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Post #344 161
🌕 A Massive New Scar on the Moon
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day reveals a newly formed lunar crater named McGetchin, created when a 10–20-meter asteroid or comet struck the Moon in 2024.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the surface before and after the impact, revealing a crater roughly two soccer fields wide.
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Post #343 184
🔭 Hubble Completes 200,000 Orbits Around Earth
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth after more than 36 years in space. Hubble has traveled over 5 billion miles and made more than 1.7 million observations.
It is now monitoring the gravitationally lensed Supernova Athena, whose reappearance could help astronomers better measure the expansion rate of the universe.
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Post #340 778
🚨 Curiosity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars
NASA has released one of Curiosity’s latest views of Mars as the rover celebrates its 5,000th Martian day. This striking “postcard” combines panoramas captured in the morning and afternoon, with blue representing morning and yellow representing afternoon.
Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater since 2012 — and its journey continues.
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Post #339 565
🌌 Webb Finds Mysterious Worlds Between Planets and Stars

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope explored IC 348, a star-forming region about 1,000 light-years away, and found brown dwarfs with masses as low as twice that of Jupiter.

One of these objects even has a disk around it that could potentially form planets, challenging our understanding of how such tiny objects form.

15 September 2026
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Post #336 429
☀️ Parker Solar Probe Races Past the Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 29th close approach to the Sun, reaching 692,000 km/h and coming within just 6.1 million km of the surface. It collected data from inside the solar corona and observed activity near the Sun’s north pole.
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Post #332 403
✨ Where the Elements in Your Body Came From

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day — September 14, 2026 shows where the elements around us came from.
Hydrogen came from the Big Bang, carbon and oxygen were forged inside stars, much of our iron came from supernovae, and gold likely formed in neutron-star collisions.
The color-coded periodic table shows the likely cosmic origins of the elements, though some remain uncertain.
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Post #331 663
🦒 The Giraffe Nebula

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features LDN 1295, the “Giraffe Nebula” — a dark cloud of cosmic dust and gas that blocks the light of stars behind it.
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Post #330 600
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🔭 Hubble & Webb Reveal Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune

Hubble and Webb have detected some of the smallest and faintest objects ever seen beyond Neptune, offering new clues about the early history of our Solar System.
YouTube Tiny Worlds Discovered by Hubble and Webb Beyond Neptune, countless frozen worlds have orbited the Sun for billions of years, preserving clues from the earliest days of our solar system. By combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, astronomers discovered previously…
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Post #329 425
🪐 Hubble Reveals a 10-Sided Pattern on Saturn

Hubble has discovered a giant 10-sided atmospheric pattern around Saturn’s south pole. Scientists think powerful jet streams may be creating this unusual structure, but how long it will last remains unknown.
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Post #328 439
🔭 NASA Discovers a Mysterious New Class of Cosmic Objects
On September 9, 2026, NASA announced that Chandra observations revealed 84 mysterious “hypersoft X-ray sources” across six galaxies — objects unlike any class seen before.
They emit unusually low-energy X-rays but intense ultraviolet radiation. Scientists still don’t know exactly what they are, but they may involve black holes, neutron stars, or white dwarfs feeding on companion stars.
The discovery could help explain the origins of Type Ia supernovae and another long-standing mystery involving ionized gas in galaxies.
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Post #327 417
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Skywatching Highlights
• Sept. 14-20: Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot; dark skies may reveal the Milky Way center
• Sept 18: Venus reaches peak brilliance for this evening appearance
• Sept. 22: September equinox; fall begins in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere
• Sept. 26: Harvest Moon rises near Saturn and Neptune
YouTube What's Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA The Moon joins a tea party, Venus reaches peak brilliance, the seasons change, and the Harvest Moon meets up with some planetary neighbors. From September 14 through 20, use the Moon as a guide to spot Antares, the Teapot asterism, and – under especially…
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Post #323 534
🕳️ The Only Two Black Holes Ever Directly Imaged
So far, astronomers have released direct images of the shadows of two black holes:
M87* — revealed in 2019, about 55 million light-years away.
Sagittarius A* — revealed in 2022, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way.
These images don’t show the black holes themselves, which emit no light, but their shadows surrounded by glowing hot gas, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.
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Post #322 575
🌌 The Pelican Nebula Is Slowly Transforming
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 7, 2026 shows the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), captured with 25 hours of exposure.
Young stars are heating and reshaping its gas, while new stars continue to form. Millions of years from now, the nebula may look completely different.
Credit: Nasa/Mark Killion
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Post #321 499
🌌 Two Galaxies Locked in a Cosmic Embrace

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 4, 2026, shows two spiral galaxies about 200 million light-years away, locked in a powerful gravitational interaction.
Their encounter is disturbing vast reservoirs of gas and triggering intense new star formation. The spectacular scene was captured by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaiʻi.
Its Hawaiian name means “The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life.”
Credit: NASA
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