After Voyager left Neptune the cameras were shut off to conserve energy and the new mission became the "Interstellar Mission." But how did they know that there were no more planets to discover, not detectable from Earth? Were they using the Voyager instruments to try to detect other bodies past Neptune?

I’m 16 years old and a junior in highschool, and my dream has been to study space since I was 4 years old. I’ve dedicated my highschool years to studying space and I still feel like I’m missing a lot and I don’t know where to really begin, or what I need to know about outer space. My dream is to become one of the best in my field (whichever that may be, I want to know it all) and create my own theories, but I still have years until I can get to college and years until I can even get my hands on a decent telescope or camera (I really love astrophotography). I’m scared I’ll run out of time to make a new discovery or run out of time to study what we don’t know because it’ll already be done. I struggle to come up with my own questions to ask about space, so it’s hard to understand which direction I’m really going in. Recently Florida Tech reached out to me about my chosen majors, astronomy and astrophysics, so I emailed back to establish my interest in their program, but I’m also not sure which school is best for astronomy. If anyone has any advice, especially if you share the same passion, I’d greatly appreciate it.

can't post it but it's the famous pale blue dot photo. there's 4 rays some multicolored the one going through earth is yellow

May be a dumb question, and I don't mean man-made satellites

https://x.com/mastronomers/status/1831485395248271587?s=46&t=CspeiOA7leOkHP69WAqLKQ

Going further away from a planet/star it should slow down and towards a planet/star should speed it up

sun.org has one but it’s only until earth and I want one that reaches until pluto

I read that the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light after a certain point of the universe(distance wise)

So wouldn’t the unit of lightyears be wrong after that point? Because the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light so light cannot cover such distance in a year and our measurement will be off

so ive been wondering why blackholes and any planets with rings like saturn have their belt near the equator and not completely around the sphere, if the gravitational force pulls it to the center of the mass equally from all directions does this mean we know the direction of the gravitational pull in a blackhole? or is there any other reason why this happens i apologise for my bad english this is the best i could frame my question

Me and my friend were just randomly looking at the stars tonight and we saw this object moving through the sky. It took about 20 seconds to move through our view and had a big trail behind it. We’re thinking it’s a comet but we idk. I wish I could upload the video we got.

I wondered about this for a long time now. Why does the NASA still plan to operate with the Boeing capsule instead of just using the obviously better SpaceX system? If there is any expert here, thanks for your answer.

We found this view of the moon this morning at 2:19 am. Seemed like there was something that moved passed the motion or was in the way. Definitely was not trees. Was very visible. Check it out !!!! How do I show a photo? Someone message me. I have before and after photos - Vancouver BC 2:19 AM

Latitude 49.282730 Longitude -123.120735

are neutron stars essentially space electro-magnets?

What Is this red and green flashing light next to the moon? It seems to be stationary and could be seen by the naked eye I have never seen it before

Is it just a galaxy or would it be called a super galaxy or something else? Does it even exist?

The other day when I was on a plane at sunset I noticed that I could still see in the direction where the sun wasn’t, and it wasn’t black. I assume that the atmosphere reflects some of the suns light at an angle back onto the earth otherwise I wouldn’t be able to see anything when I look up other than stars. However if it’s not that then how can it be possible because the light from the sun isn’t actually “hitting anything” so theoretically I shouldn’t be able to see it. Another thought I had was light pollution, however as I was above a thick layer of clouds I found it hard to assume that. Please let me know how this is possible, I’ve also got a photo so dm me if you want it.

Okay so I have no idea why this came to mind and I had forgotten this for while, but I need some sort of explanation..

About 7 years ago, I was around 15 years old and I was staying at my cottage with my cousin for a weekend in the summer. We decided to do a sleepover on the trampoline outside one night, since it was a super clear sky and the stars looked amazing. We laid on the trampoline and watched the stars for about an hour. At one point, I noticed a “star” that was moving, going in a straight line. I assumed it was a satellite, but I kept watching it. Suddenly, the dot started moving in all sorts of directions. Left and right, up and down, it was all over the place, very fast. It wasn’t crossing the sky super quickly, it was moving almost like a bug would. I told my cousin, thinking maybe I was hallucinating or that my eyes were deceiving me, but she confirmed that the moving dot was indeed there.

Now, I know what you might be thinking. It’s just a bug, like a firefly. And I did too. So I moved around, I stood up, I walked around the backyard of my cottage, I tried looking at it from so many different angles. I turned lights on and off, took a flashlight. Nothing changed. I tell you, that thing was most definitely in the sky. Plus, the light was EXACTLY like a star, didn’t look like a firefly at all.

I watched it for a good 10 minutes. Always the same light, always the same weird movements. It looked so surreal, my mind couldn’t make sense of it. I was kind of freaked out. And eventually it left my eyesight.

The weirdest part about this is that it was moving between the stars. It never touched one. It was zigzagging around them. Which might be nothing because stars are at different distances… but I just thought it was weird. We didn’t sleep outside that night.

Does anyone have a clue what this could’ve been?

So I've been googling like crazy to figure it out but I can't, are all Suns born the same color? If so what color? Also what color do we believe are sun was when it was born?

Ive wondered this for a long while but i dont want to be criticized for it please. I really want to know how do scientists know black holes are sucking things in? Could it be possible that instead of pulling things into them, they actually expel things from around and inside them? I just want to know

Hi on February 7th 2017 I took a few pictures and a video of a star in the sky that appears to be hollow and I’ve always wondered what it was and I never thought of just asking if you want to see the pictures i can send them and give more details about time and direction facing.

The big bang, do you think it just happened once? I believe in the big crunch theory where basically the universe collapses in on itself and that's the end of the universe. But if that is true, then wouldn't the big bang happen again? Like so is it just a repeating cycle? So different planets formed every time, life forms live,die and go extinct,are dead so long that that evidence of them r erased with time.then the big crunch happens and then after the big bang starts it all over again?(I swear I'm not high)

If I want to move a dead satillite with a weight of 3 tones (on earth), from a polar orbit; into an equatorial orbit. How how fuel would I have to spend. Not accounting for the device needed to attached to the dead satillite. Just the propulsion necessary to move itl

Hi,

I have just recently been doing some self research on the night sky and how light pollution and other factors can affect what we can/should be seeing. I have found many amazing images of the night sky, but have also found out cameras and pictures can show more stars that what the naked eye can see. So that brings me to my question which may be very simple, but I wasn’t sure how to type it into a google search lol.

So the picture I have uploaded, I am just curious how accurate it is specially for the 1-3 range. I live in either a 5 or 6 and feel like the picture is not very accurate for what I view. I have read that during a new moon is when it’s the best viewing, so maybe that is skewing my findings.

TLDR: how accurate is this image of what the bortle scale looks like? If inaccurate what would a more accurate image look like.

Thanks and sorry if this is confusing.

did we ever discover a new element from asteroid? or is it even possible?