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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 4h
Taken on August 11, 2026. Details on the photo here from JPL: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosi…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 4h
Insane cliffs on Mars seen just recently by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover 🤯
A wide landscape view of Mars featuring a rocky, dark foreground and a series of rugged, light-colored cliffs and mountains under a pale, hazy sky.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Draconid meteor shower peaks Thursday night ☄️ Best viewing is shortly after dark Expect 5 to 10 meteors per hour
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Change-of-command ceremony took place Sunday aboard the station. Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Russia's Andrey Fedyaev are targeting undocking early Wednesday and splashdown off California around 11:25am ET Thursday. Stay tuned for updates.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Russian cosmonaut is now in command of the International Space Station NASA's Jessica Meir handed command to Pyotr Dubrov yesterday as she prepares to head back to the surface this week
Portrait of a woman with curly brown hair in a white NASA spacesuit with a backpack, US flag patch, and mission patches, resting a gloved hand on a white helmet with a gold visor on a black pedestal, with a US flag at left against a blue backdrop.The International Space Station orbits Earth, with its solar arrays extended against a backdrop of white clouds, blue oceans, and a star-filled black void of space.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Scientists say one of Saturn's moons could have the right conditions to support alien life Earth microbes survived in a lab recreation of Enceladus' underground ocean
A close-up view of the moon Enceladus against a black background. The moon's surface is pale with blue and white tones, featuring prominent ridges, cracks, and deep fissures stretching across its icy landscape.A black and white electron micrograph of a single microbe with a dark, textured cell body and numerous long, thin, hair-like flagella extending from one side.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
69 years ago today, humanity launched the world's first artificial satellite 🛰️ Sputnik 1
An artist's illustration of the Sputnik 1 satellite, a small polished metal sphere with four long antennas, orbiting Earth against a backdrop of a starry black void.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saturn is at its closest to Earth all year this weekend 🪐 It's rings can be visible even with small telescopes
A blurry, close-up photograph of the planet Saturn, showing its pale yellowish body and prominent rings against a black background.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week on Mars
A wide-angle view from a Mars rover, showing its robotic arm and instruments extended over a rocky, dusty orange landscape. Tire tracks are visible in the soil, and a distant horizon meets a pale sky.A wide landscape view of the Martian surface, featuring a dusty, rocky plain in the foreground and rolling hills under a hazy, pale yellow-green sky.A view from a Mars rover, showing a rocky, dusty landscape with a steep slope in the background under a hazy, yellowish-brown sky. Part of the rover's equipment and its shadow are visible in the foreground.A wide view of the rocky, reddish-brown Martian surface with tire tracks imprinted in the dust. Part of a rover's white and metallic equipment is visible on the left edge of the frame.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Mars year lasts 687 Earth days, and scientists started numbering them around 1955 so they could track observations across Martian years. The next new year is Aug. 17, 2028
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's officially a new year on Mars! Mars entered Year 39 yesterday 🥳
A full view of the planet Mars, showing its reddish-orange surface with dark greyish patches and a white polar ice cap at the bottom against a black background.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Live here: x.com/i/broadcasts/1AGRnZWdNpYGl?s=…
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Four astronauts launch to the International Space Station today at 11:10am ET
Four astronauts wearing white SpaceX suits and helmets with open visors stand side-by-side in front of a white spacecraft section adorned with various mission patches.The International Space Station orbits Earth, showing its complex structure of modules and large solar arrays against the blackness of space and the blue, cloud-covered curve of the planet below.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW JWST image dropped! It shows gravity bending light from distant galaxies so much they appear 4 or more times 🫨
A dense field of galaxies showing bright orange arcs of gravitational lensing, numerous glowing yellowish clusters, and bright stars with diffraction spikes against a dark cosmic background.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Scientists have finally figured out why astronauts are getting constipated in space
An astronaut in a white spacesuit with a US flag patch sits on a toilet inside a spacecraft module, surrounded by white walls, circular hatches, and yellow handholds.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
Full published study: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720 (coffee recommended)
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Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet $β$ Pictoris b
Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets...
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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
The NASA logo, featuring a blue sphere with white stars, a white orbital path, and a red v-shaped vector, set against a solid black background.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
A fast stream of solar wind from a hole in the Sun's atmosphere arrives late tonight into Thursday morning. NOAA forecasts a minor geomagnetic storm with an outside chance of moderate, which would push the aurora as far south as Iowa and New York. More here soon: t.co/h6E31ucTCX
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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
Here's NASA's full Percy media archive: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/r…
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Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover - NASA
Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.
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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
The photo above was taken by voyager 1 at 6 billion miles away. Imagine 16 billion 🤯
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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
Above is the NASA provided artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b. It's about as massive as Jupiter, and sits 450 light-years away inside the swirling disk of gas and dust it formed from. The previous record holders were all over 5 million years old, from old Keck Observatory data from 2018.
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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
FROM NASA: science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/…
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NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater - NASA Science
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 728-foot-wide crater formed in May 2024 when an asteroid or comet fragment hit the Moon's near side. No telescope on Earth or in space caught the impact. It's the biggest fresh crater known anywhere in the solar system 🤯
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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
A star-forming region just 1,000 light-years away from Earth, called IC 348 science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/ic-348-…
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IC 348 (NIRCam Image) - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently observed IC 348, a star-forming region just 1,000 light-years away from Earth. Webb’s sharp vision revealed tiny brown dwarfs, some just twice Jupiter’s mass, and young stars ejecting powerful jets crashing into surrounding gas and dust.
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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
Details: science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/0…
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Fuel Savings Double Potential Lifetime for NASA’s Roman Mission - NASA Science
The results are in: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s very accurate first mid-course correction, along with other fuel savings, are expected to more
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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
Just learned this today...
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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
Still image from that day. 🇺🇸🖤
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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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