Space Contents Archive

March's Worm Moon

NASA's "where to watch" map for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses

NASA and Italian Space Agency Join Forces on Air Pollution Mission

The very last image from Israeli Beresheet lunar lander

Spot an eclipse in 2023 or 2024! This map shows where the Moon’s shadow will cross the contiguous US during the "ring of fire" eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023, and total eclipse on April 8, 2024: https://t.co/JHRxyFrXqK Did you see the #eclipse in 2017? Would you travel to see these? https://t.co/vrHRAugdou

Still going on Round 1! Which do you like better? ⬇️

Helix Nebula is just awesome

New MIRI image of a young protostar

Front room wall in my new home. Earthrise photo from Apollo 8, acrylic mirrors laid out in the style of the JWST primary mirror and the day the earth smiled photo of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft.

Front room wall in my new home. Earthrise photo from Apollo 8, acrylic mirrors laid out in the style of the JWST primary mirror and the day the earth smiled photo of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft.

Mars from November

orrery / planetarium

I'm thinking about building an orrery. My orrery, just like many others, will use equidistant circles, centered around the sun. That's kind of a helio centric model. which is fine, but when there is a conjunction in the sky, the orrery might not actually show that, because it doesn't show the planets in the direction as seen from earth, but instead shows them as seen from the sun. Now I could make an orrery with a geocentric model by switching earth and sun, but people probably won't like that. So perhaps it is an option to keep the sun in the center, and have the planets rotate around them, but rotate them in such a way that they appear in the right direction as seen from earth. Has this been done before? is there a name for such a mix between geo-centric and helio-centric models ?

Back in the year 1006, humans recorded the arrival of light from what is now called SN 1006, a tremendous supernova explosion caused by the death of a star nearly 7,000 light-years away! credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team

Road to the Galactic Center. Credit - Michael Abramyan

HEO Robotics on Twitter: “This is a prime example of a successful solar panel deployment! Congrats on the launch @SpaceX. Our space-based sensors captured a newly launched Starlink V2 Mini satellite 7 days after deployment.”