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I still can’t believe I caught this supernova 🤣 My job is so cool.

A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship

@raywylie Congratulations, Ray!!!!

Sometimes your eyes need a minute to focus when you wake up. Roman's Wide Field Instrument just woke up for the first time EVER, and scientists have started adjusting its "eyes" so they can focus on the bigger picture. Check out its first test image below go.nasa.gov/4j51w30

My speech from Harvard... Last week despite multiple threats and a UC Irvine lecture insinuating it would be funny for someone to assassinate me before 9/10, I delivered my speech at Harvard. Over two years I've exposed more fraud and corruption than nearly any individual or journalist. From the Learing Centers, the open-border/migrant crisis, and now California's political fraud empire targeting me. The media and specifically the far-left have tried everything to debunk or discredit my work, distort and lie about who I am but the truth is I and my work are a product of years of hard work, consistency, and a dedication to showing the truth. I hope you enjoy my speech.

@oliverhenry Great job!!!!

The Romans built this vast underground water palace beneath Constantinople. Beneath modern Istanbul lies the Basilica Cistern, an enormous underground reservoir constructed during the reign of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I in the sixth century. Although it is commonly called Byzantine, the people who built it considered themselves Romans, and Constantinople was still the capital of the Roman Empire in the East. The cistern supplied water to the Great Palace and surrounding buildings, helping the city endure droughts, damaged aqueducts, and prolonged sieges. Its cathedral-like interior measures roughly 453 feet long and 213 feet wide, with a brick ceiling supported by 336 marble columns arranged in 12 rows of 28. Each column rises nearly 30 feet from the floor. Many of the columns were salvaged from older Roman structures, which explains why their materials, dimensions, and decorative capitals vary so much. Water reached the cistern through a network of channels and aqueducts stretching into the countryside beyond Constantinople. When full, the reservoir could hold around 80,000 cubic meters, or more than 21 million gallons, of water. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the cistern gradually fell out of regular use and was largely forgotten. Local residents reportedly continued lowering buckets through openings in their floors, sometimes pulling up water and even fish from the darkness below. Perhaps its strangest features are two enormous reused carvings of Medusa’s head beneath the columns. One is positioned sideways and the other upside down. The exact reason remains uncertain, but the orientations may have helped the ancient blocks function as stable bases for the columns.

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The hands arrived from France!

Hidden beneath one of London’s oldest churches is a surprisingly atmospheric museum… 👀 We explored the Crypt Museum at All Hallows by the Tower, where centuries of London history are tucked away beneath the streets. From Roman and Saxon artefacts and a remarkable Roman mosaic floor to ancient church registers, the crypt is packed with stories from London’s past. You’ll even find the crow’s nest from Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Quest. And the best part? It’s completely free to visit🏛️ If you’re looking for a fascinating (and slightly spooky) hidden gem in the City, add this one to your list. 📍 All Hallows by the Tower, London #LondonMakesItPossible #VisitLondon #LondonHistory #HiddenLondon #LondonMuseums #LondonThingsToDo

Pleased to share my favorite photo from yesterday morning. Shot using 3 cameras from a parking lot: this is the Falcon Heavy carrying Roman Space Telescope transiting the sun. More about how it was captured and a video of the transit 👇

Be part of the bigger picture! 🌌 With more than a million individual pixels per pointing of Roman’s Wide Field Imager, there’s a spot for everyone in Roman’s first images, set to be released in the next few months. Grab your certificate and pixel number now: go.nasa.gov/AdoptAPixel

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The Sunday roast originated in England with one theory tracing it all the way back to the reign of Henry VII in 1485. His royal guards were rewarded with roast beef so often, they earned themselves a nickname still used today: Beefeaters. Over 500 years later, the tradition hasn't gone anywhere. A sit down with the family and a hot Sunday roast. This is what Sunday afternoons are all about 😋

27 Merlin engines carrying @NASARoman to a Lagrange point a million miles from Earth. This photo was captured from a sound-triggered camera placed near the launch pad, allowing me to get details of the engines and fiery plume that would be impossible from a safe distance.

Shades on and batteries charging! 😎 🔋 Roman’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Lower Instrument Sun Shade have successfully deployed, powering the observatory and shading its instruments! go.nasa.gov/4gw2rqc

I’ll never stop being amazed by the remarkable things humans can do

It was a beautiful day to go to space This is my 3rd favorite shot I captured today.

The telescope will travel to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, which is ~one million miles away and about four times farther from Earth than the Moon. At L2, the combined gravity of the Sun and Earth will give Roman a stable vantage point with a clear, unobstructed view to survey deep space and accomplish its mission

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing, a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse, far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories, so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations, analogous to ripples on an unseen sea, provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere, the vast bubble carved by the Sun, deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold: and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

Watch Falcon Heavy launch @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope x.com/i/broadcasts/1…