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Space Station Brightens December Nights, Celebrates 20 Years
The Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch as seen from the International Space Station on Nov. 16, 2018 (see timetable below for a blow-by-blow of what to look for). Now through mid-December...
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A Bounty Of Beautiful Conjunctions
The moon passes Mars this evening (Jan. 12). If you look at the pair during twilight and then a second time several hours later, you’ll see that the moon will have moved eastward (to the left) in...
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International Space Station Shines A Light On Mid-Winter Nights
The International Space Station cuts a path between Orion and the Hyades cluster last night over Duluth, Minn. At left the station fades and then disappears as it enters Earth’s shadow. For the next...
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Hayabusa 2 Lands On Asteroid, Rocks Fly! / Comma Crescent Punctuates Dusk
Hayabusa 2 touchdown on asteroid Ryugu Wow, wow, wow. What a great video. On February 21, Japan’s Haybusa 2 probe briefly touched down on the asteroid Ryugu, fired a bullet into the rocky rubble and...
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G2 Aurora Storm Forecast For March 23 / Space Station Back At Dusk
This photo, taken by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft, shows the coronal mass ejection (CME) in progress after a solar flare blew up in sunspot group 2736 (photo below). Most of the material will likely miss...
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Follow The International Space Station To The Land Of The Midnight Sun
With a little luck the aurora might put in an appearance in the next few nights as it did when I took this photo of this 30-second time exposure of the space station a few years back. Bob King The...
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Venus From The Space Station / Standing On Bennu’s Doorstep
Venus along with the twilight glow of Earth’s atmosphere photographed by an astronaut on the space station on May 28 this year. NASA Every 90 minutes the International Space Station (ISS) goes around...
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Stay Up Late With The Space Station
A time exposure of the International Space Station passing over my neighborhood during evening twilight last night (July 20). Bob King We’re back in another great evening run of International Space...
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Our Favorite Satellite Is Back — Hello ISS!
In this time exposure taken from the International Space Station lights in Europe you can see the lights of Europe below and star trails above. NASA Now through early October northern hemisphere...
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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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