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Meet Sol. Grab a planet, fling it past him, and let real gravity do the rest. Pop!
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That glow isn't fire. It's sunlight.
The ground is already in Earth's shadow, but the rocket has climbed back into the sun. Up there the exhaust spreads out wide in the thin air and catches the light.
Night below, daylight above. Ever spotted one from the ground?
Space jellyfish from a plane window
From high above, the Long March 6A Y30’s plume becomes a living diagram of twilight: a long, glowing ribbon that begins in deep sunset crimson and amber along the lower contrail, then flares into an electric-blue “space jellyfish” as it expands through the mesosphere. In one continuous streak the color shift draws Earth’s shadow line across the sky in real time—sunset below, the edge of night above.
Rocket: Long March 6A Y30
Date-Time: October 23, 2026, 10:15 UTC
Credit: CNSPACE
Orbit or escape? Jupiter gets flung hard past the Sun. Guess below, reveal in two hours. 🪐
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DART didn't knock Dimorphos away. It slowed it, so the moonlet fell into a tighter loop around Didymos, about 32 minutes shorter.
Slow down, fall inward, go around faster. Orbits are weird.
Now Hera weighs it: how much came from the hit vs. the debris it threw off?
Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids!
Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique.
The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.
Follow Hera’s journey with the Hera Space Companion 👉 hera.esa.int
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ALT Hera's first view of the separate Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids
Hit or miss? Mercury vs. the titan. Guess below, reveal in two hours. 🪐
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Sky calendar 🔭
Tue night, Oct 27: the Moon passes the Pleiades. From eastern North America it briefly covers some of its stars. Look east after dark.
Before dawn Nov 15–16: Mars and Jupiter sit about 1.2° apart in Leo.
In Orbit Slinger, one body hiding another is an Eclipse.
Sol says that tickles. ☀️
Flick Earth too gently and it falls right into the Sun. Sol, the little sun who coaches you, has a tip: try a faster flick. Level 1, First Light.
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Saturn's rings vs Venus. 🪐
Saturn sweeps past Venus beside a red giant in slow motion. HAIR'S BREADTH, missed by 0.1 Venus-widths. Daily Challenge, Hot Tail.
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Meet Sol. Grab a planet, fling it past him, and let real gravity do the rest. Pop!
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This close. Still a miss. 🪐
Venus and Mars swing toward each other in slow motion and slip past. HAIR'S BREADTH, missed by 0.2 Mars-widths. Level 7, Counterflow.
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Saturn vs Neptune. Wait for it. 🪐
Two giants drift together under a pulsar's sweeping beams and slide past without touching. KISSED, missed by 0.1 Neptune-widths. Daily Challenge, Tight Squeeze.
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Knock two worlds together. Then do it twice more. 🎱
One flyby nudges two moonlets into each other at a red giant. Then two comets. Then two more under a pulsar. That's Cosmic Billiards in 2.1.
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Same flick. Three universes. 🪐
One Mercury throw at three speeds, 0.01 apart. One keeps orbiting, one gets flung away, one smashes into the titan. Pop! That's chaos.
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Two laps for every one.
Earth circles twice while Mars goes round once, and the rhythm holds. That is resonance, and you built it with one flick at a time.
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The inside lane always wins. 🪐
Earth and Mars share the Sun on neighboring lanes. Earth is closer in, so it moves faster, catches Mars, and slips right past. LAPPED! Level 3, Pair.
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They missed by 0.2 Mars-widths.
Earth and Mars, almost touching, in slow motion. Close enough to read the banner twice.
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Same lane. Opposite directions.
Jupiter and Saturn meet head-on around a red giant. Gravity does the rest, and it is not gentle.
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Gravity always wins. 🪐
Earth into the Sun. Venus into a pulsar. Earth meets Mars. Jupiter meets Saturn. Six flicks, six fails, ending on STELLAR IMPACT at Level 21, Swollen Sun.
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