The Sample Return Mission wikipedia page is a good reference.

A small collection of them are in an official album on Flickr, including the one from this Reddit post.

A small collection of them are in an official album on Flickr, including the one from this Reddit post.

Yes, those are reflections from one of the station’s solar arrays, somewhat more clearly seen in this other star trail shot of his.

It’s only 32 miles to Atlantic City.

You can also see it from 47 miles away in Reading.

From the article (which was published yesterday):

>Reams of data needed to be analyzed by NASA’s teams to make sure that Artemis I didn’t succeed in spite of serious problems. Fortunately that does not seem to be the case: Although the teams are still working through the terabytes of raw data, the agency has pronounced the mission good enough to endorse its sequel.

From Wikipedia:

>The tenth mission for Challenger, STS-51-L, was scheduled to deploy the second in a series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS-B), carry out the first flight of the "Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy" (SPARTAN-203) / Halley's Comet Experiment Deployable in order to observe Halley's Comet, and carry out several lessons from space as part of the Teacher in Space Project and Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP).

In the meantime, if you don’t have some already, I highly recommend getting some binoculars! They’re a great and inexpensive way to explore the sky in greater detail (much better quality option here). They won’t show you Saturn’s rings, but even from a city they allow you to see Jupiter’s four brightest moons, craters on our moon, hundreds of stars & satellites invisible to the naked eye, Venus’ crescent phase, Uranus, Neptune, etc. From darker skies you can see even more of course, like the Andromeda galaxy, Orion Nebula, awesome star clusters like the Pleiades, comets (when applicable- like right now) etc. Plus, they're great for daytime views and they’ll still be incredibly useful if/when you have a telescope.

For those interested in seeing Uranus & Neptune, it’s relatively simple to spot them with a normal pair of binoculars (and a night sky app or star chart for reference).

The “first European female” is what they meant to write, which is a fairly obvious error, unfortunately.

How does this not fit your definition of a space station? It has three, large, permanent modules, giant solar arrays, robotic arms, full size air lock, multiple docking ports, and all the other functionality expected of a space station.

ISS modules looked pretty similar when they were newly installed. Another example.

Because of our perspective as it orbits the sun. This also applies to Mercury.

For the planetary images they used a Nikon P1000 superzoom camera with a focal range of 24-3000mm (full-frame equivalent).

Manually focus on the stars. Adjust the focus until the stars are as small as possible.

Dust or smoke can have that effect. My guess is it was getting close to sunset.

Lunar eclipses are actually quite dim. They don’t have any effect on the color of the sky even at night.

The sky and landscape are much darker than the Earthshine once twilight has ended. There are endless examples available.

The Earthshine isn’t very bright. The thin crescent on the bottom is much brighter as it’s in direct sunlight. This is a very simple photograph taken with a high ISO and exposure of at least a couple seconds (judging by star movement and experience).

It’s a shame because Reggie Watts and the house band are a treasure.