Panagiotis Xipteras
@xipteras
💯 Amateur astro, travel and tech geek, content creator, Earth🌿 and space advocate, AI adopter, photo editor, equipment reviewer, encouraging visionary
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I honestly don’t want to know how big a Dobsonian has to be, or how dark the sky must get to glimpse certain faint objects. Carrying that thing around isn’t exactly my favorite activity either. As stargazers, it’s time we stop hesitating and acknowledge digital tools as a valid…
"The supernova was quite visible . The actual view is much brighter and detailed than the phone camera conveys." #SmartEyepiece #PoweredBySkySafari -John Raymond Reel on Facebook (facebook.com/reel/108239418…)
IC 1311 · Open Cluster of diamond stars, served on a gooey red bed of hydrogen. I shot this over past 4 nights. 14 hours, 40 min. No filters. Fun fact: In December I can shoot as much in one night here as I can in July in 4 nights. Full tech stats: astrobin.com/b4bbdo/…
🛸 Right on time next Monday, with the start of the school holidays, I will launch this year's #madufoweek , which has been very well received by you, my dear friends, so far. Thank you very much. 👽 Surprisingly, despite their dubious nature, my crazy 24/7 tweets are welcome by…
Did you know? The European route E45 is the longest north–south European route with 5,190 kilometers (3,225 mi).
A visual, geometrical explanation to (a + b)² = a² + 2ab + b²
Grok 4 is actually insanely cracked at being a doctor.
Intermediate-mass black holes are often invisible to us because they have to be caught in the act of foraging in order to be found. Luckily, we have two outstanding telescopes that have teamed up to catch a new possible example of this rare class of black holes. 🔗…
Gestern wollte ich schon umkehren, als ich meine Ausrüstung runterschleppte, weil in Gr Wolken kamen, doch dann kam alles anders! #MilkyWay und seine Nebel! Heute regnet es!🌌😃Ich glaub, ich bin süchtig!😁
Kerbstone 15, a 5,000-year-old Neolithic artifact at the Knowth passage tomb in Ireland’s Boyne Valley, is carved with intricate designs including a central cupmark with 20 radiating lines, spirals, and U-shaped motifs. One of 124 kerbstones surrounding the site’s main mound, it…
Secrets of #birds’ diverse and colorful plumage. A new study demonstrates "that vibrant plumage in the tanager genus Tangara is substantially intensified by a "hidden" layer of achromatic (white or black) plumage concealed beneath the outermost colorful layer". #Science…
Korean researchers developed a new technology to treat cancer cells by reverting them to normal cells without killing them. [Gong, J., et al. (2024). Control of Cellular Differentiation Trajectories for Cancer Reversion. Advanced Science. doi. org/10.1002/advs.202402132]
#PPOD: The Jagged Shores of Pluto’s Highlands ⛰️ This enhanced color view from @NASANewHorizons zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula. Krun Macula -- Krun is…
One of the most beautiful clusters with a new name for me: “Campo Cluster”. Plenty of bright blue stars, it’s 5 million years-light old and 3500 lightyears far. It has recently lost one main star, and time ago lost other… but new stars will appear soon… be sure, Family Campo…
New SpaceX website looks great!Lots of details on upcoming launches, not just the ones a day or two away. Awesome new Cape Canaveral Starship pad render, too. SpaceX.com
