Space Contents Archive

Recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The old girl's still got it.

The oldest planetary nebula ever discovered

Damaged Service Module from Apollo 13, remastered images by Andy Saunders A) common image B) stack of 8 16mm video frames C) rescanned original transparency with manual enhancement (link to article in comments)

“One giant ???? for mankind…”

I recently came into possession of a reel to reel tape with an audio recording of the original moon landing. My Dad recorded it off of his TV and it’s in decent condition. We were listening to it and when Armstrong got to his famous lines about “one small step…” the feed actually cuts out right when he said the word “leap”. Walter Cronkite even comments on how he missed hearing the word and it was garbled, basically unintelligible. Nowadays when the quote is played, the words are all included clearly. Has anyone here heard this version? Does anyone know if it was just dubbed in later? Or maybe it was just a feed issue to the channel my Dad was watching? Thanks!

NGC 4567 and 4568 (The Butterfly Galaxies), NGC 4564 (elliptical to left) NGC 4579 (lower left corner), April 11-12, 2023.

What OS does NASA use?

I heard it uses both windows and linux depending on what pc it is, hopefully they don’t use mac

Could galaxis be the remnants of gigantic stars?

Maybe the very first stars were incredible large and lived only a few thousand years or even shorter. They exploded and the remnants are gigantic black holes surrounded by matter forming smaller stars.

Nikon not taking photos when NINA tells it to.

I've managed to make my nikon d3500 work with Nina but I can't take exposures longer than 30 seconds and the command sometimes doesn't go through. I've attempted to fix this from advice online but so far I've had no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

What's your favorite theory about what was there before the big bang?

I'd like to hear some crazy things!

Freddie Mercury

First photo of the far side of the moon 2019

Using machine learning, researchers have now created a much sharper portrait of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87

New image of M87 black hole generated

The Image of the M87 Black Hole Reconstructed with PRIMO. Source: Medeiros et al. 2023 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc32d

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade

Screenshot from Space Engine