Dr. C. Alex Young ✓

@TheSunToday · Greenbelt, MD, USA · joined 30 Apr 2009

Heliophysicist (Sun Scientist) • Space weather, solar activity, heliophysics missions, eclipses, aurora & more • Work for NASA • Tweets my own 🌞💥

18 765Followers

1 285Following

5 434Posts total

7.9KViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday21 Sep

@TheSunToday it is strange and comes from the ground, like a jet flame https://t.co/Ne4ltggjt9

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday20 Sep

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday19 Sep

🌌 The equinox is an AURORA SUPERCHARGER — and most people have no idea. Around the equinoxes, Earth's tilted magnetic field lines up just right with the solar wind (the Russell–McPherron effect), making northern & southern lights stronger and more frequent! 💚💜 With dark https://

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday19 Sep

@NWSNewYorkNY Now summer ends and winter begins. Shut down your air conditioners. Save money on your electric bill. https://t.co/XeOQUQ3Hly

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday18 Sep

There's no little black spot on the sun today! ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ☀️ . • 𖧹 ⚫ https://t.co/zs0fobJrPZ 570 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday17 Sep

@TheSunToday Every equinox this surprises people: refraction plus the solar disk means day wins by a few minutes 🌞 After years of observing sunspots these small details still fascinate me. The cosmos keeps putting things in perspective #SeptEquinox2026 12 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday17 Sep

☀️ Equinox Mythbuster: Day and night are NOT exactly equal today! "Equinox" means "equal night" — but Earth's atmosphere bends sunlight (refraction), and the Sun is a disk, not a point. So we see the Sun before it geometrically rises and after it sets. Result: day wins by a ht

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday16 Sep

🌅 The longest sunrise and sunset on Earth are happening RIGHT NOW. At the South Pole, the Sun is rising. At the North Pole, it's setting. Each takes about FOUR DAYS — the Sun skims sideways along the horizon instead of climbing. And for a brief window around the equinox, BOTH h

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Dr. C. Alex Young ✓@TheSunToday15 Sep

🌍🍂🌸 September Equinox is coming! On Tuesday, September 22 at 8:05 pm EDT • 7:05 pm CDT • 6:05 pm MDT • 5:05 pm PDT — that's Wednesday, September 23 at 00:05 UTC! ☀️ The Sun crosses Earth's equator heading south — fall begins up north 🍂, spring begins down south 🌸 Fun https://t.co

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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

8 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. copertura nella norma per la sua dimensione, reazione più debole della media.

Visualizzazioni mediane527questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %2.81%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %0.79%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	527	924	0.57×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	2.81%	3.62%	0.78×
Tasso di interazione	0.79%	1.52%	0.52×

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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

52015 Sep

53416 Sep

61117 Sep

57018 Sep

44919 Sep

5.2K

821 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.15%15 Sep

1.87%16 Sep

1.80%17 Sep

0.00%

0.70%18 Sep

0.22%19 Sep

0.87%

0.00%21 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes63.1%53 in total

Reposts22.6%19 in total

Replies2.4%2 in total

Quotes3.6%3 in total

Bookmarks8.3%7 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.