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Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun

By |2026-09-22T17:44:24-04:00September 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright disk. Sunspots typically last for weeks and were expected, since these spots were seen previously. It isn’t the International Space Station (ISS), the [...]

Triple Shockwave from Sun Crossing Rocket

By |2026-06-15T16:45:09-04:00June 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening to this Sun-crossing rocket? The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, visible on the upper left, launched only about one minute before this amazing image was captured. As it rose to low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, in late May, the rocket became supersonic before it crossed the [...]

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