Space Contents Archive

Chicago and lake Michigan from space at night, with the aurora Borealis and the Milky Way by NASA

Beam us up! Our new laser communications mission, #LCRD, launched successfully on Dec. 7. It's set to operate in geosynchronous orbit – about 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above Earth: https://t.co/5EsutsePfO https://t.co/t6lk87mR8E

My father was on Wake Island 80 years ago today. A day that lives in infamy. They sacrificed so much. Take a moment and thank our veterans. #NeverForget https://t.co/pMbahOU599

A Soyuz crew ship counts down to an eleven-day visit as the Exp 66 crew studies space physics and biomedical science. https://t.co/oB66sUOvVq

The Pleiades Star Cluster, aka The Seven Sisters, and Messier 45.

🩹Bioprinting bandages 🩺Cancer research 👕Space stain remover 🔬Student experiments And more will launch aboard the next @Space_Station commercial resupply launch! Explore the research: https://t.co/EigH4GhknE https://t.co/wrQ72T2MT9

The trajectory patterns of 5 Planets seen from Earth

NGC 1566 aka the Spanish Dancer. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy, 40 million light years from Earth

HDR composite of today's 15% waxing crescent

#OTD in 1972, Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Harrison Schmitt launched on Apollo 17, the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. https://t.co/2DJwtBhmyN

What star is that near the moon? I’m new to astronomy from Mexico (sorry if picture is low quality)

LIVE: How will #IXPE expand our understanding of the universe? Join us for a payload briefing with experts from @NASA_Marshall, @ASI_spazio and @BallAerospace—and share your questions for the team using #AskNASA: https://t.co/7QNIVjYAVy

A pilot who truly had the right stuff, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and proved that we can always keep pushing further and faster. A WWII ace, and the greatest pilot of the greatest generation, he passed away one year ago. Yeager's life and legacy: https://t.co/hqhGB95Qs2 https://t.co/I4Kbpw58TF

The Crescent Nebula

A thick fog layer covering the city lights to reveal a starry night, from Southern California's Coast.