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Welcome home!

After 196 days living and working in Earth’s orbit aboard the @ISS,
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy (@astro_seal)
returned from his third space mission yesterday,
Oct.
21,
with cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of @Roscosmosofficial!
While Cassidy was on the station,
he completed four spacewalks and contributed to hundreds of experiments,
including a study of the influence of gravity on electrolytic gas evolution,
which looks at bubbles created using electrolysis.
Another fun fact is that he has spent the fifth-highest total amount of days in space among U.S.
astronauts at 378 days.

What a ride!

Photo Credit:
NASA,
GCTC,
Denis Derevtsov #WelcomeHome #Soyuz #NASA #Space #Universe #Science

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Look to the skies!
That bright red “star”
is Mars 🔴.
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It reaches its highest point around midnight and is at its biggest and brightest TONIGHT,
Oct.
13!⁣⁣
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If you have a telescope or even basic binoculars,
you’ll also be able to spot the galaxy of Andromeda,
or M31,
a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way but slightly larger.
Keep watching for more tips!
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Credit:
NASA ⁣⁣

⁣⁣ #Mars #BlueMoon #Andromeda #skywatching #galaxy #SolarSystem #October #NASA #JPL #astronomy

A Beautiful Ghost ⁣👻
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Officially known as IC 63,
the Ghost Nebula is located 550 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.⁣
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@NASAHubble snapped this image that shows how the brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that eats into vast clouds of hydrogen gas –
the raw material for building new stars.
This etching process sculpts a fantasy landscape where human imagination can see all kinds of shapes and figures.⁣
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Credit:
NASA,
ESA,
and STScI/Acknowledgment:
H.
Arab (University of Strasbourg)⁣
⁣ #NASA #Space #GhostNebula #Universe #Hubble⁣
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