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April 12, 1981: Columbia lifts of for the first space shuttle mission

Human Spaceflight, Today in the History of Astronomy

April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 blasts off for the Moon

The first-ever image taken of a black hole. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope

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April 10, 2019: First look at a black hole

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April 9, 1959: The Mercury 7 debut

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April 8, 1960: Frank Drake begins Project Ozma

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Decades after Apollo 8, Jim Lovell’s voice returns to the Moon

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Artemis 2’s lunar flyby in images

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April 7, 1991: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is deployed

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Artemis 2 crew shares emotional moment as they name crater after commander’s late wife

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Artemis 2 astronauts fly around moon — and farther than any human

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This artist’s conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have uncovered two of these early objects, dating back to about 13 billion years ago. The monstrous black holes are among the most distant known, and appear to be in the very earliest stages of formation, earlier than any observed so far. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Credit: Tim Doucette.

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This 2016 Curiosity rover selfie shows the vehicle at the “Okoruso” drilling site on Mount Sharp’s Naukluft Plateau. The Martian scene is a mosaic of images taken with the arm-mounted Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

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April 2026: What’s in the sky this month? Venus and Uranus meet, and the Lyrid meteor shower peaks

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Chris Cook from Long Beach, California

The Milky Way arches over the Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park, California. The Racetrack is famous for its sailing stones, which move along the lakebed when ice forms and melts, leaving tracks on the lakebed. This panorama consists of five 20-second exposures taken with an astromodified Canon DSLR at ISO 6400 and a 15mm lens at f/2.8.

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