AXSA Space Trust

07/10/2026

Cause baby, you're a firework 🎤🎆

This is Pa 30, an explosive cloud of gas and dust bursting from a central hot blue star. Astronomers say it’s the likely remnant of a supernova that people on Earth saw in the year 1181. The explosion created the spectacular, firework-like shell we see around the star.
Now, new observations from the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai‘i have revealed this supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. They show that the shell’s long, radial filaments are not smooth streaks as previously thought. Instead, they are made up of chains of tiny knots of gas.

The supernova, known as SN 1181, was visible in the sky for 185 days and is one of only five supernovae in the Milky Way recorded before the invention of the telescope.
This image was captured with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab.

📷 International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský

01/10/2026

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27/09/2026

🌙 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 (𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟗𝟗% 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝) 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐳𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

Zodiac Sign (Aries Moon): An Aries moon brings a spark of fire, energy, drive, and courage.

Even as the moon wanes, this sign encourages direct action, passion, honesty, and tackling tasks with renewed enthusiasm.

Place of Photograph- Broadford, Scotland

25/09/2026

📡Using ALMA, a team of astronomers have captured one of the most detailed three-dimensional views yet of a massive binary star system while it is still being born.

✨By tracking the motions of two young, massive stars over nearly eight years, the team found that the pair follows a highly stretched-out orbit and is surrounded by strongly tilted gas disks, both relative to each other and to the stars' orbit.

🌟🌟The findings suggest the two stars didn't form together from a single spinning disk of material, as is often assumed, but instead formed independently and later came together in a close gravitational encounter, revealing a new way close massive binary star systems may form.

📷: An artist’s impression of the formation of a close massive binary system, showing misaligned disks around two young stars. Credit: Y. Zhang

➡️ https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/alma-watches-a-massive-binary-assemble-in-real-time/

23/09/2026

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞?

https://youtu.be/u1pvJu79dPM

23/09/2026

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞?

https://youtu.be/u1pvJu79dPM

23/09/2026

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞? 🌌

Take a look at this: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined over 263,000 telescope exposures to build the largest 2D map of the universe ever made in visible and near-infrared light.

That map isn't just a pretty picture, it's a working tool. Astronomers pair it with their own observations to explore the cosmos and hunt for rare, fleeting phenomena that might otherwise slip through the cracks.

And it doesn't stop at 2D. This map is the foundation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, which is now using it to chart the universe in 3D and dig into one of the biggest mysteries in science: dark energy.

From a flat map to a 3D universe to (hopefully) answers about what's pulling everything apart. Science doesn't get much bigger than this. 🔭✨

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/

https://youtu.be/u1pvJu79dPM

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map (DR11) was 13 years in the maki...

22/09/2026

🚨 REGISTRATION CLOSES 30 SEP!🚨 Don’t miss you chance to guide a free-flying robot aboard the International Space Station!

The 7th Round of the Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC) is now open.

Through this Access to Space for All partnership between UNOOSA and JAXA(宇宙航空研究開発機構) , students can take on a real space robotics challenge!

Choose your challenge:
🌟 Beginner Course: A simulator-only course for students under 16, designed to build robotics programming skills.

🤖 Regular Course: Compete for a place in the ISS final, where winning team will see their code tested aboard the International Space Station.

✅ Eligible participants may enter both courses if they meet the requirements. Teams must have 3–6 members, including at least three students.

The UNOOSA international slot is open to eligible students from developing economies and economies in transition that are not participating Kibo-RPC countries or regions.

Please share this opportunity with a school, university or youth STEM network you know!

For more information & to apply visit https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/access2space4all/Kibo-RPC/kibo-rpc_7th_round.html

21/09/2026

Witness the making 🚀🚀

14/09/2026

https://antryxspace.com/wsw-2026

Celebrate World Space Week with AXSA 🚀🧑‍🚀