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Questions tagged [identify-this-object]

Questions which ask for an object in a photograph or other media to be identified and/or have its function described.

Questions which ask for an object in a photograph or other media to be identified and/or have its function described. The object should be, or at least be strongly suspected to be, related to space exploration.

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Identify these mission photos

My grandfather who was involved with the DFVLR (now DLR) had all sorts of space-memorabilia in his basement, including a roll of pictures I've found. Does anyone know what mission they are from and what planet/body is shown (I assume it's probably…
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What is the reason behind the chromatic aberration on this DISCOVR picture?

Earlier in a question on this website, I saw the following picture: If you look to the right side of the moon, you will see a massive yellow transparent area. I am wondering what caused the yellow, anyone have ideas?
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What was this stationary, then moving light point seen at daylight?

While lying on the garden couch looking straight up I noticed a point light directly above me, similar to a star. This surprised me as it was about an hour before sunset and the sky was still bright. What surprised me more was that it seemed mostly…
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What's this part of Curiosity?

What's this part here used for? The thing that looks like if you poured dirt into it, that it'd sift through it. Not the antenna, the white thing in center that looks as if it could spin.
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What spacecraft part is Mike Pence touching in this photo?

In this photograph, Vice President Mike Pence is touching an item labelled "Critical Space Flight Hardware". What is it? Has the photo been doctored?
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What is this hovering "jet propulsion device" that "moves like a ufo"?

I encountered this reddit post, which is a video of a test of some sort of device hovering precisely in place & maneuvering using some slightly underexpanded reaction control system. I'm also assuming there's some reaction wheels aboard, as it yaws…
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Identifying some sort of flare near Earth

Anyone know what this flare is in the top lefthand corner of the picture? The image was captured from the ISS live feed app for android 28/02/2019 at 18:38 BST
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what are the fast moving white objects in JCSAT-18 separation video

Fast moving objects seen at 0:27 (bottom), 0:30 (middle), 0:32 (top and bottom right) etc. What are they? They don't seem to originate from the rocket or the payload. Are they other satellites? I thought that space is so big and ill-lit that we…
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