@ucfobservatory.bsky.social
A research, education, and outreach facility run by the University of Central Florida's Department of Physics. https://planets.ucf.edu/observatory/
Gray twilight sky with the crescent Moon and Venus at top, and foliage at bottom.
Check out #Venus and the #Moon hanging out together this evening in the southwest sky! Then tomorrow watch the Moon spend some time #Saturn. Here's the view right now among the oaks of #KraftAzaleaPark
03.01.2025 22:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Anyone in #CentralFlorida
catch this? Maybe a bit too far for us.... Some videos of this satellite breakup: fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_... (the website is mainly for natural fireballs but contributors submit satellite events too)
Today's Google #Doodle is #Moon related ! Learn those moon phases. doodles.google/doodle/rise-...
22.12.2024 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited about Earth's #QuasiMoon? Excited enough to want to help decide its name? Well here's your chance ! radiolab.org/quasi-moon
05.12.2024 03:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UCF radio tower points to Venus and the crescent Moon in evening twilight sky
Venus and crescent Moon together in a light gray twilight sky
#Venus and the crescent #Moon tonight making a lovely pair setting over @ucf.bsky.social tonight
04.12.2024 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top floor and roofline of a building with grey-pink twilight sky and the crescent Moon and Venus in background
Crescent #Moon and #Venus setting over Colbourn Hall earlier this chilly evening at @ucf.bsky.social . Watch for this pair tmw (Weds.) again, they'll be much closer together! #UCFontheMoon #UCFinSpace
04.12.2024 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0h/t to #Wikipedia for this: exactly 100 years ago today the world (or at least @nytimes.com readers) learned of Edwin Hubble's analysis showing that #M31 #AndromedaNebula was actually a whole separate galaxy from our #MilkyWay. Could you tell just by looking at it? apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24090...
23.11.2024 22:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're a pre-dawn early-riser, there are some good chances to see the #HubbleSpaceTelescope fly over #Orlando and #UCF this week! Details: heavens-above.com/PassSummary.... . #HST should be bright enough on Mon Tues and Weds morning (clouds willing).
18.11.2024 01:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Good view this evening through the clouds of the Waning Gibbous #Moon and #Jupiter not too too far apart. Jupiter is up and to the right from the Moon. If the clouds allow it, Orion can be seen dramatically rising in the east soon too. #UCFinSpace #UCFontheMoon
18.11.2024 01:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A field of thousands of small galaxies of various shapes and colors on the black background of space. A bright, foreground star with diffraction spikes is at lower left. Near the image center, a tiny white box outlines a region and two diagonal lines lead to a box in the upper right. Within the box is a banana-shaped blob that is blueish-red in one half and distinctly red in the other half. An arrow points to the redder portion and is labeled “JADES GS z 14 – 0”.
Most distant object known to humanity.
Found by JWST, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant galaxy ever discovered. It's located 13.6 billion light years from us, and since it takes time for light to travel, we see it as it was only 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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Woot, thanks a bunch !
14.11.2024 01:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi! UCF's campus observatory is now here on Bluesky! Could we be added to the pack ? Thanks
14.11.2024 01:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're over here now. Public event schedule at planets.ucf.edu/public-event... . Next #KUTS on November 20, weather permitting!
14.11.2024 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
