WHAT'S GOING ON

IN SPACE

RIGHT NOW THERE ARE

ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE

12

ISS Position
Over Earth


LAT: -8.7476

LONG: 9.6881

The ISS is currently traveling about 18,000mph(29,000kph)

  • Oleg Kononenko
  • Nikolai Chub
  • Tracy Caldwell Dyson
  • Matthew Dominick
  • Michael Barratt
  • Jeanette Epps
  • Alexander Grebenkin
  • Butch Wilmore
  • Sunita Williams
  • Li Guangsu
  • Li Cong
  • Ye Guangfu

    • THEY RIDE ROCKETS
    LIKE THESE

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    AND THEY BETTER BE CAREFUL UP THERE

    Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-28
    2025-07-08
    Eris-1 | Maiden Flight
    2025-07-15
    Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4
    2025-07-25
    Weather Report
    Earth - Stockholm
    59 °F / 15 °C
    Clouds

    Mars - Elysium Planitia
    -80.1652 °F / -62.314 °C

    There are currently*
    26
    objects whizzing by Earth

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    WHEN PEOPLE ARENT WORRYING ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD THEY ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT OUR UNIVERSE

    ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY - Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula

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    Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, one investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, the cosmic squid would represent a spectacular outflow of material driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, this truly giant squid nebula would physically be over 50 light-years across.

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