Space Contents Archive

🔭 What's up in the night sky this April? The Moon will pair up beautifully with several planets, while viewing conditions may be ideal for the Lyrid meteor shower. More skywatching tips: https://t.co/6TdJbIMJUx

Saturn’s hexagon storm, with John Cena for scale

The start of a new science campaign. @NASAPersevere recently collected a sample from rock deposits that the science team believe were carried downstream by an ancient river. That means the material may have come from an area well beyond Jezero Crater. https://t.co/WTCH8MwI8y https://t.co/qjZJ8m5lNc

.@NASA experts will join a virtual press conference hosted by @Axiom_Space at 12pm ET Thursday, April 6, to preview the launch of Axiom Mission 2, the second private astronaut mission to the space station, targeted for early May. https://t.co/yKTzB8XrdY

If the Earth were a US penny and Saturn’s hexagon was the top of this urinal:

Heard we’re doing comparisons.

A new video filmed high above Earth shows our planet as a beautiful blue marble intricately streaked with white clouds and patches of land. https://t.co/Eolf6TFpvx https://t.co/oCS0RA2yt7

It was great to see Crew-4 @NASA_Astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Bob Hines this week as they visited the Museum to check out our new galleries, including the interactive recreation of the @Space_Station Cupola in the "One World Connected" exhibition. https://t.co/i0B2TQERUh

Through #WomensHistoryMonth and every day, we honor the women at NASA who brought us to where we are and inspire generations past, present, and future to explore the cosmos. https://t.co/8upYnZC35R https://t.co/yFmecE5GeL

Astronaut James Irwin gives salute beside U.S. flag during EVA

AS15-88-11866 (1 Aug. 1971) --- Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute while standing beside the deployed United States flag during the Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Hadley-Apennine landing site. The flag was deployed toward the end of EVA-2. The Lunar Module (LM) "Falcon" is in the center. On the right is the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). This view is looking almost due south. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately 4,000 meters (about 13,124 feet) above the plain. The base of the mountain is approximately 5 kilometers (about 3 statute miles) away. This photograph was taken by astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander. While astronauts Scott and Irwin descended in the LM to explore the moon, astronaut Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

Behold the Bifrost Bridge to Asgard! (Veil Nebula, source in comments)

UAE Mars orbiter creates stunning new map of the Red Planet https://t.co/l6lGjkeS8H https://t.co/zd2wr1y0aL

Saptarishi(the Seven Sages).

In ancient Indian astrology, the group of stars of the Big Dipper (part of the constellation of Ursa Major) is called Saptarishi.

Just finished the third run of the Extravehicular Activity Qualification (EVQ) in the NBL with @Astro_AndreD We are continuing to focus on developing basic skills in order to prepare us for more complicated tasks in future runs! https://t.co/WGshzaSh6w

The Sunflower Galaxy photographed from Long Island, NY

Top image was my first attempt at astrophotography 6 months ago. Bottom image was last nights attempt