November 6, 2026

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft got its first close-up look at the Didymos binary asteroid system. The image, released on November 5, 2026, shows the main asteroid Didymos and a sliver of its moonlet Dimorphos. The Didymos system was previously impacted by NASA's DART spacecraft in September 2022.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a giant exoplanet by blocking its star's light. The exoplanet, 51 Eridani b, is a gas giant with 11 times Jupiter's mass, orbiting a star 97 light-years away. It was initially discovered in 2015 by ground-based telescopes.

NASA released a Hubble Space Telescope image of Messier 30. The image shows a collection of stars about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. The stars in Messier 30 provide a lesson in galactic history.

NASA's Voyager 1 reaches a distance of one light-day from Earth. November's night sky features a supermoon, meteor showers, and a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter. The month also includes bright meteor fireballs.

A coronal hole on the sun fires high-speed solar wind toward Earth. The northern lights may be visible in New York and Idaho if moderate geomagnetic storm conditions occur on November 7 and 8. Minor storm conditions are expected between November 6 and 8, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.