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Channel
AstroNexus
@AstroNexus
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,741subscribers
-82 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001776513379 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AstroNexus |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 4 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 17 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 4 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AstroNexus |
Topic
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026, 23:58 | 1,741 | -12 |
| 25 Sept 2026, 17:00 | 1,753 | -16 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 13:02 | 1,769 | -8 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 07:01 | 1,777 | -3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 13:18 | 1,780 | -9 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 12:17 | 1,789 | -6 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 21:03 | 1,795 | -4 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 22:23 | 1,799 | -2 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 08:07 | 1,801 | -7 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 06:44 | 1,808 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 04:44 | 1,809 | -2 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 14:05 | 1,811 | -1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 01:16 | 1,812 | -7 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 23:48 | 1,819 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:41 | 1,822 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 15:33 | 1,823 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 15:11 | 1,823 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 2 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260806.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2608/SunFlowers_NSO_960.jpg APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This insta…
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APOD Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed APOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes on Saturn's B Ring https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2608/saturn_spokes.gif APOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes on Saturn's B Ring Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long, so two hours of observation covers quite a …
Astronomy & Observing News – Sky & Telescope A Perfectly Timed Perseid Meteor Shower With a new Moon in play, skywatchers anticipate a fine Perseid performance this year. The post A Perfectly Timed Perseid Meteor Shower appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Astronomy & Observing News – Sky & Telescope Inouye Solar Telescope Sees the Sun Closer Than Ever Scientists observing the Sun with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have caught a wave-like shape that's never been seen on the Sun's visible surface. The post Inouye Solar Telescope Sees the Sun Closer Than Ever appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
APOD: 2026 August 4 – Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula What causes unusual knots of gas and dust in https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260804.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed APOD: 2026 August 4 – Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2608/HelixKnots_JWST_960.jpg APOD: 2026 August 4 – Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula What causes unusual knots of gas and dust in planetary nebulas? Seen also in the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell Nebula and NGC 2392, the knots' existence was not initially predicted, and their …
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Astronomy & Observing News – Sky & Telescope A New Way to Map the Universe's Missing Matter Brief but powerful flashes of radio waves are aiding astronomers' quest to find and map cosmic gas. The post A New Way to Map the Universe's Missing Matter appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @AstroNexus. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@pythoncoder2 · 21,288
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 41 here — alongside 40 others — read 23 September 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 4 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“AstroNexus” (@AstroNexus), 1,741 subscribers as measured 4 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AstroNexus.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.