#PPOD: This fragment of the Hillsborough meteorite crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home in 2024, delivering an unusually pristine sample of a primitive asteroid directly to Earth. The rare CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite contains material altered by ancient salty fluids... 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: This sprawling Hubble view captures N44, a vast star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years from Earth. At its heart is a superbubble roughly 210 by 140 light-years across... 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: Eight dust devils march across the dark sands of Ganges Chasma in this remarkable view from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Sunlight warms the dark, gently sloping surface, driving convection in the thin Martian atmosphere... 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: Saturn has long been famous for the enormous hexagonal atmospheric pattern surrounding its north pole. Now, observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed another geometric surprise: a giant, 10-sided wave, or decagon, encircling the planet’s south pole. 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: On August 28, 2026, the Moon slipped deep into Earth’s shadow during a partial lunar eclipse visible across much of the Americas, western Europe, and western Africa. At maximum eclipse, 96.3% of the lunar disk was immersed in Earth’s umbra, leaving only a slender portion illuminated. 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: A Snowy Day in the Atacama ❄️

Snow blankets Cerro Armazones in Chile’s normally dry Atacama Desert as low clouds surround the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope.

A drone captured the unusual scene on August 19. 🧪 🔭