lol I managed to catch the stream 3 minutes before the launch 
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Leonids this month!
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I’m half expecting her to say “To all the aliens thinking about making that dangerous trek across empty space. Do not come. Do not come”
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NASA Image of the Day
Observing a Dark Nebula
This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula - a dense cloud of interstellar dust that completely blocks out visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it. The object at the center of the image is a (much smaller) protoplanetary nebula. The protoplanetary nebula phase is a late stage in the life of a star in which it has ejected a shell of hydrogen gas and is quickly heating up. This stage only lasts for a few thousand years before the protoplanetary nebula’s central star reaches roughly 30,000 Kelvin. At this point, the central star is producing enough energy to make its surrounding shell of gas glow, becoming what’s known as a planetary nebula.
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“Excuse me while I touch the (sun)”.
They should have named the probe Icarus for a laugh 
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You have no idea how happy the audio makes me.
60s sci-fi was right!
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You slow!
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The history of this video is so fascinating. Werner Von Braun was a Nazi scientist that was the lead designer of the V2 rockets the Nazi’s used in WW2. After he defected to the West, the American army didn’t believe in his technology as a viable weapon or solution, and space flight was just a dream. So he went to Walt Disney and convinced him about his dreams of space flight. This video and a few others were made where he detailed plans for space flight. These videos were shown to the general public without the permission of the US Army, but the interest from the general public forced the government’s decision to fund a fully fledged space program, called Apollo.
Thanks for sharing!!!
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Oh wow, sorry! I blame my news feed for sending me old news 
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The Ariane 5 rocket and launch that took the Webb Space Telescope into space:
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Live right now
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On the subject of the JWST’s complex engineering…
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
And why it’s so important for the search for future homes for our species and to further our understanding of the galaxy’s history…
How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
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The Mechazilla Chopsticks! They’re alive!
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Even XKCD is getting in on the JWST hype:
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NASA Spaceflight covering the Falcon 9 launch of 49 Starlink satellites:
And a couple of other camera angles from the Spaceflight Now feed:
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