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Images taken of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites by the Indian Lunar Orbiter. These images show the Eagle and Intrepid landers, debunking claims made by conspiracy theorists that we did not land on the Moon. #space #NASA

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This video shows the deployment of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The Perseverance rover's main purpose is to search for signs of ancient life on Mars. #space #NASA

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This video shows a crew dragon cargo arrival at the International Space Station. There are approximately 6-12 cargo resupply missions per year. #space #NASA

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This video shows Space Shuttle Discovery docking to the International Space Station. The space shuttles were used to transport modules to build the International Space Station, conduct scientific research, and to repair satellites in orbit. #space #NASA

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This is a recording of the sounds from the Apollo 1 incident. NASA believed the fire started somewhere in the electrical wiring beneath Grissom's seat and that the cobra cable was not connected. #space #NASA

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Moreover, approximately 10% of Americans have responded that they agree with the claim that the Earth is flat. These results were conducted from a Gallup survey. #space #NASA

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This is a video if the DART spacecraft colliding with asteroid Dimorfos. DART, the Double-Asteroid Redirect Test), was a mission to demonstrate the ability for a spacecraft to redirect an asteroid out of its trajectory. #space #NASA

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This is an Astronaut's perspective of planet Earth during a spacewalk from the International Space Station. #space #NASA

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This is a timelapse of Voyager 1 approaching Jupiter taken in 1979 - over 47 years ago. Voyager 1 is still in operation and is currently over 15.8 billion miles away from Earth. #space #NASA

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On September 11 2025, there was a Butterfly-shaped coronal hole in the Sun, as spotted by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. A coronal hole is an area on the Sun, visible in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and soft-X-ray images, where the plasma is cooler than other areas. #space #nasa

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President Richard Nixon spoke from the Oval Office using a standard telephone connected to NASA’s communication network. His voice was converted into radio signals, transmitted via communications satellites, and routed to NASA’s Mission Control in Houston. From there, the signal was sent through the Deep Space Network (DSN), a global system of large radio antennas in California, Spain, and Australia designed to communicate with spacecraft far beyond Earth orbit.

The message was received by Apollo 11’s Lunar Module, Eagle, using its S-band communication system, which handled voice, telemetry, and television signals. Inside the module, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin heard Nixon through their headsets connected to the onboard communications panel. Armstrong spoke into the microphone while Aldrin listened, with a noticeable but manageable delay due to the vast distance and speed of radio waves.

When Armstrong replied, his voice traveled back through Eagle’s S-band transmitter to Earth. The signal was picked up by the Deep Space Network, routed to Mission Control in Houston, and then sent through terrestrial communication lines back to the White House. Nixon heard the astronauts’ voices only seconds after they spoke, completing the first two-way conversation between Earth and the Moon.

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This vizualization shows the increasing amount if satellites in Earth's orbit from 1957 to 2025. While an increasing amount of satellites can help improve wireless connectivity and weather reporting, it can also make it difficult for Astronomers to study the night sky. #space

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These images are part of a series of authentic photographs captured inside some of the most breathtaking cave systems on New Zealand’s North Island.

The glowing blue organisms seen here are Arachnocampa luminosa, commonly known as New Zealand glowworms, a species found nowhere else on Earth. Their distinctive blue bioluminescence is produced through a chemical reaction within their bodies and is used to lure insects into silk strands that hang from cave ceilings like natural traps.

As visitors move through the caves, the glowworms shift position and their brightness subtly fluctuates, creating a dynamic, star-like display that makes the experience visually stunning and immersive.

Photographed by @txmrae

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I'm Getting Younger! Biological Age Test #biohacking #science

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Mimas is one of Saturn's innermost moons, famous for its heavily cratered surface, particularly the massive Herschel Crater, which gives it a resemblance to the Star Wars Death Star.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1789, it's a small, icy body composed mostly of water ice with a low density, and it orbits Saturn in just under 23 hours.

Despite its seemingly inert, frozen appearance, recent analysis of its orbital wobble suggests Mimas harbors a young, subsurface ocean, making it a surprising candidate for potential habitability.

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The three stars in Orion's Belt are Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. These massive, hot blue supergiant stars appear in a nearly straight line at the center of the Orion constellation.

Orion's belt is also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters and act as a celestial navigation guide.

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This video shows China's Change 3 lander landing on the lunar surface. #space

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This video shows the surface of Venus, and the sounds of its atmosphere, as captured by Venera 13 and 14 on March of 1982. #space #NASA

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This video shows a comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), colliding with Jupiter - over 31 years ago. This was the first directly observed extraterrestrial collision in the solar system. #space #nasa

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This video shows a comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), colliding with Jupiter - over 31 years ago. This was the first directly observed extraterrestrial collision in the solar system. #space #nasa

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This is what Earth looks like from the International Space Stations. Prominantly visible are geomagnetic storms, often referred to as "Northern Lights." Northern lights are caused when charged particles from the sun, known as solar wind, collide with gases in Earth's upper atmosphere. #space #astronomy

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This is a CBS simulation of the real Apollo Moon Landing on July 20, 1969. #space #NASA

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This is a CBS simulation of the real Apollo Moon Landing on July 20, 1969. #space #NASA

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Astronauts describe how it feels to pass through Earth's atmosphere when returning from space. #space #nasa

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The results were revealed in a survey conducted by Gallup in 1999. The results are likely more significant in 2026 with the rebirth of psuedoscience information going around on social media networks.

The survey results showed that around 18% of Americans aged 18-34 do not believe in the Moon landing, compared to just 8% aged 35-54 and 3% aged over 54.

The top reasons that the surveyed Moon landing deniers point to several claims. 41% of those believe the waving flag was evidence the Moon landing was staged. Furthermore, 14% believe there was not enough moisture on the Moon to create a footprint. 12% believe the radiation from the Van Allen belts would have killed the Astronauts. Another 10% believe that shadows from studio lights are visible.

However, Moon landing deniers are favorable with regard to the existance of alien life. Around 75% of those surveyed believe that aliens have visited Earth, compared to 43% if believers.

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This video shows a solar prominance, a large plasma and magnetic field structure extending outward from the Sun's surface, captured by NASA's SOHO. Solar prominances can trigger coronal mass ejections. #space #nasa

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Neil Armstrong giving a speech on his experiences during the Apollo missions, reflecting on the Lunar surface and the perspective of Earth from the Moon. #space #nasa

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This video shows a solar prominance, a large plasma and magnetic field structure extending outward from the Sun's surface, captured by NASA's SOHO. Solar prominances can trigger coronal mass ejections. #space #nasa

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Located roughly 400 light-years away, PDS 70 is a youthful stellar system—only about 5.4 million years old—centered on a K-type star. Astronomers have directly observed at least two developing gas giants, PDS 70b and PDS 70c, embedded within a dense circumstellar disk of dust and gas. Because these planets are still accreting material, the system offers a rare snapshot of planetary growth in progress.

Often described as an emerging analogue to a newborn solar system, PDS 70 provides valuable insight into how giant planets form and interact with their natal disks. Observations show the surrounding material actively feeding the planets, helping researchers study the early stages of planetary assembly and system evolution.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al.

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The Moon landing photos do not show stars because the cameras were set to photograph very bright subjects. The Moon’s surface and the astronauts’ white suits reflect strong sunlight, so the cameras used fast shutter speeds and low sensitivity. These settings made faint objects like stars too dim to appear in the pictures.

The astronauts used specially modified Hasselblad cameras with exposure settings similar to taking photos on a sunny day on Earth. When you take a daytime photo, the sky often looks empty even though stars are still there. The same thing happened on the Moon—the stars were present but the camera could not capture them.

If you take one of the Moon landing photos and increase the brightness or contrast, some stars can be seen in certain images. This works because a small amount of starlight was captured, just not enough to be visible at normal settings. The lack of stars in the original photos is a normal result of how cameras work, not anything unusual.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured stunning, detailed infrared images of Uranus, highlighting its faint rings, seasonal north polar cap, and atmospheric storms.

Using NIRCam, Webb resolved 11 of the 13 known rings—including the faint, inner Zeta ring—and captured 14 of its 27 known moons, revealing a dynamic ice giant.

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This video shows the process of planting a flag on the Moon. The flag has several poles embedded within it to give it the appearance of a flying flag for photography. Movements in the flag were caused from the force by the astronauts setting it into place - not wind - since the Moon has an extremely light atmosphere. #space #nasa

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Is there a secret Planet 9 hiding in our solar system? #space #science

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Jupiter’s massive cosmic collision #space #science

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Rolls Royces's plans to build nuclear reactors on the Moon in 2029 have been halted, potentially indefinitely, due to expired government contracts and lack of potential partners.

The project would send a nuclear reactor to the Moon to power a permanent lunar settlement.

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In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849, over 4.5 billion light years away — and it seems to be smiling.

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The first photograph of the Sun was taken on April 2, 1845, by French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault.

Using a 12 cm daguerreotype plate, they captured the image at approximately 9:45 a.m. with an exposure time of 1/60th of a second, successfully revealing distinct sunspots along with the edge of the solar disk.

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LDN 1622, situated within the Orion complex approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth, represents a dense region of interstellar dust known as a dark nebula. These silhouettes occur when concentrated cosmic grains obscure the visible light from background stars and ionized hydrogen gas.

Such regions are critical sites of stellar evolution, serving as the cold molecular nurseries where gravitational collapse eventually leads to the formation of new star systems. Studying these opaque clouds allows astronomers to better understand the chemical composition and physical conditions of the interstellar medium.

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The Fornax Cluster represents one of the most densely populated regions of the local universe, located approximately 62 million light-years from Earth. As the second richest galaxy cluster within one hundred million light-years, it serves as a critical laboratory for studying galactic evolution and gravitational interactions.

This deep field perspective highlights the diversity of galactic morphologies, from dominant elliptical systems to smaller spiral structures, all bound by the immense dark matter halo of the cluster. Understanding these large-scale structures provides vital data on how galaxies migrate and transform within high-density cosmic environments over billions of years.

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Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN presents a significant opportunity for astronomical observation as it traverses the inner solar system. Identified through data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, this celestial object features a distinct coma and tail formed by the sublimation of volatile ices as it nears perihelion.

Studying these primitive bodies provides critical insights into the chemical composition and evolutionary history of the early solar nebula. Ongoing spectroscopic analysis of the gas and dust emissions will further our understanding of cometary dynamics and the distribution of organic molecules in space.

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In November 1969, the Apollo 12 mission achieved This landmark technical feat of precision landing near the robotic Surveyor 3 spacecraft on the Ocean of Storms. This photograph captures astronaut Alan Bean inspecting the probe, which had arrived on the lunar surface two years prior.

By retrieving components from Surveyor 3 for terrestrial analysis, NASA engineers gained critical data on how long-term exposure to the lunar environment affects human-made materials, informing the structural design of future deep-space habitats. This mission remain a pivotal case study in human-robotic synergy and extraterrestrial logistics.

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Is there life on Europa? #space #science

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Jupiter moon Io remains the most geologically active body in our solar system, characterized by hundreds of erupting volcanoes. This intense thermal activity is driven by tidal heating, where the gravitational pull of Jupiter and its neighboring moons creates internal friction. Observations of Io provide critical data on planetary evolution and the complex dynamics of orbital resonance.

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On November 14, 1984, Astronaut Dale Gardner flew untethered to a defective satellite to capture it while hurtling around Earth's orbit.

Gardner utilized a Manned Manuevering Unit (MMU), a mobile jet-powered backpack, to maneuver to the satellite untearhered. #space

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Is There Life on Saturn's Moon, Enceladus? #space #science

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The most humbling photo ever taken #space #science

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The Day Earth Was Photographed from Saturn #space #science

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NASA's Webb telescope finds bizarre atmosphere on a lemon-shaped exoplanet. Faraway planet defies our understanding of planet formation, says professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Natalie M. Batalha. #space #nasa

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