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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 16m
Core of galaxy NGC 4261 Image date: 4 December 1995, 12:30 Credit: L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA/ESA Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h
Today's weather in Minaçu, GO, Brasil is Partly cloudy throughout the day. Temperature: 28˚C, 82.9˚F Minimum temperature: 24˚C, 75.2˚F Maximum temperature: 35˚C, 94.8˚F Sunrise at 05:55:18 and sunset at 18:09:23 Tempestade alert from Sat Oct 3 00:00:00 2026 to Sat Oct 3 23:59:00 2026 INMET p...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over Alpinópolis - Minas Gerais, Brazil Latitude -20.91149219 Longitude -46.28415548 Orbiting at 15,666.61 miles/hour Altitude of 390.02 km At 03 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passin...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 1h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 74VW4R3R+39 Latitude 27.102662237238 Longitude -121.15908331432 Orbiting at 17,144.00 miles/hour Altitude of 483.08km At 03 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over Doddanatha, Karnataka 563135, India, 13.36962260737...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
Solar Array Image date: 16 December 1999 Credit: N/A Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over French Polynesia Latitude -24.61394751 Longitude -139.18651324 Orbiting at 15,606.18 miles/hour Altitude of 393.18 km At 01 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over Toksun Cou...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
The Genesis I space station Launched to space on Wed Jul 12 2006 Decommissioned Orbit: Low Earth Orbit Owned by Bigelow Aerospace Genesis I is the first of two experimental inflatable space habitats. It is a one-third scale model of Bigelow Aerospace's BA330 Module.
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 8R229HXM+RM Latitude 30.3996136147 Longitude 140.58418384069 Orbiting at 17,127.00 miles/hour Altitude of 491.17km At 01 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 3FWH7XPW+QJ, -51.713072792413,11.996535137725 At 02 :...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
Astronaut Dmitri Kondratyev Retired Nationality: Russian Agency: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Born on Sun May 25 1969, 57 years old 1 flights and 2 spacewalks First flight was on Wed Dec 15 2010, 16 years ago and the last flight was on Wed Dec 15 2010, 16 years ago Dmitri Yur'yev...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 3h
Rocket Launch Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25 On 2026-10-10 at 16:00:00 UTC | 8 days, 15 hours, 44 mins By SpaceX Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5 Launch pad: Space Launch Complex 4E, located at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Orbit: Low Eart...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 4h
Today's weather in Кудрово, Всеволожский район, Северо-Западный федеральный округ, Россия is Partly cloudy throughout the day. Temperature: 10˚C, 49.4˚F Minimum temperature: 6˚C, 42.4˚F Maximum temperature: 14˚C, 58.0˚F Sunrise at 07:05:25 and sunset at 18:28:10 Fog alert from Fri Oct 2 01:00...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 5h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 8RCRGPGP+9M Latitude 38.5259047 Longitude 156.73673764 Orbiting at 15,666.12 miles/hour Altitude of 390.34 km At 23 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over Dembo Chio, Angola...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 5h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 4M6GG99V+5F Latitude -45.482082014421 Longitude 90.393710495422 Orbiting at 17,114.00 miles/hour Altitude of 500.82km At 23 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 68X2WC8H+G7, 9.9163225348817,-59.571819876865 At 0...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 6h
Artist's View of a Super-Jupiter around a Brown Dwarf (2M1207) Image date: 19 February 2016, 09:00 Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 7h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 6JGHJPW6+X2 Latitude 0.64743227 Longitude 71.71008539 Orbiting at 15,665.60 miles/hour Altitude of 385.27 km At 21 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 47R5Q55R+W9, -33.24...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 7h
The Tiangong 1 space station Launched to space on Thu Sep 29 2011 De-Orbited on Mon Apr 2 2018 Orbit: Low Earth Orbit Owned by China National Space Administration Tiangong-1 (Chinese: 天宫一号; pinyin: Tiāngōng yīhào; literally: "Heavenly Palace 1" or "Celestial Palace 1") was China's first pro...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 7h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 6F4257XJ+Q8 Latitude -7.8005787462148 Longitude 0.28075919794064 Orbiting at 17,142.00 miles/hour Altitude of 481.21km At 21 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 83PC3GMH+QH, 44.084396801841,-151.47111804604 At ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 7h
Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi Active Nationality: Emirati Agency: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre Born on Sat May 23 1981, 45 years old 1 flights and 1 spacewalks First flight was on Thu Mar 2 2023, 4 years ago and the last flight was on Thu Mar 2 2023, 4 years ago Sultan AlNeyadi is one of ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 7h
Rocket Launch Falcon Heavy | NROL-97 On 2026-10-02 at 03:53:00 UTC | 0 days, 7 hours, 37 mins By SpaceX Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. Rocket: Falcon Heavy Launch pad: Launch Complex 39A, located at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Orbit: Unknown Mission Classified pa...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 9h
Wide-field image of the NGC 2808 region (ground-based image) Image date: 2 May 2007, 15:00 Credit: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2 Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 9h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Latitude -39.63068344 Longitude -9.79425131 Orbiting at 15,633.61 miles/hour Altitude of 398.12 km At 19 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 9h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, QC, Canada Latitude 51.600962064693 Longitude -72.097766574649 Orbiting at 17,132.00 miles/hour Altitude of 493.98km At 19 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 4VW2FCQ5+HP, -31.511093024...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 10h
Today's weather in Etterbeek, Brussel, België is Partly cloudy throughout the day with rain clearing later. Temperature: 19˚C, 65.4˚F Minimum temperature: 15˚C, 58.1˚F Maximum temperature: 21˚C, 69.7˚F Sunrise at 07:42:40 and sunset at 19:20:49 Hourly 00:00:00 - Partially cloudy 06:00:00 - Rai...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 10h
Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. This intense activity is driven by tidal heating, a constant stretching and squeezing from Jupiter's immense gravity. What makes Io's volcanism peculiar is the sheer scale and variety of its eruptions. Lav...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 11h
Cosmological redshift is the stretching of light waves as the universe expands. Imagine a rubber band with dots on it. As you stretch the band, the dots move further apart, and the distance between them increases. Similarly, as the universe expands, the space between galaxies grows, causing the l...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 11h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 77M53G5H+J8 Latitude 23.05905991 Longitude -76.47170876 Orbiting at 15,678.11 miles/hour Altitude of 388.13 km At 17 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 7Q3GXMM9+FR, 11.9...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 11h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over French Polynesia Latitude -15.816643733925 Longitude -137.79607644888 Orbiting at 17,120.00 miles/hour Altitude of 492.10km At 17 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 5J733859+WX, -24.940228712467,61.319961517339...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 11h
Rocket Launch Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25 On 2026-10-10 at 16:00:00 UTC | 8 days, 23 hours, 44 mins By SpaceX Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5 Launch pad: Space Launch Complex 4E, located at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Orbit: Low Eart...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 12h
The Local Group is a collection of over 80 galaxies, with the Milky Way and Andromeda being the two largest. These galaxies are all gravitationally bound and are moving towards a common center of mass. The Local Group spans approximately 10 million light-years across and is part of the larger Vir...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 12h
Mars in opposition 2016 Image date: 19 May 2016, 19:00 Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 12h
Astronaut Vitaly Zholobov Retired Nationality: Russian Agency: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Born on Fri Jun 18 1937, 89 years old 1 flights and 0 spacewalks First flight was on Tue Jul 6 1976, 50 years ago and the last flight was on Tue Jul 6 1976, 50 years ago Vitaly Mikhaylov...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 13h
Today's weather in Robi, Kalu, Ethiopia is Partly cloudy throughout the day. Temperature: 19˚C, 65.5˚F Minimum temperature: 14˚C, 56.9˚F Maximum temperature: 24˚C, 74.9˚F Sunrise at 06:09:51 and sunset at 18:11:33 Hourly 00:00:00 - Partially cloudy 06:00:00 - Clear 12:00:00 - Partially cloudy ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 13h
Our solar system began as a vast, rotating cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula. About 4.6 billion years ago, a nearby supernova may have triggered its collapse. As the nebula spun faster, it flattened into a disk, with most of the mass gathering at the center to form our Sun. In the surro...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 13h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 72JGRW5X+R7 Latitude 22.8095906 Longitude -169.05175233 Orbiting at 15,634.13 miles/hour Altitude of 386.06 km At 15 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 4HCV98C3+C5, -41....
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 13h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 4QF9CWM5+MH Latitude -40.565809335921 Longitude 127.9089301987 Orbiting at 17,126.00 miles/hour Altitude of 494.19km At 15 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over Haubach 2, 77781 Biberach, Germany, 48.350918936884,...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 14h
The dawn of private spaceflight truly began to accelerate in the early 2000s. One of the most significant milestones was SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002. Their initial goal was to revolutionize space technology, making missions more affordable. SpaceX's first major success came with the Fal...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 15h
Stars evolve in truly astonishing ways! When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it can collapse under its own gravity, leading to a supernova explosion. This cataclysmic event is so powerful it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. The remnant core of the star then either becomes an incre...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 15h
Hubble's orbit Image date: 12 March 2002 Credit: NASA & ESA Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 15h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 4QG7F24P+4Q Latitude -39.54463423 Longitude 125.03691335 Orbiting at 15,659.23 miles/hour Altitude of 397.35 km At 13 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over Niassia, Senegal...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 15h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over Karakax County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China Latitude 37.187574186219 Longitude 79.410529906136 Orbiting at 17,141.00 miles/hour Altitude of 486.26km At 13 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over Barbacoas Muni...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 15h
Rocket Launch Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13 On 2026-10-01 at 15:10:06 UTC | 0 days, 2 hours, 54 mins By SpaceX Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5 Launch pad: Space Launch Complex 40, located at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Orbit: Low Earth Orbit Mi...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 16h
Today's weather in Cadereyta, Lomas de Becerra, 01279 Álvaro Obregón, CDMX, México is Cloudy skies throughout the day with rain. Temperature: 17˚C, 62.2˚F Minimum temperature: 13˚C, 56.3˚F Maximum temperature: 21˚C, 70.0˚F Sunrise at 06:27:39 and sunset at 18:25:08 Aviso de lluvias alert from ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 17h
In late 2025, the Chandra X-ray Observatory detected an unusual X-ray emission from the outskirts of a galaxy cluster that suggests the presence of a very old and faint supernova remnant. This remnant is significantly more diffuse and less luminous than typical ones, indicating it has been expand...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 17h
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over Bu'ale, Somalia Latitude 0.94570403 Longitude 42.80712527 Orbiting at 15,655.43 miles/hour Altitude of 387.82 km At 11 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over Doña Ana County...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 17h
The Salyut 1 space station Launched to space on Mon Apr 19 1971 De-Orbited on Mon Oct 11 1971 Orbit: Low Earth Orbit Owned by Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Salyut 1 (DOS-1) was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 17h
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 7CF4GQMP+W9 Latitude 19.534760803466 Longitude -17.214105697308 Orbiting at 17,126.00 miles/hour Altitude of 489.69km At 11 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 33X4R2P4+F6, -50.163856206024,-157.99446415334 At ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 17h
Astronaut Laurel Clark Lost In Flight Nationality: American Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fri Mar 10 1961 - Sat Feb 1 2003, 41 years old 1 flights and 0 spacewalks First flight was on Thu Jan 16 2003, 24 years ago and the last flight was on Thu Jan 16 2003, 24 years ...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 18h
The concept of ion propulsion was first conceived in the early 1900s, with early experiments conducted by Robert H. Goddard in 1916. The first ion thruster was built by Harold R. Kaufman in 1959. These early thrusters used mercury as a propellant. The first space demonstration of ion propulsion t...
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 18h
Huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A Image date: 9 March 2018, 13:58 Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Schneider (University of Arizona) Source: ESA/Hubble
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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 19h
Today's weather in Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland is Partly cloudy throughout the day with rain clearing later. Temperature: 18˚C, 64.6˚F Minimum temperature: 13˚C, 56.2˚F Maximum temperature: 19˚C, 66.8˚F Sunrise at 07:38:49 and sunset at 19:16:15 Hourly 00:00:00 - Rain, Overcast 06:00:0...
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