Space Contents Archive

The Pleiades-Mars conjunction

Bat and Squid

A view of Jezero crater on Mars, taken by the Perseverance.

Friendly reminder: We’re just a small speck in a massive universe!💫 Composed of oodles of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity, galaxies are beautiful cosmic structures that come in many shapes and sizes. Learn about the cosmic metropolises: https://t.co/71S6LaaAMR https://t.co/HxcTrmBHQN

Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000

Fisheye lens view encompassing landscapes from two continents—the Nile Delta in Africa and the Sinai Peninsula and the Levant in southwest Asia. Credit: Laura Phoebus, Jacobs, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.

Mars, Venus, Titan, Bennu: Our understanding of these distant worlds are enhanced by incredible robotic missions that reached out and touched them. We explore in this year's #ExploringSpace lecture series. Sign up: https://t.co/pLtpjYvNCb https://t.co/KR0h0txVPz

Brightness of Sun From Various Solar System Bodies [OC]

Are there any Mars rover diving videos?

According to [this](https://www.space.com/mars-opportunity-rover-driving-record.html) site, the various rovers humanity has sent to Mars have accumulated over 200km total distance driven. I'm under the impression that transmitting live video of all this travel is not possible due to bandwidth, but I also presume the rovers are always snapping photos as they drive along and transmit them all back to us. My question is, has anyone every taken all these images (from a single rover) and strung them together into a video, so that we could see what the rovers 'saw' as they drove along? Poking around on the web this morning hasn't let me find anything like this.

Our Sun viewed from Mars. Credit @NASAPersevere on Sol 16.

Jupiter’s gravity captured a comet! @NASAHubble Space Telescope snapped this photo of the icy visitor and its smudge of a tail. (Image: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech)) https://t.co/No3jIKSFIv

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 💙⁣ ⁣ 🔭 Our NASAHubble Space Telescope captured this view of a galaxy a casual 100 million lightyears away. NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy, which stretches 200,000 lightyears across. It was originally discovered in 1876 by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, using a 0.28-meter (11 inch) telescope. It’s safe to say, this Hubble image is so much better than the view Tempel would have had.⁣ ⁣ ✨ Pictured here, NGC 2336’s spiral arms glitter with young stars, visible in their bright blue light. In contrast, the redder central part of the galaxy is dominated by older stars.⁣ ⁣ Credit: EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt

Modern children’s books about astronauts and rovers

I have two little boys (3 and 4) who are in love with space. We watch all the launches, answer many questions about space, and of course, read books about going to space. However, I’ve noticed that almost all of the realistic kids’ books about going to space talk about the space shuttles, rather than the modern rockets. I’d also love books about the Mars rovers. Does anyone have any to suggest for my little space nerds? Thanks!

The brightest asteroid, 4 Vesta, is just past opposition in Leo and shining at magnitude 5.8. Jupiter and Mercury are coming off their March 5th conjunction. The two widen from 1° apart on Saturday the 6th to 6½° apart on Friday the 12th. https://t.co/GwalBrKvsK https://t.co/HEkrNau5K5

Want to start an astronomy club at my school.

I plan to start an astronomy club once my junior year starts (sophomore right now) but I am having some trouble thinking of what I could teach/what activities I could do with the members. Our school will be open by September but there will still be some restrictions enforced by my state, so I can't really take the members outside during the night. I was thinking of having them make their own telescopes and then one day we could meet outside at night in front of the school to look at the sky (the most open area in my town). I just wanted some ideas about what I could do with this club. Thanks everyone!