Space Contents Archive

Now we're talking! The revolutionary Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, set to launch on Dec. 4, will showcase the dynamic powers of lasers to give future space missions faster data rates. Here are six things you need to know: https://t.co/ueckGlF3B8 https://t.co/OArUT4E8yX

#TDIH in 1783: The first human beings to take to the air in free flight did so aboard a Montgolfier balloon from the garden of the Chateau de la Muette. #IdeasThatDefy https://t.co/BwAQxonPCa

Great weekend in Tucson, AZ! @amikokauderer and I had a blast joining my brother @CaptMarkKelly and sis-in-law @GabbyGiffords in the El Tour de Tucson 30-mile bike ride. Thankful for the post-ride Sonora dogs! https://t.co/k22lVV7a6r

The Moon Eclipsing near Pleiades

NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula

Rosette nebula I photographed at my local observatory

ISS / Cygnus NG-16 Docking (Watercolor + Ink)

NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula

This beautiful 504-piece jigsaw puzzle is 16 inches by 20 inches (41 x 51 cm). It depicts a turbulent cosmic pinnacle about 3 light-years tall that lies within a vast stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away. https://t.co/Q89DQSHbpO https://t.co/JsvASXmuDc

Moon

The shadows cast by Saturn's rings are next level. Here's a picture of Saturn and two of its moons, Mimas and Tethys. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image on July 16, 2005.

I went out to the forest to capture the Moon with as little light polution as possible. The picture is taken with my phone but I like how it turned out. I can't wait to get a better phone and eventually a telescope for this.

🎥 Long time, no see! Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean grasped the Surveyor 3 TV camera to return it to Earth for scientific examination this week in 1969. The camera had been on the Moon since April 20, 1967. https://t.co/20NeccbEYt

The lunar eclipse and a Saturn V

Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Venus, Sunlight and a mountain of earth; all in the same frame.