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Took the scenic route 🛰️
On Nov. 8, 2021, astronauts conducted the first “fly around” of the International Space Station (@ISS ) by the @SpaceX...
You and I collide 💫
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this @NASAHubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro o...
You and I collide 💫
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this @NASAHubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro o...
Wish you were here ✨
Our Curiosity Mars rover was thinking of you and decided to send you a postcard of its most recent perch on the side of Mars’ ...
🚀 We're on our way to nudge an asteroid!
Our DART spacecraft lifted off at 1:21 a.m. EST (6:21 UTC) this morning, beginning its 10-month journey t...
Did someone order a dark ‘n stormy? 🌌
About 1,400 light-years from Earth lies the largest star-forming cluster in the constellation of Orion, the...
🚀 We're on our way to nudge an asteroid!
Our DART spacecraft lifted off at 1:21 a.m. EST (6:21 UTC) this morning, beginning its 10-month journey t...
A blue sunset on the Red Planet
Our Perseverance Mars rover has taken its first picture of a sunset! This image was captured on Nov. 9, 2021, by the...
🏊♂️ Down for a dip in the Cosmic Reef?
Nicknamed the Cosmic Reef because it resembles an undersea world, this is a vast star-forming region i...
🪐 Grandiose. Spectacular. Mysterious. Gaseous. (Tag yourself.)
Ready for a grand tour? Our Hubble Space Telescope completed its annual view of the...
This gives us all the feels. ☺️
Experience the Butterfly Nebula through data sonification as it soars across space at more than 600,000 mph (966,0...
🟥 Seeing a lot of RED in your feed today? This recent image from @NASAHubble swiftly captured our attention.
These cosmic ribbons of gas have be...
✨A thing of mystery and beauty.
This complex nebula is filled with glowing gases, lanes of dust, and stars of all ages—but what interests astronom...
Luckily there are no known threats to Earth for at least 100 years, but that doesn’t mean we’re not looking. Asteroid expert Davide Farnocchia of @N...
We have liftoff! At 9:03 pm EST, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lit up the night sky over @NASAKennedy in Florida, launching t...
When was the last time an asteroid hit Earth? ☄️ Small asteroids and other tiny particles bombard our planet daily, but almost all of them burn up s...
✨ Happy #Diwali to all who celebrate!
This stellar festival of lights, called a globular cluster, was captured by @NASAHubble and it contains a ...
📸 New album just dropped: EARTH
You’re looking at the first images captured by #Landsat 9, a joint Earth-observing mission in partnership with ...
A violent end made for a beautiful beginning. 💥
Roughly 10,000 years ago, a star about 20 times the mass of the Sun exploded – and the Veil Nebul...
The cat's pajamas or totally pawesome? Either way, here's the Cat's Paw Nebula 🐾😻
Our Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of this nebula...
