Space Contents Archive

Flight Engineer Shannon Walker tends to plants growing inside the Veggie plant growth facility for the Veg-03J space botany study. The investigation is cultivating Extra Dwarf Pak Choi, Amara Mustard and Red Romaine Lettuce which are harvested on-orbit with samples returned to Earth for testing. #nasa #astronaut #science #research #botany #international #space #station

Seems to me, if you can get the citizens of a Democracy to no longer agree on what is objectively true in the world, then you have conquered them with all the strength of an invading army.

Seems to me, if you can get the citizens of a Democracy to no longer agree on what is objectively true in the world, then you have conquered them with all the strength of an invading army. (A picture may help visualize this) https://t.co/H9QAfyCSln

Astronomers used @NASAHubble to help calculate how long it took the light from an exploded star to reach Earth — about 1,700 years. But they had to trace it backward: https://t.co/H2qPcSSCrb https://t.co/oi1oBsmZDE

Saturns North Polar storm, also known as The Rose when photographed by Cassini spacecraft

Aloha from Maui. Took this on the balcony last night.

SpaceX on Twitter: Splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 21st @Space_Station resupply mission and the first return of a cargo resupply spacecraft off the coast of Florida

The @SpaceX #CargoDragon splashed down off the coast of Tampa, Florida, today at 8:26pm ET loaded with valuable science experiments. More... https://t.co/PDyKq3tR4e https://t.co/9pXl55XjcG

Eta Carinae Nebula with a surprise visitor

2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows

Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by scientists at @NASAGISS: https://t.co/pzuVKS4AuJ https://t.co/drTMI8dJXl

⏪ Hit rewind ⏪ Using Hubble, astronomers managed to retrace shrapnel from a supernova blast. Now, they have a more accurate estimate of the location and time of this stellar detonation: https://t.co/CBSCVBOtw1 #AAS237 https://t.co/C6Fl7MQf5R

The Cassini mission gave us this awsome pohoto of Saturn's ring formation

Aurora Slathers Up the Sky

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