Planets, moons, eclipses, auroras and the long history of looking up.
Jupiter is about 11 times wider than Earth. You could line up eleven Earths across it.
Saturn is almost as big — and so light for its size that it would float in a big enough bathtub.
Diameter in thousands of miles.
Astronomers say it may be bright enough to see without binoculars by mid-January.
From one beeping satellite to telescopes a million miles away.
The first artificial satellite beeps its way around Earth.
Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth once in 108 minutes.
Apollo 11 lands; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the surface.
Voyager 1 and 2 begin a journey that takes them beyond the planets.
The Hubble Space Telescope launches into orbit.
The first module of the International Space Station reaches orbit.
A car-sized rover touches down in Gale Crater.
The James Webb Space Telescope lifts off on December 25.
NASA’s DART spacecraft hits Dimorphos and changes its orbit — a first test of planetary defense.
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