Space Contents Archive

I started a little side project of animating the Apollo patches. Here's Apollo VII:

Congratulations to the Houston @Astros for defeating my hometown New York @Yankees in the @MLB ALCS. Back in 1965, @NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, located in Houston, Texas, inspired the name of the Astrodome, the Astroturf it contained, and the baseball team that played on it https://t.co/drrfL0yBUw

1/ You would need a big key to unlock this peculiar picture of the week from Hubble. This image shows NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is composed of detritus left over from the formation of a newborn star. Read more: https://t.co/KhVPRkDw7H https://t.co/Zk362jqImb

Clouds Around Galaxy Andromeda: https://t.co/bzomnDS3zV

Welcome to our galactic neighborhood! We've got some pretty crazy things drifting in our solar system ⬇️ https://t.co/Cj30x7skX1 https://t.co/Ufo8gp348V

Our latest Picture of the Week features a pinwheel firework: the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 4254, also known as the Coma Pinwheel or Messier 99, that has a distinctive pinwheel shape with prominent arms. 🔗 https://t.co/cOxVcplbqZ Credit: @ESO /PHANGS https://t.co/mfvr4teiYM

2/ Just like fog curling around a street lamp, reflection nebulae like NGC 1999 only shine because of the light from an embedded source. In the case of NGC 1999, this source is the newborn star V380 Orionis which is visible at the centre of this image.

3. The most notable aspect of NGC 1999’s appearance, however, is the conspicuous hole in its centre, which resembles an inky-black keyhole of cosmic proportions. 📷 @esa / @HUBBLE_space / @NASA / K. Noll

Witness the raw power of our sun! ☀️ https://t.co/i8aV23bjkR https://t.co/URpU2Mlbh6

Famous flight director Gene Kranz would sometimes rub the bald head of NASA's mission control photographer, Andrew Patnesky, as a good luck charm. He and the photographer took part in this comedic ritual for most of his Gemini and Apollo missions.

Make a wish

Canon 6d 6 second exposure Lightroom edits: reducing exposure, upping the contrast, and cropping for framing

Why does discovery have her tear drop?

The space shuttle discovery has a tear drop on near her forward window does anyone know why?