Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

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Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, ISS, Cassini Imaging Team; Processing: Fernando Garcia Navarro

 

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NASA confirms Earth has a new 'mini moon' that will accompany us for the next 50 years

Astronomers detect the new quasi-satellite 2025 PN7, a small asteroid that will accompany Earth until 2083.

www.earth.com

 

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Andromeda and Friends
Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski

 

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Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan

 

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NASA’s Artemis 2 moon rocket comes together | Space photo of the day for Nov. 21, 2025

The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026.

www.space.com

 

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3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri

 

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Andromeda and Friends
Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski

 

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Dione and Rhea Ring Transit
Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Go

 

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Part of the Sun Just Broke Off and Scientists Are Completely Baffled by This Mysterious Phenomenon

 

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