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Andrew Rader
@marsrader
SpaceX Engineer, MIT PhD, TV Know-it-All 🚀 New book 'Beyond the Known' is available now: bit.ly/2lJb4WQ 📖 Audiobook: adbl.co/2VqoTrb
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    Andrew Rader
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    Nov 10, 2024
    Sequel to my space expansion game Stellar Horizons is now on Kickstarter! In Stellar Horizons II, you leave the solar system to develop an interstellar empire while developing technologies and genetically manipulating your species to better suit the environments of myriad worlds
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    compassgames
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    Nov 9, 2024
    Which faction will you lead as you build your interstellar empire? Join us on Kickstarter for a brief recap of the time jump to the year 2100 and the 7 player factions awaiting your command in Stellar Horizons 2! 🚀 kickstarter.com/projects/compa… #wargaming #boardgames #tabletop
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    Andrew Rader
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    Aug 3, 2021
    500 million stars at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. (📷 Hubble)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Jan 31, 2019
    Jupiter shot in UV light from Hubble to map its clouds. (📷 processing: Judy Schmidt)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Feb 19, 2022
    The first flower grown in space. (📷 ISS)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Aug 10, 2021
    This spacetime floor is absolutely flat.
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    Andrew Rader
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    May 30, 2022
    500 million stars at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. (📷 Hubble)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Jan 31, 2021
    Clouds casting thousand-mile shadows as seen by the International Space Station.
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    Andrew Rader
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    Apr 9, 2022
    Not Saturn, but Uranus and her moons as seen in infrared. (📷 ESO)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Dec 17, 2021
    Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.
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    Andrew Rader
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    Oct 25, 2020
    Earth-Moon-Venus-Jupiter alignment from the International Space Station.
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    Andrew Rader
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    Dec 17, 2020
    Eerily beautiful solar eclipse from Svalbard. (📷 Luc Jamet)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Jul 12, 2018
    Today, Pluto is crossing the solar system's plane for the first time since 1931, only a year after its discovery. It won't do so again for 161 years. (📷 Anne Verbiscer)
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    Andrew Rader
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    Jun 11, 2022
    Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.
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    Andrew Rader
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    Feb 11, 2018
    Massive aurora on Jupiter, as seen by @HubbleTelescope.