August 2026

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APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss  APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Posted August 5, 2026
The coastal dune field in Brazil looks like a desert but fills with freshwater lagoons every year.
Posted August 5, 2026
Commercial Space
Benefits to Science
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Lunar Science
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger to Earth and NASA scientists are planning to collect lunar data from the event […]
Posted August 4, 2026
Coronagraph
Coronal Mass Ejections
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
The Sun
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test.
Posted August 4, 2026
General
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Danielle Lopez, Jennifer Claudio, and Duncan Mifsud. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond.
Posted August 4, 2026
Earth Observatory
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
Posted August 4, 2026
Moon Base
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations.
Posted August 4, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Technicians installed a commemorative plaque, seen in this July 28, 2026, photo, on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The plaque honors the legacy of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program. It also features a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 […]
Posted August 4, 2026
APOD
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 4 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Posted August 4, 2026
Earth Observatory
Terra
Wildfires
Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.
Posted August 4, 2026
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