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Trentymus Kostorus

@trentymuskostorus.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Astrophysics & Astrobiology • Former @NASAGoddard & @SETIInstitute scientist • Space-obsessed mind powered by curiosity • Sharing the cosmos with everyone

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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Explaining the universe is my passion… Developing new ways of sharing this with you all is what drives me as a creator. For the past couple months, I've been working hard on a project that pushed me beyond what I thought I could do… Anytime now…
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SonadaVT🫧💫 @sonadavt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I put the ‘fun’ in fundamentally lacking any chill. Goblin Cleanup was a blast, especially with great friends to help clean up my mess 😅 #vtuber
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just found a supermassive black hole over 13 billion light-years away that appears to predate its own host galaxy. Abell2744-QSO1, a tiny and extremely distant galaxy that existed only about 700 million years after the Big Bang. ➡️: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The vibrant star cluster Westerlund 2, captured combining data from JWST and Chandra. This cluster is situated within a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29. The bright, sparkling core is a massive young star cluster located approximately 20,000 light-years away from Earth.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This here is MoM-z14, a galaxy that has a redshift of 14.44, meaning its light traveled 13.5 billion years and shows the galaxy as it existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang. science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hubble's accidental catch: Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fragmented into 4 pieces with distinct comas on Nov. 8-10, 2025. It began breaking apart 8 days earlier, where ground telescopes saw only blobs of pristine, carbon-depleted Solar System material. ➡️: esahubble.org/news/heic2606/
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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up
Comet K1, whose full name is Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), had just passed its closest approach to the Sun and was heading out of the Solar System. Though it had been intact just days before, K1 fragmented...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A stunning view of the Lagoon Nebula from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This nebula is a giant stellar nursery located ~4,000 light-years away in Sagittarius. This cosmic cloud of gas and dust is actively forming new stars, illuminated by intense radiation from young stars.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
ALMA has produced the largest image ever taken of the Milky Way’s core — mapping over 650 light-years of cold molecular gas surrounding our galaxy’s central black hole. This dense, filamentary network reveals the raw material fueling star formation. ➡️: www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-rel...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A Cosmic Brain-like Nebula 🧠 Webb’s infrared view of the Cranium Nebula reveals the intricate aftermath of stellar death — expanding shells of ionized gas, dust, and complex structure sculpted by powerful stellar winds. ➡️: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Astronomers have introduced a new galaxy catalogue called, REGALADE, which compiles nearly 80 million galaxies across the entire sky of a distance over 6 billion light-years. This dataset merges 14 major surveys and filters them with ESA’s Gaia mission data. ➡️: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A look at how stellar birth and death continually recycle material across cosmic time. The JWST has captured an image of spiral galaxy NGC 2283 in infrared detail, revealing glowing star-forming regions, warm dust, and complex gas clouds shaping its sweeping arms. ➡️: esawebb.org/images/potm2...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hubble discovered one of the darkest galaxies ever. The faint system, CDG-2, is so dominated by dark matter that about 99% of its mass is invisible, with only a sparse scattering of stars detectable through globular clusters ~300 mil light-years away. ➡️: science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
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NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies - NASA Science
Hubble identified a rare dark galaxy — a low-surface-brightness galaxy dominated by dark matter and containing only a sparse scattering of faint stars.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
JWST's observations detected an array of organic molecules like benzene, methane, acetylene, and the first extragalactic methyl radical in the dust-shrouded core of nearby ultra-luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 07251-0248. ➡️: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Planet formation just got less predictable. Around the red dwarf LHS 1903, astronomers found an outer planet that appears rocky rather than gaseous — defying the standard architecture where gas giants dominate the cold outskirts. ➡️: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Seeing the early universe secrets via CANUCS surveys JWST's stunning view of galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, 5 billion light-years away. Over 300 galaxies lens light, warping distant ones into arcs. Spot the "jellyfish" spiral hosting Earendel, the farthest star at 12.9 billion lightyears.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A cosmic city under construction 🚧 Chandra is catching a proto–galaxy cluster in the act of forming—its X-ray glow tracing shock-heated gas as gravity assembles one of the universe’s largest structures. ➡️: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/p...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Coming soon…
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Astronomers have found the earliest, hottest galaxy cluster on record — SPT2349-56, a dense assembly of ~30+ galaxies just ~1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. ➡️: www.space.com/astronomy/ga...
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Astronomers discover the earliest, hottest galaxy cluster in the universe, and it breaks all the rules
The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A new analysis finds that intracluster light — faint starlight between galaxies in clusters — carries signatures of past mergers and interactions. Mapping this diffuse glow helps reconstruct the assembly history of galaxy clusters and the role of cosmic structural growth. ⬇️
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Using data from the JWST, scientists have created one of the most high resolution, detailed maps of dark matter ever produced. The diffuse blue structures trace dark matter halos, mapped via weak gravitational lensing, where visible galaxies are only passengers. ➡️: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-re...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Astronomers have applied a new AI tool called AnomalyMatch to the 35-year Hubble Legacy Archive, scanning ~100 million small cutouts and identifying over 1,300 unusual objects — hundreds previously undocumented, including many interacting and merging galaxies. ➡️: www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The most distant confirmed exoplanet detections in the Milky Way come from the SWEEPS survey toward the Galactic bulge. SWEEPS-11 and SWEEPS-04, detected via transits with the Hubble Space Telescope, lie at ~27,700 ly away in the dense, metal-rich inner Milky Way. science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy - NASA Science
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Astronomers have uncovered a giant iron-rich bar hidden inside the iconic Ring Nebula — a structure hundreds of times the size of Pluto’s orbit and containing about a Mars’ worth of iron. Its origin is still a mystery, possibly linked to how the dying star expelled material.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
NOIRLab and the Dark Energy Survey team have released the full six-year Dark Energy Survey dataset, covering hundreds of millions of galaxies and enabling new constraints on dark energy, large-scale structure, and cosmic evolution. noirlab.edu/public/news/...
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Dark Energy Survey Scientists Release Analysis of All Six Years of Survey Data - Four methods for studying dark energy come together in a single experiment for the first time
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the Universe using the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I had a funny idea. If I were to make a theory synopsis… I would name it “Trent’s Individual Theory Synopsis” (T.I.T.S.) Thoughts?
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🔭 A new comet has been discovered! P/2025 W3 (Kresken) was identified by Rainer Kresken (ESA) with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope using a new camera. The discovery has been officially confirmed by the IAU as part of the CAHA–ESA collaboration. ➡️: www.caha.es/es/noticias/...
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
New Hubble images of Baby Stars! The compact nebular region stands out against the stellar background, shaped by radiation and winds from nearby massive stars. These interactions sculpt the gas, trigger collapse in some regions, and erase it in others.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Protoplanetary disks in visible light. These Hubble views capture young stars still wrapped in the dust and gas that will one day form planets. The dark lanes mark disks seen edge-on, while glowing jets trace material being funneled along magnetic fields. This is mid-process planetary formation.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Spectacular new images from Hubble! Protostars within a cosmic breeding ground known as the Orion Molecular Cloud.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Stop. Breath. Give yourself some space from all of your troubles.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In time… Stars will burn out. Black holes will evaporate. Even matter itself may slowly dissolve into radiation. The end of the universe isn’t a collapse… it’s a fading. And in that silence, the fact that anything ever existed at all becomes the most extraordinary thing of all.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NASA is targeting no earlier than January 17, to roll out the Artemis II Space Launch System & Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center for final preparations, ahead of its crewed lunar flyby mission planned for February-April.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The JWST has uncovered a new class of point-like distant galaxies that don’t fit existing categories, too tiny and compact to be normal galaxies, yet unlike quasars. Astronomers nicknamed them “platypus galaxies” because of their unexpected mix of features in images and spectra.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Canadian astronomers used JWST to map Milky Way's evolution via 877 "twin" galaxies from 1.5-10 billion years ago. Chaotic early mergers built central bulge first, then outer disk via interactions—more turbulent than models predicted. From 100-300M to >100B stars today.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NASA Prepares Artemis Il Crewed Moon Flyby for 2026 🚀 Artemis II will send four astronauts-Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen-on a 10-day trip around the Moon, the farthest humans have gone since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
After nearly five years on Mars, NASA JPL engineers confirmed the Perseverance rover can continue operations until at least 2031, covering an additional 37 miles in Jezero Crater.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Using ALMA and VLA data on protostar SVS 13B in NGC 1333, Astronomers discovered over 400 bow-shaped molecular rings in its jet, each marking a past accretion-driven outburst. These rings serve as chronological markers, with the youngest aligning to a 1991 optical flare.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
New JWST observations reveal what’s happening at the heart of NGC 4486B. This compact elliptical galaxy hosts a double nucleus—now best explained by an eccentric stellar disk orbiting a displaced supermassive black hole. ⬇️
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
✨ - Introduction Post - 🌌 Greetings to all friends in the stars! I’m Trentymus Kostorus, an (almost) Half a Century Old Space Freak, Astrophysics Researcher, and Former Astrobiologist. I love #Vtubers and planning on becoming one myself. Let’s be friends! #Space
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Four years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope launched—quietly redefining how we see the universe. Here are some of my favorite images from James Webb.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Every star you see in the night sky may be a sun to someone else.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“There are more habitable Earth-mass planets in the observable volume of the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.” - Dr. Avi Loeb.
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💫Iridian💫 @iridianlune.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Hello, my lovely little moons! My name is Iridian Lune, but you can call me Iri. I'm a goddess in training, but I'm not really good at it yet. The process of creating galaxies... eludes me. Come check out my stream sometime and see just how this cosmic corgi can be chaotic! #Vtuber #ENVtuber
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The potential dark future of the universe underscores that we live in a privileged time — the brief window when life can thrive, look up to see trillions of stars and galaxies, and know its impermanent place in an ever-changing universe.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Our little terraqueous globe as the madhouse of those hundred thousand millions of worlds. We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds; are we to venture out into space?” - Carl Sagan
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🔮HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🔮 🌌 I’m happy to say that I’M OPENING UP A DISCORD SERVER! 🌌 I was thinking about doing this for a while and I have finally come to a consensus. I wanted to make a space where I can bring all my besties into one place and hang out!🔮 Discord:👇 discord.gg/xqFzJjsg
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Join the Transcendonia - The Transcendent Universe Discord Server!
Check out the Transcendonia - The Transcendent Universe community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
When I look up at the night sky, I see the stars, but also the future.
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
“We are all time travelers journeying together into the future. Let us work together to make that future a place that we can visit.” - Stephen Hawking
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Trentymus Kostorus @trentymuskostorus.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
"We are stardust which has taken destiny into its own hands.” - Carl Sagan✨
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