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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 1, 2026
The Claw and Bubble Nebulae
What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting, with large swaths of color strewn across a cosmic canvas seemingly without design. Despite the image's abstract nature, the human mind finds patterns, identifying a large claw reaching up towards a floating bubble. Embedded within these seemingly random structures are the physical laws that govern how light and matter interact. The Claw (Sh2-157) and Bubble (NGC 7635) Nebulae glow colors that are mapped to the yellow and blue shown, indicating the presence of hydrogen and oxygen ionized by the intense light emitted from stars several times the mass of the Sun. This image depicts both the chaos and structure of astronomical processes, showing that a common thread between art and science is to look for the unexpected.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWg4UpmW8Q
Solar CME Impact, Comet MAPS, Supervolcano | S0 News and frens
Apr.1.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHkYegpC0qY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0dUbdQX4bw (Observers Live #29 - Waiting for the Solar Storm Tonight)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Zyg1LwKRI (MrMBB333: JUST when you think you've seen it ALL! Here comes ANOTHER one! (Updates))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xruOtqXO3I (Tamitha Skov: When Will the Storm Arrive? | Solar Storm Forecast Live Briefing 1 April 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wBcliJiIEg (TheEarthMaster: More Earthquake swarms around the Puerto Rico Trench. This may need to be watched. Tuesday Night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHBQowiMMmE (Stefan Burns: There is a Serious Risk of a Large Impact Event Occurring. This is Not a Drill…)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/how-the-artemis-2-astronauts-could-weather-a-solar-storm-during-their-moon-mission
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/2039312990520881545
https://x.com/schumannbot/status/2039040053087752294
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/298987/Volcano-earthquake-report-for-Wednesday-1-Apr-2026.html
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/
Launch day is getting weird, the schumann is dark and the aurora tracker is missing data.
Over 2,000 fireballs have lit up US skies in three months, and the one in Texas that shot back up instead of down has people asking
Mar 31, 2026 6:15 PM PDT
The US has seen a sharp uptick in fireball sightings, with over 2,000 reported across the country in just the last three months.
One incident in Texas has drawn particular attention, with a bright orange streak appearing to shoot upward into the sky rather than falling toward Earth, prompting the American Meteor Society (AMS) to call for a “serious investigation.”
The AMS confirmed that the number of sightings in the first quarter of this year surpasses any other first quarter since 2011.
As detailed by the Unilad, more than 2,000 cases have been logged, and globally there have been 38 major fireball events, more than 2024 and 2025 combined.
While the AMS attributes most of the activity to an increase in natural meteor showers, the volume and some unusual trajectories have fueled UFO theories online.
The March 17 sighting in Texas, where the object appeared to ascend rather than descend, has been among the most discussed.
The sonic booms are harder to explain away than the sighting numbers alone
The AMS has identified many of the meteorites recovered as achondritic HEDs, a type that does not form chondrules and typically originates from Vesta, a large asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.
On March 21, one meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in Houston.
These are not small events. The AMS reports that many witnesses observed meteors lasting longer than four seconds, with some producing sonic booms.
Generating a sonic boom requires an object to be traveling at 25,000 miles per hour or more, which underscores the energy involved in these incidents.
https://attackofthefanboy.com/other-news/over-2000-fireballs-have-lit-up-us-skies-in-three-months-and-the-one-in-texas-that-shot-back-up-instead-of-down-has-people-asking-questions/
extra fireballs, meteors, and comets (Oh my!)
https://x.com/SunWeatherMan/status/2039333764208447789
https://x.com/chimura_/status/2039122370129166794
https://x.com/JAtanackov/status/2039035284822614079
https://x.com/WVcode/status/2039216931211821419
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7s7ldBAQU (Dobsonian Power: SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_rZbblc7k (John Lenard Walson: NASA LIVE SpaceX LIVE Two Lunar Missions Launch Together on Falcon 9 Moon Mission LIVE APT)
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-cosmic-life-mostly-underground-221f78180084
Exclusive: NASA’s Jared Isaacman Talks Artemis II, Moon Base, & Gateway Corrosion
March 30, 2026
In this pre-launch interview, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins us for a technical discussion covering his unexpected journey into the role, flying F-5 fighter jets at the Kennedy Space Center, the ongoing challenges with Artemis II, and the ambitious new “Ignition” plan aimed at building a sustainable commercial space economy.
We dive into the realities of Artemis delays, maintaining workforce skills, shifting priorities for Artemis III through V, the future of Gateway, Mobile Launcher-2, and NASA’s long-term vision for a Moon base that can survive changing administrations.
Isaacman addresses tough questions about budgets, contractor accountability, partner buy-in, and what success looks like by the end of his term.
A straightforward conversation about the current state and future direction of America’s space program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPUe47nnAqs
extra Isaacman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7hPsokwm8 (Jared Isaacman: The Night Before Launch | Live at The Space Bar)
https://x.com/johnkrausphotos/status/2039343855422550107
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2039349547181207910
April's full 'Pink Moon' rises tonight — just as NASA readies its Artemis 2 moon mission
April 1, 2026
Get ready stargazers! The April full moon rises tonight, bringing a spectacular natural light show to the early spring sky as NASA's Artemis 2 rocket sits on the pad ready to launch four astronauts on a 10-day mission to the far side of the natural satellite.
This month's full moon phase will occur at 10:12 p.m. EDT on April 1 (0211 GMT on April 2), as the lunar disk glows opposite the sun in Earth's sky, fully lit by the light of our parent star, mere hours after the launch window opens for the Artemis 2 launch.
Moonrise and moonset times vary depending on your viewing location. April's full moon is also known as the "Pink Moon", in reference to the ground-covering phlox that blooms around this time in parts of North America.
During a full moon, the Earth-facing lunar disk is entirely bereft of shadows, making it a perfect time to grab your telescope and explore some of the lesser-known lunar seas that scar its surface, where lava flooded colossal impact basins billions of years ago.
A telescope with an aperture of 4-6 inches will help reveal the long dark smear of Mare Frigoris (the Sea of Cold) snaking across the northern extreme of the lunar disk.
The small mare at the very centre of the moon is known, fittingly, as Sinus Medii, the Bay of the Center, while the 150-mile-wide (242-kilometer) expanse of Mare Vaporum (the Sea of Vapors) is visible 15 degrees directly above it, with the large Manilius Crater on its eastern border.
Next, sweep your scope southwest to find Mare Nubium (the Sea of Clouds), with Mare Humorum (the Sea of Humours) to its left, relative to the moon's north pole.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be treated to an up-close and personal view of the moon over the course of their 10-day Artemis 2 mission.
You can stay up to date with the latest Artemis 2 action with our Artemis 2 live blog.
During their brief stay in Earth orbit — and during Orion's days-long transfer to lunar space — the crew will witness the waning gibbous phase, as the line separating night from day sweeps right-to-left across the moon's surface.
Their distant trajectory will then see them join the ranks of the 24 Apollo-era astronauts who remain the only humans to ever see the far side of the moon, though only a small part of the far side will be lit at the time of their passage.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/aprils-full-pink-moon-rises-tonight-just-as-nasa-readies-its-artemis-2-moon-mission-april-1-2026