Erika ✓
@ExploreCosmos_ · Cosmos · joined 13 Oct 2020
Canadian astrophysicist focused on extragalactic astronomy & early-universe galaxies. Seeking mountain peaks. Writing through the chaos; riding away from it.
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After nearly eight years of travelling through the inner Solar System, BepiColombo has entered the final and most delicate phase of its journey to Mercury. The joint ESA-JAXA mission was launched on October 20, 2018, carrying two scientific spacecraft: @esa Mercury Planetary htt
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@ExploreCosmos_ If this is the case, it is a major boon to Mars colonization efforts because water can be extracted anywhere on Mars surface simply by heating the dust.
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@ExploreCosmos_ More and more puzzle pieces coming together. Very interesting post, thanks, Erika.
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@ExploreCosmos_ Does this make Occupy Mars more or less desirable?
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Mars may owe much of its familiar red colour to ferrihydrite, a poorly crystalline hydrated iron oxide, rather than mainly to hematite as traditionally assumed.
This is important because ferrihydrite usually forms when dissolved iron is oxidised in the presence of cool liquid h
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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have released their eleventh public data set, DR11, producing the largest two-dimensional color map of the Universe yet assembled. Built from more than 263,000 telescope exposures, the map contains about 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly four billion
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About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System began as a collapsing cloud of gas and dust. Gravity pulled material inward, creating the young Sun and transforming the surrounding material into a rotating protoplanetary disk from which the planets would eventually form. Gravity ht
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@ExploreCosmos_ The most amazing part of your article is thinking about the Creator who designed space. It as complicated as how the human brain works. God enjoys his creation and especially humans who want to be with him. God is indescribable in human terms. Because of our lang
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@ExploreCosmos_ Thank you for this exceptional post
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@ExploreCosmos_ Is it a possibility the star may not contain planets to drag its speed?
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Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary star orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, on the most extreme stellar orbit observed there so far.
The star, designated S301, was identified using the GRAVITY instrument and its https:/
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@ExploreCosmos_ Wow.
Europa, to me, is the most fascinating moon in the solar system. Perhaps Enceladus and Titan push it though.
But something about Europa just makes me feel awe. Could it be that there is life there?
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PJ50 JET N7
© NASA / SwRI / MSSS
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Juno Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 50 https://t.co/CleGXW1lMk
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Moon Europa.
Image taken by #NASAJuno and processed by myself.
#Europa #Jupiter #News #Astronomy #Science #NASA #Photography
🐘 https://t.co/qXLlKueFHx https://t.co/oszex1SJkT
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views2 607this account927median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.32%this account3.63%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.07%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 607 | 927 | 2.81× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.32% | 3.63% | 1.19× |
| Engagement rate | 1.07% | 1.52% | 0.70× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
471.9K2 Mar
4.4K27 Apr
97924 May
303.8K22 Aug
6K
2.2K23 Aug
1.5K
10.7K4 Sep
6.4K5 Sep
13.6K6 Sep
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1127 Sep
2.6K8 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.76%2 Mar
2.07%27 Apr
1.84%24 May
0.54%22 Aug
0.22%
1.07%23 Aug
1.57%
3.28%4 Sep
4.54%5 Sep
2.66%6 Sep
0.82%
0.62%
0.89%7 Sep
6.75%8 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes73.3%5 392 in total
Reposts11.7%858 in total
Replies3.9%286 in total
Quotes0.7%49 in total
Bookmarks10.5%769 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 08 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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