A delightful OpEd by Neil deGrasse Tyson “Give Us the Aliens” nytimes.com/2026/05/06/opinion… #space #science
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ESA's long-running Mars Express orbiter captured an exceptional view of clouds & atmospheric haze on Mars. A lot of weather happening in that thin air.
(Processing by Andrea Luck.)
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Mars - High Altitude Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express
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Some magical new images of Mars have just come in from our interplanetary robots.
The Psyche probe, en route to a metal asteroid, got this startling view of crescent Mars during its flyby. (Processing by Kevin Gill.)
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Mars - Psyche Imager B - May 14 2026
Processed using Infrared 1, Green, and Blue filters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. GillFlickr
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Every blue dot here is a star with known planets.
Every orange dot, one with suspected planets.
Nearly 6,000 total.
Dot by dot, NASA’s TESS mission is filling in our picture of the Milky Way's strange new worlds.
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NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky - NASA Science
NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to dateJeanette Kazmierczak (NASA Science)
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The growth curve of space debris leveled off for a while. Now it's on a steep upward trajectory: There are 33,269 tracked objects, and counting.
It's still a manageable problem. But we need to manage it.
A virtual telescope with a diameter of up to 200 metres, that is what we get when we combine the light gathered by our telescopes at Paranal Observatory in #Chile
Called the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), it can capture some of the sharpest views of the Universe.
How does this work? Here's your VLTI 101, with #ChasingStarlight 👇
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These underground tunnels observe the Universe
Bigger telescopes allow us to see smaller details, and thanks to interferometry we can link multiple telescopes into a single “virtual” one that can make ver...ESO Chasing Starlight (YouTube)