NASA Universe engagement report
@NASAUniverse - 1.1M followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 519 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 25K times each, and 2.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.
Compared with accounts its own size
NASA Universe's engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 71% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.046%, NASA Universe sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 202619x their median
Time to explore the cosmos! 🔭 @NASARoman is ready to lift off from @NASAKennedy at 7:26am ET (1126 UTC) on Aug. 30. Join us here for our live coverage beginning at 6:20am ET (1020 UTC). https://t.co/H22b3CCQKR
- Aug 17, 20262.4x their median
If a neutron star or small black hole wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, it can be set into a bizarre (and fun-looking) dance that traces a complex pattern around the black hole. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/ROA56bwSge
- Aug 10, 20262.3x their median
Give your classroom, locker, or dorm room a cosmic makeover! AstroPix, from NASA's Universe of Learning project, offers access to the public image galleries of @NASA telescopes and other ground- and space-based observatories. Start your search here: https://t.co/joLvTKuv5L https://t.co/LkGCkRcN5d
- Aug 24, 20262.3x their median
The universe is full of weird juxtapositions. This colorful image, for example, shows sites of new star formation AND a shattered star. The upper portion is full of newly forming stars while the stellar leftovers are the small blue blob in the lower left. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/zWFqPKfWfG
- Aug 14, 20262.1x their median
Are we alone? @NASARoman is expected to discover and study thousands of distant worlds within our galaxy and directly image planets with unprecedented detail. Its coronagraph will block the glare from host stars but allow the light from dimmer, orbiting planets to filter through. https://t.co/OS9foQsvCz
- Aug 25, 20261.6x their median
Our newest exoplanet explorer has started its science mission! Launched earlier this year, Pandora has begun observing worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. It will help us learn about the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets. More: https://t.co/8QIX06T7fz https://t.co/tysfhZcqvv
- Aug 28, 20261.5x their median
Our Swift observatory is back in its science era. Two of its telescopes resumed operation this week, and the team hopes to have the third science instrument back online soon. After the scaling back of a commercial mission that would have boosted the sinking spacecraft’s altitude, Swift is taking advantage of this time for data collection. More: https://t.co/1ib97WAMnn
- Aug 11, 2026
Katalyst Space successfully uploaded a flight software update designed to maintain the stability of their LINK robotic spacecraft. This work has prepared LINK to continue its approach toward our Swift observatory, performing a series of burns and maneuvers in the coming days to align LINK’s orbit with Swift, before attempting to capture and raise Swift to a higher orbital altitude. Learn more: https://t.co/PMJV4T1QAa
- Aug 13, 2026
Ready to solve a cosmic mystery? Join Detective Eagle Quark in our Space Forensics interactive online game as he investigates why stars are exploding … and learn some astronomy along the way! Start your 8-bit adventure: https://t.co/TW3xyvuZEO https://t.co/PEKRvkPDa6
- Aug 31, 2026
The stellar remnant known as pulsar J0002 is hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles per hour away from the expanding debris of the supernova that created it. It's traveling so fast that it will eventually leave our galaxy. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/sBFwJHvx1b
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 519 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 25K times each, and 2.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.
- What is NASA Universe's engagement rate on X?
- NASA Universe (@NASAUniverse) has an engagement rate of 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,118,886 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.046%, NASA Universe sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @NASAUniverse have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @NASAUniverse post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.43 posts per day across the measured window.