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Florian Engels

@StarryFlo

Projekte leiten, die die Sterne berühren 🌟🚀

 Freiburg
Joined May 2023
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Crossing fingers for a successful hug on launch day!
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@SpaceXNov 10
Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height
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NASA History Office
@NASAhistoryNov 10
NASA's Discovery Program has an impressive record of innovative, low-cost missions to explore our solar system. The NASA History Office's latest publication offers insight into how the program has evolved in recent years. Get the free e-book 📖 go.nasa.gov/4zatkYg Images from Discovery Program missions active from 2011 to 2025 (left to right): 1. Mercury – MESSENGER 2. Ceres – Dawn 3. Gravity map of the Moon – GRAIL 4. InSight on Mars 5. Asteroid Donaldjohanson – Lucy 6. Mars as seen by Psyche
Images from Discovery Program missions (left to right): 1. Mercury was produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission 2. Dwarf planet Ceres shown in enhanced-color renderings that use images from NASA’s Dawn mission 3. NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)'s gravity map of the Moon 4. NASA's InSight lander is in the foreground in this view from its landing site on Mars 5. A portion of the irregularly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft 6. Mars appears as a thin pink crescent in this view from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft

ALT Images from Discovery Program missions (left to right): 1. Mercury was produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission 2. Dwarf planet Ceres shown in enhanced-color renderings that use images from NASA’s Dawn mission 3. NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)'s gravity map of the Moon 4. NASA's InSight lander is in the foreground in this view from its landing site on Mars 5. A portion of the irregularly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft 6. Mars appears as a thin pink crescent in this view from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft

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🪞🕳️ Scientists used moving light “mirrors” to recreate wave behavior similar to what occurs near a black hole’s event horizon! 👇 universemagazine.com/en/vibr…
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Receiving Exoplanet Messages with Gravitational-wave Carriers - The Gravitational-wave Radial Velocity Method and one more paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/1… / iopscience.iop.org/article/1… -> NASA Scientists Show How Gravitational Waves Can Reveal New Worlds: science.nasa.gov/missions/li…
Receiving Exoplanet Messages with Gravitational-wave Carriers: The Gravitational-wave Radial...

Receiving Exoplanet Messages with Gravitational-wave Carriers: The Gravitational-wave Radial...

Receiving Exoplanet Messages with Gravitational-wave Carriers: The Gravitational-wave Radial Velocity Method, McGrath, Casey

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Simone Chellini@simone_chelliniNov 10
🍽️ Lunch on EK415: aperitif, third Arabic mezze in three days, prawn tahta, boysenberry cheesecake. I'm now glad I skipped breakfast. Via @airwaysmagazine
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One family found a novel (and very cool) solution to the UK's post-war housing shortage. Two Airspeed Horsa assault glider fuselages were married together with a railway carriage roof. Several of these dwellings existed, but this is probably the only one with two conservatories!
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p.s@p_a_e_sNov 9
View captured hours ago by Curiosity #Mars Nov. 9, 2026 - Sol 5069 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 5069 (2026-11-09 12:26:16 UTC). mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/165… bsky.app/profile/pomarede.bs…
A shot of a Martian landscape shows undulating sand dunes with white rocks.

ALT A shot of a Martian landscape shows undulating sand dunes with white rocks.

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Universe Space Tech
@ust_magazineNov 9
🌌💜 Four hours of Earth's rotation captured in a single image! This photo was taken in Grand Teton National Park, USA. The long, colorful arcs are star trails created by Earth's rotation on its axis. 📸 Abdul Dremali
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NASA Marshall
@NASA_MarshallNov 9
What's triggering repeated outbursts from a giant, unstable star? Using NASA's @chandraxray, astronomers found a hidden companion, likely a black hole or neutron star, that keeps pulling material away from the massive star as they orbit one another. 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4iH2jqx
A composite NASA Chandra X-ray and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) optical image of the galaxy NGC 4559 located about 30 million light-years from Earth. The Chandra data shows X-ray point sources represented in purple, and the SDSS data shows the galaxy and foreground and background objects in red and blue. The luminous blue variable and supernova impostor AT 2016blu is in the middle of the small square. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Virgina/M. Aghakhanloo et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds

ALT A composite NASA Chandra X-ray and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) optical image of the galaxy NGC 4559 located about 30 million light-years from Earth. The Chandra data shows X-ray point sources represented in purple, and the SDSS data shows the galaxy and foreground and background objects in red and blue. The luminous blue variable and supernova impostor AT 2016blu is in the middle of the small square. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Virgina/M. Aghakhanloo et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds

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The commute home hits different from the Moon. 🌕 ➡️ 🌎
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@NASAArtemisNov 9
POV: You are landing back on Earth after a ten-day mission flying around the Moon.
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Scott O
@scotto2050Nov 9
Rather than writing a long post about Rocket Lab's Q3, I'll simply post this image of launches signed YTD. Fantastic work, team! 👏 Long $RKLB 🚀
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A ball can move along a straight path, yet someone watching from a rotating platform may see it follow a curve. The difference is not in the ball's motion, but in the reference frame used to observe it. In this visualization, the red trajectory represents motion in an inertial frame, while the blue curve illustrates how that same motion appears to an observer rotating with the platform. In the rotating frame, the apparent acceleration includes Coriolis and centrifugal effects. The Coriolis acceleration depends on both the platform's angular velocity and the object's velocity relative to it. The same principle operates on Earth. Because our planet rotates, moving air and ocean currents experience Coriolis deflection, helping shape large-scale atmospheric circulation. What appears to be a sideways acceleration can arise simply because the observer is rotating.
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Justin Davenport
@BubbinskiNov 8
The Jetson ONE with Glenn Stage 2 in the background. When I go in 2028 I hope to see a full size HLS and the Artemis IV astronauts there.
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Universe Space Tech
@ust_magazineNov 8
🪐🎶 Six planets located 100 light-years away orbit their star in an extraordinary rhythm, maintaining their orbital harmony for billions of years! Why has this nearly perfect planetary system fascinated astronomers? 👇 universemagazine.com/en/a-si…
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EarthSky
@earthskyscienceNov 8
Do we all see the same phase of the #moon? Why is its orientation in the sky different throughout the night? Find out why the moon looks that way in your sky, here: buff.ly/LjACFPj Love the moon? Get EarthSky's famous lunar calendar here: buff.ly/kW9VN5H
Array of 28 moon images in 4 rows of 7, each a different phase from 1st quarter to full to new back to 1st quarter.

ALT Array of 28 moon images in 4 rows of 7, each a different phase from 1st quarter to full to new back to 1st quarter.

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What If..?@WhatIfHunchoNov 7
A 340-meter-wide asteroid will skim past Earth on April 13, 2029. Though with zero chance of impact, Missions like ESA’s RAMSES and NASA's OSIRIS-APEX are scheduled to study it during the flyby.
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Universe Space Tech
@ust_magazineNov 8
🔴❄️ Martian ice isn't as permanent as it seems! After studying 36 craters near the Red Planet's north pole, scientists discovered that ice deposits expand and shrink over time — all depending on seasonal frost 👇 universemagazine.com/en/area…
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Cosmic Earth
@_cosmicearthNov 8
NASA's scientific missions help us uncover the mysteries of the universe, explore distant worlds, and expand our understanding of space. But proposed budget cuts could put decades of scientific progress at risk. Supporting space science means investing in discovery, innovation, and the future of humanity. 🌍✨ (Image geranated from AI )
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@interstellargwNov 8
Come on Tars! An official LEGO Ideas Interstellar (2014) set has been approved and will be coming to shelves soon! Designed by Minibrick41587. Will you be buying one?
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Stellarix
@StellarixorineNov 8
Diving deep into the swirling abyss of a gas giant. 🚀 This breathtaking view captures a spacecraft navigating the turbulent, chaotic atmosphere of Jupiter. Below it, the planet’s iconic storms churn in a mesmerizing ballet of cream, orange, and deep terracotta swirls—evoking the hypnotic fury of the Great Red Spot. The sheer scale of cosmic fluid dynamics is on full display as violent atmospheric winds sculpt the outer layers into intricate, marbled waves. Staring into the eye of this celestial tempest reminds us of the raw, artistic canvas of the universe and how far human curiosity can reach. 🪐✨
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