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60 years ago today, Frank Walker entered his homemade jetpack into a Science Fair Competition at the New York World's Fair.
While he didn't walk out of the Hall of Invention with the $50 prize, his ambition earned him a life-changing pin-vitation.
(Flyer design by @csdesign72)
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Webb looked at the same galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light, drawing out the web-shaped structure of the galaxy's dust. These observations were made as part of a program to find and study star-forming regions in galaxies beyond our own. esawebb.org/images/potm2308aβ¦
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Hubble's view of the galaxy, taken in visible light, highlights the spiral galaxy's gorgeous features: graceful, curving spiral arms, bright pink star-forming regions, and shining blue pockets of star clusters.
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In any light, the Whirlpool Galaxy is a stunner.
Located about 27 million light-years away, this galaxy resides in the constellation Canes Venatici. Hubble has observed it multiple times, and recently, @NASAWebb joined the party too!
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ALT A large spiral galaxy fills the image, with a bright yellow core surrounded by spiral arms laced with dark dust, bright pink regions of star formation, and blue pockets of star clusters.

ALT A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the coreβs centre, but it is tightly limited to the core. The detailed rings feature bands of deep orange and cloudy gray, which are interspersed by darker empty regions throughout.
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A ridiculous person with no connection to Maui. I live in Maui. I have spent the last week directing every friend in Lahaina to access federal assistance thanks to Presiden Biden's rapid response. From my president, to my governor, to my senator, all I have received is help.
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Before she was a Starfleet officer, Una looked to the stars and dreamed of something greater. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
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βFor five years Paramount made Star Trek its streaming guiding light, a franchise dream that pushed Paramountβs own digital walled garden to where it is today. Now, those stars are starting to blink out, and the studio only has itself to blame.β π₯π―π₯π―π₯ #SaveStarTrekProdigy
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Boosting again. We're at just over 13k this morning. #SaveStarTrekProdigy #StarTrekProdigy
We're within touching distance of 10,000 signatures. Please sign if you haven't already. And share, share, share!
#SaveStarTrekProdigy #WeStandByProdigy #StarTrekProdigy
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We're within touching distance of 10,000 signatures. Please sign if you haven't already. And share, share, share!
#SaveStarTrekProdigy #WeStandByProdigy #StarTrekProdigy
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Cancel Prodigy? Not ok! Iβm calling Neera to take on her new case: Representing #StarTrekProdigy in the case against #ParamoutPlus
#StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
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A spooky season mood. VAMPYR is record of the week on @Qrates_com, and only 2 more orders are needed to start pressing!
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NASA is holding a briefing today at 4:30 pm EDT βto discuss a new study exploring potential commercial space opportunities for NASA science missions.β Participants include SpaceX and Polaris Dawnβs Jared Isaacman, as well as NASAβs Hubble project mgr. π€ nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-β¦
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There it is. "One little speck of the universe." #UnfoldTheUniverse #JWST
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That faraway look of a woman trying to remember if she was a cat once, or if she just dreamed she wasβ¦. . @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus #StarTrekPicard
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Mind-blowing and talk about pushing Hubble to itβs limits! Evidence of a single star whose light left on its way to us when the universe itself was likely less than a billion years old. Gravity FYW Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen | NASA nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202β¦
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Big role. Big impact. Incredible team and partners. Rare opportunity.
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Sol 342: Right Mastcam-Z Camera, acquired at 12:20:12.301 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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Astronaut Mark Vande Hei hit 300 days in space today; he'll exceed Scott Kelly's US single-flight record (340 days) on 3/15; Vande Hei and cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov will have logged 355 days off planet when they land aboard the Soyuz MS-19/65S ferry ship on 3/30
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We asked, you answered!
Our Twitter followers voted galaxy NGC 5037 as Hubble's best image released in 2021.
Despite a distance of 150 million light-years, we can see the galaxy's delicate structures in great detail thanks to Hubble: go.nasa.gov/341pyHG
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