Jessica Hodge+FollowMeet Quipu: The Universe’s New GiantAstronomers just found a cosmic filament so huge, it makes the Shapley Superstructure look tiny. Quipu stretches 1.3 billion light-years and weighs 200 quadrillion suns! It’s packed with galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter, and it’s so massive it actually tweaks how we measure the universe’s expansion. Basically, Quipu is the backbone of our cosmic neighborhood—and it might even be hiding more secrets behind the Milky Way’s dust. Wild, right? #SpaceNews #Astronomy #CosmicWeb #Science110Share
James Brady+FollowBlack Holes Just Got WeirderTurns out, there’s a whole new class of black holes hanging out in the universe—too big to be born from regular stars, but not massive enough to anchor galaxies. Astronomers just found evidence of these 'lite' intermediate-mass black holes, weighing in at 100-300 times the Sun. They might be the missing link between tiny and supermassive black holes, and could totally change what we know about how stars and galaxies grow. Space is full of surprises! #BlackHoles #SpaceNews #Astronomy #Science8421Share
Michael Flores+FollowMonster Comet Is Firing Off Space Jets!A comet the size of a small city (seriously, 85 miles wide!) is zooming toward the inner Solar System and just got caught blasting out huge jets of carbon monoxide. This beast, called UN271, is the biggest Oort Cloud comet ever spotted—14 times bigger than the rock that wiped out the dinos. Don’t freak out: it’ll only get as close as Saturn in 2031. But astronomers are hyped to watch it evolve, even if we’ll need a telescope to catch the show! #SpaceNews #CometWatch #Astronomy #Science170Share
megangibson+FollowThis Telescope Is Basically a Cosmic Time MachineThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory just dropped its first pics and they’re wild—but that’s just the teaser. This new telescope is about to make a 10-year time-lapse of the entire southern sky, catching everything from exploding stars to rogue asteroids. In just 10 hours of testing, it already found 2,104 new asteroids! Imagine the discoveries when it’s fully up and running. Astronomers are calling it a ‘discovery machine’—and honestly, it’s about to change everything we know about space. #SpaceNews #Astronomy #VeraRubin #Science20Share
megangibson+FollowThis Telescope Just Changed Space ForeverThe Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile just dropped its first-ever cosmic pics, and they’re wild. This telescope’s camera is so powerful it could spot a golf ball on the Moon! It’s set to scan the southern sky nonstop for 10 years, hunting for killer asteroids, mapping the Milky Way, and maybe even finding that mysterious Planet Nine. Scientists are geeking out—this is a once-in-a-generation leap for astronomy. Imagine getting 10 million space alerts a night! #SpaceNews #Astronomy #VeraRubin #Science90Share
megangibson+FollowSummer Solstice = Sky Show!The summer solstice just hit, which means longer days, shorter nights, and some epic skywatching. Mars is still hanging out near Regulus after sunset, Venus is dazzling in the early morning, and the Moon is showing off with some cool close encounters (hello, earthshine!). If you’ve got binoculars or a telescope, check out Cassiopeia’s double stars or the Beehive Cluster. Even Mercury is putting on a show near the crescent Moon. Who else is staying up late for these cosmic sights? #SummerSolstice #Stargazing #Astronomy #Science50Share
Patrick Simmons+FollowThis Giant Comet Is Literally ExplodingDid you hear about the monster comet out past Neptune? Astronomers just caught C/2014 UN271 (aka Bernardinelli-Bernstein), the biggest comet ever found from the Oort Cloud, erupting with wild jets of gas! It’s 10x bigger than your average comet and is spewing carbon monoxide as it barrels toward the sun. Scientists say this is the first time they’ve seen such explosive activity so far from the sun—basically, we’re getting a sneak peek at how these icy giants work before they even hit the inner solar system. Space drama, anyone? #SpaceNews #CometWatch #Astronomy #Science81Share
Richard Vaughan+FollowUniverse’s Missing Matter Found?!Astronomers just found a massive, 23-million-light-year gas filament connecting galaxy clusters—finally solving the mystery of the universe’s 'missing matter.' Turns out, all that ordinary stuff (not dark matter!) we couldn’t find was hiding in these hot, cosmic superhighways all along. The best part? This discovery matches what our universe models predicted for decades. Space nerds, our cosmic web dreams are real! #SpaceNews #CosmicWeb #Astronomy #Science60Share
Melvin Mosley+FollowGalaxy Close-Up: You’ve Never Seen This!Astronomers just dropped the most detailed pic ever of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 254) and it’s wild. After 50 hours and 100 exposures, they stitched together an image showing 65,000 light years of stars, gas, and dust in crazy detail—like, you can literally see the building blocks of the galaxy! Scientists say this lets them zoom in on star-forming regions and zoom out to see the whole galaxy. Space nerds, this is next-level stuff! #SpaceNews #Astronomy #Galaxy #Science220Share
Jessica Hodge+FollowEarth’s Orbit Could Get Wild—Thanks to StarsImagine chilling on Earth, only for a random passing star to yank us out of orbit or even fling us into the sun. Wild, right? Astronomers ran thousands of simulations and found that our solar system is way less stable than we thought. Pluto could go rogue, Mercury’s odds of chaos are up to 80%, and—get this—Earth has a 0.2% chance of being ejected or colliding with another planet. Not super likely, but way higher than we thought! Space is messy, y’all. #SpaceNews #Science #Astronomy50Share
