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The moon and Venus setting over the Atlantic

Twinkle, twinkle farthest star ⭐ @NASAHubble just smashed records by observing the farthest individual star ever seen. Its light took 12.9 billion years to reach us—so we're seeing how it looked when the universe was less than a billion years old! More: https://t.co/vVRHSAOf1r https://t.co/I4QDxL9vKb

We're hosting two briefings tomorrow to discuss NASA's @SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the @Space_Station. 📺: 10:30 a.m. ET: Mission Overview 📺: 12 p.m. ET: News Conference with all 4 astronauts Submit your questions using #askNASA. https://t.co/xGZ3JnFArp https://t.co/9yFRNnOMxe

#ICYMI, Hubble just spotted the farthest individual star ever seen! 🌟 Want to know more? Join us here tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET for a live Q&A with @NASA scientists. https://t.co/DAjg6QTKoT

Great to see the Russian Space Agency welcoming Mark Vande Hei home. This is from their Mission Control outside of Moscow today following his landing. https://t.co/Sw7sNFnfdn

While in space, @Astro_Sabot rated his meals to see if repetitive menus changed his appetite. His work will help NASA design space food systems to keep astronauts healthy on multiyear missions. Learn more about this study: https://t.co/r96JkTzv2J https://t.co/IHjZXk7LaL

25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky

View of Earth from China's space station

Sun, we need to talk about your flare. 🌞 The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, peaking at 1:35 p.m. ET (17:35 UTC). Our orbiting @NASASun Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the action: https://t.co/8nIuyoSmOH https://t.co/JmtB8PuBvM

#TDIH 1933, Boeing delivered the first modern airliner, a 247 monoplane, to United Airlines. With its sleek, low-wing, all-metal construction, retractable landing gear, and supercharged, air-cooled engines, the aircraft was 50% faster than its competitors. 📷: Our Boeing 247-D https://t.co/HEiTZAdpOd

HaLRGB Composite of M106 taken with a 6 Inch Newtonian from my Backyard

A hyperactive sunspot just hurled a huge X-class solar flare into space https://t.co/VeJWsqajam https://t.co/vNoDkXM8mC

NASA opens the last Apollo mission moon sample

Mira, the star with a tail, The tail, about 13 light-years long, is composed of gases and dust released by Mira over the last 30,000 years. The amount of gases and dust in Mira's tail equal about 3,000 times the Earth's mass.

#OTD in 1982, the Space Shuttle Columbia landed at White Sands Missile Range with STS-3 astronauts Lousma and Fullerton aboard. This was the only touchdown at WSMR in shuttle history. Lousma described the flight as "the great adventure of [his] life!" https://t.co/rlyNOqCxWX https://t.co/wI3pEuGJvt