About 13.8 billion years ago the #universe expanded faster than the speed of #light for a fraction of a second in a period called #cosmic inflation.
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The new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope #JWST is all about solving the mysteries of #NGC346, which is one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby #galaxies. However, the new findings by Webb have made NGC346 a bit less mysterious.
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You're looking at the first direct image of another #planetary system located about 300 light-years away around a star like our #Sun.
Captured by #ESO Telescope.

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The James Webb Space Telescope #JWST has captured a pair of #galaxies distorting each other as they merge in a great galactic get-together.

The ongoing cosmic collision imaged by Webb is known as II ZW 96. It is roughly 500 million light-years from #Earth and located in the #constellation #Delphinus, according to a Nov. 30 #NASA statement.

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💢 You can't stand on Uranus

If we ever manage to travel to the gas planets, you might be in for a bit of a shock when you step off the spaceship. That’s because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune don’t have solid surfaces - they have a rocky core, but are mainly big balls of hydrogen and helium.

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Even amateur astronomers can control the #weather. From the day you get your first #telescope, you can expect 2 weeks of cloudy nights. Invite some friends over for meteor-spotting or #moon watching, and you've just booked a rainstorm!

Source: I bought a nice new eyepiece.

Bonus: my 5yo wanted to get her telescope out. I said no, because it's overcast. Now she is mad at me, personally, for the weather.

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Negative COVID test this morning, so I'm about to head up to Wolverhampton to give my last in person talk of 2022 for Wolverhampton AS, my History of Women in Astronomy Part 1 talk. So looking forward to catching up with my friends there :-) #astronomytalk #astronomyoutreach #womeninastronomy #astronomycommunicator #astronomyspeaker