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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
February 24, 2026
Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House
Look up this week and see a whole bunch of planets. Just after sunset, looking west (mostly), planets Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter will all be visible to the unaided eye simultaneously. If you have a telescope, planets Uranus and Neptune can also be seen. In order up from the horizon, the lineup this week will be Venus (the brightest), Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter (second brightest). It doesn't matter where on Earth you live because this early evening planet parade will be visible through clear skies all around the globe. The planets will appear to be nearly in a line because they all orbit the Sun in nearly the same plane: the ecliptic. The featured image shows a similar planet parade that occurred in 2022, captured over the Sydney Opera House in southern Australia. Although visible all week, the planets will be most easily seen together this weekend.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGdYf8j74fY
Solar Uptick on Horizon, Wild Mars Theory | S0 News and frens
Feb.24.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOz1ymx2Ko
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SoYfTnrudc (Tamitha Skov: Our Sun Goes Spotless During Storming | Space Weather Spotlight 23 February 2026)
https://x.com/schumannbot/status/2026296092313194557
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbmfi0u2Spg (HFGCS EAM 260223 18:49 UTC [55 CHARACTER MESSAGE])
GREAT COMET 2026 – Something BIG Is Coming… I Took a PICTURE
February 24, 2026
A potential Great Comet may be developing for 2026 — and I captured this image myself.
In this video, I share the latest photo and explain why this object is starting to get attention. We’ll look at its brightness trend, orbital path, and how it compares to historic sungrazers like the Great Comet of 1843, 1882, and Ikeya-Seki.
Is this early hype… or are we watching the early stages of something much bigger?
Comets can brighten dramatically — but they can also fade or fragment. In this episode, I break down what we know so far and what to watch next.
📷 Image captured by me
🔭 Telescope setup listed below
🌌 Follow along as we track this object over the coming months
Stay grounded. Stay curious.
— Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3X-_7GPa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqcpNvT9-0Y (David Sereda: 3I/Atlas UPDATE - ISIS - THE NEW EASTER VISITOR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwncwLwq8kQ (Avi Loeb: Are These Thrusters on 3I/ATLAS?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo77PIy2qaY (Chuck's Astro: Live: Let's Capture NGC 4449 (The Box Galaxy))
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-did-comet-3i-atlas-get-so-much-brighter-after-flying-past-the-sun/
https://x.com/PASPJournal/status/2026317946532892995
https://x.com/Ammar1176708/status/2026297827962294756
https://x.com/NRivelato/status/2026230265018777809
Expedition 74 Relaxes on Monday Following Busy Weekend
February 23, 2026 3:08PM
Expedition 74 was off duty on Monday following a weekend of crew handover activities, cargo packing, and microbiology research.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will also depart the International Space Station for return to Earth later this week.
The orbital outpost’s newest residents spent Saturday and Sunday familiarizing themselves with space station systems and procedures following a busy first week of scientific operations.
Standard housekeeping duties such as trash collecting, vacuuming modules and vents for dust, and wiping down surfaces with a disinfectant rounded out the weekend activities.
NASA Flight Engineer Chris Williams, who has been orbiting Earth since November, assisted the station’s newest crewmates Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, both from NASA, and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helping them get up to speed with living and working in weightlessness.
Williams showed the trio the location of food, drinks, and emergency gear, demonstrated the operation of medical equipment, communications gear, and computer networking hardware, and gave a tour of the modules while describing the operations and systems that take place in each.
Williams also joined Meir and Adenot on Saturday and explored using ultraviolet light as a method to disinfect spacecraft inhibiting microbial growth to protect crew health and space equipment.
The quartet will also step up the pace of cargo transfers inside the Dragon cargo spacecraft as it nears its departure later this week.
Dragon will return to Earth loaded with completed science experiments and station hardware for analysis. The astronauts also continued unloading crew supplies from the Dragon crew spacecraft delivered on Feb. 14.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev, who is beginning his second spaceflight, joined his cosmonaut crewmates over the weekend, Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, cleaning ventilation systems and inspecting laptop computers and power supply systems.
Fedyaev also continued his respiratory research on Saturday attaching an acoustic sensor to his neck that recorded his rapid exhalation to understand how microgravity affects his breathing.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/02/23/expedition-74-relaxes-on-monday-following-busy-weekend/