African Aeronautics and Space Agency - AASA

15/06/2021

02/05/2021

05/04/2021

Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula. The whole nebula, about 4000 light-years away, is an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region, about four light-years across.

This stunning nebula was first catalogued in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who sought to record nebulous objects in the night sky so they would not be mistaken for comets. Since Hodierna’s observations, the Lagoon Nebula has been photographed and analysed by many telescopes and astronomers all over the world.

The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between 12 February and 18 February 2018.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

04/04/2021

04/04/2021

16/03/2021

16/03/2021

🔴 🌊 Billions of years ago, evidence shows, water flowed across Mars & collected into pools, lakes, & oceans. New research shows a substantial quantity of the water — between 30 and 99% — is trapped within minerals in the planet’s crust. Explore the findings: https://go.nasa.gov/2OHCECB

16/03/2021

What does the sun look like from other planets? Given the vast and disparate distances, it is not so easy to imagine.

14/03/2021

14/03/2021

Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.