Where does a space station put its garbage? A ship burned up on purpose 🔭

#astronomy #space #iss #science

Draconid meteors are comet dust burning up in our sky, and in 1933 they hit 500 a minute 🔭

#astronomy #meteors #draconids #space #stargazing

A message to Voyager 1 will soon take a full day to arrive 🔭

#space #astronomy #voyager #science

The Moon landing's computer rebooted mid-descent, by design, and the controllers' GO let the landing go on 🔭

#astronomy #space #apollo11 #moonlanding #science

Mars has cliffs that look plastered on. Ancient volcanic ash? 🌋

#space #mars #curiosity #science

An asteroid slips inside the Moon's distance about every other day 🌙

#space #asteroids #moon #science #astronomy

Born like a star, weighs about twice Jupiter 🔭

#space #webb #browndwarf #astronomy

Rocks from deep inside Mars, on the surface? Here's the mystery 🪨

#mars #perseverance #space #geology #science

There's sugar in a rock from space 🍬☄️

#space #asteroid #bennu #science #astrobiology

The far side of the Moon gets sunlight. Here's the proof 🌓

#moon #space #artemis #science

The Orionid meteors this month? Leftover dust from Halley's Comet ☄️

#space #orionids #halleyscomet #meteorshower #astronomy

Nothing has ever come back from Mars's moons. A probe sets off this month to fetch some 🚀

#space #mars #phobos #science #JAXA

Saturn's famous hexagon now has a ten-sided cousin, and nobody knows why yet 🪐

#space #saturn #hubble #astronomy #science

Hollywood's asteroid plan: spot it 18 days out, then nuke it ☄️

The real plan: find it years ahead and give it a nudge. In 2022 NASA's DART hit a harmless asteroid moon and changed its orbit by more than 25 times the change NASA counted as success.

Source: nasa.gov

A moon a little smaller than ours may hold more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined 🌊

NASA's Europa Clipper reaches Jupiter in April 2030 to take a closer look.

Source: science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/