APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
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- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:05 +0000
Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke
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From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest in summer 2026....
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00 +0000
Two Million X-Ray Sources, and One Cluster That Doesn't Fit
Reported by Universe Today
The eROSITA telescope has released its second great catalogue of the X-ray sky with close to two million sources across half the sky, roughly double what it published before. Buried in it is a result from Bonn that matters more than the headline number. A ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:52 +0000
Twenty Years of Watching One Galaxy, and It Made Less Sense
Reported by Universe Today
Blazars are galaxies with a jet aimed almost directly at us, and they flicker across every part of the spectrum at once. Almost everything we think we know about them comes from short observing campaigns just a handful of days, every year or two, in one na...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:20 +0000
Nine Hundred Telescopes and One Chance a Year
Reported by Universe Today
Reading the atmosphere of another world means catching starlight as it filters through that planet's air during a transit. The signal is about one part in a million and a true Earth twin transits only once a year, so you cannot simply repeat the measuremen...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:03 +0000
NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon
Reported by NASA
The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require special equipment. Where those resources can be found will dictate where to land and how to mine the...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:40 +0000