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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great day here at ESOC, staying in the control room with the team while the images came down and processing the JMC images. Earth proved to be a real stunner with Africa and Madagascar in full view. #planetsci 🔭🧪

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Sunset of September 27, 2026 was an epic spectacle whose intensity and beauty were memorable. The cloud ceiling had a wide opening toward the West that admitted Sunlight which underwent progressive color changes as it briefly in turn illuminated layers of otherwise invisible cloud textures.

The Sunset of September 27th, 2026 was one of the greatest visions the sky has ever opened up and revealed to me. It was a sunset like few I can remember in many years. I knew early on what was likely as a heavy cloud ceiling was opening up far to the West with the underside textures in that part of the cloud ceiling catching the light early on from the distant sunlit clouds.

Vast connected cloud formations were in turn bathed in the last sunlight which progressively turned from a golden to orange to very red, in as pure a spectral filtering of Sunlight as I can recall seeing. One layer of cloud formations after another caught the light as the rays steadily angled upwards. The most distant yellow gold clouds were dazzling, like incandescent molten gold that defied photography. Lower layers were bathed in the reddest light that contrasted in hue with the more orange colors in the illuminated parts of the broken cloud ceiling above. Wide areas of the field of view were thus illuminated, appearing and fading one after the other like a parade of vast apparitions coming and going.

The last lit clouds gave up their lurid radiance reluctantly and with a very red final flourish. But the brilliance was still happening, withdrawing beyond the Western horizon as Earth's rotation carried us into the realm of the night. The Sunset lit clouds far away were still in itself illuminating clouds nearby. From their altitude the brilliance and colors along the horizon hundreds of miles away dominate the ambient lighting. This brought an extended 'echo' of the Sunset as every cloud surface facing West shone with that fading lurid glow, like a long slowly fading piano note after a great symphony.

I have seen many hundreds of Sunsets and sunrises, but something about this one struck me as almost like a kind of religious experience. Awestruck wonder and numbly bathing in the experience while periodically trying to preserve a visual record.

An all sky frame of the Sunset of September 27, 2026. Canon 6D with a fisheye lens. I now shoot most such sequences aimed straight up to show the entire horizon. Unfortunately due to a technical issue this became the first frame of the time lapse sequence, but I did get the extended 'afterglow'.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

This is the Dragonfly spacecraft, ultimately destined for Titan, photographed in July during early construction at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The mission PI, Zibi Turtle, shared this image at the OPAG meeting today. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Zibi Turtle

The Dragonfly spacecraft structure, showing the main chassis, the four struts to which the propellers will be attached, and various electrical and avionics boxes.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neptune from a backyard 9.25" telescope Credit: ◀️: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. ▶️: Aiken Ji app.astrobin.com/u/aikenji?i=... www.instagram.com/p/DdOg91hIK_O/

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perseverance Mastcam-Z 360° Panorama #55: Groloy (and Viking Lander Commemoration), Sol 1932 (July 27, 2026) ☑️ all panoramas mastcamz.asu.edu/mastcam-zs-3... ☑️ 360° VR view maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/jezero/360/55 #Mars 🔭🧪

An enhanced color 360° panorama capturing a Martian landscape with the Perseverance rover in the foreground.

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

China’s Tiangong Space Station crosses in front of Jupiter in this remarkable astrophotography shot. Just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Tiangong appears in front of Jupiter, a world hundreds of millions of kilometres away. Captured by 沈老思347

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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 21/09/2026

What if we could 'see' beneath the desert sands? 🏜️ Designed primarily to study forests, @esa.int’s Biomass mission is also helping scientists investigate ancient river systems hidden beneath the Sahara, thanks to its unique P-band radar. Read the full story🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

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Scientists have been using satellites for decades to study hydrological structures hidden below the sand in deserts. Now, with its unique P-band synthetic aperture radar, Biomass is playing a role too...

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Jan Vacek @jv-honza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BepiColombo společná mise kosmických agentur ESA a JAXA se blíží k závěru své osmileté cesty, a tak si osvěžme, jak vypadá Merkur, který bude BepiColombo zkoumat. Mapky jsou zhotoveny z celoplanetárních mozaik snímků pořízených sondou MESSENGER, kterou vypustila NASA.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Southern Hemisphere Milky Way galaxy view from ISS. This 3s exposure series captured 2 views, particularly dense Milky Way galaxy as seen from S Hemisphere,& the bright, colorful lights of squid fishing boats (here,bright blue & green lights off the coast of China,Thailand & India) 📸Jessica Meir

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

F-16 and cloud iridescence on NATO Days in Ostrava 2026.

Silhouette of an F-16 with cloud iridescence in the background.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From NASA The Moon’s got a big new crater! 🕳️ Spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the McGetchin crater formed when a rock as big as a six-story building crashed into the Moon. It’s 141 feet deep and wider than the length of two football fields. 🪨💥🌕 go.nasa.gov/3TzHqUf

Two images of a lunar landscape seen from above. The first image includes a circled dot, which is a new crater. The second image shows the same view before the new crater appeared.

A rugged, circular crater on the Moon seen from above. Rays of fresh, bright material ejected by the impact radiate out from the crater at the center of the frame.

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Israel Velazquez @israelvelazquez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

SNH0pe-Repeat-TARGET | NIRCAM. #JWST Proposal ID: 4744 (www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-...) PI: Frye, Brenda Louise. Observed: 2025-05-20. Filters: B: [F090W F150W] G: [F200W F277W] R: [F356W F444W] Title: SN H0pe: Doubling the Time Delay Precision of a z=1.78 Multiply-imaged Type Ia Supernova

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something good is out there somewhere One last shot from last week of NASA's McDonald Geodetic Observatory, part of a network that measures the Earth's shape and movements down an accuracy measured in millimeters.

An antenna dish at night under looming clouds where a few stars peek through

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Proper Motion of stars in the galactic center with #JWST NIRCam F182M. programs: 1306, 4515 www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

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NeV-T @nev-t.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🟠 MSL 5000 ML © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T Q-VIEW - live.staticflickr.com/65535/555260... Gigapan - gigapan.com/gigapans/239... GIGAmacro - viewer.gigamacro.com/view/xtZtVrR... Gigapan Website - www.nev-t-gigamacros.com #Mars #science #NASA

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Israel Velazquez @israelvelazquez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

G339.88-1.26 | NIRCAM. #JWST Proposal ID: 3907 (www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...) PI: Zhang, Yichen. Observed: 2024-04-15. Filters: F115W F162M F182M F212N F360M F405N F470N F480M Title: Unveiling the Early Stages of Massive Binary Formation with JWST.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here is a fun little animation showing how the shadows on Phobos change over the course of its short (7h 39m) day. The other image was actually taken two weeks ago, but since Phobos is tidally locked to Mars, it doesn't really matter. 🔭🧪

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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sometimes I get caught up in complicated compositions with lots of elements. This was going to be one of them, but I was completely stuck—not realizing that the solution was a simple render with three heads, a piece of meat, a pretty sky, a bunch of flies, and some editing

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Light show. McDonald Observatory, Texas

Hills and valleys under a starry sky. Headlights on a wind-y road. Lighting illuminates a storm cloud on the horizon. Photo: Bill Dunford

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 12/09/2026

I have a new paper out! Over the weekend I'll do a thread on what the Solar System can tell us about rocky exoplanets— but for now, enjoy this to-scale set of cross sections I made of the rocky worlds in *this* system! (They're all different, but still all variations on a theme...)

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.

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Ryan Kinnett @rkinnett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NGC-7635, the Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia, ~7100 light-years away. The shell is formed by intense stellar winds, estimated around 4 million mph, emanating from a hot 45-Solar-mass star interacting with regional gas and dust. Imaged from Stony Ridge Observatory on Thursday night. #Astrophotography 🔭

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Jan Vacek @jv-honza.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mozaika z pravé kamery MastCam ze solu 5010 / 2026-09-09. Je to pohled zhruba jihovýchodním směrem do míst, kam Curiosity směřuje. Kredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JV

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another very special moment from this season in Greenland… Discovering this beautiful iceberg and its amazing green underwater base in the middle of some very thick fog was surely one of the highlights of this summer for me… #photography #nature #redsails #adventure #art 🌿

A beautifully shaped iceberg with a large green underwater base, our red sails boat standing between 2 parts of the iceberg, the whole scene wrapped into thick fog with just enough light entering. Photography, no ai.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Purple and green aurora photographed by Jessica Meir from the International Space Station on September 7th. flic.kr/p/2szQgJG

Purple and green aurora over the city lights of south central Russia near the border with Kazakhstan.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Jessica Meir/Kevin M. Gill

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mars from the Hope probe (EMM/Emirates Mars Mission) ~one year ago (September 2025). The first image shows giant volcanoes with a dust storm near Noctis Labyrinthus, and the second shows foggy Hellas Planitia with seasonal CO2/water frost. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Martian crescent from the EXI camera on board the EMM probe.
Color composite of three images taken through RGB filters on September 9, 2025 at ~21:17 UTC.
The image shows giant Martian volcanoes with a prominent dust storm near the valleys and canyons of Noctis Labyrinthus.

Mars from the EXI camera on board the EMM probe.
Color composite of three images taken through RGB filters on September 25, 2025 at ~14:43 UTC.
The image shows most of the Martian disk with Hellas Planitia, partially covered by seasonal frost, at the bottom, darker Terra Sabaea in the middle with prominent Huygens crater near the center of the image, brighter Arabia Terra region above, and similarly bright Isidis Planitia on the right.

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Jason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Starting to hit 30th anniversaries of Galileo mission milestones. For example, this image of Io was acquired by Galileo SSI 30 years ago this evening (9/7/1996 1:41 UTC / 9/6/1996 18:41 MST) during its 2nd orbit.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

HiPOD: Marching Dust Devils On an early fall (2015) afternoon in Ganges Chasma, we managed to capture a cluster of 8 dust devils, five of them in the enhanced color strip. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_042201_1715 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How small does water get? A drop of water getting tinier and tinier is actually completely mesmerising Credit Slow Mo Guys m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bZ... Their YouTube channel video www.facebook.com/reel/1786243...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/09/2026

That small black circle is the planet Mercury, seen crossing the face of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 9 May 2016.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On September 3, 1976 Viking Lander 2 touched down on the Surface of Mars. When the lander separated from the orbiter the latter began a roll that interrupted lander data for several hours. After a wait the first panoramas arrived, showing not the dune field hoped for but an endless flat rocky plain.

This is a panorama of the Martian landscape photographed by the Viking 2 lander after touching down September 3, 1976. The first landing revealed a gently hilly scene strewn with rocks, with some large enough to wreck the lander if it had ended up on top of one. This prompted a strategy to try and find a smooth site, with a sand dune covered area ideal. The orbiter camera had a 50 meter resolution at best so the broad details and context were as important as the fine details in trying to interpret the nature of the surface along the selected latitude.
The landing site ended up being a level plain strewn with medium to large rocks, with only the tiniest dunes and some little trenches wandering among the rocks. These trenches are analogous to the 'patterned ground' of Tundra and Arctic regions as freeze-thaw cycles alter the ground. One of the footpads landed on a sizable rock and caused the lander to have a pronounced tilt, which has been roughly corrected in this panorama made from color lander photos.

I initially concentrated on the color of the scenery , then manually recolored the sky and lander to conform to what a better dynamic range camera might have recorded.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some shots of the Moon over the Earth's horizon from the International Space Station between August 30th and 31st. flic.kr/p/2syx4Rh flic.kr/p/2syz3FS flic.kr/p/2syHpCX flic.kr/p/2syDcv7

The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill

$The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is warping due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$ $The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is strongly warped due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The irregular galaxy NGC 6789 with #JWST NIRCam (F360M, F480M). It is located inside the local void. The local void is a region of space near the Milky Way with only a few galaxies. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

A galaxy with a circular shape. Blue stars fill the galaxy. Other more distant galaxies are also seen.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/09/2026

Apollo 11 photo As11-44-6642. Taken by Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins, this image captures every living human alive at the time in a single frame—except for Collins himself.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage is in the foreground, rising towards the Command Module against a backdrop of the Moon. In the distance, Earth rises over the lunar horizon.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hermoso dust devil ayer en Marte #NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover Aug. 31, 2026 Sol 1966: Left Mastcam-Z Camera mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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ESO @eso.org · 31/08/2026

A rare snowy day for the ELT ❄️ Two weeks ago northern Chile was affected by severe weather. It caused damage to several cities and brought snow to our observatories, leaving stunning imagery like this drone video of our Extremely Large Telescope. 🔭 1/2

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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There goes the Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope! Deployment as seen from the Falcon Heavy's upper stage; minutes later the spacecraft - now on its way to the L2 - was power-positive. Cool pictures of the launch against the rising Sun: x.com/asherbphotos... and x.com/_MaxQ_/statu...

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tianwen-2 reached Kamo'oalewa nearly two months ago, but there have been no further updates since the encounter. Fortunately additional images released by CNSA from the spacecraft in early July have been uncovered. Hopefully, more news from the mission will be coming soon. #Tianwen-2 #Asteroid

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Comet 220p /McNaught by Lefteris Velissaratos (Greece) Takahashi TOA 130 NFB / first light - QHY MiniCam 8 80 min total exp. Source https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10242389568171158&id=1101623024&rdid=ixgLgMRPdY42UvcQ# More with text in English www.reddit.com/r/SpaceUnfil...

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yesterday, the NASA Perseverance rover captured this view of Mars' moon Phobos. The large crater Stickney is visible in the top left of the moon. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sxUsq4 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

A potato shaped object with small dimples and craters is seen against a black sky.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rain on Sun☀️ This is a coronal loop arcade—a magnetic highway where superheated plasma cascades back down to the solar surface following a flare. Capturing these fine, filamentary structures in Hydrogen-alpha with this level of stability is extremely rare 📸 AZASTROGUY m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEp4...

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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 26/08/2026

Welcome to Lake Maracaibo, in northwestern Venezuela 🇻🇪 The vase-shaped lake is linked to the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea. It is considered the largest lake in South America! Full image: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, the largest natural body of water in South America.

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A. David Weigel @adavidweigel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dome-to-Phone! The inspiration for this one was to create a mobile friendly, high fidelity 3D explorable map of Jezero Crater that mimics the data products we are visualizing in the INTUITIVE Planetarium show Our Place in Space! Let me know what you think! 🔭 astrodavid10.github.io/jez-explore/

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Take a relaxing flight with NASA's Juno Spacecraft as it passes over Jupiter and the Great Red Spot. Compiled from images taken during the mission's Perijove 27 on June 2nd, 2020. Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SwRI/Kevin M. Gill Music: Chris Zabriskie

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Did improve my image of the Serpens B region. #JWST NIRCam (F200W, F360M, F480M) 🔭🧪 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Se...

Blue clouds with bright stars on the lower left. Red and green-yellow outflows on the upper right.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nadir views from ISS of bright purple lightning flashing through clouds. These thunderheads can be upwards of 50k feet (15km), higher than most planes fly, & so are best observable from orbit! I used a Nikon Z9 at 1/1200th shutter speed and 120fps to optimize for lightning detail

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 22/08/2026

vimeo.com/1220406736?s... Updated Uranus flyby, all by me, no AI Still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm happy with the level of subtle detail on Uranus, but I need to desaturate the colours a bit.

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Flyby of Uranus

This is coming together, but still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible as you get close, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm also happy with...

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