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In 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a solar eclipse in India and saw a yellow line that matched no known element on Earth, and the gas he identified in the Sun's chromosphere — named helium, after helios — would not be fo - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:09:53 GMTOn August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Earth in a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain — and just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak under a moonless sky, setting up one of the most ex - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:27 GMTAbout 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not functioning satellites — one collision can turn two of them into thousands, making orbital debris a risk that manufactures more of itself - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:30:00 GMTFor roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:30:00 GMTOn this day in space! Aug. 8, 1977: Soviet Union's Salyut 5 reconnaissance space station burns up in Earth's atmosphere - SpaceSpace · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMTOne night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide that swept through nearby villages — killing people and animals in their sleep and revealing one of the rarest natural disasters on Earth. - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:47 GMTA six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan's son Nick said: "Hello from the children of planet Earth." - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:00:52 GMTIn the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars — ancient salt flats, near-lifeless soils, towering volcanoes, and some of the clearest skies on the planet, where scientists search for clues about life beyond Earth. - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:30:09 GMT