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After sunset the next few nights, watch for the Moon, Venus, and Mars close together in the west: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching

What's the most beautiful scene you've seen in the sky?
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NASA Skywatching Home

What’s visible in the night sky? Get skywatching tips and resources from NASA.
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See some of Cassini's most beautiful ring-side views: https://go.nasa.gov/42YzBXL
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Images | Galleries – NASA Solar System Exploration

NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
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Oh hello, Io! During its 51st close flyby of Jupiter on May 16, our #JunoMission captured these views of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.

More about Juno's exploration of Io: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasas-juno-mission-getting-closer-to-jupiters-moon-io

Other recent images: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

📸 processed by Kevin M. Gill
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NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io - Mission Juno

NASA's Mission Juno will explore Jupiter, seeking to unlock secrets of the giant planet and our solar system.
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As we continue to explore Io, what we learn may even have implications for worlds in other star systems
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On May 17, for much of the U.S. and Canada the slim crescent Moon will rise about an hour before the Sun, with Jupiter very close by. From some Southern U.S. states, observers will be able to see Jupiter pass behind the Moon
https://youtu.be/CIxHHCWbQn8?t=24
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What's Up: May 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in May 2023?Venus reaches its highest point in the evening sky for the year, while Jupiter disappears behind the Moon fo...
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YOU can help find more of these kinds of objects in the @DoNASAScience #CitizenScience project Active Asteroids: https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience/summary/active-asteroids
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Active Asteroids | Science Mission Directorate

Active asteroids are small rocky objects in our Solar System that have asteroid-like orbits but comet-like appearances. Active asteroids can have visible tails and comae - halos of debris.
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Happening now: Juno is approaching Jupiter's volcanic moon Io
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno
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Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL

Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.
Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
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Juno will buzz close by Io again in just a few hours. Follow along in real time using our 3D solar system simulator: https://go.nasa.gov/3ZI8Q7v If all goes well, these new, even more detailed views of Io should be available later this week.
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Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL

Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.
Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
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Io aglow! Our #JunoMission observed Jupiter's moon Io in visible and infrared light, yielding this composite view showing hot spots across the surface of the solar system's most volcanically active world. https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasas-juno-mission-getting-closer-to-jupiters-moon-io
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NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io - Mission Juno

NASA's Mission Juno will explore Jupiter, seeking to unlock secrets of the giant planet and our solar system.
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All about asteroids, comets, and meteors: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/overview/
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Small Bodies

Asteroids and comets – and the meteors that sometimes come from them – are leftovers from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
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Most objects orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt are, well, asteroids. But there are some comets as well! @NASAWebb has spied water ice vaporizing from one of them – with implications for the origins of Earth's water. https://go.nasa.gov/3Buv3Mu
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NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet

Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapor – around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be p…
Jessica Evans (NASA)
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Why yes, Mercury is in retrograde.

This little planet’s motion in our skies takes the blame for plenty of mishaps here on Earth, but it’s just doing its thing, orbiting the Sun!

More about retrograde motion (and Mars): https://mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/night-sky/retrograde/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657096012333211660
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Mars Retrograde | Mars in our Night Sky – NASA Mars Exploration

NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.
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From our perspective, planets move west-to-east. Periodically, they appear to move east-to-west, which we call retrograde motion. From Earth, we see all the planets in retrograde, but Mercury is in retrograde most often because it's the fastest planet around the Sun.
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Imagine the planets as speed skaters in different lanes on a circular track. The innermost skater’s loops are short and fast. From the perspective of a skater on the third lane, the first skater sometimes travels the same direction and sometimes, the opposite.
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Can we say all of them?
All of them.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/925/solar-system-and-beyond-poster-set/
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Solar System and Beyond Poster Set | NASA Solar System Exploration

This NASA poster set showcases the beauty of our solar system and beyond.
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Just as we're ramping up the exploration of asteroids and other small bodies in our own solar system, @NASAWebb has revealed that a young, nearby star hosts a complex system of three dust belts – and possibly a collision occurring between protoplanets https://go.nasa.gov/3HQfvWX
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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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"I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop..."

New NASA research suggests four of Uranus’ largest moons, some named for Shakespeare characters, likely contain an ocean layer between their cores and icy crusts. https://go.nasa.gov/423xSzL
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New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water

The work is based on new modeling and explores how oceans could exist in unlikely places in our solar system.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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For those who like to plan ahead...

More about the first observation of an aging star swallowing a planet: http://go.nasa.gov/42fREYs
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Caught in the Act: Astronomers Detect a Star Devouring a Planet

A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go through a similar end-of-life transition.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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What's Up in May? Venus reaches peak elevation, Jupiter briefly disappears, and see what's unique about Southern Hemisphere skies. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching
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NASA Skywatching Home

What’s visible in the night sky? Get skywatching tips and resources from NASA.
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Last summer, @nasa researchers traveled to @VolcanoesNPS to better understand how volcanoes impact a planet’s environment. Volcanoes are common throughout our solar system and beyond. Research conducted with permission from @NatlParkService
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Craters of the Moon National Monument is aptly named. In 1969, the Apollo 14 astronauts visited the park to practice conducting geology on the lunar surface. NASA researchers continue to visit this site today.
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Happy #NationalParkWeek! Our national parks are awe-inspiring and otherworldly - so much so that NASA visits them to prepare for exploring worlds beyond Earth - with permission from @NatlParkService of course.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/planetary-analogs/
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Planetary Analogs | Planets – NASA Solar System Exploration

NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
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NASA has tested Martian spacecraft on @DeathValleyNPS' dry and dusty terrain. Here, Carl Sagan stands with a mockup of the Viking lander. NASA continues to conduct research at the park's diverse and alien landscape.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/viking-1-2/
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Viking 1 & 2 | Missions – NASA Mars Exploration

NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.
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.@YellowstoneNPS is famous for its geysers - as is Saturn’s moon Enceladus! A team from @NASAGoddard visited the park in the winter of 2019 to see if they could detect microbial life within the geysers and the surrounding icy surface.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/enceladus
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Enceladus

With its global ocean, unique chemistry and internal heat, Enceladus has become a promising lead in our search for worlds where life could exist.
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Congrats to the "Eyes on Asteroids" team, winners of a People's Voice Award from the Webbys! Have you tried it? Tour the solar system's space rocks, and track our asteroid expeditions: #OSIRISREx, #LucyMission, and, soon, #MissionToPsyche - https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/
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Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL

Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
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A time-lapse view of the #aurora on Apr. 23, 2023, as seen at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. https://www.nasa.gov/aurora
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Aurora: Illuminating the Sun-Earth Connection

NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.
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Other planets experience auroras as well. This view of aurora on Jupiter combines two images from the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched 33 years ago today. Happy birthday, @NASAHubble! 🎂🔭 https://go.nasa.gov/3n3k3C8
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Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter.
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When particles from @NASASun meet @NASAEarth, sparks really fly. Yesterday a coronal mass ejection – particles ejected from the Sun – reached Earth's magnetic field, leading to spectacular auroras. Did you catch them? More about these geomagnetic storms: https://go.nasa.gov/3HaVKJg
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Solar Fury | NASA Solar System Exploration

On Jan. 22, 2012, the Sun erupted with a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a burst of highly energetic protons known as solar energetic particles.
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The Lyrid #MeteorShower peaks tonight. To see them, find a comfortable spot away from bright city lights, get horizontal, and look straight up. You'll see the most meteors in the pre-dawn hours of April 23rd.
https://youtu.be/MeiGUv5jF5Y?t=164
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What's Up: April 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in April 2023?Mercury reaches its highest in the evening sky for the year for Northern Hemisphere observers. The Moon ma...
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You might also want to check out some of the Earth views in our planetary poster series: https://go.nasa.gov/3jZj28s #EarthDay
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All Resources | Resources – NASA Solar System Exploration

NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
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We’ve seen the wonders of the solar system, but there is no planet that can replace this one. 🌍
https://www.nasa.gov/earthday #EarthDay
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Earth Day 2023

NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.
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Return of the OREx!

The latest episode of "Houston We Have a Podcast" goes behind-the-scenes as the #OSIRISREx team prepares to receive a special delivery: a small sample of an asteroid.

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https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/return-of-the-OREx
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Ep. 285: Return of the OREx

Experts share the preparations and excitement ahead of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample that is returning to Earth in September 2023. HWHAP Episode 285.
Heidi Lavelle (NASA)
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Watch the eclipse live at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2U3a1xXv8k

Use "Eyes on the Solar System" to see how everything lines up to create the eclipse: https://go.nasa.gov/3GVzRhb
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NASA Science Live: Watch a Total Solar Eclipse in Australia

On April 19 (in the US) / April 20 (Australia), the Moon will pass between the Sun and Earth, creating a total solar eclipse visible from Australia and South...
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50/50: On the heels of the #JunoMission's 50th orbit of Jupiter, NASA's Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The numbers are a coincidence, but the pace of exploration across the solar system is not! Join us for the journey: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov
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Home – NASA Solar System Exploration

NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
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Thanks so much for participating in our Q&A! You can stay up-to-date as we prepare for asteroid sample delivery here and at http://nasa.gov/osirisrex!
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OSIRIS-REx

OSIRIS-REx traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu and is bringing a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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🏀 Swish! Nothing but net

Imagine shooting a basketball from 63,000 miles away into a 250 square mile net. That’s what our #OSIRISREx mission will be doing with a capsule of precious asteroid material this September.

We challenged the @washwizards to make their own trick shot
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Ask a NASA scientist your asteroid questions!

On Sept. 24, 2023, the #OSIRISREx spacecraft will deliver a sample of an asteroid to Earth. Studying this sample could provide insight into the origins of our solar system & life on Earth

Drop your question here 👇
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During the next few evenings, watch for bright Venus right next to the Pleiades star cluster in the western sky after sunset. https://youtu.be/MeiGUv5jF5Y?t=75
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What's Up: April 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in April 2023?Mercury reaches its highest in the evening sky for the year for Northern Hemisphere observers. The Moon ma...
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