Astronomy & Space Today

• APOD: 2026 October 13 – Desert Stairway to Heaven
• An Impact Structure With Legs
• NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Mission to Launch Health Research
• APOD: 2026 October 12 – Jupiter and the Moons
• Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum

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• Cosmic House of Mirrors
• Crew-12 Returns to Earth
• Artemis II Crew Moon Photo Annotations
• Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data
• NASA Astronaut Christina Koch at Eagles vs. Rams

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• Autumn observing targets for large telescopes
• What can we learn from gravitational lensing?
• Oct. 12, 1964: Voshkod 1 sends the first crew to space
• 2026 Full Moon calendar: When to see the Full Moon and phases
• The Sky Today on Monday, October 12: Mercury at greatest elongation

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