Discovery Fact

09/27/2023

A meteor passing by the Moon ☄️🌖

09/27/2023

Driving to the Moon 🌙🚗

09/27/2023

Stunning Aurora Borealis as seen from the ISS

09/27/2023

This is the world’s longest continuous road that a person can walk on 🌍

09/26/2023

Sun just 12 minutes ago

📸: NASA/SDO

09/26/2023

Detailed view of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars. 📸 NASA

09/26/2023

Stunning:

This is IO, the most volcanically active world in our solar system, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft

(Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

09/26/2023

The Heart Nebula ❤️

09/26/2023

Easter Island below the Milky Way

09/26/2023

The Jellyfish Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Jesús M. Vargas y María Jesús Poyal

09/25/2023

Mars - photo credit: NASA

09/25/2023

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐂𝐗𝟏 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡

While scanning the skies for near earth objects Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky first imaged the meter-sized space rock now cataloged as 2023 CX1 on 12 February 2023 at 20:18:07 UTC. That was about 7 hours before it impacted planet Earth's atmosphere.

Its predicted trajectory created a rare opportunity for meteor observers and a last minute plan resulted in this spectacular image of the fireball, captured from the Netherlands as 2023 CX1 vaporized and broke up over northern France.

Remarkably it was Sárneczky's second discovery of an impacting asteroid, while 2023 CX1 is only the seventh asteroid to be detected before being successfully predicted to impact Earth. It has recently become the third such object from which meteorites have been recovered. This fireball was witnessed almost 10 years to the day following the infamous Chelyabinsk Meteor flash.

Image Credit & Copyright: Gijs de Reijke

09/25/2023

This little dot is Earth, taken about 3.7 Billion miles away by NASA’s Voyager 1

09/25/2023

How do you say ‘Moon’ in your language? 🌙
(Clearest picture of Moon)

09/25/2023

09/24/2023

Look at the difference in scale between the Earth and Solar Flares. 🤯

Credit:

09/24/2023

If Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, this is how it would look