We fly high,
no lie.
You know this.
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254 miles high,
to be exact.
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Working with a view of our beautiful blue marble below,
astronauts @AstroDrewMorgan and Luca Parmitano completed their third and final spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s dark matter and antimatter detector on January 25.
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During the 6 hours and 16 minute spacewalk,
the two astronauts worked tethered to the orbital lab while traveling roughly 17,000mph around Earth.
@AstroDrewMorgan’s spacesuit has red stripes while Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit has white stripes.⁣
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Image Credit:
NASA/
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⁣ #spacewalk #teamwork #astronauts #space #NASA #officeview⁣

Time to revisit Tarantula Nebula 🕷️⁣
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The Tarantula Nebula was one of the first targets studied by Spitzer Space Telescope after its launch in 2003.
Now that the infrared observatory is set to be retired on Jan.
30,
scientists have generated a new view of the nebula from Spitzer data.⁣
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Even though infrared light is invisible to the human eye,
some wavelengths of infrared can pass through clouds of gas and dust where visible light cannot.
This is how scientists use infrared observations to view newborn stars swaddled in the clouds of gas and dust from which they formed.⁣
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Click the link in the bio for more info ⬆️⁣
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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech⁣
⁣ #NASA #Space #Spitzer #Nebula

You probably dreamed of this…
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The next frontier isn’t just for the next generation –
it’s for this generation.
With our Artemis program,
we will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.⁣⁣
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We’ve been learning.⁣
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We’ve been building.⁣
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We’ve been training.⁣
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And now it’s time.⁣
⁣⁣ #NASA #space #astronaut #inspiration #Moon #Mars