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13/11/2024

The Crescent Nebula 🌌

How was it created? Looking like an emerging space cocoon, the Crescent Nebula, visible in the center of the featured image, was created by the brightest star in its center. A leading progenitor hypothesis has the Crescent Nebula beginning to form about 250,000 years ago.

📸 Team ARO

13/11/2024

LG's batteries will power SpaceX’s Starship, paving the way for reusable spacecraft and sustainable energy solutions in space exploration.

13/11/2024

A week of cosmic wonders captured in stunning images. Explore the best astrophotos of the week and witness the beauty of the cosmos.

12/11/2024

Discover the best times and locations in the UK to catch the Taurid meteor shower in 2024, featuring stunning fireballs.

12/11/2024

🚀 On this day in 1966, Gemini 12, the final mission of NASA's Gemini program, launched into orbit.

With astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin aboard, this mission was key in perfecting spacewalks and docking manoeuvres - critical skills for the Apollo moon landings that followed. 🌕

12/11/2024

The history of astronauts stuck in space. Learn about all the times astronauts have been stranded in orbit longer than planned and why it happened

12/11/2024

12/11/2024

What is Beaver Moon preparing for us? November full moon date un 2024, name origin, astrological and spiritual meaning, horoscope for your zodiac sign.

11/11/2024

Score amazing Black Friday deals for space lovers – from telescopes to space-themed goodies! Full list is in the article!

11/11/2024

11/11/2024

Devil’s Horns spotted in Qatar during a partial solar eclipse⁠ ☀️🌑

On December 26, 2019, sunrise in Qatar was anything but ordinary. As the Sun rose partially during an annular solar eclipse, it appeared split in two, creating an otherworldly look resembling horns.

This unique spectacle earned the name “evil dawn.” For astrophotographer Elias Chasiotis, it was the most breathtaking sunrise he had ever witnessed

11/11/2024

🧐The unusual tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas

What created an unusual dark streak in Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas's tail? Some images of the bright comet during mid-October not only caught its impressively long tail and its thin anti-tail, but a rather unexpected feature: a dark streak in the long tail.

The reason for the dark streak is currently unclear and a topic of some debate. Possible reasons include a plume of dark dust, different parts of the bright tail being unusually superposed, and a shadow of a dense part of the coma on smaller dust particles. The streak is visible in the featured image taken on 14 October from Texas, USA.

📸 Bray Falls

08/11/2024

ISRO launches its first analog space mission in Leh, leveraging extreme conditions to prepare for future interplanetary exploration.

08/11/2024

⚡️Tornado & lightning tandem near Broken Bow.

📸Image credit: Roger Hill via X (former Twitter)

07/11/2024

🚀 On this day in space NASA History: Mars Global Surveyor launched on a mission to uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

🌌It mapped Mars, discovered ancient water channels, and found clues to Martian climate change. The journey to understanding Mars had begun! 🪐