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Europe's Jupiter probe skimmed past Earth yesterday, picking up a 7,800 mph speed boost Juice is now on course to reach Jupiter in 2031

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New video showing 3 "firballs" over south western Ohio last night turned out to be skydivers ☄️

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Scientists have detected radio signals from an exoplanet for the first time ever The planet, Beta Pictoris b, sits 63 light-years away and has a magnetic field 2,500x stronger than Earth's

A row of large white satellite radio telescopes pointed toward a purple and pink starry night sky with the Milky Way visible behind dark clouds.

An artist's concept of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, shown as a large, blue gas giant with swirling clouds, set against a dark star-filled space with a distant star and a small moon.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NASA is building a new space telescope called PRIMA that will see the universe in far-infrared, a part of the spectrum no telescope can currently capture

An artist's concept of the PRIMA space telescope, featuring a dark, angular structure with a large sunshield and a primary mirror, set against a colorful nebula of purple, blue, and orange gas and stars.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Northern lights could be visible from 12 U.S. states tonight

A globe showing a colorful red and green auroral oval over North America, extending into the northern US, against a green northern lights background with silhouetted trees. Text at the bottom reads 'Sept. 23, 2026 via NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center'.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Astronomers just found a planet orbiting its star backwards, and nobody knows how it got that way

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fall officially begins tonight at 8:05pm ET in the Northern Hemisphere 🍂

Illustration of Earth showing a yellow line labeled 'Equatorial Circumreference' and a large red arrow pointing towards northern Europe, set against a starry space background.

A black twin-bell alarm clock showing 9:00 sits among blurred orange and brown autumn leaves.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Albania has become the 73rd country to sign NASA's Artemis Accords Agreeing to peace on the Moon, Mars, and beyond

A map of Europe and surrounding areas, highlighting the country of Albania in red on the Balkan Peninsula to show its geographic location.

An illustration of two astronauts in white spacesuits shaking hands on the lunar surface. One astronaut has the Albanian flag on their shoulder, and the other has the US flag. Earth is visible in the background against a starry sky.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

56 years ago today, the Soviet Union landed Luna 16 on the Moon, the first robot to bring lunar soil back to Earth 🌕

A model of the Soviet Luna 16 lunar lander on a simulated lunar surface, featuring four landing legs, a central body with instruments, a brown spherical sample return capsule on top, and antennas, set against a painted backdrop.

A full view of the Moon against a black background, showing its cratered surface and dark lunar maria.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some of the latest images from Mars 📷 All taken by Perseverance rover last week

Mars landscape under a hazy tan sky, with a large rounded hill on the horizon and a rocky, pebbly foreground showing two parallel rover wheel tracks leading toward the hill.

A close-up view of the Martian surface shows reddish-brown sandy soil scattered with angular rocks, including a large grayish boulder on the right and a small piece of rover hardware in the lower left.

A wide landscape view of the Martian surface, showing a rocky, dusty plain under a hazy, pale yellow sky. A gentle slope rises in the distance, and a portion of the Perseverance rover's equipment is visible in the lower right foreground.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fall officially arrives Tuesday at 8:05pm ET 🍂 Day and night will be nearly equal everywhere on Earth

A full-disk view of Earth from space shows North and Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, blue oceans, landmasses, and scattered white clouds against black space.

A large tree with vibrant yellow and orange autumn leaves dominates the foreground, with fallen leaves covering the ground. In the background, a winding road leads toward a small, ornate pavilion with a red-tiled roof.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pikachu has been to space ⚡ ESA just revealed the Pokémon secretly spent 67 days aboard the ISS

A Pikachu plush toy wearing a white astronaut suit floats inside the International Space Station. Through the circular Cupola windows, the blue Earth and white clouds are visible against the blackness of space.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On Nov. 18, Voyager 1 will become the first spacecraft ever to reach one light-day from Earth About 16 billion miles

A grainy, dark image of space with a small, bright dot labeled Earth with an arrow. A white square inset at the top zooms in on the tiny dot.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Astronomers have found the youngest planet ever discovered It's less than a million years old, called Elias 2-24 b

Artist concept of the young planet Elias 2-24 b orbiting its star, showing a bright central star, a reddish planet within a blue protoplanetary disk, and a red‑circled inset highlighting a bright object with a trailing disk.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NASA has just discovered a massive new crater on the Moon from an undetected impact two years ago The crater is bigger than the Roman Colosseum

A black and white overhead view of a fresh impact crater on the lunar surface. The crater is a deep, dark hole surrounded by a bright, radiating pattern of ejected material that spreads outward across the dark grey lunar soil.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JWST has dropped a new image

$A Webb infrared image of IC 348 shows yellow, orange, and blue clouds of gas and dust filled with bright stars and diffraction spikes.$

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The U.S. wants a nuclear reactor in Earth orbit by 2028

A close-up portrait of Donald Trump wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and red tie, with a small American flag pin on his lapel.

An artist's concept of a cylindrical space reactor with solar panels, orbiting Earth. The reactor is connected by a long boom to a smaller module, set against the blackness of space.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NASA's new Roman Space Telescope now has enough fuel to last 22 years after a near-perfect course correction More than double what it was built for!

An artist's concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with gold and silver panels, set against a purple cosmic background filled with stars and galaxies.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tonight the Moon, Venus, the star Spica, and Mercury all line up in the western sky right after sunset

A western sky at sunset shows a crescent Moon, bright Venus, the star Spica, and Mercury near the horizon, with a caption indicating September 14, 20 minutes after sunset.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Venus will disappear behind the Moon tomorrow in a rare daytime occultation Watch from Europe, Africa, Asia, and western Russia. Not visible from the Americas

A bright point of light, Venus, is positioned in a clear blue daytime sky, near a faint, translucent crescent Moon and soft white clouds.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One year ago, NASA said the Perseverance rover found the "strongest evidence yet" of life on Mars 🦠 Downside: it can't be confirmed until the sample is back on Earth, and no mission exists to bring it back

A close-up image of a Martian rock surface with red circles and labels. One label points to a small, dark, circular feature called a Leopard Spot, and another points to a greenish-grey mineral grain identified as Olivine.

A close-up view of the Perseverance rover's camera mast and sensors, facing forward on the rocky, reddish-orange Martian landscape under a hazy sky.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece of metal on Mars, engraved with the American flag, is made from aluminum recovered from the World Trade Center 🇺🇸 It's aboard both NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers, and will likely stay preserved on Mars for millions of years

Composite showing a close-up of a silver rover instrument on reddish Martian ground, with a small U.S. flag decal; a red arrow points from an inset photo of the World Trade Center towers.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago today, astronaut Frank Culbertson watched the 9/11 attacks unfold from the International Space Station 💔 He was the only American not on Earth

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Saturn's moon Iapetus captured on this day in 2007 during Cassini spacecraft’s flyby

A high-resolution image of Saturn's moon Iapetus, showing a cratered, grayish-white surface with a distinct dark region on one side and a large, shallow crater at the bottom.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NASA's Chandra telescope just discovered a new class of cosmic objects Astronomers found 84 of them in 6 galaxies and have no idea what they are

Spiral galaxy with a bright central core, purple and pink hues, and several orange circles marking specific points.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NASA is now asking companies to help it build a permanent base on the Moon It's requesting tech that can generate power through the two-week lunar night, pull breathable oxygen out of Moon dust, and turn lunar soil into building material Things are heating up!!

An artist's concept of a lunar base featuring cylindrical grey modules, two white lunar rovers, and astronauts on the grey lunar surface. A NASA lander is in the background, with Earth visible in the dark sky.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An asteroid hit Earth on Sunday, and astronomers spotted it coming just 7 hours before impact The 2.6-foot rock burned up harmlessly off the coast of Australia It's now the 13th asteroid ever detected before striking our planet

A low-resolution image of a bright, glowing fireball streaking across a dark night sky, leaving a white trail behind it. The fireball is white-hot at the center with a red and orange glow around it.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Scientists have mapped a route to chase down Halley's Comet and fly alongside it for months when it returns in 2061 Gravity assists from Jupiter and Saturn plus ion engines would match its backward orbit Launch has to happen before 2040 or the window closes

An artist's concept of a spacecraft with solar panels and glowing ion engines flying alongside a rocky, icy comet with a bright white tail against a starry space background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On Saturday, the Sun fired off back-to-back plasma eruptions, sending two giant prominences within hours of each other yesterday Any resulting solar storms are expected to miss Earth

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NASA has released an Artemis II sizzle reel, including new video never seen before

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NASA has named the dune field where its Dragonfly rotorcraft will land on Saturn’s moon Titan The area is called Ahmakiq Undae after the Mayan spirit who locks up crop-destroying winds

Artist's concept of the Dragonfly rotorcraft flying over the orange-hued dune fields of Saturn's moon Titan under a hazy, reddish sky.

An artist's concept of Saturn's moon Titan, shown as a sphere with orange, white, and purple hues. A yellow box highlights a small area, which is magnified in an inset image showing a purple-shaded region on a grayscale terrain.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Three generations of space telescopes in orbit 🚀 NASA expects to release the first images from the Roman telescope in Jan 2027!

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hubble has revealed a giant 10-sided decagon sits at Saturn’s South Pole We now can confirm Saturn has a hexagon at one pole and a decagon at the other 🪐

A black and white image of Saturn, showing a large, hexagonal-shaped storm pattern at its north pole, with the planet's rings visible in the background against a black space.

A top-down view of Saturn's south pole against a black background. The pole is a circular disk with concentric rings of pale yellow and blue, featuring a dark center marked with a white dashed circle and an X. Text at the bottom right reads Saturn's south pole.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NASA's Curiosity rover has now spent 5,000 sols, or Martian days, exploring Mars! Since landing in 2012, it has driven roughly 23 miles (37 km) across the planet

A high-angle view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the rocky, reddish-brown surface of Mars, with a dusty orange sky and distant hills in the background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NASA has picked Blue Origin to build and launch its Mars Telecommunications Network orbiter under a contract worth up to $700 million The spacecraft will orbit Mars and relay science data, imagery, and navigation for missions on and around the planet

An artist's concept of a spacecraft orbiting Mars. The spacecraft features gold-colored components, two large solar panels extending from its sides, and a large communication dish, with the red planet visible in the lower left corner against a starry black background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NASA has switched its doomed Swift telescope back on to squeeze out science before it falls to Earth Two of its three instruments are running again, NASA expects it to drop below usable altitude in the next 1 to 2 months

An artist's concept of the Swift telescope burning up as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere, with a trail of orange and yellow flames behind it. The Earth's curved horizon is visible below, and a moon is in the upper right corner against a starry black space background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has left the space agency to return to active duty in the U.S. military The Harvard grad was a doctor, combat medic, and Navy SEAL before becoming an astronaut in 2017

A triptych of photos showing Jonny Kim in three different roles: on the left, in military combat gear and a helmet; in the center, wearing a white doctor's coat and tie; and on the right, in a blue NASA flight suit.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A near-total ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse will be visible across North & South America tonight

A full moon glows with a deep reddish-orange hue during a lunar eclipse, centered against a dark, starry night sky.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A 96% partial lunar eclipse will take place tonight at 10:33 p.m. ET A G1 storm watch means northern lights could also appear above!

A close-up view of the moon during a partial lunar eclipse, with the bottom two-thirds appearing deep red and the top third remaining a pale, bright white.

A visibility map for the partial lunar eclipse on August 28, 2026. Red areas, covering the Americas, indicate where the entire eclipse is visible. Yellow, blue, and light blue bands show where the maximum phase, partial phase, and penumbral phase are visible, respectively.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NASA's Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot are spacewalking outside the ISS right now They're finishing an antenna swap they started last week

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is 6 days from launch!! Liftoff is targeted for 7:26 a.m. ET Sunday

An artist's concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a dark, angular spacecraft with a large circular aperture, floating against a vibrant purple and pink cosmic background filled with stars and distant galaxies.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

20 years ago today, the IAU voted to demote Pluto to a dwarf planet

A detailed view of the dwarf planet Pluto, showing its varied surface with reddish-brown and pale cream-colored regions, set against a black star-filled background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Insane new video from the ISS orbiting above green auroras 🫪 Shared by NASA astronaut @astro_Pettit today

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Taiwan's first test flight of its domestically built satellite launch rocket ended in self-destruct after veering off course No injuries reported; debris fell within a designated safety zone

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NEWS 🚨: JWST spotted three feeding supermassive black holes packed inside a single early-universe galaxy, a first Two of them are on a collision course, set to merge

An artist's concept of a galaxy containing three supermassive black holes. Two black holes are close together in the center, surrounded by a bright orange accretion disk, while a third is located further to the right, also with its own smaller disk.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NEWS 🚨: ESA's Sentinel-1 satellite captured a Manhattan-sized iceberg (up to 150 meters thick) breaking off Greenland's Petermann Glacier It's the Arctic's most significant calving event since 2020

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NEWS 🚨: Japan has set an October 20 launch for its MMX mission to collect samples from the Mars moon Phobos It would be the first material ever returned from the Martian system

An artist's concept of the MMX probe, featuring solar panels and a communication dish, orbiting near the small, rocky moon Phobos against the backdrop of the red planet Mars.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEWS 🚨: China has rolled its Chang'e-7 probe to the launch pad ahead of a Moon launch in the coming days Will become the first spacecraft to touch down directly on the lunar south pole It will also release a mini-hopping probe that will search for water ice 🌑

A tall, white Chinese rocket stands vertically on its launch pad under a grey, overcast sky. Several people with umbrellas and rain gear walk along a path in the foreground, with two tall lattice towers flanking the rocket.

An artist's concept of the Chang'e-7 lunar probe, a yellow and white spacecraft with landing legs, descending toward the dark, rocky surface of the Moon's south pole with thrusters firing.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have found a rocky “mega-Earth” 23 times more massive than our planet It's been designated the name GJ 523b and orbits its star in just 17.75 days

An artist's illustration comparing the size of Earth, shown as a small blue and white marble, to a much larger, glowing blue and orange planet, GJ 523b, against a black background.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BREAKING 🚨: The Sun has just unleashed a powerful M8.1 solar flare More could be on the way as the active region turns to face Earth

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