Space Contents Archive

My first time capture the milky way from my backyard.

The last time eight planets appeared even in the same part of the sky was over 1,000 years ago, in the year AD 949, and they won't manage it again until 6 May 2492.

Rising temperatures can lead to changes both in the oceans and on land. How do @NASAEarth satellites track these changes? Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s senior acting climate advisor, talks with Chief Scientist Jim Green in this new #GravityAssist podcast episode: https://t.co/i2N5HJ66DE https://t.co/QaMVi8dGc8

First quarter moon

Mystery solved: Betelgeuse, the dimming star that drew international attention, isn't exploding - it was just dusty

NASA continues to work to resolve an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope, which halted on June 13. Launched in 1990, Hubble has contributed greatly to our understanding of the universe over the past 30 years. https://t.co/qEmIUQCtuX

Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere

There has been an active robotic presence at Mars for 24 years. @NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived in 1997, and activity has been continuously sustained either on the Martian surface or in orbit ever since. https://t.co/SWSlo1B4FJ

US Postal Service releases 'Sun Science' stamps with NASA imagery https://t.co/YpCkSOfW6k https://t.co/SQqDwQEzWk

Today we're celebrating inspiring role models who #ShineLikeSally, like astronaut Mae Jemison, astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, heliophysicist Lika Guhathakurta and artist Alma Thomas. Learn about these women and more on the Sally's Night website: https://t.co/a0bpNf8NhE https://t.co/JiL6NW0Hci

This week ~250 miles above Earth: 🛰️ @Space_Station astronauts deploy an Earth-monitoring satellite built by middle school students 👨‍🚀 @Astro_Kimbrough & @Thom_Astro conduct a spacewalk to upgrade solar arrays And more! Details in #SpaceToGround: https://t.co/aknOeesYfW https://t.co/Lj29LeyQSb

120 years ago today, the Langley Quarter-scale Aerodrome made two flights of approximately 150 ft and 350 ft. More on the Aerodrome in our collection: https://t.co/K7ioZ3ZSvM #AirSpacePhoto https://t.co/qm4YhQDWW7

The sixth section of the OLIT tower is being transported toward the launch site

Houston We Have a Podcast… and 200 episodes! One of the first members of the podcast team recounts the first episodes and shares the work it took to broadcast the first humans to launch from American soil since 2011. 🎙️| https://t.co/EnSDGx8r7Z https://t.co/7NXGke5OpB

How to Detect Heat from Extraterrestrial Probes in Our Solar System. We could do it with the James Webb Space Telescope—but we'd also need to return to the unfiltered curiosity we had as teenagers.