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Comet Borisov Dwarfs The Earth / Space Station Wings Overhead For Thanksgiving
Yale astronomers Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, and Gregory Laughlin captured the image of Comet 2I/Borisov on Nov. 24, 2019 using the W.M. Keck Observatory’s Low-Resolution Imaging...
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Shine Your Little Light, ISS
A recent time exposure of the nightside of the Earth photographed from the International Space Station. City lights, softened by clouds, glow beneath a starry sky. The green layer is airglow which...
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How To Watch The Space Station Fly Across The Moon
James Schaff of Duluth captured this remarkable image of the International Space Station passing near the edge of the waxing gibbous moon on Feb. 4, 2020. This is a single image taken through a 10-inch...
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Jupiter’s Clouds Never Cease To Amaze
I loved playing with marbles as a kid but never imagined I’d see Jupiter as one. This global image was taken last September during orbit 22 and features numerous storm cells (called vortices) whirling...
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Space Station Flies Over A Nervous Earth
An aurora along with Venus (bright oval) and the Pleiades (upper left) accent Earth’s atmospheric glow underneath a starry sky as the glare from computer instrumentation reflects off a window in the...
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Astronauts Photograph Starlink Satellites Out The Space Station Window
Astronauts in the space station photographed the southern lights and a train of 16 Starlink satellites (each with a unique ID number) on April 13 over the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica....
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How To Easily Find The Space Station With A Phone App
I’ve written before about how the space station is the same size as an American football field. Well … here it is! NASA illustration The International Space Station’s (ISS) back! It’s returned to the...
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Watch The Crew Dragon Launch Live, Then Track It In Tonight’s Sky
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley smile while wearing their spiffy new SpaceX spacesuits prior to today’s launch. SpaceX On July 8, 2011 the last space shuttle, Atlantis, launched from...
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Second Shot At Making History — Crew Dragon To Launch Today, May 30
NASA LIVE stream TV — click to watch Let’s try this again. After a scrubbed launch attempt due to bad weather on May 27, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying two NASA astronauts NASA is scheduled for...
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Space Station Marathon And Comet NEOWISE Just Won’t Quit
The space station makes a pass early this morning (1:03 a.m.) at the same time a firefly wriggles into the view. Lightning from a distant thunderstorm is visible at the horizon. Bob King Pile it on!...
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