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Summer nights call for stargazing! ✨
Look out for some of July’s celestial events, from dawn to dusk! The naked-eye planets of dawn – Venus, M...
Cool cosmic waves 🏄♀️
What at first sight may appear to be a cosmic current with turquoise-tinted streams and nebulous strands reaching throu...
A helping hand 🤝
Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus space freighter is pictured in the sturdy grasp of the Canadarm2, one of the @iss ’s three r...
A microwave-sized satellite just launched to the Moon from New Zealand. Meet CAPSTONE.
CAPSTONE's destination? NRHO (or "near rectilinear halo orbit"...
She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it. ☀️
Just over a decade ago, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observa...
The science never stops on the International Space Station 🌱
At any given time, up to 100 scientific experiments are running at once on the @ISS '...
Under the same sky, looking at the same Moon 🌝
The Moon sets below the Earth’s horizon as the atmosphere refracts, or bends, its light making...
Home 🌍
At a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers), Earth is seen here as a tiny speck in a precarious beam of sunlight in this ...
Under the same sky, looking at the same Moon 🌝
The Moon sets below the Earth’s horizon as the atmosphere refracts, or bends, its light making...
A little glitter goes a long way…
Millions of light-years, actually! In the middle of this picture is a sparkling galaxy, crisply captured by the @N...
Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
Happy #NationalSelfieDay from our ...
No red carpet necessary for this star-studded event 🎊
A globular cluster is pictured here in the constellation Sagittarius, located near the c...
Where we go, we go together.
Juneteenth commemorates the day 157 years ago that enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas finally received news that th...
Supermoon rocket 🤩
This weekend, our #Artemis I Moon mission begins its final major test: the wet dress rehearsal, a multiple-day simulated l...
Let's break the ice on our changing environment 🧊
An international team of scientists has tracked a group of genetically distinct polar bears ...
Ice to see you. 🧊
While not the only planet in our solar system with rings, Saturn's rings are the most prominent and complex, made from bil...
Welcome, space rangers!
This morning, members of @NASA ’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, which launched on April 23, 2021 for a six-month mission to the @I...
Raaaays and rings and… Cygni, Cygni
7,800 light years away from Earth, a black hole in a binary system called V404 Cygni pulls matter from a nea...
Closest planet to the sun, Mercury shines bright with the color base map from our MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSE...
Welcome, space rangers!
This morning, members of @NASA ’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, which launched on April 23, 2021 for a six-month mission to the @I...
