Space Contents Archive

🎫 Vienes con nosotros? Coming with us? Get your #Artemis I boarding pass and join the thousands who have already signed up to send their names aboard the @NASA_Orion spacecraft headed to the Moon this year. English: https://t.co/9tS402d9VO En español: https://t.co/GvD8lZQeax https://t.co/W2tACGRcwB

Today in 2003, the wings of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" were reunited with the fuselage by our restoration specialists for the first time since 1960. https://t.co/TiIEAqbJbs

I "saw" a planet! H-44-P b

My father in law's gift to our son. The Eastern Veil Nebula, NGC6992.

Solar eclipse on Mars from Phobos (April 2, 2022) and Deimos (19 Mar. 2017)

Orion/Taurus/Auriga stars in vivid colours.

Sirius, Procyon, the Moon, and the Pollux-Castor pair form an enormous Y in the sky. Face southwest. Sirius is the Y's bottom. Procyon is its middle. The Moon marks the tip of its left branch, and Pollux and Castor are the end of its right branch. https://t.co/FVfQR1r0Ti https://t.co/z6ln9o5Q7y

Interesting minimalist satellite journey through solar system created in planetary orbits simulation

40 years ago, Museum photographer Jim Preston, then a U.S. Navy photojournalist, spent several months on the USS America capturing life on an aircraft carrier for the Navy's "All Hands" magazine. He shares some of his favorite photos in a new blog: https://t.co/8qMENMIqzJ https://t.co/UKMmIwMd9u

In 1909, Wright brother Orville and Wright sister Katharine traveled to Pau, France, to join Wilbur Wright, who was conducting flight demonstrations. While there, Katharine took her first flight in an airplane. #NationalSiblingsDay https://t.co/vpD2eACfiu

Question about the asteroid belt

Is the asteroid belt generally a flat disc of material, entirely located in the plane between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? (Like the rings around the gas giants.) Or is is a spherical layer of material encapsulating the sun at that approximate distance? And on a similar note, why *aren’t* there rings of material around the smaller rocky planets too? Isn’t the same material available to be pulled in my those planets’ gravity?

Finally, I have them all

A lonely road in New Zealand

On this day in 2019, scientists released the first image of black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. https://t.co/j7t87L3E1E

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy....23 Million Light Years away!