Post #2888
10 Sep 21, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🎬 Analemma over the Callanish Stones If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year
Post #2887
8 Sep 20, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 A Zodiacal Night Also known as the false dawn, a luminous band of zodiacal light is captured in this dark night skyscape
Post #2886
9 Sep 19, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33
Post #2885
10 Sep 18, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula This treasure chest is full of stars
Post #2884
9 Sep 17, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Webb's View of M64 Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light
Post #2883
10 Sep 16, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus There was something behind the clouds
Post #2882
10 Sep 15, 2026, 18:16 UTC 🚀 Launch Preview: Nine orbital launches scheduled from sites around the world Nine orbital launches are scheduled worldwide this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to deliver…
Post #2881
11 Sep 15, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🎬 Where Your Elements Came From The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang
Post #2880
17 Sep 13, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon
Post #2879
11 Sep 12, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 M83: The Southern Pinwheel Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra
Post #2878
13 Sep 11, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead)
Post #2877
12 Sep 9, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which quickly flew past the ringed world in the early 1980s
Post #2876
8 Sep 8, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed
Post #2875
8 Sep 7, 2026, 22:16 UTC 🚀 Launch Preview: Soyuz, CZ-8A, and Falcon 9 to launch from sites around the world Five orbital launches are expected this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to launch from… #SpaceX #Falcon9 #ISS #Spacewalk
Post #2874
11 Sep 7, 2026, 09:13 UTC 🌌 Chasing the Moon's Shadow Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse
Post #2873
10 Sep 7, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🎬 Pluto in Enhanced Color Pluto is more colorful than we can see
Post #2872
13 Sep 5, 2026, 16:16 UTC 🚀 Isar Aerospace attempts launch of Spectrum rocket after months of delays The European private space launch provider Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, is set to…
Post #2871
13 Sep 5, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace
Post #2870
13 Sep 4, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🎬 The Eclipse and the Stork How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse
Post #2869
15 Sep 3, 2026, 08:13 UTC 🌌 Solar Eclipses and Culture Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse