Space Contents Archive

I posted this image on this sub last year for Halloween. Today, a Redditor went back to the post and asked me to repost it. I hope y’all enjoy. Happy Halloween! 🕸🕷🌕🎃

Hubble Space Telescope vs me

Celebrating JWST's first Halloween in Space

The ups and downs of drinking espresso on the ISS

Buzz Aldrin (ft. the Lunar Surface)

"Fantastic Depiction of the Solar System" -19th century woodcut, German School

Launch of @NOAA's #JPSS2 and our #LOFTID @NASA_Technology demonstration is now no earlier than Nov. 9, and today's planned science briefing will be rescheduled. Follow the blog for more details and updates: https://t.co/ppQn3lVJzy https://t.co/04XkLIBeea

Firework galaxy with open cluster

While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Adrin were on the lunar surface, Michael Collins orbited the Moon - performing experiments and scouting future landing sites. He took several photos of the surface, like this one:

I Made a Bunch of Phone Wallpapers from Hubble & JWST Images and Wanted to Share.

Here is the Space Shuttle Atlantis over the Mediterranean Sea with Sicily and the island of Malta in plain sight. All taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The picture dates back to September 17, 2006.

Stephan's Quintet in LRGB

#OTD in 1998, John Glenn returned to space on Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95. His return came 36 years after his historic flight in 1962 in Mercury Friendship 7, when he became the first American to orbit the Earth: https://t.co/A9n4rgnW5K https://t.co/GPEyhCXk63

Asteroids rock! #OTD in 1991, the Galileo spacecraft became the first to fly by and image an asteroid: Asteroid 951, also known as Gaspra. Asteroids like Gaspra can give us clues to how the solar system formed! Discover more firsts achieved by Galileo: https://t.co/T2QsY3PLO6 https://t.co/NwmwBmEVGS

Charlie Duke, Jim Lovell, and Fred Haise listen on as Apollo 11 makes its final descent to the lunar surface. As the CapCom, Duke was the first to respond to the famous quote "The Eagle has landed." Lovell and Haise later flew on Apollo 13, and Duke would walk on the Moon with Apollo 16.