Jim Hendrickson @SkyscraperJim
Web developer & amateur astronomer, editor & webmaster for @SkyscrapersInc Amateur Astronomical Society of RI Providence, RI Joined December 2008-
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Happy launchiversary, Voyager 1! 🥳 48 years ago – on September 5, 1977 – Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Jupiter and Saturn up close. Today, Voyager 1 is about 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth – and still revealing secrets of the cosmos!
No more hiding, I’ll be shining, like I’m born to be! 🎶 Webb captured newborn stars glowing in the infrared within clouds of dust and gas (colored golden and orange in this image) in a star-forming region called Pismis 24. go.nasa.gov/4p34sOl
Some sights from Rocky Point State Park
Tonight, our @ESA_JUICE mission will flyby Venus on it's way to Jupiter, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft anomaly that temporarily disrupted communication with Earth. 🔗 esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…
🌟 The Sept 2025 edition of The Evening Sky Map is ready for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features a Sky Calendar and easy-to-use sky maps for the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as the equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the Cosmos! 🔭
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration will greatly miss our friend and colleague, Professor Rainer Weiss, whose immeasurable impact on gravitational-wave astronomy will be felt for generations to come ligo.org/professor-emer… Our thoughts are with Rai's family and friends
Many stars are polka dotted, but it’s hard to see their spots. Astronomers developed and tested a new tool using data from NASA missions that can help map the spot patterns on a star’s surface using data we’ve collected on the hunt for exoplanets: go.nasa.gov/3HGs9uY
#OTD in 1977, Voyager 2 headed to space. The twin Voyager probes are the longest operating spacecraft in deep space and have traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made objects. Learn more about them and see where they are right now: go.nasa.gov/3JFAwY6
JWST discovers tiny new moon around the planet Uranus! At just six miles (10 km) in diameter and 1.8 billion miles away (2.9 billion kms), it was too tiny to be seen by Hubble (or even Voyager 2)! But that was no match for JWST's superb sensitivity. See 🧵 for deets.
JWST discovers tiny new moon around the planet Uranus! At just six miles (10 km) in diameter and 1.8 billion miles away (2.9 billion kms), it was too tiny to be seen by Hubble (or even Voyager 2)! But that was no match for JWST's superb sensitivity. See 🧵 for deets.
26 years ago today we sent the command that brought the high-energy universe into sharp focus. Chandra’s angular resolution transformed X-ray astronomy — a 400-year leap in just 40 years of progress. Now politics threatens its future. Why does it matter? medium.com/@shanil.virani…
Would love recommendations for primary sources or books on the state of the natural world in RI / MA around 1770-1780. Thank you! 🍂
What causes the cosmic flashes that we see in the sky? What will the new Rubin Observatory observe when it begins operation in a few months? Join us for a 30-minute lecture about the cosmic fireworks and astronomical transients, followed by telescopes. outreach.astro.caltech.edu
About three years after Don Machholz's death, the Stargazer Ranch is listed for sale. Bortle 2 Sky #astronomy #comets #astrophotography sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/deta…
Map of all active & planned Solar System missions and their destinations as of August 1st 2025. @ESA_JUICE flyby of Venus, Juno perijove #75 #keepExploring
Each summer 100 million people visit National Parks and this summer is shaping up to one of the most complicated in Park Service history. Here are five ways that you can help ensure that the National Parks continue to flourish for generations to come: ow.ly/RWOO50WiGGe
Join us this Friday night to learn about the formation of our Solar System followed by telescopes and an extended Q&A!
Join us this Friday night to learn about the formation of our Solar System followed by telescopes and an extended Q&A!
Little update on @MissionToPsyche.
Say it 3 times: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Astronomers using @GeminiObs North found a hidden companion star orbiting inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere, the first close-in companion ever seen around a supergiant star. 🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/no… 📷GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
#OTD in 1994, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began to rain down on Jupiter. Hubble captured the impacts, and this first viewing of an interplanetary impact in our solar system taught astronomers more about Jupiter, comets, and the science of impacts: go.nasa.gov/3ILII8K
I captured the moon in super high resolution every night for a month by driving all over Arizona to stay in good weather. Thanks to libration, the result gave a unique 3d look to the craters.
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Laura @___GreenTea13
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Kitten Academy @kitten_academy
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Dr. John Barentine FR... @JohnBarentine
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NASA JPL @NASAJPL
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Edinburgh's Royal Obs... @RoyalObs
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