Space Contents Archive

A Falcon 9 clears the towers at SLC-40 and Nilesat 301 is on its way

Animation of the proper motion of the Pleiades star cluster over the next 400,000 years. The star cluster is one of the nearest clusters to Earth, lying about 444 light-years away. It is dominated by hot, B-type stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. (Credit: Alexander Meleg)

Imaged here by Hubble, the galaxy ESO 137-001’s tail extends over 260,000 light-years! Stars appear to be forming in this tail, and once @NASAWebb begins science operations next month, one of its jobs will be to build on our understanding of this galaxy: https://t.co/3WwanUQVZL https://t.co/4MtdXK7mzT

Moon, Sept. 22, 2021

A decade of exploring. The NuSTAR mission has spent 10 years observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe. To celebrate this milestone, our artists created this poster visualizing how it sees our X-ray universe. 🤩 https://t.co/0NKTzn2zoP https://t.co/JhA6SJmWvf

NASA hopes new study helps bring UFO research into the mainstream https://t.co/Nf4hrSwgEX https://t.co/XYYgbp2Pzv

📸: The Apollo 17 Saturn V rocket rolling out to the launch pad. *Astronauts for scale. 50 years ago, NASA was 6 months away from launching to the Moon: https://t.co/W1uIEapBaB https://t.co/gnXc9qplrv

Polaris Dawn Mission Updates

The moon makes an appearance in our footage of yesterday's Falcon 9 launch. Watch the entire video: https://t.co/iZryR96t2g https://t.co/9OwR7TqEPS

On #InternationalArchivesDay, we want to shout out our Archives team for helping us make connections to many topics you wouldn't normally associate with aviation and space. Like baseball! ⚾ In this 1950s photo, spacesuit flexibility is tested with a game of baseball. https://t.co/8A7wZ1C1H5

A 'planetary breakup' of 5 planets in the June's big stargazing sight, NASA says https://t.co/qw2Pd6yrab https://t.co/MY07rRZG0j

When the story of Kamala Khan hit comic book racks in 2014, "Ms. Marvel" became the first Muslim hero and Pakistani American to headline a Marvel series. The New Jersey teens hangs out at the convenience store and loves superheroes. Volume 1 is in our @amhistorymuseum. https://t.co/UQc5FrRm6i

When Crew-4 arrived at the @Space_Station they joined Expedition 67, continuing the orbiting lab’s legacy of living, working, and conducting research in orbit. Learn all about Expedition 67 in the new science brochure: https://t.co/Y5LAKEeqpa https://t.co/YRPyMYbnpB

Is this a meteorite?

#HappyBirthday to German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, born #OTD in 1812. In 1846, he became the first person to view and identify the planet Neptune (after receiving a letter indicating where to look from French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier). Neptune 📷 by @NASAVoyager 2 https://t.co/gu2RUOtlUJ