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Join us as we explore the worlds of our solar system.
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Two close-up views of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, taken 25 years apart! 30 years ago on June 27, NASA's Galileo spacecraft performed humanity's first-ever flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede—revealing that it had a magnetic field. Galileo flew within 519
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Breakups are hard 💔 Unless it’s stuff breaking up in Earth’s atmosphere. Then it’s just cool! A @Space_Station astronaut captured an object breaking up in the atmosphere on April 27. It could have been part of a rocket, satellite, other human-made space debris, or a meteor.
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Happy solstice! ☀️ Yesterday kicked off astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year, the summer triangle rises into view in the night sky. Between these stars, amazing deep-sky objects are visible with a telescope, including the Ring and Veil Nebulas.
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Smile! Tomorrow is the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice! 😎☀️ This “sunny smile” is made of coronal holes — darker, cooler regions on the Sun where solar material escapes to space at incredible speeds. 🕳️ More on coronal holes in this episode of NASA’s Illuminate.👇
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NASA has selected the DAPHNE mission to study how Earth’s atmosphere drives space weather, helping improve predictions that protect tech and astronauts. Twin satellites will launch no earlier than 2029. More: go.nasa.gov/4vf3LE5
- This asteroid is a little… quirky. Shaped like a five-mile-long peanut 🥜 Wobbles like a top 🌪️ Encountered water, but lost it 💦 Published today, NASA’s Lucy mission reveals close-up imagery and data from its flyby of oddball asteroid Donaldjohanson. More:
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Jupiter’s fast traveling particles captured by Juno 🏃💨 NASA’s Juno Mission measured particles traveling close to the speed of light near Jupiter. Those speedy particles will help scientists learn more about how and where high-energy particles form. go.nasa.gov/4fHzHMB
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Check out images of the Lunar Occultation of Venus as observed from NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC 📷:flic.kr/s/aHBqjCWYPN
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Perseverance is only the second vehicle to travel the distance of a marathon on another planet, following NASA's Opportunity rover, which accomplished the feat in 2015. - NASA Solar System repostedCreators: @NASARoman is launching this summer, and you’re invited! We're looking for storytellers to join us as our Roman Space Telescope lifts off to help answer some of the biggest questions about our universe. Applications close June 28 at 11:59pm ET: go.nasa.gov/4v5hCge
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Get ready for a worldwide Moon appreciation moment 🌓 Last International Observe the Moon Night, an estimated 1 million people in 128 countries celebrated our nearest neighbor in space together. Who will you observe the Moon with this year? Sign up: go.nasa.gov/ObserveTheMoon
