Space Contents Archive

I built an antenna and pulled these images of the Iberian Peninsula from the NOAA 18 satellite today

There was a lot of smoke this weekend and it made the moon look crazy.

An astronomical phenomenon called gravitational lensing can warp, magnify or even duplicate the appearance of distant galaxies. 🔎 In this image, @NASAHubble uses this phenomenon as a natural magnifying glass to view a distant galaxy. Check it out: https://t.co/yRqycUioCK https://t.co/NXgNolFTrV

Moon through my telescope

Crescent Neptune and Triton

Jupiter

Galactic Stare [OC]

🚀@NASAKennedy – the last place I was on earth, 93 days ago. I can see all the spots where we prepared for launch and hung out: the launch pad, the 🏖, the 🐊pond. A very special time and place. It felt a bit like being in the @TopGunMovie, but without the 🏐 and 🚿 scenes. 😀 https://t.co/vr0saXzMu6

A milestone arrives. Farewell, #Pirs. A 5 year planned life turned into 20, dozens of supported docking, & 52 EVAs. At 06:56 EDT / 10:56 UTC July 26, Pirs will end its time at @Space_Station. Relive the module's history as @roscosmos bids it farewell⬇️ https://t.co/pvknuTsSrM

On this day in 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk. During that mission, Soyuz T-12, she also became the first woman to fly in space twice. https://t.co/ePY4Lel9om

50x50 binoculars

Does anyone have any experience with binoculars of these specs? I currently have 10x50, they're ok and my dad dropped them so I have an excuse to get new ones :)

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is emitting strange radio waves and NASA's Juno probe is listening

What star is this? It's 130° SE at 00:57am

Any book recommendation?

I'm looking for a book that could introduce to a high-school student astrophysics and astronomy, do you have any suggestions?

One female participant spoke of seeing "little men" with blue skin, oversize heads "and huge, bulging eyes..." 👽 https://t.co/5wN9vmYFCJ https://t.co/14cAKVpROz