Catch the Rare Mars–Regulus Conjunction This Week as Fiery Red Meets Royal Blue
🌠 Mars and Regulus: A Celestial Encounter You Won’t Want to Miss! On June 16–17, 2025, get ready for a breathtaking cosmic display — Mars will pass strikingly close to Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo. This rare alignment creates a dazzling contrast in the night sky: the fiery red glow of Mars…
🌍 The World’s Space Agencies: Who’s Leading Humanity Into the Stars?
Space isn’t a one-nation dream—it’s a global mission. From the United States to India, China to Europe, dozens of countries operate their own space agencies, each contributing to human progress beyond Earth. Here’s a list of the major space agencies around the world, their biggest achievements, and why they matter in the cosmic race. 1….
Launch Opportunities for Axiom Mission 4 Under Review by NASA and Partners
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are evaluating potential launch windows for Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with no earlier target than Thursday, June 19. The mission was delayed on June 12 as NASA continued to coordinate with Roscosmos to assess recent repair efforts addressing minor leaks…
Hubble Investigates a Supernova Scene in a Spiral
This tranquil spiral galaxy holds evidence of a violent past. Captured in this 2023 image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy IC 758 lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. At first glance, IC 758 appears calm — its soft blue spiral arms gracefully wrap around a faintly glowing…
Sun Unleashed: NASA’s PUNCH Reveals First-Ever Images of Giant Solar Eruptions
NASA’s PUNCH mission (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) has just shared its first-ever images of massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. These stunning visuals were unveiled on Tuesday at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The newly released images, compiled into a video, capture…
🌕 A Dreamy Night Sky Awaits: Witness the Pink Moon Tonight!
📅 June 11, 2025🕒 Peak Brightness at 3:44 PM BST (visible after sunset)📍 Visible from Bangladesh Tonight, look to the eastern horizon after sunset to witness June’s Pink Moon—a stunning, oversized, golden full moon that will light up the sky with surreal beauty. While the moment of full brightness occurs in the afternoon, the most…
Planetary Conjunctions 2025: What Are These Two Bright “Stars” in the Sky?
Spotted two bright dots shining side by side? It could be planets! Use the free Sky Tonight app to check when to spot them in your city. Also, learn when the next planetary pairing will be visible in the sky by reading this article. What is planetary conjunction? In simple words, a planetary conjunction occurs…
A twisted galaxy
Emil Andronic from Hemel Hempstead, U.K. The unusual shape of NGC 3718 is a barred spiral galaxy with an unusual, twisted shape —likely due to interactions with nearby NGC 3729. Lying around 120 million light-yearsaway, it’s also listed as the 214th entry in Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Thisimager took 37⅓ hours of LRGB…
NEW YEAR. NEW SHIP. NEWLESSONS.
The seventh flight test of Starship and Super Heavy flew with ambitious goals, aiming to successfully repeat the corecapability of returning and catching a booster while launching an upgraded design of the upper stage. While not everytest objective was completed, the lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable asStarship…
FUTURE OF BUILDING STARSHIP
In addition to continued infrastructure development at Starbase, Texas, where SpaceX is headquartered,SpaceX is expanding its Starship operations in Florida, bringing Starship production and launch capabilitiesto the Space Coast. As flight testing and development of Starship continues at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX isbuilding a new integration facility, called Gigabay, next to its HangarX location at…
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