Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The world is getting too big and too small at the same time. 010
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 22/02/2025The Milky Way Beyond Earth's Horizon.🔭 International Space Station 0627
Reposted by Zaid MirNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 21/02/2025Researchers at Microsoft say they have created so-called topological qubits, which would be exceptionally resistant to errors, but their claim has been met with scepticism.newscientist.comMicrosoft has a new quantum computer - but does it actually work?Researchers at Microsoft say they have created so-called topological qubits, which would be exceptionally resistant to errors, but their claim has been met with scepticism 062
Reposted by Zaid MirPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Yay! The asteroid 2024 YR4 appears to be even more unlikely to hit us. The y-axis is the time of closest approach, and x is when an estimate of its TCA was made. As of 2/20, the asteroid should pass us at 09:00 ±2ish hours, missing Earth (it has to pass us at 14:00 to hit). 1314333
Reposted by Zaid MirNature @nature.com · 20/02/2025A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. go.nature.com/41a7Zzjgo.nature.comRare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first timeThe child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. 5365106
Reposted by Zaid MirDavid Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 19/02/2025First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun'sIt is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago. 49031
Reposted by Zaid MirEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 20/02/2025🌍🛰️ Almost 40% of glaciers in Central Europe were lost between 2000 and 2023. A new study, using data from various satellite observations -including our CryoSat mission- reveals alarming insights about the declining rate of glaciers. Read the full study🔗 esa.int/Applications... 223959
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Manicouagan Crater from Space.🔭 The Manicouagan Crater Quebec, Canada. International Space Station 1384
Reposted by Zaid MirNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 15/02/2025At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’. 1548221505887
Reposted by Zaid MirDavid Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Next month will see two eclipses: 14th March- Partial Lunar Eclipse. 29th March- Partial Solar Eclipse. Visible from the UK and the rest of Europe. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography 616029
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025New composite image of the Tarantula Nebula from Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory and ALMA Radio Telescope.🔭 0708
Reposted by Zaid MirSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 12/02/2025#NASARoman: NASA has successfully joined the sunshade to the Roman observatory’s ‘exoskeleton.’ The visor-like sunshade will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope: go.nasa.gov/4hQItFR 28723
Reposted by Zaid MirESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 12/02/2025Continuing our #ICYMI series on @bsky.app, we bring you the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of our neighbouring #Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. Access full res 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 116337
Reposted by Zaid MirSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 11/02/2025#PPOD: This ESA/Webb picture features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly 6 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Nierenberg 🧪 🔭 410823
Reposted by Zaid MirMisty Bentz @astronomisty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New processing of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large galaxy neighbor. Just under 4 hours with my Seestar S50 🔭🧪 I've been waiting for a few software improvements, and I'm pleased with the results from this beta test! Software: Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP 1015923
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Wow, just look at this perfect Einstein ring captured by the Euclid Telescope. It is almost a perfect circle.🔭 2252
Reposted by Zaid MirNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 10/02/2025Astronomers have spotted the closest ever Einstein ring, which Albert Einstein himself thought would be impossible to observe. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...newscientist.comStunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ringAlbert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has picked one up just 600 million light years from Earth 115224
Reposted by Zaid MirSteve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Astronomers discover Quipu, the largest known structure in the universe. Quipu, a massive cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, is now the largest known formation in the universe, reshaping our understanding of space. #Astronomy #Space www.thebrighterside.news/post/astrono...thebrighterside.newsAstronomers discover Quipu, the largest known structure in the universeQuipu, a massive cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, is now the largest known formation in the universe. 2276
Reposted by Zaid MirESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 10/02/2025Astronomers will turn the James Webb Space Telescope towards asteroid 2024 YR4 next month. The most powerful telescope ever launched into space will provide a more accurate estimate of the size of the asteroid, which has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc... 628474
Reposted by Zaid MirESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/02/2025Our dark Universe detective 🕵️ Euclid has discovered a stunning Einstein ring! 💍 It surrounds galaxy NGC 6505, which is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a distant galaxy behind it. Why is this rare phenomenon so useful for scientists? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #cosmology 11736118
Reposted by Zaid MirUniversal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. It is oriented directly edge-on to us (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, R. Jansen) 141101106
Reposted by Zaid MirCorey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah. I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day). 🧪🔭 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23101... 113627
Reposted by Zaid MirEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 07/02/2025☄️ We aren’t just waiting for an asteroid to strike. We are taking active measures to help Earth defend itself against a potential impact. Which is why we are endorsing the the United Nations' designation of 2029 as the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence.esa.intESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary DefenceThe European Space Agency (ESA) has endorsed the United Nations' (UN) designation of 2029 as the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence.The initiative will foster international... 1536268
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Hubble has captured this image of the nine rings of LEDA 1313424, nicknamed the Bullseye. Its observations helped confirm a blue dwarf galaxy (seen to its left) flew through the Bullseye 50 million years ago, leaving these rings behind.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale) 423336
Reposted by Zaid MirSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 05/02/2025#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented resolution. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc surrounded by jets and a disc wind. It is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. 🧪 🔭 410924
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 05/02/2025It is hard to believe that there are people on this planet who do not believe in climate change. 020
Reposted by Zaid MirSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 04/02/2025#PPOD: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planet Jupiter in a color composite of ultraviolet wavelengths. Though the "Great Red Spot" appears red to the human eye, here it appears darker because high-altitude haze particles absorb light at these wavelengths. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 617533
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We are the way for the cosmos to know itself. ~ Carl Sagan 1131
Reposted by Zaid MirPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 05/02/2025This is the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft. 1113713
Reposted by Zaid MirJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025NEW JWST IMAGE SHOWING A PROTOPLANETARY DISK AROUND A NEWLY FORMED STAR!!! 🤩 301007207
Reposted by Zaid MirESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/02/2025Hello everyone! We're here to keep you posted on our science space missions! 🛰️ To give you a taste of that, check out this video that takes you from some 14 million galaxies down to one, through a series of ever-deeper zooms - all thanks to our Euclid mission. Full video: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 59329
Reposted by Zaid MirZiyan @ziyanmir.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The Variable Nebula NGC 2261.🔭 Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease (Denver Astronomical Society) 2545
Reposted by Zaid MirPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/02/2025Gorgeous photo of Saturn illustrating how moons and rings orbit in the same (equatorial) plane 537544
Reposted by Zaid MirKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 04/02/2025Humans assume aliens look human. But why would they? Our first video of the year explores what life might actually look like in strange, distant worlds: kgs.link/MeetTheAliens 👽kgs.linkWe Found Alien Whales On Planet NimbusEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 414425
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine.🔭 Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt 114713
Reposted by Zaid MirEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 03/02/2025A supernova and its host galaxy 💫🔭 Today's NASA/ESA #HubbleSpaceTelescope image is of LEDA 132905 and a supernova named SN 2022abvt which was discovered in late 2022. 🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2... 670059
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The Cartwheel Galaxy from Webb.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI, Webb ERO Production Team 010811
Reposted by Zaid MirDavid Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Moon and Venus tonight. 1 February 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour 1530030
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The moon and Venus are dominating the night sky today.🔭 0160
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 02/02/2025M57: The Ring Nebula from Hubble.🔭 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Judy Schmidt 11006
Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 01/02/2025They discovered almost all the amino acids essential for life in a small sample of the asteroid. This significant finding adds weight to the panspermia theory, which suggests that life’s building blocks may have originated in space.🔭 1151
