Space Contents Archive

Pickering's Triangle

DeFAZIO: "SpaceX Falcon Heavy emits more carbon dioxide in a few minutes than a car would in 2 centuries of driving. Other vehicles are less intrusive in the environment."

Got my first telescope! It is an orion starblast. I can't wait to take it out at night.

Space Cube

Update: Due to technical delays earlier in the day, the spacewalkers will not have enough time to fully install the first pair of new, roll-up solar arrays on the @Space_Station. Stay tuned for more info! https://t.co/fBiUNvfQGL

A magical night under the stars with the sound of the howling coyotes at Delicate Arch, Utah.

NGC 7000 North America Nebula

Mystery of Betelgeuse’s dip in brightness solved - ESO

When saturn will be higher in the sky ?

.@NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and @ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 3:26 pm ET, after 7 hrs and 15 min. They installed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array into its mounting bracket and will continue the installation on June 20. https://t.co/BlTOB34IaP

Is Artemis I still on schedule for this November?

Is SLS still ready for a launch this November for the Artemis I mission? I haven't really been able to find too many progress updates, just a launch day for later this year?

European Southern Observatory (ESO) VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way - 108,200 x 81,500 pixels

Aliens, science and speculation in the wake of ʻOumuamua

Starship SN15 and SN16 hanging out together! https://t.co/4oC0n2fQpc https://t.co/XTjACMOFCu

#OTD in 1963, USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space with the launch of the USSR's Vostok 6. She circled the Earth 48 times over three days and made a successful parachute landing on June 19th. Learn more about her story: https://t.co/PSQJkdlsbp https://t.co/TZYYSxuPaS