Space Contents Archive

Earth Rotating with a stabilized Milky Way background

Rocket launches create a lot of vibration and noise that rattle spacecraft. 🚀 At Goddard, engineers simulated the vibration and sound of a rocket launch that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope experienced when it launched into space on December 25, 2021. Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn #UnfoldTheUniverse

Plans for July 12? We're releasing the first full-color images from @NASAWebb, the most powerful space telescope ever made. Find an in-person or virtual event near you: https://t.co/MFjCksKEEx Set a reminder to watch live as we #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/Bt8LGpsVCb https://t.co/CHg81gJEWI

NGC6888 - Cresent Nebula

Milkyway painting I did!

Saturn. I just gone a Celestron starsense 80.

On July 10, 2010, @esa's Rosetta spacecraft passed asteroid 21 Lutetia, capturing this spectacular image. One of Rosetta's primary goals was to settle an ongoing debate about the asteroid's composition and whether it is a C-type or M-type asteroid. https://t.co/ajCKyojtpG

NASA Continues to Prepare Artemis I Moon Rocket for Launch

Small, but big - I managed to capture planet Jupiter and satellite Io in the daylight sky, separated by barely one arc minute

Solar-power moon rover

Has NASA ever projected the cost of putting a solar powered rover on the Moon? Maybe I'm missing some obvious drawback, but wouldn't putting a rover on the moon which doesn't get dust storms (the killer of Mars rovers) AND is visible to hobbyist telescopes be two great arguments for putting one up there? The third reason being the same as Mars: learning more about the geology. And unlike Mars, you don't need extra satellites in orbit to relay information back and forth from Earth. The cost must be several orders of magnitude lower, especially with current technology.

Went on a weekend vacation and didn’t think to bring my good camera for the sky..but got this with my iPhone 12 Pro Max

Waxing Crescent Moon (40% illuminated)

SpaceX’s team at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, is readying a Falcon 9 rocket for launch this evening with 46 more Starlink internet spacecraft, a mission to start populating a new polar orbit “shell” in the satellite constellation. Coverage: https://t.co/8gIHcUIUSY https://t.co/MtmbsIoUMv

If the universe is (almost) so big its infinite does it mean that...

In more than zillions of Star Systems and possibilities, is it possible that at least one of them happened to be exactly like the Solar System we have today (or very similar) and the events in that Solar System 2.0 happenned to be very similar to ours, and there would be another Human race due to the almost infinite probabilities?

On this day in 1940, the Battle of Britain began. During this #WorldWarII conflict, which lasted nearly four months, the British Royal Air Force faced off against the German Luftwaffe in the skies over southern England. Image via @I_W_M https://t.co/WnI0ajhwOP