A perfect meeting of old and new: Astronomers combined latest @ESAGaia data with a simple 18th century analysis technique to discover a massive star cluster that had previously escaped detection […]

Test your geography skills! Can you name the cities in this night timelapse? Reply with the number + city name + #timelapsechallenge! pic.twitter.com/fZt2aJEiSm — Paolo Nespoli (@astro_paolo) November 18, 2017

Interstellar asteroid is given a name: Oumuamua. Read more: https://t.co/9NfYEYWsCd #AsteroidDay pic.twitter.com/24OB7YOF58 — Asteroid Day ☄ (@AsteroidDay) November 17, 2017

The #Cordillera Occidental of the #Andes and the #Peru coastline around Pisco! #VITAmission #EarthfromSpace pic.twitter.com/FJ8tEweYPL — Paolo Nespoli (@astro_paolo) November 17, 2017

Our week in images – which is your favourite? https://t.co/c5u8u6Q9ZN pic.twitter.com/pFmkDulPqj — ESA (@esa) November 18, 2017

Friday, an old Moon smiled for early morning risers. Its waning sunlit crescent is captured in this atmospheric scene from clear skies near Bursa, Turkey, planet Earth. In the subtle […]