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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#OTD in 2018, the Soyuz MS-10 mission with cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague on board was aborted after launch due to a failure of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle side booster during stage separation. The crew returned safely to Earth 19 minutes 41 seconds after the launch.

Nick Hague (above) and Aleksey Ovchinin (below), pictured at Pad 1/5 on Baikonur before Soyuz MS-10 launch.

The moment of failure of the Soyuz-FG – launch vehicle, plume from escape tower, 4 boosters, and debris after separation

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Apollo 7, the first crewed flight of an Apollo spacecraft, launched on the Saturn IB launch vehicle #OTD in 1968, with astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham on board. The 10-day mission tested hardware and procedures essential for the flights to the Moon.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Able 2, the second in the series of probes with the ambitious goal to orbit the Moon was launched #OTD in 1958. The probe reached altitude of 113,810 km and reentered Earth’s atmosphere 43 h 17 min after launch. The mission, officially named Pioneer, was the first mission under the direction of NASA

Thor-Able I launch vehicle with Pioneer I spacecraft atop, prior to launch. Credit: NASA

Artist’s conception of the Able-1 spacecraft in flight firing its vernier engines. Credit: Space Technology Laboratories (STL)

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

'Ambient Earth' Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. This ambitious 7.5hr 4k compilation, crafted over months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do. Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran youtu.be/alJMoaKpV_E

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ISS - Ambient Earth · 4K

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today in space: The Hera spacecraft is about to perform a hard burn so it can meet up with asteroid Dimorphos. 4 years ago, NASA deliberately crashed a probe into Dimorphos. Starting next month, Hera will map the wreckage. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Venera 15, the first of two Soviet radar imaging orbiters (along with Venera 16) designed to make detailed radar maps of Venus' surface, entered orbit around the planet #OTD in 1983. Both orbiters mapped about 25% of Venus' surface at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers.

Venera 15 or Venera 16 spacecraft during prelaunch tests. Credit: NPO Lavochkin

Fragment of the Venera radar map of Venus with Anahit and Pomona Coronas. Credit: NPO Lavochkin

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The first attempt to launch a spacecraft to the vicinity of another planet took place #OTD in 1960. The 1M No. 1 probe was the first of two Soviet spacecraft intended to fly past Mars. The launch attempt failed without reaching Earth orbit.

Preparations of the Molniya 8K78 launch vehicle carrying the 1M Mars flyby spacecraft.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#OTD in 1846, Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, was discovered by English astronomer William Lassell from his private observatory near Liverpool, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit – opposite to its planet's rotation.

William Lassell, the discoverer of Triton. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Neptune's moon Triton, seen in images captured by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989. Approximate natural color.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Voyager Imaging Team/Jason Major

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most powerful explosions ever recorded, Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 221009A, was detected by X-ray and gamma-ray space telescopes #OTD in 2022. The burst occurred approximately 1.9 billion light-years away. It was the most energetic and one of the nearest gamma-ray bursts ever observed.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#OTD In 2009, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its Centaur upper stage crashed as planned on the lunar surface. The mission successfully confirmed that water ice resides in a permanently shadowed crater at the lunar south pole.

Artist's illustration of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and the Shepherding Spacecraft as they approach impact with the lunar south pole on October 9, 2009. Credit: NASA

The visible camera of the LCROSS spacecraft image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after the LCROSS Centaur upper stage impact. Credit: NASA

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#OTD in 1890, the first confirmed manned powered flight was made by French inventor and engineer Clément Ader in a monoplane Éole of his own design. It achieved a short flight of around 50 metres at a height of 20 cm. The plane was incapable of either sustained or controlled flight.

Ader Éole in flight in a drawing published on French magazine L'Illustration in 1891

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Supernova SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Star, in Ophiuchus, was first seen by observers in northern Italy #OTD 1604. It was visible during the day for over three weeks. The star was named after Johannes Kepler, who followed the object for an entire year, even though he was not its first observer.

A false-color composite image of the supernova remnant nebula from SN 1604. This combined image - from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory - unveils a bubble-shaped shroud of gas and dust that is 14 light-years wide and is expanding at 2,000 kilometers per second. Observations from each telescope highlight distinct features of the supernova remnant, a fast-moving shell of iron-rich material from the exploded star, surrounded by an expanding shock wave that is sweeping up interstellar gas and dust.
Credit: NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#OTD in 2009, a superbolide – a large atmospheric fireball blast – was seen above Sulawesi island. The meteoritic impactor broke up at a height of 15–20 km, with an energy of 10 to 50 kiloton TNT, its likely size was 5–10 m diameter. The explosion was detected by many infrasound monitoring stations.

Still from a TV news reporting a fireball in Sulawesi

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#OTD in 1965, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 7 attempted a soft landing on the Moon. Due to a loss of attitude control during final approach to the lunar surface, firing of the retrojet engines intended to slow the probe was prevented, and the spacecraft crashed.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#OTD in 2008, asteroid 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. It was the first predicted asteroid impact, discovered just 19 hours before the impact by Richard A. Kowalski at the Catalina Sky Survey. The asteroid had a diameter of approximately 4.1 meters and a mass of 80 tonnes.

2008 TC3 fragment found on February 28, 2009, by Peter Jenniskens, with help from students and staff of the University of Khartoum

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, I just discovered this fabulous reprocessing of the Voyager approach movies by Ian Regan. Go give it a watch! #planetsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn6t...

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10 Jovian Days: The Voyager 1 Jupiter Rotation Movie

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#OTD in 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, now officially named Dimidium. The planet was discovered using the radial velocity method. This was the first definitive detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star.

Artist's impression of 51 Pegasi b (center) and its star (right).
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ulysses, a joint ESA-NASA mission to study the environment of space above and below the poles of the Sun, was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-41 #OTD in 1990. The gravity-assist manoeuvre at Jupiter in February 1992 swung the spacecraft into its unique solar orbit.

STS-41 Discovery lifts off from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a four-day mission in space for its five-man crew. Discovery lifted off at 11:47 UTC on Oct. 6, 1990. A few hours after this photo was made, the crewmembers released the Ulysses spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Artist's impression of the Ulysses upon deployment from Space Shuttle Discovery. Credit: NASA

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The real thing can be seen here! LanYue's lunar landing and takeoff test.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Robert Hutchings Goddard, an American engineer and physicist, was born #OTD in 1882. He is recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. In 1926 he successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

Robert Goddard in his rocket construction workshop in Roswell, New Mexico, in the late 1930s.
Credit: Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gravitational lens WISE J220544.23-372701.4 with #JWST NIRCam (F200W, F356W). program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... The galaxy in the center lenses a quasar (quasi stellar object), which is the bright black hole in the center of a galaxy. This creates the four identical point sources.

A blue galaxy in the center with four red point sources. Three on one side and one on the other.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Snippets from a 171-images, 360° Mastcam panorama captured two days ago by Curiosity #Mars Oct. 2, 2026 - Sol 5032🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, with the UHF antenna of the Mars rover Curiosity in the foreground.

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape.

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, with the instrumented turret of the Mars rover Curiosity in the foreground.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD 2004, the experimental rocket-powered SpaceShipOne aircraft with pilot Brian Binnie reached a maximum altitude of 112 kilometers and broke the record for a rocket plane set by the X-15 plane in 1963. It was the third of three record-setting flights of the SpaceShipOne to win the Ansari X-Prize

SpaceShipOne aircraft in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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SpaceShipOne in gliding configuration. Credit: SpaceFacts

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD in 1959, the Soviet Automatic Interplanetary Station (retroactively named Luna 3), the first spacecraft to return images of the lunar far side, was launched from Tyuratam (now the Baikonur Cosmodrome). A total of 17 resolvable but noisy photographs were transmitted to Earth by October 18.

Model of the Luna 3 spacecraft. Credit: RKK Energiya

This is the first image returned by Luna 3, taken by the wide-angle (200 mm) lens. It showed the far side of the Moon was very different from the near side, most noticeably in its lack of lunar maria (the dark areas). The right three-quarters of the disk are the far side. The dark spot at upper right is Mare Moscoviense, the dark area at lower left is Mare Smythii. The small dark circle at lower right with the white dot in the center is the crater Tsiolkovskiy and its central peak. The north is up in this image. Credit: Roscosmos

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lift-off of Sputnik 8K71PS rocket with Sputnik 1.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Soviet technician works on Sputnik 1 before the satellite’s launch.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

69 years ago #OTD, Sputnik 1 (PS-1), the world’s first artificial satellite, was launched from Tyuratam (now the Baikonur Cosmodrome) aboard a two-stage rocket, a variant of the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Painting by Andrei Sokolov.

Artist's depiction of Sputnik 1 being ejected from the launch vehicle's core stage. Credit: Andrei Sokolov

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A very HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY to Apollo 16 LMP Charlie Duke! Born #OTD, October 3, 1935 and the youngest man to walk on the Moon. Charlie was always so generous with his time when I was working on the book and I feel so blessed to call him a friend. Happy Birthday Charlie.

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Amid the Stars @amidthestarstours.com · 02/10/2026

Don't worry, that's not an astronaut lost in space, it's just an empty spacesuit. The suit was a decommissioned Russian spacesuit. It was dubbed Suitsat-1 and was pushed into orbit by the crew of the ISS in 2006. The suit orbited Earth for a few months before burning up in reentry. #Astronomy ⚛️🧪🛰️

A space suit floats away, well above the Earth

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The MASCOT lander, developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with the French space agency CNES, and carried on the Hayabusa2 mission, landed on the asteroid Ryugu #OTD in 2018. It made two hops and observed the asteroid over a total of almost 17 hours before the batteries ran out

This color view of asteroid (162173) Ryugu surface at night was created from images captured by MASCOT lander using red, green, and blue LEDs for illumination. The MASCOT lander was used on 3 October 2018. Credit: MASCOT/DLR/JAXA

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The maiden flight of Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis (OV-104), mission STS-51-J, took off from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1985. This was a classified U.S. Department of Defense mission to launch a pair of third-generation Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) satellites.

The crew of the STS-51-J mission: (seated left to right) Robert L. Stewart, mission specialist; Karol J. Bobko, commander; and Ronald J. Grabe, pilot. On the back row, left to right, are mission specialist David C. Hilmers, and payload specialist William A. Pailes. Credit: NASA

Liftoff of the first flight of the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, mission STS-51-J, on October 3, 1985. Credit: NASA

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first successful test flight of a German Aggregat 4 — later known as V-2 — ballistic missile, prototype no. V-4, took place from Prüfstand VII in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom off the Baltic coast #OTD in 1942. The prototype rocket reached an altitude of 85–90 kilometers.

Launch of Aggregat 4 from Peenemünde on October 3, 1942. Credit: NASM

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Walt Watson Astrophotography @waltwatsonastro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is our nearest neighbor large spiral galaxy. It is bright and large enough (apparent size is 6 moon diameters) to be visible to the naked eye in dark skies.(per Wiki) Exp: 13 hours, updated 10/1/26 #astronomy #astrophotography

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two groups of astronauts. The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Anerican astronauts selected in 1959 to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. The first group of Soviet cosmonauts was formed in February – April 1960, with twenty candidates. Its official name was Air Force Group 1.

The seven original Mercury astronauts participate in U.S. Air Force survival school at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Picture from left to right are L. Gordon Cooper, M. Scott Carpenter, John H. Glenn, Jr., Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. Portions of their clothing have been fashioned from parachute material, and all have grown beards from their time in the wilderness. The purpose of this training was to prepare astronauts in the event of an emergency or faulty landing in a remote area.

The photo showing most of the first group of Soviet cosmonauts in May 1961 in Sochi – (seated, left to right) Popovich, Gorbatko, Khrunov, Chief Designer Sergei P. Korolev, Gagarin, Cosmonaut Training Center Director Yevgeni A. Karpov, parachute instructor Nikolai K. Nikitin and physician Yevgeni A. Fyodorov; (first row standing, left to right) Leonov, Nikolayev, Rafikov, Zaikin, Volynov, Titov, Nelyubov, Bykovsky and Shonin; (back row standing, left to right) Filatyev, Anikeyev and Belyayev.
Credits: I. Snegirev.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chang'e 2, the second Chinese lunar spacecraft, was launched #OTD in 2010. The spacecraft orbited the Moon until June 2011 and flew, with a distance of less than 1 kilometre, by the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis in December 2012.

Artist's impression of the Chang'e 2 flyby of the asteroid (4179) Toutatis.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began operations on October 1, 1958. NASA was created from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other related organizations, as the result of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The B2FH paper, named after the initials of the authors of the paper, Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyl, was published in "Reviews of Modern Physics" #OTD in 1957. It was a landmark paper on the origin of the chemical elements in stellar nucleosynthesis processes

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saturn: July 2, 2014 - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nWLXBi

This is a true color view of Saturn. Saturn's north polar hexagon stands out prominently while the rings encircle the planet.

This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on July 02, 2014 and received on Earth July 03, 2014. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 1,815,382 miles (2,921,574 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the red, green, and blue filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After more than 12 years in space, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission with a controlled impact on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko #OTD in 2016.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Themisto (Jupiter XVIII), a small prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter, was initially discovered #OTD in 1975 by American astronomers Charles Thomas Kowal and Elizabeth Roemer. However, not enough observations were made to establish an orbit and it was lost until 2000, when it was rediscovered.

Montage of the rediscovery images of Themisto taken on 21 November 2000 with the 2.2 m U. of Hawaii telescope. The three images, taken 40 minutes apart, are superposed. Themisto (arrows) moves from right to left during that time.
Credit: IMCCE/University of Hawaii

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Above Baikonur" – painting by Andrey Sokolov

Painting entitled "Above Baikonur". This depicts the Salyut 6 space station, with two Soyuz spacecraft docked, in orbit over the Baikonur area in Kazakhstan. The large body of water is the Aral Sea. The painting was taken into orbit by the Soviet/Czech crew of Soyuz 28 (2 March 1978), and was returned by the Soviet/Polish crew of Soyuz 30 (4 July 1978). The painting has been signed by cosmonauts W.Kovalyonok, A.Ivanchenkov, P.Klimuk and M.Hermaszewski: the stamps of the Soviet and Polish space authorities appear at the bottom. The painting was sent to Salyut so that the crews could make corrections for the artist.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tiangong 1, the first Chinese space laboratory module and a prototype space station, was launched from Jiuquan #OTD in 2011. The module was visited by three Shenzhou spacecraft during its two-year operational lifetime.

Visualization of Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docking with Tiangong 1. Credit: CNSA

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Soviet space station Salyut 6 (DOS-5) was launched #OTD in 1977. It was the first space station to receive regular crews and supplies. It had two docking ports, allowing two spacecraft to visit simultaneously. Between 1977 and 1981, it received six long-term crews and ten short-term crews.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Recent painting of a couple of exomoons. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #Exoplanets

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luna 19, a Soviet heavy lunar orbiter, was launched from Baikonur #OTD in 1971. The spacecraft studied lunar gravitational field, radiation environment, and made panoramic tv images.

Schematic diagram of the Luna 19 orbiter. Credit: NPO Lavochkin

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Murchison meteorite, one of the most studied of all meteorites, that belongs to the CM2 group of carbonaceous chondrites, fell in Australia #OTD in 1969. Its silicon carbide particles had been determined to be 7 billion years old – the oldest material found on Earth to date.

Large individual of the Murchison Meteorite with fusion crust. Field Museum of Natural History meteorite collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Credit: James St. John

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ananke (Jupiter XII), a retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter, was discovered #OTD in 1951 by American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson on a photograph taken with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. It is the largest (about 29 km) member of the Ananke group of Jovian satellites

Single-exposure W3 band (12 μm wavelength range) image of Jupiter's moon Ananke by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) on 23 June 2010.

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A TNG poster featuring the main crew and the USS Enterprise.

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Encounter at Farpoint".
Credit: Paramount Pictures

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beyondearthsky.bsky.social @beyondearthsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered #OTD in 1987 with the two-hour pilot movie "Encounter at Farpoint". TNG is considered one of the greatest sci-fi television series of all time. It won numerous awards, including 18 Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, and had a lasting impact on popular culture

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