CosmosIn60 — Space, explained clearly
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Hold up your phone and name every star
Cosmos in 60 for Android puts a star map that follows your phone in your pocket, even with no signal. Plus tonight's sky, the ISS live on a globe, and one space story a day you can read in sixty seconds.
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- Star map works offline
- A 60-second space story daily
ALH84001: The Mars Rock NASA Said Held Fossils
NASA said Mars meteorite ALH84001 held fossils in 1996. Set beside Perseverance's 2025 Cheyava Falls find, it shows what any Mars life claim must now survive.
Fact of the Day
Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, has a mass equivalent to about 4 million Suns.
Tonight's Sky
Halley’s Comet dust lights up the Orionids
- Wed–Thu — Orionid meteors peak in the hours before dawn
- Fri–Sat — Bright Moon slides past Saturn
- All week — Mars closes in on Jupiter before dawn
Today in Space
October 25, 2006
STEREO Mission Launches
NASA launched the STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) mission, consisting of twin spacecraft that would observe the Sun from two different vantage points. This enabled the first stereoscopic 3D images of the Sun and coronal mass ejections.
Next Launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16
SpaceX — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Moon Phase
Full moon
99% lit
Day 15.0 of 29.5