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Galaxies on Instagram: "On a clear, dark night with no light pollution, the human eye can see about 2,500 to 3,000 stars at once from any one location on Earth. That’s out of roughly 5,000 to 6,000 visible to the naked eye total (since half the sky is below the horizon). If you use binoculars or a telescope, that number jumps into the hundreds of thousands to millions, depending on the equipment and conditions. But with just your eyes, around 3,000 max is what you’ll see under perfect skies."

NASA on Instagram: "POV: You’re looking at the Moon outside of your window on the Orion spacecraft. This visualization simulates what the crew of Artemis II might see out the Orion windows on the day of their closest approach to the Moon. It compresses 36 hours into a little more than a minute as it flies the virtual camera on a realistic trajectory that swings the spacecraft around the Moon's far side. Next year, the Artemis II astronauts could be the first humans to see some parts of the Moon’

Akatsuki's Final Mission: The End of Human Presence at Venus

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Instagram: "Interstellar comet update ☄️ NASA’s fleet of spacecraft has been working to collect as much information as possible on 3I/ATLAS, only the third object ever confirmed to have come from outside our solar system. Comet 3I/ATLAS is making a grand tour, passing at high speed inside the orbits of Mars and Jupiter then zooming away, never to return. The comet’s track offers a rare opportunity for observations and images to be taken by multiple NASA spacecra

The Herd on Instagram: "Is it time for the Cardinals to move on from Kyler Murray?  @colincowherd"