Space Contents Archive

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Mars 11/19/22

IC 1805 in Hubble palette

Andromeda in Bortle 7.5

Orion Nebula M42

50 minutes luminance

How did Voyager 1 (and other space probes) successfully navigate through the asteroid belt?

Especially given older technology and the time delay of sending signals from earth?

JWST's Protostar in LDN 1527 image revisited by Judy Schmidt

Just days from reaching the Moon, the @NASA_Orion spacecraft captured this selfie while flying through space. The #Artemis I mission is preparing us to bring astronauts to the Moon. https://t.co/uQaCgAXaUm https://t.co/NZAfN1sQax

After astronaut Pete Conrad stuck the landing of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module #OTD in 1969, mere feet from Surveyor 3, his 1st word as he became the 3rd person to step on the Moon was "Whoopee!" He was so excited, he accidentally pointed his camera at the Sun, frying its circuits! https://t.co/b1gb3HN8Pw

This morning, a small asteroid, which had been discovered only hours earlier, struck Earth's atmosphere and completely disintegrated in a bright (between Mag -10 and -20) fireball over Canada. (Credit: CN Tower Cam, Scott Sutherland, SpaceWeather.com)

Space shuttle windows.

What makes the windows in a space shuttle able to hold up to the extreme heat when re-entering the earth’s atmosphere?

The rock is 4.6 billion years old, meaning it was around at the beginning of the solar system ⬇️ https://t.co/X9knb4dEIP https://t.co/EEy5RiPd7w

25 years ago today, Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-American woman to go to space on the STS-87 mission. Chawla tragically died during her second spaceflight (STS-107) in 2003 when Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry and the crew was lost. https://t.co/86dvdfMd24

Moon and Burj from iPhone.

NGC 3324 (Carina Nebula)