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Here's my #timelapse for April 12-13, 2026 from Crestone, Colorado USA Mantis by Tar Sahno is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. #astronomy #astrophotography
International #DarkSkyWeek has officially begun, with celebrations taking place around the world to build awareness and appreciation for the wonders and importance of the night. Come listen to Mike Weasner talk about how he helped create a Dark Sky site on the #StarRiver #Podcast! ☀️🎙️🔭🦛
Hidden Oceans of Magma Could Be Protecting Alien Life https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-oceans-of-magma-could-be-protecting-alien-life/ 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology
Between eternal night and day, the faces of two cousins of Earth https://phys.org/news/2026-04-eternal-night-day-cousins-earth.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology
As I enjoy doing, I present a cosmic distraction for you, and it's a doozy: a JWST shot of the spiral galaxy NGC 5134 is fire, I tell you. FIRE. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-galaxy-a... 🔭 🧪
1/2 Long before they had telescopes, humans kept an eye on the Sun. 1375 BCE: Babylonians used stone tablets to record solar eclipses. Image: Babylonian Tablet listing eclipses between 518 and 465 BCE, mentioning the death of king Xerxes Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal 🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci
NASA Night-light Imagery Tracks US Energy Transition, Global Volatility — New nighttime maps based on NASA satellite imagery are upending assumptions, revealing a world where artificial brightening and dimming have intensified over the past decade. The findings show intense
Hubble Spies an Active Spiral — A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of
On Exoplanet 79473 there are flowers that look just like flowers on Earth. But the life cycle is different. It is part of a symbiotic relationship. The equivalent to an earthen bee is called Erysithsilo that lays it eggs in the winter pod of this flower. When the flower blooms the Erysithsilo grows ...
La NASA da la bienvenida a la Tierra a los exploradores lunares de Artemis II, quienes batieron récords — Los primeros astronautas en viajar a la Luna en más de medio siglo han regresado a la Tierra tras una misión que ha establecido nuevos récords a bordo del vuelo de prueba Artemis II de la N...
NASA Science, Cargo Launch Aboard Northrop Grumman CRS-24 — NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Servi
Artemis II Splashes Down — This image from April 10, 2026, captures NASA’s Orion spacecraft, with its parachutes deployed, seconds before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The Artemis II crew accomplished many milestones o
In groups of two to thirty, the Pilosan float through space near Exoplanet 23987. This caterpillar like animal, living in airless space, thrive off volcanic minerals. The exoplanet is unstable tectonically and covered with volcanos, many of them launching debris into space through the thin atmospher...
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