Space Contents Archive

Every year winds carry more than 180 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert across the Atlantic Ocean, depositing much of the particles along the way. 🌬️ These plumes impact everything from extreme weather to the Amazon rainforest! Here's how: https://t.co/TaSgDgRM43 https://t.co/nb9viT2STJ

The Tianzhou-2 crew has more than 120 kinds of space food on their station https://t.co/vzihl1Xyqn

ULA delays further use of enhanced upper-stage engine pending studies https://t.co/H2MqAyUXwW

Aliens From 1,715 Stars Could’ve Seen Earth Over the Past 5,000 Years, Study Suggests

NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula

If you discovered a moon, what would you name it? https://t.co/lp0M7r8jpu

Arp 274, a triplet of galaxies.

Today in 1914: The Felixstowe F "America" flying boat was flown for the first time by Glenn Curtiss & John Cyril Porte. The Felixstowe F series was an outgrowth of a prewar project to build a flying boat capable of a transatlantic flight: https://t.co/oKjWn38Dyf #IdeasThatDefy https://t.co/J0nvlqdJSe

⭐ Can confirm: Launch of a Russian cargo spacecraft to the @Space_Station is scheduled for Tuesday, June 29! 📺 Live coverage starts at 7pm ET with liftoff of the @Roscosmos ship scheduled for 7:27pm. Learn more about what to expect: https://t.co/14tOPBpfIO https://t.co/UWWVQANXZt

My first picture of saturn that I stacked and edited. Before and after with a starblast.

The Ring Nebula (M57)

Am I Too Late?

I'm a 22 year old still working on my degree in Biotechnology(class schedule mixed up due to transferring from another school) and I've never necessarily been a star child who's breathed every momentsince birth to get to space. If I dedicated everything now, is there a chance I could still go to space? If I studied the right post grad fields and kept myself physically fit?

Space Perspective starts selling seats for balloon rides to stratosphere https://t.co/2KUek0vWSm https://t.co/HepA73xADq

Today at 6 pm ET, join us for a YouTube Live program with "The Martian" author Andy Weir. He will talk about his new book "Project Hail Mary" and how science-fiction can be used in education. Learn more and tune in: https://t.co/nxNMNyGxXs https://t.co/d6UHZE77Ns

This is Ariel, the fourth-largest of Uranus' known moon. All of the moons of Uranus are named for characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.