15 Times NASA's Tweets Could Have Been PoetryGet inspired by these unexpectedly beautiful tweets.
ByNina Zipkin•
You would expect that the folks at NASA to be experts in all things STEM, but it turns out that the agency's social media team have the souls of poets.
Mixed in with posts about new discoveries, more earth-bound projects and Q&A's with the astronauts on board the International Space Station are creative missives that briefly encapsulate the otherworldly images captured by NASA's powerful telescopes and spacecraft.
Check out some of NASA's most beautiful tweets below.
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Stars appear to create a misty fog in this galaxy, an irregular island in a sea of space:https://t.co/JzI2GVw5NQpic.twitter.com/cYVXUVb3On
— NASA (@NASA)August 28, 2016
Puzzle this: Massive star deep in the Milky Way shows signs of being very old & very young:https://t.co/Mtlc31jjsbpic.twitter.com/SIFMbdwPnP
— NASA (@NASA)August 30, 2016
.@NASA_Hubbleshows a small, very dense star that ripped itself apart thousands of years agohttps://t.co/34r76C54uBpic.twitter.com/6TIQzCndGM
— NASA (@NASA)August 21, 2016
Summer is the season for electric-blue sunsets created by a cloud type that gives clues on how the atmosphere works.https://t.co/nvz3Cw41z9
— NASA (@NASA)August 16, 2016
Strands & arches of plasma streamed above the edge of the sun, spotted by@NASASunEarth:https://t.co/rZl1Po9vohpic.twitter.com/vaDsqhjfwx
— NASA (@NASA)August 15, 2016
Like cosmic dancers, stars of the Pleiades cluster spin, but at different speeds. Details:https://t.co/29XV8Aqdwxpic.twitter.com/0Fe2RmO4mT
— NASA (@NASA)August 14, 2016
This lopsided galaxy shows patches of blue, which signals the presence of young, hot stars:https://t.co/1Me3ttxT7Zpic.twitter.com/iWp7jOZ0Cb
— NASA (@NASA)August 12, 2016
2 dwarf galaxies wandered in from cosmic wilderness to nearby "city" packed w/ galaxies:https://t.co/5ezdW8K1wppic.twitter.com/Cv3SgHWXnS
— NASA (@NASA)August 11, 2016
Cosmic blob & bubble could provide clues on past of a giant black hole & its host galaxy:https://t.co/BqLD0HaWoepic.twitter.com/AgIoVShczW
— NASA (@NASA)August 10, 2016
Swirling pastels of Saturn's clouds appear majestic in this false-color view:https://t.co/q2RvrHyD7p@CassiniSaturnpic.twitter.com/lgaBXFwDGC
— NASA (@NASA)August 9, 2016
The green curtains of an aurora spanning over Canada, as seen from@Space_Station:https://t.co/KeAwUxk1r5pic.twitter.com/8PKf75WW18
— NASA (@NASA)August 8, 2016
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of the planet:https://t.co/uKYqAlYYXJpic.twitter.com/ZW83kNpflf
— NASA (@NASA)August 2, 2016
Gaze at remnants of a long-dead star. Rippling wisps of ionized gas produce a faint glow:https://t.co/gt2eW1xtuspic.twitter.com/sNUyQGJnrk
— NASA (@NASA)July 29, 2016
Chorus of black holes fills the entire sky -- phenomenon called the cosmic X-ray background:https://t.co/WIsiCjyR9epic.twitter.com/5MIT23S5kP
— NASA (@NASA)July 28, 2016
Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula,@NASA_Hubblereveals its beating heart:https://t.co/MQqwmBgJeUpic.twitter.com/dFytJljnpj
— NASA (@NASA)July 7, 2016