2026-04-06 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-30)

MERCURY
- Distance (km): 137,914,373.92 km (+15,264,020.69 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.92 (+0.10)
- Light travel time: 7 min 40.03 s (+50.92 s)
- Orbital speed: 38.92 km/s (-0.29 km/s)

Image: Spectacular Color . . . with Better Yet to Come
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

#Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

Ganymede & Ganymede.

To learn about the #moon : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-moons-of-jupiter/

To learn about the #myth : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/aquarius/

📷 : https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01666 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197351

#GreekMythology #StarLore #Jupiter #moon #MoonsOfJupiter #podcast #museum #MetMuseum #art #Sculpture #ganymede #mythology #astrophotography #astronomy #AstroDon #SolarSystem

The powerful new Rubin Observatory just found 11,000 new asteroids and measured 'tens of thousands more'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/the-powerful-new-rubin-observatory-just-found-11-000-new-asteroids-and-measured-tens-of-thousands-more

2026-04-05 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-29)

PLUTO [ *1930 +2006 ]
- Distance (km): 5,356,836,882.17 km (-15,622,470.67 km)
- Distance (AU): 35.81 (-0.10)
- Light travel time: 4 h 57 min 48.48 s (-52.11 s)
- Orbital speed: 5.23 km/s (+0.01 km/s)

Image: Layered Craters and Icy Plains
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

#Pluto #Space #SolarSystem

#RubinObservatory alert triggers first real-time follow-up observations: https://zorz.it/EiQCr

#SoumyadeepMukherjee #SpacePhotography #AlertStream #TelescopeObservations #NSFNOIRLab #LSSTCamera #SOARTelescope #SolarSystem

Unser Planetensystem, gemalt von Kind 3 (geboren 2016)

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Our solar system, drawn by child 3 (born in 2016)

#solarsystem #sonnensystem #childpainting #Fedieltern #fediparents