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Near-Earth Asteroid 2026JH2 in an image taken by the Virtual Telescope Project on May 16, when the object was 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. The asteroid originates from the asteroid belt, an area between Mars and Jupiter,- Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project
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Near-Earth Asteroid 2026JH2 in an image taken by the Virtual Telescope Project on May 16, when the object was 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. The asteroid originates from the asteroid belt, an area between Mars and Jupiter,- Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project

u/Grahamthicke — 8 hours ago
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Playing 'Pong' in 1972, the start of the home video game era. By about 1977 most kids I knew had an Atari game.

u/Grahamthicke — 2 days ago
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This image depicts the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States on July 9, 1962.The 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon was detonated 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Johnston Atoll in the Pacific

u/Grahamthicke — 2 days ago
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This image shows a portion of the lunar surface captured by the Apollo 12 mission. (NASA)

u/Grahamthicke — 3 days ago
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Walter Scott Public School at Major Mack and Sussex opened it's doors in 1956. This Grade One class picture from that same year was one of the first ever taken.

u/Grahamthicke — 3 days ago
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I appreciated the 'nose draft' in cars growing up as a kid and later as a driver. Especially with two pack a day parents who were always smoking in the car.

u/Grahamthicke — 4 days ago
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GIF of some of the images that the Cassini spacecraft took as it passed incredibly close (1200km) to Saturn for its first "Grand Finale" flyby on 25 April 2017. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institite / Jason Major

u/Grahamthicke — 4 days ago
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As of May 2026, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has released its most comprehensive, completed mosaic of the night sky, highlighting thousands of newly identified exoplanet candidates and confirming hundreds more.

u/Grahamthicke — 6 days ago
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Cassini spacecraft image of the Saturn moon Phoebe as it flew past it in 2004 just before entering Saturn's orbit (NASA, Cassini)

u/Grahamthicke — 6 days ago
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region. NASA, ESA, CSA, STS

u/Grahamthicke — 8 days ago
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I came by this today and it brought back a flood of good memories of great wine and cider at cheap prices and killer strawberry-rhubarb pie. We had so much fun there. Any of you folks have memories of Southbrook Farms on Major Mack west of the town?

u/Grahamthicke — 9 days ago
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An artist's concept shows the internal structure of Jupiter's moon Io. Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft suggests that Io has mostly solid mantle (shown as dark green), with substantial pockets of molten rock

u/Grahamthicke — 10 days ago
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GIF sequence of five New Horizons spacecraft images, taken over eight minutes, showing Io's volcano Tvashtar erupting material 330 kilometres (210 mi) above its surface

u/Grahamthicke — 10 days ago
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From Granny's home, to Mom's home, to ours. Still going strong and no reason to stop using it.

u/Grahamthicke — 11 days ago