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Apollo 11
The first crewed lunar landing — Armstrong & Aldrin on the Moon, 20 July 1969.
Regulus
The lion's heart — a blue-white giant spinning at the edge of self-destruction, 79 light-years from Earth.
Lagoon Nebula
A glowing stellar nursery 4,000–5,200 light-years away in Sagittarius — one of the few emission nebulae visible to the naked eye, and one of the Milky Way's most active star-forming regions.
Cassiopeia
The circumpolar queen: a W-shaped northern constellation rich in supernovae, star-forming nebulae, and 3,000 years of myth.
Aldebaran
The fiery orange eye of Taurus — a nearby red giant 44 times the Sun's width, a royal star of four ancient civilizations, and the distant destination of humanity's first interstellar spacecraft.
Leonids
Earth's fastest annual meteor shower — fragments of Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle striking the atmosphere at 70 km/s, capable of producing storms of tens of thousands of meteors per hour.
IM-1 Odysseus
The first commercial soft landing on the Moon — and the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than 50 years.
Charon
Pluto's giant companion — a near-twin that turned the solar system's smallest dwarf planet into a true binary world.