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The Corn Moon is coming soon to a field near you 🌽 Celebrate harvest season beneath the glow of the full moon this weekend! Look east as the Sun sets on Sept. 26 for the best view and let us know if you spot nearby Saturn.

A full moon, centered in the image, is pictured against the black of space. Credit: NASA

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Smoother skies ahead✈️ NASA is developing technologies that are modernizing and digitizing the commercial flying experience, from the departure to the sky to the arrival. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3TQJVBE

Testing at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley in March 2026 demonstrated autonomous technology that could identify an incursion – a vehicle, wayward suitcase, or other runway obstacle that could impact an aircraft’s safe landing.
NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete

How are you welcoming the new season? 🍂 ☀️ Today marks the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The equinox is the exact moment when the center of the Sun crosses the plane of our planet’s equator.

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Credit:NASA

Wherever you are, the Moon is hanging among the stars 🌙 We’ve observed the Moon from many perspectives. From Earth to orbit to deep space, our celestial neighbor is one to celebrate! Join us Sept. 19 for International Observe the Moon Night. Explore more:

This almost full moon shining in the eastern night sky was photographed on June 12, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

A near full moon is silver against the black of space. Below, various shades of blue glow from Earth’s atmosphere in this image taken from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

In this view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible at the top half of the Moon disk. It is identifiable by the dark splotches. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater that appears below the lava flows, dark in the center, is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides as is partly visible from Earth on the edge of the Moon. In this image, we have a full view of the crater. Everything below the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits around us. Credit: NASA

Neptune’s south pole 🔵 As seen by Voyager 2 as it sped away from the ice giant.

The south pole of Neptune is visible in this image, while the rest of the planet remains dark, blending into the black of space. The light emanating from the south pole creates an inverted crescent in shades of light blue, white, and orange. Credit: NASA/JPL

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