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Billions of years from now, Earth's night sky will change as the Andromeda galaxy rushes toward a merger with the Milky Way. But the merger has already started!
Friday, June 28, 2019: NASA's mobile launcher arrives at NASA's Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final tests in preparation for its launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft. The mobile launcher will be used for the launch of Artemis 1, the first planned mission of NASA's new moon exploration program. It arrived at the pad on June 27 and will remain there for the rest of the summer as NASA gears up for the historic uncrewed test flight around the moon. — Hanneke Weitering
"He had a nice light little breeze this morning, half a mile [800m]. I was really happy with him. He was kind of looking around a little bit, as they had a bunch of people on the grass course this morning for the first time. So there was a lot going on."
Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.
Right from taking images of aeging to dying stars, Hubble Space Telescope has given us a visual treat of the Outerspace. And now, Hubble Space Telescope, which belongs to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), snapped the breathtaking image of a galaxy around 50 million light-years from our planet.