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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
July 9, 2026
The Red Glow of the Cosmic Bat Nebula
This Cosmic Bat wishes you a happy Summerween! This mid-year celebration of Halloween transcends hemispheres, even though summer in the Northern hemisphere is winter in the South. Contrary to its eery aura, the Cosmic Bat Nebula (LDN 43), not to be confused with the Bat Nebula (NGC 6995), is a vibrant birthplace for stars. A bit of young starlight peeks through the dense clouds of gas and dust that make up the Cosmic Bat’s 12 lightyear wingspan. The ultraviolet light from the young stars energizes the nebula’s hydrogen gas, causing it to glow an ominous red. The jet of glowing hydrogen gas emerging from the bat’s head hints at the star formation hidden within.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5dkM8A0bw
Solar Watch, Pole Shift Atmosphere Effect | S0 News and frens
July.9.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPE5aOGbHtk
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx3f8uu89McoQlf6ehOdhVrDWsQdv7bw9v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSszl4zs6SY (Jul 6, 2026: Yes, this happened last night…(Fuego volcano eruption))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COaHJxyaoJ4 (On the Pulse with Silki: PANIC in China ! Series of STRONG Earthquakes HITS HARD and DAMAGING)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc33Eb7swaw (Stefan Burns: Top Astrologer Pam Gregory: The World "Changes Beyond Recognition" Once Planet Nine is Found…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVj6zxMRBRw (EarhMaster: Pressure increasing across the Philippines area… Wednesday Night earthquake activity)
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-unraveling-solar-mystery-extreme-thinness.html
https://sciencex.com/news/2026-07-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-amps-zealand.html
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/super-typhoon-bavi/
https://minutemirror.com.pk/china-and-taiwan-prepare-for-powerful-typhoon-bavi-as-storm-approaches-587612
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202607090020
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6398118
https://www.wionews.com/trending/china-storms-strong-winds-fling-woman-into-air-tornado-plucks-man-from-high-rise-building-1783571900938
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20260709-337277/
https://kfiz.com/rare-great-lakes-earthquake-rumbles-southern-lake-michigan/
https://qazinform.com/news/m53-earthquake-strikes-tajikistan-8e82bd
https://baguioheraldexpressonline.com/4-5-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-baguio-city-nearby-areas/
https://mitkatadvisory.com/lapu-lapu-city-on-alert-after-kanlaon-volcano-eruption/
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1279121
https://meteoagent.com/schumann-resonance-forecast
https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Scattered-Severe-Storms-From-The-Plains-To-Mid-Atlantic
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/319354/Volcano-earthquake-report-for-Thursday-9-Jul-2026.html
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=07&year=2026
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/US-5984239-A?source=USPAT&requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiIyNjM1YTkxYS1jMjBmLTQ1ODgtYWVkZi0xZGY1MGRlYTYxMWMiLCJ2ZXIiOiIwNjlkZDdmZC0yOWMxLTQzZmYtYjMyNy1mYzRiZjBjMDg3MTUiLCJleHAiOjB9
Celestial Double Whammy: Solar Eclipse and Perseid Meteor Shower on August 12, 2026
Last updated: July 8, 2026
Mark your calendars for August 12, 2026, as this date promises a thrilling celestial event, featuring both a spectacular solar eclipse and a stunning meteor shower, with no special equipment required for viewing.
On that day, the Moon will transit directly in front of the Sun, resulting in a total solar eclipse that will be observable from various regions in North America, the UK, Ireland, and parts of continental Europe.
Following the eclipse, as night falls, Earth will pass through debris from comet Swift-Tuttle, heralding one of the most impressive meteor showers of the year.
During the solar eclipse, the Moon will create the illusion of a “bite” taken out of the Sun. This occurs when the Moon moves between Earth and the Sun, briefly obscuring the solar disc.
The total solar eclipse will be best experienced within a narrow ‘path of totality’ where observers will witness the Sun completely covered, leading to a few minutes of twilight-like darkness.
In contrast, those outside this path will observe a partial eclipse, where the Moon will obscure only a portion of the Sun.
The path of totality will sweep across parts of Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, making these locations prime spots for witnessing the total eclipse.
Observers in the rest of Europe, northern Africa, and parts of North America, particularly eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S., will experience a partial solar eclipse.
Major cities in the UK, including Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester, and London, will see more than 90% of the Sun obscured. Dublin and Cork in Ireland are expected to see up to 94% and 96% coverage, respectively.
For safe viewing, it is crucial to wear certified solar eclipse glasses, which filter harmful solar rays.
Though it is safe to remove these glasses for a brief moment during totality, they must be worn before and after this rare moment. Special care should also be taken when observing the Sun at sunset during the eclipse.
As the solar event concludes, skywatchers should prepare for the Perseid meteor shower, known for its high meteor count and beautiful fireball displays.
This annual phenomenon occurs from mid-July to late August when Earth travels through the debris trail left by comet Swift-Tuttle, leading to dramatic shooting stars visible across the Northern Hemisphere.
The timing of the Perseid meteor shower coinciding with the solar eclipse makes this occurrence particularly special.
The new Moon phase during the eclipse provides ideal conditions for viewing meteors, as the lack of moonlight creates a darker sky, enhancing visibility for the shooting stars.
Observers are encouraged to seek dark areas away from city lights to enjoy the meteor shower fully.
To successfully watch both events, attendees should take a few precautions.
During the day, it’s essential to protect your eyes with certified solar filters, while at night, using your naked eye provides the best viewing experience for meteor spotting.
Spending some time in darkness allows your eyes to adjust, enhancing your ability to see meteors.
This August promises a breathtaking celestial display, merging the wonder of a solar eclipse with the brilliance of a meteor shower, reminding enthusiasts and casual skywatchers alike of the beauty and majesty of the universe.
Observers are encouraged to share their experiences and photographs following the events.
https://news.ssbcrack.com/celestial-double-whammy-solar-eclipse-and-perseid-meteor-shower-on-august-12-2026/
other space objects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHTpwPIK-Q (Ray's Astro: LIVE: Manhattan-Sized Comet 10P/Tempel — Real Images + Telescope Hunt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9B7SnXrS30 (Dobsonian Power: OFFICIAL FOOTAGE OF A MONOLITH ON THE MOON!)
Multiple crews respond to two-alarm fire at NASA Steam Plant
Jul 9, 2026 / 05:13 AM EDT Updated: Jul 9, 2026 / 10:57 AM EDT
Multiple crews are responding after an overnight fire erupted at NASA Steam Plant in Hampton.
According to officials, crews were dispatched just before 1 a.m. for a fire in the debris pit.
When crews arrived, an officer indicated there was heavy fire inside the structure with flames showing above the roof. Additional resources were then requested.
The incident was marked as a Level 2 working incident and a second alarm was called. Due to the amount for fire and unknown stability of the structure, fire crews utilized a ladder tower to suppress the fire from the exterior.
Once an adjacent portion of the structure was deemed safe, crews were able to place suppression devices inside the building to attack the fire.
Officials say the bulk of the fire was marked knocked down at 2:24 a.m.
All workers inside the building were able to safely evacuate and no injuries have been reported by the workers or firefighters.
10 On Your Side arrived on scene just before 4 a.m. and observed multiple police vehicles blocking a portion of Wythe Creek Road. WAVY was later able to get a closer look of the damage that the fire caused.
“The roof of the steam plant was burnt through in some areas, and the cranes are very badly damaged.
Whether they were destroyed I don’t know that yet but they are very badly damaged,” said Mike Holtzclaw, Hampton’s Communications Cordinator. “It’s significant damage to the plant.”
Crews with Hampton Fire-Rescue provided additional photos the fire showing the aftermath of the fire inside the plant.
Fire crews and resources will remain on scene to continue applying water and foam to ensure that the fire is extinguished. Crews with Hampton’s Public Works Division have been requested for debris movement and removal.
Dominion Virginia Power, Hampton Police Division, and multiple fire agencies are assisting with this operation.
While the fire is being investigated, there is no estimate when the plant will reopen. Holtzclaw tells 10 On Your Side that while the plant is closed, residential garbage will be taken to the landfill.
https://www.wavy.com/news/multiple-crews-respond-to-two-alarm-fire-at-nasa-steam-plant/
https://dailydispatch.com/fire-news/virginia/multiple-crews-respond-to-two-alarm-fire-at-nasa-steam-plant-in-hampton/
Crew Works Health Checks, CubeSat Maintenance, and Soyuz Seat Checks
July 8, 2026 3:49PM
Health checks and CubeSat hardware maintenance were the prime research objectives aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday.
The Expedition 74 crew members also stowed spacewalking gear, transferred cargo, and checked seats in a Soyuz spacecraft.
Continuous health monitoring in space helps doctors keep crews safe while living in weightlessness for months at a time and informs researchers how the human body adapts to microgravity.
The astronauts often wear a variety of sensors comfortably measuring vital signs throughout their shift. Advanced portable health gear and standard medical imaging hardware on the orbital outpost can analyze an astronaut’s blood samples, DNA, eyes, and more, then downlink the results to doctors on Earth.
The long-running CIPHER suite of 14 human research studies collects a crew member’s mental and physical health data before, during, and after mission.
The multi-year investigation provides doctors a deeper understanding of the effects of living in space long term and helps promote an astronaut’s safety and health to ensure mission success.
NASA flight engineer Chris Williams contributed to a portion of that investigation collecting his blood and urine samples using medical tools adapted for microgravity.
Next, he processed his samples with a centrifuge and small tubes then stowed the biological specimens in a science freezer for preservation and later analysis.
Williams, in between his blood work and urinalysis, worked inside the Quest airlock with NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir continuing to stow the tools that they used during a spacewalk to repair the Canadarm2 robotic arm on June 30.
Williams also joined Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev and checked the custom-fit seat liners they will sit in when they ride back to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft at the end of the month.
Meir finished her shift inside the Unity module replacing brackets and panels to make room for life support equipment.
NASA flight engineer Jack Hathaway retrieved the NanoRacks CubeSat deployer from inside the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock then uninstalled it from Kibo’s multipurpose experiment platform.
Several days earlier, the device deployed tiny satellites designed by university students for a variety of communications and technology investigations into Earth orbit. Hathaway then entered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and cleaned up cargo.
ESA (European Space Agency) flight engineer Sophie Adenot began her shift transferring cargo in and out of the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft with assistance from Meir.
Next, she set up eye imaging hardware then powered on the Ultrasound 2 device and checked its video connections. Adenot, at the end of her shift, collected airflow measurements in the station’s modules and inspected ventilation system components.
Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev participated in eye checks using the same gear Adenot set up earlier. The duo also collected their blood and saliva samples for analysis before staging cargo to be packed later inside the Souz MS-28.
Roscosmos flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev spent his shift swapping out radiation detection gear, measuring his blood pressure with a series of arm, wrist, and finger cuffs, then inspecting laptop computers inside the Nauka science module.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/07/08/crew-works-health-checks-cubesat-maintenance-and-soyuz-seat-checks/
moar NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/smallsatellites/2026/07/09/nasa-small-satellite-could-make-global-positioning-more-precise/
https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/science-activation/students-connect-nasa-science-with-indigenous-knowledge-to-study-coastal-erosion/
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/new-opera-dswx-hls-gis-image-service-now-available
https://nasawatch.com/2026/07/08/nasas-flight-experience-awards/
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/youre-always-surrounded-by-neutrinos/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/neutrinos-are-worth-a-thousand-words-d1556a8b9393
extra extra NASA
https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/fibrobiologics-appoints-former-nasa-astronaut-to-board-93CH-4784106
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/staffing-the-moon-base-how-many-astronauts-should-live-in-nasas-lunar-outpost
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/nasa-ufo-stigma-michael-gold/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyz79i5mUw
You’re Always Surrounded by Neutrinos!
July 9, 2026
This second, as you’re reading these words, trillions of tiny particles are hurtling toward you! No, you don’t need to brace yourself. They’re passing through you right now.
And now. And now. These particles are called neutrinos, and they’re both everywhere in the cosmos and also extremely hard to find.
Neutrinos are fundamental particles, like electrons, so they can’t be broken down into smaller parts. They also outnumber all the atoms in the universe.
(Atoms are made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons. Protons and neutrons are made of quarks.) The only thing that outnumbers neutrinos are all the light waves left over from the birth of the universe!
Physicist Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of the neutrino, nearly a century ago. Enrico Fermi coined the name, which means “little neutral one” in Italian, because these particles have no electrical charge and nearly no mass.
Despite how many there are, neutrinos are hard to study. They travel at almost the speed of light and rarely interact with other matter. Out of the universe’s four forces, ghostly neutrinos are only affected by gravity and the weak force.
The weak force is about 10,000 times weaker than the electromagnetic force, which affects electrically charged particles. Because neutrinos carry no charge, move almost as fast as light, and don’t interact easily with other matter, they can escape some bizarre and extreme places where even light might struggle getting out — like dying stars!
Through the weak force, neutrinos interact with other tiny fundamental particles: electrons, muons [mew-ons], and taus [rhymes with “ow”]. Scientists never detect neutrinos directly.
They find signals from these other particles, so they named the three types, or flavors, of neutrinos after them. That means there’s an electron neutrino, muon neutrino, and tau neutrino.
Neutrinos are made up of each of these three flavors, but cycle between them as they travel. Imagine going to the store to buy rocky road ice cream, which is made of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallows.
When you get home, you find that it’s suddenly mostly marshmallows. Then in your bowl it’s mostly nuts. But when you take a bite, it’s just chocolate ice cream! That’s a little bit like what happens to neutrinos as they zoom through the cosmos.
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On Earth, neutrinos are produced when unstable atoms decay, which happens in the planet’s core and nuclear reactors. (The first-ever neutrino detection happened in a nuclear reactor and was published in 1956!)
They’re also created by particle accelerators and high-speed particle collisions in the atmosphere. (Also, interestingly, the potassium in a banana emits neutrinos — but no worries, bananas are perfectly safe to eat!)
Most of the neutrinos around Earth come from the Sun — about 65 billion every second for every square centimeter.
These are produced in the Sun’s core where the immense pressure squeezes together hydrogen to produce helium. This process, called nuclear fusion, creates the energy that makes the Sun shine, as well as neutrinos.
The first neutrinos scientists detected from outside the Milky Way were from SN 1987A, a supernova that occurred only 168,000 light-years away in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
(That makes it one of the closest supernovae scientists have observed.) The light from this explosion reached us in 1987, so it was the first supernova modern astronomers were able to study in detail.
The neutrinos actually arrived a few hours before the light from the explosion because of the forces discussed earlier. The particles escape the star’s core before any of the other effects of the collapse ripple to the surface.
Then they travel in pretty much a straight line — all because they don’t interact with other matter very much.
How do we detect particles that are so tiny and fast — especially when they rarely interact with other matter? Well, the National Science Foundation decided to bury a bunch of detectors in Antarctic ice to create the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
The detector measures about 0.6 miles (or 1 kilometer) on each side, giving it a volume of about 0.2 cubic miles or one cubic kilometer. The neutrinos interact with other particles in the ice through the weak force and turn into muons, electrons, and taus.
The new particles gain the neutrinos’ speed and travel faster than light in the ice, which produces a particular kind of radiation IceCube can detect. (Although they would still be slower than light in the vacuum of space.)
In 2013, IceCube first detected high-energy neutrinos, which have energies up to 1,000 times greater than those produced by Earth’s most powerful particle collider. But scientists were puzzled about where exactly these particles came from.
Then, in 2017, IceCube detected a high-energy neutrino from a monster black hole powering a high-speed particle jet at a galaxy’s center billions of light-years away.
It was accompanied by a flash of gamma rays — the highest energy form of light — which was caught by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
But particle jets aren’t the only place we can find these particles. In 2021, scientists announced that another high-energy neutrino came from a black hole shredding an unlucky star that strayed too close.
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory helped other space- and ground-based telescopes study the event. They found that it didn’t produce the neutrino when or how scientists expected, though, so there’s still a lot to learn about these mysterious particles!
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Senator Ashley Moody
@SenAshleyMoody
In April, I spoke with the #ArtemisII crew from my cell phone in Florida while they were 200,000 miles away in space.
This week, I finally met these American heroes face to face as they returned to Kennedy Space Center to thank the hundreds of NASA scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who built the rocket that carried them farther into space than any humans in history.
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Senator Ashley Moody
@SenAshleyMoody
Apr 9
That’s right, we are in the Golden Age of space!
Florida has long been the beating heart of American space exploration.
Great to ask the crew what they’d say to inspire Florida children dreaming of careers in space and beyond.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
@NASAAdmin
Thanks for being such a big supporter of NASA, Senator Moody 🇺🇸
4:21 PM · Jul 8, 2026
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2074997353761620171
extra social media NASA
https://x.com/FAANews/status/2075248794334056808
https://x.com/sampritibh/status/2075091933027062265
https://x.com/NASA/status/2075249100035866880
https://x.com/SPACEdotcom/status/2074934799001919862