Space Contents Archive

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 Our Sun category - the winning image

Flight 20 was a success! ✅ In its 130.3 seconds of flight, the #MarsHelicopter covered 391 meters at a speed of 4.4 meters per second, bringing it closer to @NASAPersevere's landing location. https://t.co/93pnuIuXaB

LIVE: Watch an update on the March 1 liftoff of @NOAASatellites' GOES-T weather mission. https://t.co/z1RgZwQkWS Our experts will discuss NASA's role in acquisition of the spacecraft and instruments, and @NASA_LSP's management of the launch. Questions? Use #ReadyToGOES. https://t.co/iGmK8oIMg7

Transparent domes? No! This is a time-lapse image taken at sunset at Paranal Observatory while the Auxiliary Telescopes were opening, ready to start a night of observations. 🔗 https://t.co/UbdBK6mWSw Credit: F. Millour/ @ESO https://t.co/jAGT1eLIJc

Going through some newspapers I inherited from my grandpa. Figured you guys might appreciate it.

The Russian space agency said Saturday it is recalling dozens of engineers and technicians from French Guiana and suspending Soyuz rocket operations there, grounding a pair of European navigation satellites previously set for launch in early April. https://t.co/i5ICtGS2pY https://t.co/jheTCbLyVw

First try at Sirius out of focus

Thor's Helmet

Russia halts Soyuz rocket launches from South America over European sanctions on Ukraine invasion https://t.co/XgHJ2d5pp4 https://t.co/tEu4Xdg6vw

First time doing a Sirius out of focus

Moon, by me

Pluto and a large area photographed 15,400 km from the surface.

Vance Marchbanks, the first Black surgeon in the Air Force and the Mercury Project's head physician, helped more than just astronauts. His findings helped convince the military to stop discharging service members who had the genetic trait for sickle cell. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/6ax032OQI6

Roscosmos announced Saturday that it is halting cooperation with Europe on Soyuz launches from French Guiana and withdrawing its personnel from the launch site in response to European sanctions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/hg28jh8DaQ https://t.co/8eC2oWZi0G

Moon question: I took a photo on February 14 5:45pm in Minnesota of the moon in my sky with the phase waxing gibbous. I want to know if I were to take a picture at the same location and same time every clear day for 2 weeks, how would the moons location in my picture change?