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Every three hours this site reads 51 feeds from NASA, ESA and the observatories, files what comes back into eleven subjects, and works out the rest for itself — what is overhead, what you could see through what you own, and from where on Earth.
Satellites & Orbit
Europe continues to stack the building blocks for a more robust space economy.
The Moon
A waxing crescent, 16% lit, follows the Sun down early and takes its light with it. The sky is properly dark for most of the night, which is as good as it gets outside the days either side of new. It is full in 11 days.
Planets and showers
Saturn is in the evening sky after sunset; Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter come up before dawn. The Leonids are running, peaking in four days — about 5 an hour under a decent sky, rather than the 15 the almanacs print for perfect conditions and a radiant overhead.
Worth going out for
An open cluster in Auriga, near the meridian around midnight and straightforward in 10×50 binoculars from a Bortle 5 or better. The youngest of the three clusters strung across Auriga at about 25 million years — too young for anything in it to have reddened.
mag 6.3 · 20.3 mag/□″ · 12′ · RA 5h 36m
1971 Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars — The first spacecraft to orbit another planet, arriving to find the whole surface hidden by a global dust storm. More from this date →
Computed from the clock, and true from anywhere on Earth. Anything that depends on your latitude is on the Overhead page rather than guessed at here.
If we want big things in space, we'll have to build and assemble them there.
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APOD · NASA — public domain ·
NASA Earth Observatory ·
NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ·
NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ·
Vulcan VC6L · United Launch Alliance
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Space Launch Complex 41
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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Starship V3 · SpaceX
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Orbital Launch Pad 2
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
TBC
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M · Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Cosmodrome Site 1S
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
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Electron · Rocket Lab
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
Add to calendarFull darkness at the pad A bright moving star and the engine plume. Spectacular near the pad, subtle at distance.
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Every story is filed by subject and every subject publishes its own Atom feed. Take the two you care about and ignore the rest — that is the whole idea.
Everything above is what happened, gathered from 51 feeds and credited to whoever reported it. Every headline here links straight back to the publication that wrote it, because a summary that replaces the click is a summary that has taken something.
Everything else is worked out here. The subjects are ordered by the part of the spectrum each is really observed in — radio at the red end for the satellites overhead, ultraviolet at the violet end for the early universe — and coloured to match, which is the one organising idea the site has. A story is filed by a hand-built vocabulary for each subject, weighted by how decisive a term is: event horizon settles the question, orbit barely counts. Anything that does not clearly belong anywhere stays untagged rather than being pushed somewhere to fill a gap.
The rest of the site is not news at all, and is the part worth staying for.
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