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2025 October 19 - Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Creates Its Tails

Posted October 19, 2025

In today's image, we see comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko as imaged by the Rosetta spacecraft. This shows jets of materials being expelled from the comet...

2025 October 18 - 3D Bennu

Posted October 18, 2025

In today's image, we see the asteroid named Bennu. This asteroid was visited by the ORIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned a sample of this asteroid to...

2025 October 17 - Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon

Posted October 17, 2025

In today's image, we see the second asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft which was the asteroid Ida which was visited by the Galileo spacecraft on...

2025 October 16 - Young Suns of NGC 7129

Posted October 16, 2025

In today's image, we see the seat forming region known as NGC 7129. This may be much like the region where our own Sun formed five billion or so years...

2025 October 15 - Rocket Launch Plume over Tucson

Posted October 15, 2025

In today's image, we see the plume from the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket which was delivering multiple Starling communications satellites to low Earth...