# @reuters on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFvHdIDS_b
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20571519-reuters-instagram
- **Posted:** 2023-01-31T18:29:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Reuters (@Reuters) — https://gondola.cc/Reuters

## Caption

🔭 A flying spiral that looks like a whirlpool was captured on camera by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera located in Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Observatory on January 18.

🌀 The galaxy whirlpool “seems to be related to the SpaceX company’s launch of a new satellite,” National Astronomical Observatory of Japan representatives said on Twitter.

🚀 SpaceX had launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral to deploy a satellite into a medium-earth orbit earlier on the same day.

#Reuters #news #whirlpool #space #exploration #Hawaii #MaunaKeaObservatory #SubaruAsahiStarCamera #SpaceX #rocket #satellite

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hawaii, satellite, subaruasahistarcamera, news, rocket, whirlpool, space, reuters, maunakeaobservatory, exploration, spacex

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