Time-lapse orbit animation of OSIRIS-APEX's epic journey to asteroid Apophis

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
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Small Asteroid Impacted Earth Recently - See An Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by the ATLAS survey on the day it struck Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation: ...
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Here’s How Stars Orbit Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime. Now, in another ...
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Airplane-Size Asteroid 2024 BJ Flies Closer Than The Moon In Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) wide. Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited ...
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Animation showing ESA's CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) in orbit above Earth

The CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 700 kilometres in a Sun-synchronous orbit that travels above the day-night terminator; such a ...
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Watch Four Planets Spin Around a Star 130 Light-Years Away

Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale—a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star ...
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Here's A NASA/SpaceX Animation Showing How America's Return To Putting People In Orbit Will Go

It's alarming to remember that no astronauts have been launched to orbit from the United States since 2011, when the ambitious but ultimately disappointing Space Shuttle fleet was retired. Sure, ...
Business Insider

An astronomer's colorful animation shows how Saturn's disappearing rings act like a 'mini solar system'

If star-hopping aliens ever visited our solar system, Saturn is probably the planet they'd remember. The seven giant rings circling its equator make Saturn the most distinct planet orbiting the sun.
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An eclipse of the Moon

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. If you looked at the moon over the course of a few weeks, you'd probably notice that it looks slightly ...