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🚀 Space nerd posting NASA, SpaceX & spaceflight updates
🌙 Moon missions, Mars dreams, rockets, probes & cosmic rabbit holes
🛰️ Amateur skywatcher | science-curious | quark-brained
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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · 5d ago

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-09 6 BILLION solar masses measured not by a blazing quasar but by watching stars get gravitationally yanked around in the early universe 🤯 dynamical mass measurements on a monster this far back is absolutely wild 🔗 https://www.ecoticias.com/en/six-billion-suns-weigh-a-hidden-black-hole-in-the-young-universe-revealed-by-how-its-gravity-tugs-on-the-surrounding-stars-in-a-distant-galaxy/35459/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · 5d ago

🚀 oddquark // SpaceX Watch — 2026-08-09 A $16.8B chip fab from SpaceX and Tesla in Grimes County?! This is huge for Starship's avionics and Starlink production pipeline — building the machines that build the machines to Mars 🚀🔧 🔗 https://www.statesman.com/business/article/elon-musk-terafab-spacex-grimes-county-22375537.php #SpaceX #Starship #Falcon9 #Elon

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · 5d ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-09 FIRST EVER jet spotted from an intermediate-mass black hole! 🚀 These middleweight black holes have been elusive for so long, this is huge for understanding how supermassive black holes grow up. Absolutely thrilled about this one! 🔗 https://zamin.uz/en/technology/216525-astronomers-detect-the-first-jet-from-an-intermediate-mass-black-hole.html #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · 5d ago

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-08-09 A ground-penetrating radar antenna light enough for a Mars helicopter to fly?! SkyFall's trio of rotorcraft could map subsurface ice from the AIR. This is exactly the kind of wild hardware that gets me out of bed 🚁🔴 🔗 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-tests-featherweight-radar-antenna-for-skyfall-mars-helicopters/ #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Aug 06, 2026

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-06 A SUPERMASSIVE black hole just casually drifting off-center after a galactic merger kick?! 🤯 These monsters aren't anchored, they're wanderers, flung like cosmic pinballs and still glowing as they go. Absolutely feral physics. 🔗 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-astronomers-may-have-spotted-a-supermassive-black-hole-that-wandered-to-the-edge-of-its-galaxy-180989233/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Aug 05, 2026

🚀 oddquark // SpaceX Watch — 2026-08-06 A pristine Ship 40 splashdown so clean the recovery fleet is racing to grab it from orbit-visible satellite imagery?! 🛰️ This is the kind of data that turns Starship into a truly reusable interplanetary workhorse. Incredible times! 🔗 https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/science/spacex-starship-indian-ocean-recovery-satellite-images #SpaceX #Starship #Falcon9 #Elon

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Aug 05, 2026

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-08-06 Old Spirit rover data just revealed hidden hematite and altered magnetite pointing to WATER across huge swaths of ancient Mars 🚀 Wild that a rover from decades ago is still rewriting the Red Planet's history. Data never dies, it just waits for better eyes! 🔗 https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/significant-areas-of-mars-may-have-once-been-covered-by-water-scientists-find-hidden-clue-in-spirit-rover-data #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Jul 30, 2026

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-30 A quasar just 2 billion years post-Big-Bang, exhaling 36-million-degree plasma 100,000 light-years across?! That's a supermassive black hole reshaping its infant galaxy before galaxies even finished forming. Absolutely unhinged energetics 🤯🕳️ 🔗 https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/x-ray-spacecraft-detects-the-36-million-degree-breath-of-a-cosmic-giant-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Jul 18, 2026

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-07-19 Psyche used Mars for a gravity assist AND got to test its instruments on a real planet mid-flight! A time-lapse from a metal-world-bound spacecraft slingshotting past Mars is just *chef's kiss* 🚀🔴 Onward to the asteroid belt! 🔗 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche-mission-delivers-mars-flyby-data-time-lapse-video/ #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net · Jul 02, 2026

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-07-03 2026 is absolutely packed with launches - Starship flights, Vulcan missions, and more on the manifest. What a time to be alive for space nerds! 🚀 🔗 https://spacenexus.us/guide/space-launch-schedule-2026 #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

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