Space Contents Archive

We’re less than a week away from @NASAWebb's first full-color images! Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor, built by @CSA_ASC to help it lock onto targets, recently captured this stunning test image — an unexpected peek into how Webb will #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/cYrVVxA8sl https://t.co/SNe9zvtvfQ

About 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, the spectacular Southern Ring Nebula resides. In this #HubbleClassic image, a dying star ejects a cloud of gas expanding outwards at nine miles per second. Read more: https://t.co/gGnu6uo955 https://t.co/XaxTDYbQWN

Virgin Galactic is teaming up with @AuroraFlightSci, a @Boeing company, in the design and manufacturing of two next generation motherships! 🚀🚀

I love the shadows cast by these clouds. https://t.co/x1QO4LaBq4

In this STS-121 photo taken July 6, 2006, Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the @Space_Station for docking. The Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module, used to transfer cargo to and from the ISS, can be seen in the Shuttle's cargo bay. https://t.co/no6vBwXYGO

Clearest image ever taken of Venus. [by JAXA]

Great to see the humanitarian supplies delivered to #Ukraine by ⁦@GEMmissions⁩ . Those that purchased my NFTs are providing much needed relief for these families in need. Thank you! https://t.co/dscqrvg7bG

James Webb Telescope's fine guidance sensor provides us with first real test image

The fleet is growing! Together, with @AuroraFlightSci we hope to connect people around the world to the love, wonder, and awe of space travel. Learn more: https://t.co/liRtxgpcVV https://t.co/8leKek7tHL

Fastest known star speeds around Milky Way's black hole at 18 million mph https://t.co/yvk04iHOtn https://t.co/lM9PIqSplk

Astronaut Shannon Walker has traveled to the @Space_Station twice in her incredible career. She’s now back on Earth with a unique perspective! Tune in to the latest episode of NASA’s Curious Universe podcast to hear her story: https://t.co/pV73jRwIlv https://t.co/IgVwPXsXhA

Today in 1989, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Doolittle received a number of honors during his career, including the Medal of Honor for planning and leading the famous “Doolittle Raid” in April 1942: https://t.co/zIKOzOWmJn https://t.co/fuWiAzgcV6

SpaceX rolls Starship prototype to launch pad ahead of orbital test flight (photos) https://t.co/JIkLciimEx https://t.co/9ATmWJwVZt

See you later, Martian alligator. 🐊 From a distance, the floor of this crater looks like alligator scales or a spider web. The intersecting shapes, or polygons, are common occurrences in the northern lowlands of Mars. The polygons in this "patterned ground" are easy to see because their edges are bound by troughs or ridges covered by bright frost relative to their darker, frost-free interiors. Patterned ground on Mars is thought to form due to cyclic thermal contraction (Martian soil heating and cooling in cycles) causing cracking in the permanently frozen ground. Scientists study polygonally-patterned ground on Mars because the occurrence and physical characteristics of the polygons help us understand the recent and past distribution of ice (frozen water) in the shallow subsurface. These features also provide clues about climate conditions on the Red Planet's surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #NASA #Mars #RedPlanet #Space #SolarSystem #Ice #Satellite

The new vehicles will be an evolution, rather than a redesign, of our current mothership Eve, taking the existing model and making a production version designed for high-frequency commercial operations.