Space Contents Archive

Happy International Women's Day! Cheers to the women at NASA whose grit, ingenuity, and talent drive us forward in our mission to boldly expand frontiers in air and space! Celebrate #IWD2021, follow @WomenNASA, and get inspired.

Voyager 2 took this Image of Neptune on August 24, 1989, from a distance of 1.4 million kilometers.

Our Most Recent Full Moon!

Russian space agency Roscosmos begins design of the ‘Venera-D’ orbital station, which will be Moscow’s first mission to Venus since the USSR era

Happy International Women’s Day! The women of Goddard provide crucial expertise and leadership for many of NASA’s missions, and without them we wouldn’t be where we are today. If you want to learn more about #IWD2021 and the women of Goddard, check out our Instagram story featuring just a few of our amazing scientists!

Asteroid Sighting UK!

I just saw a turquoise object fly in a south-east to north-west direction over Whittington, UK at around 6:30. It had a burning white/ orange tail so I’m guessing it was an asteroid but could someone explain exactly what it was? It looked to be lower down than a plane but traveled much faster I only saw it for 3-4 seconds before it disappeared.

Did Apollo and the Space Shuttle help inspire a generation of sci fi creators?

I noticed that many of pop culture's most memorable sci fi spaceship crews come from shows and games made in the 90s and 2000s. "Star Trek: Voyager", "Babylon 5", "Farscape", "Firefly", "Battlestar Galactica", "Mass Effect", etc. Were the Apollo and the Space Shuttle program not only responsible for inspiring young people to become scientists and engineers but inspired sci fi creators to make space oriented fiction? Did the optimism of the 90s contribute to this?

Stargazers are gearing up for the #MessierMarathon – an attempt to view all 110 cosmic objects in the Messier catalog in one night! This week, we'll share new Hubble images of Messier objects! First up is M88, a spiral galaxy home to 400 billion stars: https://t.co/VGju6h6HY1 https://t.co/imfCHNt9dj

Help me become a NASA Astronaut in the future!

I recently entered into a competition for a scholarship to get some training toward becoming an astronaut in the future and have been accepted as a finalist in the competition. If you guys dont mind, and you think that I could be an inspiring figure and what not for the criteria of voting. Could you guys please go ahead and vote for me? https://outastronaut.org/contestants/high-viscosity-fluid-dynamics-in-zero-g-rotating-bodies/ If your feeling extra helpful, could you help spread this message? Thank you!

My image of the Lagoon Nebula - a dynamic star forming region near the center of our Milky Way [OC]

Afraid of the dark.

This is going to sounds very silly but hey. I'm a 30 year old guy who bought his first ever telescope last year. I've only used it outside my window so far. Today i decided to take it out in the countryside to look at stars. But shit man, it was so creepy being out there all alone in the dark.. i was being paranoid the whole time setting up my scope. I thought I heard sounds coming from everywhere and i nearly shit myself when a nearby cow muuh'ed out of nowhere. I found Orion's belt and jumped to Betelgeuse and that was it. I just couldn't be out there all by myself. Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, what did you do? And yes, i did bring a light.

I took a photo of Leo I dwarf galaxy, a distant satellite galaxy of the milkyway.

This is what bortle 1 (0 light pollution) looks like in person. Simulated using stellarium

What — and Where — Is the North Polar Spur?

The Moon

Recently I was looking through my telescope and saw the most amazing view of the moon i have ever seen i usually can't get it to focus on one point!