Great ball of fire! ☀️ The Sun's rotation brought a new active region into view, revealing the dynamic arches and twisting streams of its magnetic field on Oct. 10-11. New active regions are becoming more of a rare sight, as the Sun is currently approaching solar minimum—the point of the 11-year solar cycle when activity is most reduced. The video shows images taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light and covers 33 hours made from over 500 frames (i.e., one frame selected every 4 minutes). Viewed by our Solar Dynamics Observatory, we seek to learn more about our closest star that will help us understand where the Sun's energy comes from, how the inside of the Sun works, how energy is stored and released in the Sun's atmosphere and much more.
Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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After 11 years of:
🌌Breathtaking imagery
⚙️Unprecedented feats of engineering
🛰️Spacecraft records broken
It’s nearly time to bid farewell to our Dawn spacecraft as it comes to the expected end of the mission. Learn more about its final orbits at Ceres: https://go.nasa.gov/dawnfinale
To celebrate our huge seat sale on ryanair.com this week, we’re giving away a €100 flight voucher right here on Instagram 👏
To win, just like this post and tell us which route you’d spend the voucher on if you won - you’ll find a full list of flights in the link in the bio 🛫
That €100 will go a long way with our flights starting from as little as €9.99! #Ryanair #WinWednesday #competition #giveaway
Edit: And we have a winner! Congratulations to @levicrutchley! Please DM us your full name and email address 👌🏼
Earlier this week, Berlin Airport's David van Zyl contacted us with an idea: he wanted to surprise his girlfriend Janine - who is a marshaller at Berlin Schönefeld - by arriving on the 13.15 flight this afternoon from Verona 🛬
He requested that our pilots help him out by holding up a couple of special signs... asking Janine to marry him - and she said yes!
Congratulations to the happy couple - we were delighted we could help ❤ #RyanairLoveStories
Earlier this week, Berlin Airport's David van Zyl contacted us with an idea: he wanted to surprise his girlfriend Janine - who is a marshaller at Berlin Schönefeld - by arriving on the 13.15 flight this afternoon from Verona 🛬
He requested that our pilots help him out by holding up a couple of special signs... asking Janine to marry him - and she said yes!
Congratulations to the happy couple - we were delighted we could help
There it goes! Thirteen photographs assembled in sequence show the International Space Station (@ISS), with a crew of three onboard, pass in front of our view of the Sun while orbiting Earth at a speed of roughly five miles per second on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018.
Each day, the station completes 16 orbits of our home planet as the crew lives and works aboard the station conducting important science and research. Their work will not only benefit life here on Earth, but will help us venture deeper into space than ever before.
How does video from space get to the ground? Take a brief look inside the facility where video of every human spaceflight has been received and sent out to the world.
Malmö and Copenhagen are two of the world’s best bicycle cities 🚲
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Thanks to the Öresund Bridge they are connected in only 20 minutes. Come experience the unique bike cultures in 1 trip, 2 countries
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This is Cantabria in 20 seconds 😍📸
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We want you to want more, we want you to fly to Santander with us and discover what Cantabria has to offer
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Let @cantabriaturismo plan your trip, they'll be delighted to help 😃
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Fly into nature, fly to Malmö and discover Skåne! 🛫
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Add it to your bucket list, there are heaps of outdoor activities, good food and great adventures to be had 😍
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Thanks to @planetvisible for this drone footage of Kullaberg in North West Skåne. Check their profile for outstanding travel photography
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"From Dusk until Dawn" on the International Space Station (@ISS)! Astronaut Ricky Arnold (@Astro_Ricky) shared this video showing the views of Earth from the orbiting laboratory throughout one recent night and into sunrise and the dawn of a new orbit.
Each day, the station completes 16 orbits of our home planet as the six humans living and working aboard the station conduct important science and research. Their work will not only benefit life here on Earth, but will help us venture deeper into space than ever before.
Our @NASAHubble Space Telescope detected an unusual infrared light radiating from a nearby neutron star, which forms when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses. But what is it?
These never-seen-before features could have two possible explanations: one possibility is that there is a dusty disk surrounding the neutron star; another is that there is an energetic wind coming off the object and slamming into gas in interstellar space the neutron star is plowing through.
This animation depicts a neutron star with a disk of warm dust that produces an infrared signature as detected by Hubble. The disk wasn’t directly photographed, but one way to explain the data is by hypothesizing a disk structure that could be 18 billion miles across. The disk would be made up of material falling back onto the neutron star after the supernova explosion that created the stellar remnant.
Although neutron stars are generally studied in radio and high-energy emissions, such as X-rays, recent studies show that new and interesting information about neutron stars can also be gained by studying them in infrared light. Neutron stars are also called pulsars because their very fast rotation (typically fractions of a second, in this case 11 seconds) causes time-variable emission from light-emitting regions.
Using our upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (@NASAwebb), astronomers will be able to further explore this newly opened discovery space in the infrared to better understand neutron star evolution.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Tr’Ehnl (Pennsylvania State University)
