Actress📽, Model, Writer, Marketing Specialist, Filmmaker, Gamer💃Quantum Physics & Science 🔭from Berlin, Germany.
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Katharina Daue retweeted
Forget simple circles—planets don't just orbit, they surf. As our Sun sprints toward Sagittarius A* at 828,000 km/h, it drags us into a massive 3D corkscrew across the cosmos. This is humanity’s real 165-year trail.
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We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
Interesting. 🤔 #MeteorTime
What’s up in the night sky for November? This month, you can look forward to:
- Multiple meteor showers reaching their peak
- Jupiter meeting up with Mars in the wee hours
- A supermoon lighting up the night sky
More skywatching tips: go.nasa.gov/4iuD8FZ
Katharina Daue retweeted
⚛️ WHAT IF YOUR FOCUS IS SHAPING YOUR REALITY?
Quantum experiments show a strange idea: particles behave differently when they are observed. It raises a mystery about how observation relates to outcomes.
In daily life, what you focus on influences what you notice. Focus on problems → you see more problems. Focus on growth → you start noticing opportunities that were always there.
Try this: for 2 minutes each morning, imagine one goal as already real. Feel it, picture it, and notice how your attention shifts during the day.
Source:
Baggott, J. The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments. Oxford University Press.
ALT ⚛️ WHAT IF YOUR FOCUS IS SHAPING YOUR REALITY? Quantum experiments show a strange idea: particles behave differently when they are observed. It raises a mystery about how observation relates to outcomes. In daily life, what you focus on influences what you notice. Focus on problems → you see more problems. Focus on growth → you start noticing opportunities that were always there. Try this: for 2 minutes each morning, imagine one goal as already real. Feel it, picture it, and notice how your attention shifts during the day. Source: Baggott, J. The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments. Oxford University Press.
Katharina Daue retweeted
Today is the 229th anniversary of the launch of USS Constitution, the ship America calls Old Ironsides.
On October 21, 1797, she slid into Boston Harbor as one of the first six ships of the United States Navy. In the War of 1812, British cannonballs bounced off her thick oak hull and sailors swore her sides were made of iron. The name stuck. She is still a commissioned U.S. Navy ship today, crewed by active-duty sailors, and the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.
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2,000 years have passed, yet the engineering of the ancient Romans still amazes us: some of their aqueducts are still capable of supplying clean water to this day.
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Here is a glimpse of Paris, specifically Rue de Rivoli, during the Second Empire (1852–1870)
Katharina Daue retweeted
Today in 1977, Voyager 1 took this image of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured from 7.25 million miles away. It was the first of its kind taken by a spacecraft.
ALT The Earth and Moon captured from space, in one frame.
Katharina Daue retweeted
This rocket produces more thrust than any vehicle ever built. 🔥 33 engines, twice the power of the Saturn V. 🦾 And it gets caught mid-air by robotic arms.
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The RS-25 is a masterpiece of reusable-engine heritage. 🔥🚀 Originally developed for the Space Shuttle, these engines now power SLS, delivering roughly 2 million pounds of thrust each at liftoff. Decades of engineering are literally pushing Artemis toward deep space.
Katharina Daue retweeted
🚀 Two giants. Two philosophies.
SpaceX’s Starship is being developed around rapid, full-system reusability—designed to fly, return, and fly again.
NASA’s SLS takes a different path: its major flight hardware is expended after launch, prioritizing the architecture built for Artemis missions.
♻️ Reuse vs. expendability
🛠️ Rapid turnaround vs. traditional mission hardware
🌕 Same destination: deeper into space
The future may be decided by which philosophy scales best.
