Artemis II: Nasa mission takes off heading on historic trip around Moon- watch and follow live The crew on the 10-day trip won't land on the Moon, but plan to circle it, and could travel further from Earth than anyone has ever been before.

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The best way to watch the Artemis II launch is on C-SPAN Yes, that C-SPAN.

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Artemis II Crew Arrives at Launch Site, Shares Moon Mascot - NASA The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II test flight arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Friday, March 27.

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Scientists Find Evidence of Worlds Colliding ... 11,000 Light-Years Away Astronomers say unusual readings from a star system 11,000 light-years away suggest that two of the planets circling the star crashed into each other, creating a huge, light-obscuring cloud of rocks a...

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Richard M. Powers 🪐 #scifiart

Mysteriously Perfect Sphere Spotted in Space by Astronomers Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled.

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled. A powerful radio telescope has found a perfectly spherical bubble. It's the ball of expanding material ejected by an exploding star, a supernova remnant – it's a puzzle. #SpaceNews

Karl Stephan 🚀 #scifiart

Cover for the November 1953 issue of Galaxy. A group of woman computer and place coordinates and lines on a transparent view screen. Men sit at computers on the other side.

Cover for Heinlein's Have Spacesuit--Will Travel. Spaceman wanders across surface in spacesuit. There are, in the distances, indicators of hills and valleys

Artist Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1953; R, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Meet ‘Ammonite’ — A New World Just Found In The Solar System Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have found an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto called 2023 KQ14 — but nicknamed Ammonite.

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Jack Gaughan #scifiart 💫

Before Pong, There Was Computer Space Fifty years ago, Computer Space launched the video game industry. Here's why it never took off.

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Vampire black hole is a 'cosmic particle accelerator' that may solve a longstanding astronomy mystery A microquasar's jets are creating shockwaves that could be creating the strange cosmic rays we see bombarding Earth.

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Strange Adventures #3 (1950). On the cover, a small yellow space ship is attacking a giant rocket ship. The large rocket ship is standing on a rocky alien surface and the walls are see-through in some areas so we can see several astronauts inside.

Cover by Howard Sherman.

Artist: Pascal Blanché

A vintage movie poster for "The Flying Saucer" (1950). A large, stylized image of a flying saucer with a fiery trail dominates the top half, while the bottom half shows a crowd of people with expressions of fear and alarm. The title "The Flying Saucer" is written in large, red, stylized letters. The tagline reads, "Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror!"

The Flying Saucer was released 75 years ago.

"Both the CIA and KGB investigate UFOs in Alaska: friend or foe?"

NASA Will Do Space in Style With the Prada Axiom Spacesuit In Milan, the fashion house and Axiom Space have revealed how astronauts will be decked out on the lunar surface during the Artemis 3 mission in 2026.

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Artist: Calder Moore

1966: a space selfie, taken by astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin.

'Mathematically perfect' star system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy. Could that change its prospects for life? Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 billion years old, new research suggests.

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"We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe."
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record

A space city built into an asteroid against a colourful blue and mauve nebula in space

Art by John Harris for The Best of Trek 13 by (Signet, 1988)

Kung Fury computer screen you're about to hack time are you sure? yes no

Movie poster for the 1960s sci-fi movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Poster is red, white and green - shows various scenes from the movie, lots of (humanoid) Martians, Santa Claus, a couple Earth kids and a robot. Says “Santa Claus brings Christmas fun to Mars!”

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

retro scifi painting of a ufo taking off in a rocky landscape

art by Werner Haymann

Close Encounters of the Third Kind art by Randy Weidner for the front cover of Starlog Magazine 12, 1978

Supermassive black holes are unparalleled.

This incredible animation demonstrates the sheer magnitude of the biggest supermassive black holes the Universe has to offer.

Absolutely mind-blowing. 🤯

📽️ Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Researchers propose building homes on Mars with human blood AstroCrete uses a protein found in plasma as a binder. No, really.

"Building Homes with Human Blood" is our favorite Cannibal Corpse song btw 🤘

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