Our solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way at about 829,000 km/h. The Earth orbits around the Sun at an average speed of about 107,000 km/h (30 km/s). But why don't we feel this speed on Earth?
🚀 Apollo 16’s Deep-Space Spacewalk
This week in 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut T. K. “Ken” Mattingly carried out a rare 83-minute spacewalk while returning from the Moon.
His mission: retrieve valuable film cassettes from the Scientific Instrument Module bay on the service module.
Shadows in the starlight. 🌌 These dark pillars in the Rosette Nebula aren't just beautiful—they’re the heavy lifting zones where the next generation of stars is currently being born.