanet-so... Zoom and pan in 2D (Earth view) and 3D (Milky Way view), change background all-sky imagery, search for exoplanets, add constellations... High pitch tones correspond to rapid exoplanet orbital periods and vice versa.

Exoplanets visualized in 3D against a planar rendering of the Milky Way galaxy. The Kepler field is apparent, with a higher density of exoplanet discoveries in a conical shape emanating from the solar system.

Zoomed in 2D view of the Kepler field showing many exoplanet discoveries via the transit method.

Constellations visible, centered on Orion, against a thermal dust map background image from Planck.

TRAPPIST-1 f circled amidst many exoplanet markers in 3D space

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Hey it has been a while... I am almost ready to share a new interactive data explorer - that you can both see *and* hear. Get excited and stay tuned.

Lots of dots (or are they exoplanet detections??) visualized in a 3D Milky Way galaxy view

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Star forming region Sharpless 305 and protostar RAFGL5232 by JWST Space Telescope NIRCam Full 170MP image: flic.kr/p/2s6Uqff 🧪🔭 Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Credit: Mark McCaughrean (@markmccaughrean.bsky.social),MPIA/NASA,ESA,CSA/STScI/j.Roger ( @landru79.bsky.social)

This is a JWST Space Telescope near infrared image of a star forming region and a nearby protostar. A vast expanding cloud like formation fills the scene set against the dark of space dotted with countless background stars and galaxies. Parts of the cloud rise in uneven shapes that resemble ridges. The cloud appears soft and mist like with its inner regions glowing in bluish tones while the outer edges fade into warmer orange hues.

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Dr. Amber Straughn (she/her) @astraughnomer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

5500 light years from us, new stars are being born ✨ This stunning new #jwst image showcases 2 of the brightest & most massive stars known - weighing in at over 60x the mass of our Sun! Data like this are helping us understand how stars are born. Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

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CosmicDS @cosmicds.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Want to get closer to the @vrubinobs.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook images? Zoom + explore the stunning images for yourself at projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-look #CaptureTheCosmos

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Rubin First Look

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Alyssa Goodman @alyssagoodman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks to the Vera Rubin Observatory and WorldWide Telescope, everyone can go explore these GIGANTIC SPECTACULAR images of our Universe today!! Experience the full richness of the 3200 MegaPixel images in context at projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIk...

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Rubin First Look WorldWide Telescope Interactive How-to

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Alyssa Goodman @alyssagoodman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks @vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF, DOE, @cosmicds.bsky.social @adavidweigel.bsky.social WorldWide Telescope for making these spectacular first looks possible! Can't wait for movies coming next!! projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/rubin-first-... #capturethecosmos #RubinFirstLook #worldwidetelescope

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget: - Cuts to every science division - Smallest science funding since 1984 - 19 active, inflight missions cancelled - Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961

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Nina @ninaneedsspace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Job alert for any US planetarium pals!

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come work with me at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center! I am excited to share a FT position to lead production efforts for our Cocktails & Cosmos shows (new every Friday). If live, interactive presenting is your jam and you dream about data viz, we want you! 🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/ALA1012ASSEC...

INTUITIVE Planetarium lobby in a spaceberry glow with white letterts spelling NASA

Asteroid collision simulated on a planetarium dome with a silhouette of individuals in front

A packed planetarium for a celebration of 25 years of x-ray science from the Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

1/n 🧵 Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543 as seen by @esa.int Euclid Space Telescope Full size & full info: flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/AndreaLuck CC BY Latest data release available on: eas.esac.esa.int/sas Filters: HSC G, VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y 🧪🔭

$This image presents a stunning deep space view centered on the Cat’s Eye Nebula, with intricate structures and vibrant colors. The nebula itself glows in an ethereal blue and violet hue, surrounded by delicate, symmetrical, and concentric gaseous layers that form its iconic shape. The surrounding space is filled with an intricate web of faint reddish and brownish wisps on the outer region surrounding the nebula. Bright stars with distinct diffraction spikes punctuate the scene, adding depth and contrast to the dark, star speckled background. Numerous galaxies are also visible in the background. The image showcases a great balance between sharp details in the nebula's core and the softer, ghostly tendrils of interstellar gas beyond.$

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 28/02/2025

🆕 This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image shows NGC 2283, a barred spiral galaxy; its central bar of stars is encircled by loosely wound spiral arms 🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

A spiral galaxy seen close up and almost face on. It is filled with puffy, patchy clouds of hot gas and dust. Red, orange and yellow colours indicate light emitted by different particles. The brightest colours are in the centre and along the two spiral arms, which wind out from the centre. Star clusters hide in the gas along the arms. A few large, bright white stars are prominent in the foreground, near to us.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Updates to the Radio Star Interactive! Safari (and all? browsers on iPhones) now work (and various other optimizations). Go check out the awesome work from @astrolaura.com and @taramurphy.bsky.social. Happy exploring! 🔭 🧪 web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Stefan Payne-Wardenaar @stefanpw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My current best guess at what the Milky Way looks like, based in large part on Gaia Data. See @esascience for more details! and @HdAstro for more Milky Way and other visualizations coming soon...

The Milky Way galaxy, showed edge on with a central bulge and warp

The Milky Way galaxy, shown with a bar, 5 messy arms.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've pushed some small fixes and additional features to the Radio Star interactive explorer. #AAS245 🔭 Safari is still mad on mobile (apologies!) so use chrome (and maybe not an iPhone yet). New updates coming soon :) web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Sydney Radio Star Catalogue

Explore the Sydney Radio Star Catalogue in 2D (sky) and 3D (galaxy) powered by WorldWideTelescope.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yessss! And I have the rocket on a business card for anyone in need! #AAS245

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Have you seen the new radio stars catalog published recently by @astrolaura.com et al? I made an interactive viewer that I think puts the data into nice perspective both against a 2D sky survey and 3D in the Milky Way. Let me know what you think! 🔭 🧪 web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Sydney Radio Star Catalogue

Explore the Sydney Radio Star Catalogue in 2D (sky) and 3D (galaxy) powered by WorldWideTelescope.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top! The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon! 🔭 Full panorama: www.360cities.net/image/marsro... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ok, time to zoooom - here is the Orion Nebula in multiwavelength glory! But don't just take my word for it; I created a web interactive for you to explore for yourself: web.wwtassets.org/specials/202... or if you have a Digistar planetarium, go hit up that cloud for the dome version :) 🔭 🧪

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Dust Storm Conditions over Mars ' North Polar Cap Full size video: flic.kr/p/2qtp1Vt 🔭 Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2qto3Uy Credits: Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin ESA Mars Express 2006-11-16 All timestamps & additional info are available on Flickr in the links above.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hey #astro 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ bluesky, time to reintroduce myself - I'm David and I create interactive, educational experiences featuring immersive visualizations to explore our understanding of the universe. Most of the time, my canvas is a planetarium, sometimes web interactives.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Celebrating #BlackHoleFriday with a twist (ok, ok it is a reach) - here's our visualization of stellar birth, well before the possible black hole finale. 🔭 🧪

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/11/2024

Second Stage xkcd.com/3018

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I recently watched the #JWST IMAX film Deep Sky and, while I liked it, I feel like it was missing something like the 3D-ified Pillars of Creation created by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center INTUITIVE Planetarium team. What do you think? 🔭 🧪

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hey #astro 🔭 bluesky, it has been a bit. I hope all is well.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Still a work in progress, but I had to share with the Cassiopeia A NIRCam data that was just released!🔭 web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Explore Cassiopeia A Imagery

Explore Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant imagery in context of the sky using WorldWide Telescope

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

New stereo image of the Dinkinesh asteoroid and its newly discovered contact binary moon Selam. I colorized this L’LORRI image using lower resolution false color data from the MVIC instrument. Read more about the moon and it's name here: blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11...

A pair of crossview stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite, Selam, created using data collected by the L’LORRI camera on the NASA Lucy spacecraft in the minutes around closest approach on Nov. 1, 2023. These images have been processed to enhance contrast, and the apparent distance between Selam and Dinkinesh has been artificially reduced to facilitate simultaneous stereo view of the two objects. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab for the original images/Brian May/Claudia Manzoni for stereo processing of the images.

I colorized this stereo image using a false color image from the lower resolution MVIC instrument. The orange, green and violet MVIC filters were mapped to the red, green, and blue channels to create this image. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Excited to share that I created an interactive visualization of the Fermi Gamma Ray Pulsar Catalog for NASA SVS! 🔭 Happy exploring: web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Fermi Gamma-Ray Pulsar Catalog

Explore the Fermi Gamma-Ray Pulsar Catalog overlaid on an all-sky imagery background

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Looking at you, Euclid! That Horsehead is wild - go ahead and zoom on in! 🔭 worldwidetelescope.org/@euclid

Horsehead Nebula, imaged by the Euclid Space Telescope, overlaid on the Digitized Sky Survey 2 in context of the background sky.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Have you tried out the new WorldWide Telescope Constellations yet? Giving the JWST Crab Nebula a look 🔭 (and a zoom) is a good first go: worldwidetelescope.org/@jwst/65409f...

JWST Crab Nebula visualized in context of the background sky in WorlcWide Telescope Constellations

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Find your favorite Proplyd! It's time to jump on the bandwagon with the latest JWST Orion Nebula imagery release. Here's my interactive Orion Nebula explorer that uses WorldWide Telescope to allow for full resolution viewing in context of the night sky. *Crossfade and zoom, crossfade and zoom* 🔭

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Explore Orion Nebula Imagery

Explore Orion Nebula imagery in context of the sky using WorldWide Telescope

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hey BlueSky #astro, are you ready for the #OSIRISREx Sample Return??

Silhouette of a man watching the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule streak above Earth towards the Utah desert viewed on an LED planetarium screen.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hey BlueSky #astro, are you ready for the #OSIRISREx Sample Return??

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Hi again Bluesky, let me continue my #astro intro and share my planetarium with you. We host exclusively live and interactive dome shows that feature immersive data viz. Want to visit? You should! Find the awesome at the INTUITIVE Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (Home of Space Camp).

The Southern Ring Nebula, imaged but the JWST NIRCam is stunningly stretched across a 67 ft diameter planetarium dome. 250 guests gaze upward, captivated by the detail of this stellar death throe.

A gentle blue glow is cast throughout a planetarium lobby as guests sip cocktails and gather around standing tables glowing with autumn colors.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Hey Bluesky, I'm David and I spend my working time creating meaningful interactive and immersive ways for people to explore the universe. So try one out, here are the iconic Pillars of Creation in context of the sky from JWST and Hubble: web.wwtassets.org/specials/202...

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Pillars of Creation

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