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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 29/09/2026
Astronomers theorize that the black hole at the center of Centaurus A influences the region as it feeds and launches powerful outflows. Learn more about the impact of its central black hole with a printable poster of this observation from #NASAWebb: go.nasa.gov/4hwsDlf
A horizontally oriented poster with an image of Centaurus A against a black background. The galaxy is brightest at its center, where a brilliant white and pink glow radiates outward. Wispy, ‘S’-shaped ribbons of pink arc above and below the center of the image. A parallelogram-shaped band of gray and white dust cuts across the middle of the galaxy. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Along the bottom is a series of thin vertical bars ranging from purple at left to blue, green, yellow, orange, and red at right. Bars are separated slightly, with black in between. Bar colors are brightest at the bottom, fading up to black. Brightness varies from bar to bar, giving the array an undulating feel. At upper right is text that reads, “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” and NASA’s blue, white, and red meatball insignia. Title text appears at lower left that says, “James Webb Space Telescope: Centaurus A.”
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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
On this day, back in 1977, Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first Free Flight, detaching from the SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, aka 747) and landing back at Edwards AFB
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 15/05/2026
The 1,000th Rutherford engine has rolled off the production line🎉The world's first 3D printed, battery-powered rocket engine is now one of the most manufactured rocket engines on Earth. Congratulations to the production and development teams behind Rutherford.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m not a bigot. I’m not a transphobe. I’m not a misogynist. I try to think hard about to be respectful of others. I try to think hard about complicated things. I try to figure out the parts of the world I don’t understand. I try to help my community and my neighbors. I don’t know what else to do.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Artemis III European Service Module: work on the solar array wings on Thursday, April 30, 2026, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky #Artemis 🧪🔭
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NASA ID: KSC-20260430-PH-JBS01_0028
NASA and its partners work on the solar array wings for the agency’s Artemis III Orion spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, 2026, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion’s solar arrays, manufactured and installed by ESA (European Space Agency) and its contractor Airbus, have been temporarily installed ahead of acoustic testing on the spacecraft. The Artemis III mission will launch astronauts in 2027 to Earth’s orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land Artemis IV astronauts on the Moon in 2028.  
Date Created:2026-04-30IOZ ESM Team Photos
NASA ID: KSC-20260430-PH-JBS01_0020
NASA and its partners work on the solar array wings for the agency’s Artemis III Orion spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, 2026, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion’s solar arrays, manufactured and installed by ESA (European Space Agency) and its contractor Airbus, have been temporarily installed ahead of acoustic testing on the spacecraft. The Artemis III mission will launch astronauts in 2027 to Earth’s orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land Artemis IV astronauts on the Moon in 2028.  
Date Created:2026-04-30IOZ ESM Team Photos
NASA ID: KSC-20260430-PH-JBS01_0004
NASA and its partners work on the solar array wings for the agency’s Artemis III Orion spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, 2026, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion’s solar arrays, manufactured and installed by ESA (European Space Agency) and its contractor Airbus, have been temporarily installed ahead of acoustic testing on the spacecraft. The Artemis III mission will launch astronauts in 2027 to Earth’s orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land Artemis IV astronauts on the Moon in 2028.  
Date Created:2026-04-30
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
was going through the newly released artemis ii images and this one just made me speechless. that’s our home, a tiny blue crescent, viewed through a window.
Earth as a small blue crescent viewed through the window of Orion during Artemis II
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is good but in reality if she wants to turn around the Xbox brand they only have one real solution. MAKE GOOD GAMES
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NASA OIG is literaly gospel if they are analysing ML-2/EUS/SLS and are hyperbolic uninformed accountants if its about any commercial program. It is just too transparent from the berg
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Lmao
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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Newest release of #Jupiter aurora from program 17408. Observation date 2025-10-17, but released a few days ago. www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop... Credit: Planetary Light Show
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
LETS GOOOOOOOO
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Victor and Reid suiting up!
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NASA is live www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...
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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Can't believe we are doing this! Been waiting for a decade for this and they are going to send it on my birthday.... Thanks NASA! Fly safe Artemis II!
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Real excited that a launch I have been waiting a decade for, that happens to be going on my birthday, is going to be turned into a trump propaganda broadcast. amaze amaze amaze
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
a human using ai for all their code borked something for the second time this week*
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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026
Orion and core stage battery charging on-going... Seems so far so good, with many people having their fingers crossed :) #ArtemisII
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
There was this moment on Reid Wiseman's account from yesterday. #ArtemisII twitter.com/astro_reid/s...
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Lukas C. H. @gewoonlukas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The countdown was aborted shortly before ignition, and unfortunately there's no more launch window available today, so that's a scrub. The current window on the range extends until March 29th. The next window after that is from April 8th to April 19th.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Real excited that a launch I have been waiting a decade for, that happens to be going on my birthday, is going to be turned into a trump propaganda broadcast. amaze amaze amaze
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I hate the "Trump Moon Base, Trump national space policy, Trump Space Supremecy High ground blah blah blah" that is spewing out of NASA. Has been a place partisanship has largely been left at the door, now its a feature and will turn a big portion of the country against them unfortunatly.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Something is wrong if a top scientist is leaving NASA to do science elsewhere
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rick from rick and morty is holding a cell phone and says sigh *
ALT: rick from rick and morty is holding a cell phone and says sigh *
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Gateway is dead. PPE is being used at least, mission is kinda lame though. 3 ingenuity copters to mars, should have gone to deep space. Didn’t mention this but are basically confirming SLS dead after Artemis V Was right on base Not shifting right, they will, just not yet.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Earth Science as a service is 🤢
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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 22/03/2026
Great post from a friend of mine. bigaouette.com/blog/contemp...
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Contemplations of a future true believer
The launch industry is restructuring itself around a bet I can't evaluate from where I'm standing. I can only build the hardware I'm told to build, hope the demand is real, and figure out what comes n...
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Prediction: Gateway is toast. Hoping they use the PPE module for something good at least Offically announcing starship will to the TLI on A4 which is insane Moon base hype renders w/ few details and an impossible timeline Possibly shifting everything to the right to give SX more time
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I guess we are doing bi-weekly changes to the Artemis program now
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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 20/03/2026
Project Hail Mary One of my favorite books of all time Now perhaps my favorite movie of all time Four Thumbs Up 👎👎👎👎
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Rocket Lab @rocketlabcorp.com · 20/03/2026
T-3 hours to launch for our latest mission for Synspective. Here's today's launch by the numbers: 🦉 8th deployment of a StriX satellite 🚀 Latest of 27 launches overall for Synspective 📈 5th launch of 2026 and 84th Electron launch overall
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Okay so they are just turning it all over to SpaceX essentially, not surprising. Essentially Orion is just a safety lifeboat now and this just puts it all on starship. No shot we are doing a landing in 2030 unless blue pulls a rabbit out of a hat
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
They have wasted an enormous sum of money on "cost cutting" measures
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Its all delusional non sensical ramblings to pump his bags. Grok 4 is a mediocre turd that is beaten by Chinese LLM’s made by 2 dudes in a dorm. Anyway Google owns 7.5% of SpaceX and are light years ahead in every way.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hopefully this makes a big pile of money so I can get more banger space movies l. The movie was fantastic and should absolutely be seen on the biggest screen you can get to
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I don't know when it will happen but eventually all this reckless non sense will implode the market. Elimating accountability under the guise of cutting regulations. I will not be investing in any company that doesn't have quarterly reports for obvious reasons.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Send us your tax returns, medical records, confidential files, contracts, and business projects to our sketchy flailing AI company is an insane thing to ask people to do.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
NO! Completely defeats the point of playing a game, nobody will use it and it will 1000% slow down the entire system. Microsoft is such a mess at the moment and they act like they hate consumers. Make good games to run on good hardware, profit. It’s not hard, they have lost their damn minds
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Existential dread over the incoming insane propaganda around Artemis II.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
An entire administration of reactionary grifter posters all the way from the top down to the spokeswomen of NASA.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/03/2026
Be a solutions guy, not a problems guy.
Oil tanker edited to have wheels.
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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
All teams polled said GO for #ArtemisII - rollout to pad next week on 19 March. Launch date as early as 1 April at 6:24 pm EDT - Another opportunity on 2 April would be at 7:22 pm - 4 launch opportunities within that 6 day period in April.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We should absolutely still be going to the moon! More money on science and exploration, less on war!
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It's not the NASA Administrator's role to go off and advocate for an unpopular war. I would think the Human Landing System's problems would occupy enough of his time. It should be interesting when he enters into negotiations with Artemis partners from this point forward.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12/03/2026
It's been nearly six months now since my felony charges were dismissed. The DOJ still has possession of my entire newsroom, because they've filed a notice of appeal (but have not actually filed the appeal yet). You can help me get back to doing full-time journalism: timburkelegalfund.org
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
All of the normie liberal space twitter people simping for Jared are going to look so stupid when this is all over. Dude spends all day posting on Twitter and glazing trump
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Alec Griffiths @alectrospace1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Today's Firefly Alpha rocket launch (left) vs. my 2025 scale Alpha model (right). (First image by Firefly via Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/firef...)
A photo of Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket lifting off. The rocket is silhouetted against the golden evening sky.A scale model of the Firefly Alpha rocket lifts off. It is silhouetted against the golden evening sky.
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musicianapolis @generalmusician.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I hate to say this but Artemis at this point is a giant poorly planned pile of hopium. The amount of stuff HLS needs to do just to attempt an uncrewed demo landing is mind boggling, no shot we are getting on the surface this decade.
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Andrew 🚀🛰️ @cosmic-andrew1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Good history lesson on computer memory and DRAM with a few bonus mentions of Apollo youtu.be/jVzeHTlWIDY?...
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The DRAM Cartel | Price Fixing, Anti-Consumer Collusion, & Corporate Conspiracy
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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