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Did you find the #StarWars world, Tatooine, and its companion stars impressive? Then check this! 😉

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered the first planet that not only orbits a pair of stars but does so at an angle of 90 degrees.

Both stars are brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. When tracking their orbits, astronomers found that the orbits themselves change over time. After carefully ruling out other explanations, they concluded that the gravitational tug of a planet in a polar orbit was the only way to explain the motion of the brown dwarfs.

Read more: eso.org/public/news/eso2508/

📷 ESO/L. Calçada

A computer illustration showing two bright orange stars orbiting each other. The orbits of the stars are shown as blue ellipses. A third object –– a planet shown as a smaller, fainter source –– orbits perpendicularly to the plane that contains the orbits of the two stars.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophysics
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The Sun is rising over Cerro Armazones in #Chile!

And so does ESO's ELT: with the structure of one of the dome’s sliding doors now fully installed, construction on the dome of the telescope has reached its highest point.

The occasion also marks over 60% completion of the ELT. It was celebrated today at ESO's Headquarters in Garching, Germany, as well as at the ELT construction site in Chile!

Read more: eso.org/public/announcements/a

🎥 E. Garcés/ESO

#astrodon#astronomy#astrophysics
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With all the (rightful!) vitriol surrounding the Space Flight today, please don't let the conversation ignore Amanda Nguyen (because the media certainly has..).

Ms Nguyen went to Harvard and interned at Nasa twice. She conducted research on exoplanets for the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.

While she was a student at Harvard and interning with Nasa in 2013, she was raped. This paused her dream of becoming an astronaut and experiencing space travel. As a result of her strength and compassion in response to that attack, Ms Nguyen decided to leave Nasa and engage in activism work that challenged the narrative around victim-survivors, and ultimately she created Rise - a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the civil rights of sexual assault victims and rape survivors.

In 2016, the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act passed through the Senate and the House of Reps, and was signed into law by Obama. The law protects, among other rights, the right to have the evidence of a rape kit preserved without charge for the duration of the statute of limitations, and the right to be notified before the destruction of evidence held in your case so you can apply for it to be kept and archived.

Amanda Nguyen is a brilliant and amazing person who was able to experience a tiny edge of a dream she had given up on. Please be gentle with her story when (rightfully) protesting some of the other women involved.

#space#AmandaNguyen#BlueOrigin
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Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Is there a clearer example of what is wrong with this World that those with vast wealth spending huge sums to go up in a space rocket to feel weight free for a few minutes?
Meanwhile people starve, die from preventable disease, have their lives destroyed in wars and even working people in the west struggle to get by.
I feel so angry.
#WealthInequality
#Socialism
#Space

A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off. Photography by JOE SKIPPER/REUTERS.
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Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt
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What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed.
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2025 April 15 A starfield is dominated by a multi-colored figure 8 in the middle, titled on a diagonal. The outsides of the nebula appear light colored, while the inside shows complex structure tinted red and purple. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb * Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt Explanation: What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.
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