It’s commonly believed that the main danger of a black hole is its pull: fly too close, and you get dragged inside. But for any object approaching one, whether a rocket, a probe or a space station, it all ends much sooner... Read more: instagram.com/p/DeuVI9uNTjB/

This is not AI. These are real photos of an ice lake on Mars, taken by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The frozen lake fills Korolev Crater, 51 miles across, in the northern lowlands of Mars not far from the north polar cap. The white dome inside... Read more: instagram.com/p/Deri4UTtoAM/

Some nights remind you how small you are. And how beautiful that is. #MilkyWay #Space #Cosmos

Over Florida, an incredible cloud appeared in the sky - a jellyfish. It’s the trail of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from a spaceport in Florida: instagram.com/p/DeepgpMNTGa/

Interstellar might be the greatest space movie ever made. Christopher Nolan took real physics, a father’s love and the silence of the cosmos and turned them into a film that still gives millions of people chills more than a decade after its release: instagram.com/reel/DecYnyutr…

Earth has never passed through the same point in space twice. As it orbits the Sun, the Sun itself carries every planet around the center of the Milky Way at about 230 km per second, a journey that takes roughly 230 million years to complete a single lap. #astronomy #motivation

The Tallest Volcano in the Solar System Is on Mars Read more: instagram.com/reels/DeM8E3KN… #Mars #NASA #OlympusMons #volcano

This rock found by Curiosity on Mars is called Paposo - one of the pieces of evidence that water once existed on Mars. A lot of water. This rock formed from minerals that water deposited in cracks in the rock billions of years ago... More info: instagram.com/reel/DeKUXXBNT…

This is a sunset on Mars, recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover from inside Gale Crater on April 15, 2015, at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day. More info: instagram.com/reel/DeHQcLmN9… #Mars #NASA #Curiosity #sunset

Yuri Gagarin, 1961. After his flight, he wrote and signed a short handwritten note: "Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" #Earth #space #cosmos

This Is What Earth Really Looks Like From Mars The small dot in the center is Earth: instagram.com/p/Dd_6bgYNSiN/

Have you ever wondered why total solar eclipses are even possible? #SolarEclipse #Cosmos #Space

12 Facts About Earth's Satellites: instagram.com/reel/Dd6m7NxtZ… #Satellites #StarlinkSatellites #Spacecrafts

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“Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.” Maria Mitchell #space #astronomy #cosmos

5 Incredible Facts About Mars 1. Mars has Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the Solar System, over twice as high as Everest. 2. Mars is the only planet besides Earth with a sunset photographed from the surface, and it was blue... More: instagram.com/p/DdwvLqoDccP/

Sunrises on Earth are beautiful, but watching the Sun rise above our planet from the vastness of space is something else entirely. #Earth #Sunrise #Sun #Space

What Happens to a Planet That Gets Too Close to a Black Hole? Contrary to a common belief that black holes work like cosmic vacuum cleaners pulling everything into their depths, the reality is considerably more nuanced and, in many ways... Read more: instagram.com/p/Ddg03q8N20G/

This is not an AI-generated image. It is a real photograph of what may be the single strangest galaxy ever found... Read more: instagram.com/p/DdZQ4Z0De4A/ @NASA @esa @NASAHubble

The Most Spectacular Nebulae in the Universe: instagram.com/p/DdWjis0Na7V/ #Nebula #OrionNebula #Space #Cosmos