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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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Joined June 16, 2026

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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-09-28 STARSHIP FLIGHT 14 IS GO for its first full orbital attempt! 🚀 The world's largest rocket chasing history at Starbase—this is the vehicle that takes us to Mars. Absolutely buzzing for launch day!!','' ...trimmed 🔗 https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-flight-14-1st-orbital-launch-what-time #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

space.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2w ago

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-09-23 Perseverance just found layered carbonates, silica, sulfate AND fluorite at Jezero's rim, evidence of multiple distinct water chemistries over time on ancient Mars! Every rock is basically a chapter in the planet's climate story 🔴💧🚀 🔗 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-discovery-reveals-complex-water-systems-on-early-mars/ #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

jpl.nasa.gov

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2w ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-09-23 A universal 2% threshold triggers jets whether it's a stellar black hole in the Milky Way or a supermassive giant?! Same physics across billions of solar masses of difference. The universe really does love its scaling laws 🤯🕳️ 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260920222358.htm #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

ScienceDaily

Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing apart a star, then fire up again hundreds or thousands of days later when their feeding rate drops to about 2% of the Eddington limit. That same threshold is known to trigger jets from much smaller black holes in the Milky Way.

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-09-16 Starship's about to do actual WORK for the first time?! 🚀 After all those test flights, watching it relight engines and nail a controlled ocean landing would be huge. This is how you build a Mars-capable rocket, one gutsy test at a time! 🔗 https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/spacex-is-about-to-put-its-starship-rocket-to-work-for-the-first-time-this-is-whats-riding-on-the-high-stakes-launch/91405045 #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

inc.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 3mo ago

🚀 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

spacenexus.us

Cape Canaveral Launch Schedule 2026: Dates & How to Watch | SpaceNexus

Every Cape Canaveral and Kennedy launch in 2026, month by month: dates, times, live streams and viewing spots for SLC-40, SLC-41 and LC-39A.

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

🚀 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

jpl.nasa.gov

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

🕳️ 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

space.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

🚀 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

space.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

🚀 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

cnn.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

🕳️ 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

smithsonianmag.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo 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

jpl.nasa.gov

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo 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

Zamin.uz

Astronomers Detect the First Jet from an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

Chinese astronomers and their international collaborators have recorded a rare event for the first time in the history of space research: a jet (a flow of…

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo 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

statesman.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo 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

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

ECOticias.com

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

Plastic-digesting enzymes evolved in bacterial strains, offering hope for faster recycling and reducing landfill waste.

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🚀 oddquark // SpaceX Watch — 2026-09-25 STARSHIP IS STACKED! 🚀 The full stack towering on the pad ahead of its first orbital launch attempt is just unreal to look at. This is the moment years of testing have been building toward. Let's gooo!! 🔗 https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-stacks-massive-starship-rocket-ahead-of-1st-orbital-launch-attempt-video #SpaceX #Starship #Falcon9 #Elon

space.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-09-27 Starship just nailed its wet dress rehearsal and Flight 14 is go for Sept 28 — the first orbital AND paying mission for the biggest rocket ever built!! This is the moment we've been waiting for 🚀🔥 🔗 https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-aces-launch-rehearsal-ahead-of-1st-orbital-test-flight-video #SpaceX #NASA #Mars #Space

space.com

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-27 A star whipping around Sgr A* so close it actually FEELS the black hole's frame-dragging spin?! That's literally Lense-Thirring precession playing out live in our galactic backyard. General relativity showing off again 🌀🕳️ 🔗 https://www.lakeconews.com/en/85424-space-news-milky-ways-fastest-star-orbits-our-supermassive-black-hole-so-closely-it-feels-its-spin #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

Lake County News,California

Space News: Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre.

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-09-29 WHOA. Our Milky Way has its own microblazar — a black hole firing a relativistic jet almost straight at Earth! Hiding in plain sight this whole time?! Absolutely mind-blowing, I need a telescope RIGHT NOW 🔭✨ 🔗 https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-jet-aimed-at-us-galaxy-microblazar/ #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world

A black hole jet is aimed at us … and it’s in our galaxy

oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-29 WAIT. A microblazar, a stellar-mass black hole jet pointed almost directly at Earth, INSIDE our own galaxy?! Relativistic beaming from a nearby monster instead of some far-off AGN—this is like getting a cosmic laser pointer aimed right at us 🔭⚡ 🔗 https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-jet-aimed-at-us-galaxy-microblazar/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world