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Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995. [3] This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image ...
Boeing / NASA: Low Earth Expedition 73 / 74 First operational Starliner mission, as part of the Commercial Crew Program. Double-booked with Crew-11; only one of these missions will fly in this timeslot. [6] August (TBD) [7] Antares 330: MARS LP-0A: Northrop Grumman: Cygnus NG-23: NASA: Low Earth ISS logistics First flight of the Antares 330 ...
The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun , the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system , as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
The last glint of sunlight appears on the edge of the moon just before the start of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 near Fredericksburg, Texas.
The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
NASA reports the flare emerged from the far northwest corner of the sun and peaked around 12:02 p.m. EST. Impact was largely felt on the side of the Earth that was facing the sun at the time ...
Event Remarks 28 January: Ranger 3: Flyby of the Moon: Failed impactor, closest approach: 36,793 kilometres (22,862 mi) 26 April: Ranger 4: Lunar impact: Impacted far side, no data returned 21 October: Ranger 5: Flyby of the Moon: Failed impactor, closest approach: 724 kilometres (450 mi) 14 December: Mariner 2: Flyby of Venus