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Shadow Planet, space art by me

A new video from NASA's Perseverance rover shows Mars's moon Phobos as it passes in front of the Sun

Here are my Saturn photos from 2021 put together to make this animation

LIVE NOW: @NASAEarth and @NASAClimate scientists answer your questions about our planet and climate change, just in time for #EarthDay. Request to speak or use #AskNASA for questions. https://t.co/HctTTwN5jT

Four @Axiom_Space astronauts are due to leave the station on Saturday night while the @SpaceX #Crew4 mission preps for launch. https://t.co/yqPIH9hFLO

Strong solar flare: An M9.6-class solar flare, 21 April 2022. A CME did emerge from the blast site, but it was faint and apparently off-target. It looks like it will miss Earth. This region is now in a good position for Earth directed eruptions. [OC]

Do you see that shadow? #JunoMission captured Jupiter’s moon Ganymede casting that large oval-shaped shadow on the planet's cloud tops. Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. https://t.co/mm2eZ64uaK https://t.co/oPTWkxaB6l

I got to see SLS up close on the pad!

#OTD in 1972, John Young and Charlie Duke took their first steps onto the lunar surface. At the time Charlie Duke was 36 years old. To date, he is the youngest person to step foot on the Moon (Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt is a few months older). #Apollo50th #Apollo16 https://t.co/s6CUKM1tvW

A podcast about little ol’ me? 😊 The latest episode of the “On A Mission” #podcast focuses on yours truly. So put on your favorite headphones and learn about the discoveries me and my team have made, the challenges we’ve faced, and what’s next for me. https://t.co/icbMjSKqZi

Imagine you're on a spacewalk and communication with your crewmate gets spotty. What do you do? @NASASTEM demonstrates some ways @NASA_Astronauts communicate nonverbally in space. https://t.co/lspuPkqXlI

Teams are now planning for the #Ax1 crew to depart two hours earlier, with hatch closure now 4:30 p.m. EDT and undock 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23. We've updated our coverage to begin at 4:15 and 6:15 p.m.: https://t.co/lSeUzxM7La

You're just too good to be true Can't take my eyes off of you 👀 Our Perseverance Mars rover captured this sped-up video of an eclipse featuring Phobos, one of Mars' two moons. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. Using our rovers to observe Martian eclipses gives scientists new perspectives on the subtle shifts in the moons' orbits. Intense tidal forces created by its proximity to the Red Planet, Phobos is moving very slowly towards Mars, and millions of years from now, they will collide. Despite having its eyes in the sky, one of Perseverance’s primary objectives is looking for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover is studying and analyzing the Red Planet's regolith, rock and dust, and is the first rover to collect and cache samples. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI #RedPlanet #Mars #NASA #Space #NASAJPL #Perseverance #SolarSystem

ive been waiting for weeks to get this. Regelus taken with sv305pro and bodged together lens, first decent publicly posted image, the rest have been blurry vague spots

Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-100 in April 2001. It was a mission with the primary objective of installing Canadarm2 at the International Space Station. Pictured here is Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on a spacewalk on STS-100. https://t.co/QPSu7V60Tn