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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s boots touched lunar dust, marking a historic milestone for humanity. His iconic words from the Apollo 11 mission still resonate today as a testament to what we can achieve when we aim for the stars. #space #NASA
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This was the view from the West Exit of JR Narita station a short while ago, while I was doing some planet-spotting. I realized that Venus and Jupiter, which I’ve been tracking for weeks, are very close this week. The closest might have been last night. Rainy season is going to ruin the best views. … Continue reading Fifty seconds of Venus and Jupiter at the JR Narita West Exit. Today’s…
A backwards sunspot hurled a merged plasma cloud toward Earth, promising widespread auroras tonight.
Manhattan's rectangular grid creates a beautiful spectacle four times a year.
by Duncan Lunan The Moon is Full on June 30th, meanwhile passing near Saturn in the morning sky on the 10th, and Mars on the 13th. It’s New on the 15th, near Mercury and Jupiter on the 16th, very near Venus in early evening of the 17th, passing Regulus in Leo on the 19th, and […]
This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit. The best moment to catch it, writes EarthSky, is just before 4 a.m. — Read the rest
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June brings planetary alignments, meteors, the Milky Way in full view and summer’s first full moon.
Astronomers discovered that magnetic activity in the Sun is being squeezed into a more tightly confined area under its surface, which has implications for space weather forecasts and heliophysics.
The planets were hiding in plain sight.
Most people take the Moon for granted, not considering its slow cycle where the sun gradually illuminates different parts of it. A recent project from [Karsten Mueller] helps you keep …read more
Ten thousand is nearly double the total number of exoplanets that have been confirmed so far. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, public domain
On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet's unlit side. Riccioli figured it was an artifact of his glass — the same trick that makes a prism throw rainbows. — Read the rest
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Humans have been observing the night sky since the ancient days of Mesopotamia and Babylon, but we're increasingly getting in our own way.
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Ok, this is incredible: this person on Reddit discovered that if you take a bunch of the sequential photos of the Earth captured by the Artemis II crew and animate them, you can see that some of what appear to be stars are actually satellites, buzzing around the Earth like flies. You can see them really clearly in Seán Doran’s remastered animation. Totally totally gobsmacking. Literally…
An amazing capture of galaxy Messier 104, aka the Sombrero Galaxy, by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera mounted on a Chilean observatory.
The Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) is a galactic masterpiece that captivates scientists and astronomy enthusiasts alike. Its intricate system of globular star clusters lends insight into stellar populations, and astronomers are intrigued by the…
The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a series of tough tests under space‑like conditions. With this accomplishment,...
NASA celebrated its revolutionary Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST) yesterday, showing the completed observatory off to the world and announcing that the mission was not only ahead of schedule but, in a rarity for cutting-edge scientific projects, under budget.
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NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallpapers of his own (that are slightly larger than NASA’s and better for iPhones). I have also made a few of my own: Earth Rising Over the Moon With the Orion Capsule in the Foreground, A Sliver of Earth Over the Moon, and Kubrickian…
This shot from Artemis II of the Earth eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit.
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and…
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory appears beneath the Milky Way, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Credit: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Lago, CC BY 4.0
A photographer has expressed his delight as his images of deep space objects appear in theaters worldwide during the end credits of Project Hail Mary.
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This week SpaceX passed an eye-watering milestone: it launched its 10,000th satellite into low-Earth orbit. The sheer scale of the devices whizzing around above humanity is unimaginable, but photographer Joshua Rozells is helping people see.
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The Voss Model (Visiting Our Solar System) on the campus of Purdue University is a scale model of the solar system. Amazingly, every foot you travel around the Voss Model's Fibonacci spiral on the ground represents 5.4 million miles in space. All eight planets are represented, as well as the Kuiper Belt at the furthest reaches of the spiral.
The Voss Model is named after Purdue engineering…
I love this planet & stars chart from XKCD because it’s technically correct but also completely useless.
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_PLATO Science Working Team Meeting #26, ESOC, Darmstadt 10-11 March 2026_
The European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets, Plato, is currently sealed in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) chamber at ESA’s Test Centre for...
These confusing planets have shown that the trick to becoming huge lies in accretion.
Australian astronomy has added $3 billion to the economy over the past decade, according to new analysis from UNSW economist, Professor Richard Holden.
LHS 1903 is a small red M dwarf star orbited by a rocky planet and two gaseous planets. In a recent study, scientists used the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS satellite to investigate a fourth planet in this system and discovered that it might be rocky, like Venus. This is surprising because a planet order of rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky in a planetary system is rarely observed in the universe.…
by Duncan Lunan The Moon is Full on March 3rd, and New on the 19th. On the 3rd there’s a total eclipse of the Moon over the Americas, Asia and Australasia, not visible elsewhere. On the evening of the 19th there’s a chance to find the very young Moon, just 17 hours old, when it’s […]