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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 9h

A positive-polarity coronal hole is approaching the center of the Earth-facing disk. This is the correct polarity for the Russell-McPherron effect for this time of the year, so more south Bz and enhanced geomagnetic effects could be possible from this feature, but we will see!

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 8h

"The heel toe walk with eyes open was doable, but definitely off my balance game once they had me repeat with eyes closed (shown here). Exponentially better performance even just the next day, such an interesting recovery process! Stay tuned for the week’s recap of science and rehabilitation."

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 8h

Jessica Meir: "Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride (except for maybe gravity!). Here’s a peek into our first Space_Station post-flight data collection session, immediately after landing in the helicopter after our SpaceX Dragon splashdown last Thursday." x.com/Astro_Jessic...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10h

MPF IMP PDS archives - pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/mpf.... The python script used to generate this video was written by Claude.ai ''

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10h

Images taken on Sols 1 and 2 are from the pre-deployed location. Sol, Local Time, UTC time, Sun az/el, Camera Temperature, and observation name are all from the PDS IMG headers. It uses data from: MPF SPICE archive - naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10h

Mars Pathfinder Full Mission Time Lapse From description of the video: ''This video shows every image taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder ( IMP) overlayed onto a 360 mosaic of its own images for the full duration of the mission.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10h

After five years on Mars, Perseverance has traveled almost 25 miles (40 km), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de Charmes,” where it will be searching for rocks to sample in the coming year.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10h

NASA’s Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its record-breaking drive of 1,350.7 feet (411.7 meters) on June 19, 2025 www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12h

The two large filaments eruptions from East & NE sides of Sun h 14/15.10.26 Videos from www.spaceweather.gov/products/goe...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12h

Another large filament eruption from behind the eastern limb of Sun 15.10.26 Videos www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/a... And www.spaceweather.gov/products/goe...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 13h

Copernicus EU x.com/CopernicusEU... eu-space.europa.eu/explore-eusp...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 14h

This is Namibia’s Etosha Pan, the country’s largest salt pan, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2. 🌍 Vegetation appears in striking red in this false-colour view, while water across the salt pans appears in shades of green and deep blue. Learn more: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Nice example of Auroral Beads, they are elusive as they only last for a few minutes, and are quite beautiful to see as they move across the sky, this night they were unusual moving from West to East, not the normal movement of East to West. The 3rd image was taken just as I arrived at 0140 MST."

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oct 14, 2022 📸 Harlan Thomas TWP-274 North of Calgary Alberta "The Moon this night was a waning 79% Moon, lighting up the landscape, but it couldn't wash out the aurora borealis northern lights this night." x.com/theauroraguy...

Green aurora with beautiful reflection on water in a lake

Green aurora with beautiful reflection on water in a lake (2)

Red and green aurora and reflection on water in a lake

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Very large filament from Sun's northern hemisphere. Not Earth directed 14.10.26 Videos from Helioviewer www.spaceweather.gov/products/goe... www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/a...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Although this is currently the active period for Orionid meteor shower, orbital calculations have revealed that it was a sporadic meteor

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

13.10.26: fireball with long trajectory appeared. Footage captures northern sky from Fujinomiya at 3:11:31 on Oct 13, 2026. It flowed slowly, glowing red, for more than 5s. 📸 @dfuji1.bsky.social x.com/dfuji1/statu...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I was looking this 30s ago.... Beautiful

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Where NASA’s first Mars rover, Sojourner, assessed the path ahead using 20 measurement points, Perseverance processes 600,000 with every look.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The six-wheeled scientist has driven more than 90% of its total distance using AutoNav to evaluate the terrain, compared with about 5% for the first Martian AutoNav system on Opportunity and its twin, Spirit.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Out of this world records.

This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and moving across the surface; the figures shown for those two are distances driven as of Oct. 11, 2026.
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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven On Oct. 11, the rover's odometer hit 28.10 miles km), eclipsing the distance record set by NASA's Opportunity rover science.nasa.gov/blogs/persev...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Second filament eruption (Earth-directed possible) on S hemisphere of Sun. (12.10.26) videos from helioviewer

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You can actually see its internal organs, intestines, and all. “If only we had a CT scanner at sea,” she writes. “The mystery of what this little guy had for lunch may never be solved.”

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

These smallish fish (generally around 10 centimeters) have evolved a dislocating jaw and a stomach that stretches like a balloon, letting them swallow prey several times their own size, Dr Diva Amon explains. This individual has eaten something so large that its skin has stretched almost transparent

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

While this animal might look a little unnerving, their extended belly is evidence of an unusual trick for survival in a food-scarce environment. www.facebook.com/reel/1356131...

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

HiPOD: Layers in Nili Fossae These beautiful false color cutouts feature a series of layers in Nili Fossae. Nili has often been on the list for potential landing sites for robotic exploration, given its rich landscape of mineral diversity. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077367_2045 #Mars #science

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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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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is from 1 single frame of a short video taken at the observation site. Saturn was shot for 1 minute at 100 fps and placed in this picture to produce a sharper Saturn.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Capturing this photo was not easy: the transit was visible only along a strip of land about 58 meters wide, with the ISS silhouette sweeping across at an equivalent ground speed of 7.4 km/s.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

- The ISS is 109 m across but only ~400 km above Earth, at the moment of this shot, its angular size was 27.37”; angular size of Saturn in this picture is about 20”

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ISS transition of Saturn Date: August 20, 2026 (observed at 44.008772°N, 79.388754°W] Path width: 58m. Duration 0.0077s Azimuth: 199.285639°; Elevation: 47.641667° 📸Benjamin Law www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... www.instagram.com/p/DeXkpOskfCW/

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Colorful aurora from Whitby Abbey (England) 10.10.26 📸Paul Mortz www.facebook.com/groups/49254...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

AR 4551 is slowly rotating towards the central meridian. It remains mostly unchanged, a beta region with a decent area (360 MSH). The flare potential remains relatively low, with the SWPC estimating a 15% chance of M-class flares. Jure Atanackov x.com/JAtanackov/s...

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I recreated the two possible planets orbiting TIC 4206066, using the predicted November 2026 transit times published by Pavel Rabtsevich zenodo.org/records/2317... Neither planet is confirmed yet. NASA's TESS will put the predictions to the test in November. #astro 🔭🔭

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

high amounts of the element niobium, and other unusual chemical abundances, indicating a potential second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer revealed something extraordinary:

White Dwarf HS 0209+0832 over Time (artist’s concept)

In this (not-to-scale) artist’s concept, a lower-mass star like the Sun (1) ages into a puffy red giant star (2) that eventually expels its outer envelope of gas and dust into space, which forms a disk around the bright cinder of its remaining core, called a white dwarf (3). A second-generation planet forms in this disk, orbiting the white dwarf and losing some of its atmosphere back onto the white dwarf’s surface (4).

Credit:
NASA, ESA, L. Hustak (STScI)

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

like a thin thread pulling lightning down from the clouds.⚡ Why do this? Natural lightning is unpredictable and fleeting. Artificial triggering allows scientists to observe lightning up close, develop detection technologies and test lightning protection.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Chinese Academy of Sciences: "This isn't CGI. We actually triggered lightning — on purpose! A rocket trails a thin metal wire into the sky, triggering an imminent natural lightning strike a fraction of a second early and guiding it to a designated location — Source www.facebook.com/reel/1074613...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Small plasma eruption from East side of Sun - 10.10.26 Helioviewer

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When the moonlight was filtered through thunderheads, it turned the rivers into glowing golden claws. Nikon Z9, 200mm f2, 1/320 sec, ISO 25600, processed in Photoshop. His post on Reddit 2y ago www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...

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From the pics community on Reddit: Moonlight reflecting off of Amazonian rivers, captured from space. More details in comments!

Explore this post and more from the pics community

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Moonshine from space. Somewhere over the Amazon basin, shooting photos of cities at night, I noticed the light from a near-full moon reflecting off of the meandering rainforest rivers. In the cool moon-ish light these rivers became flowing silver snakes.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Moonlight reflected off the Amazon river. At the proper angles in our orbit, we aboard Space_Station can see brief silvery flashes atop water surfaces, illuminating even the darkest places on Earth. 📸 Don Pettit x.com/astro_Pettit...

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The green "object" below the fireball is lense flare

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tonight’s amazing aurora after significant solar activity! As seen from station. 📸 Anil Menon x.com/astro_anil/s...

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some more imagery from the recent M6.4 flare+CME which appears to have Earth-directed components and may lead to elevated chances for continued mid-latitude auroral activity later this weekend into early next week.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

☀️ 💥 M6.4 flare 10.10.26 📸 Helioviewer

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The green "object" below the fireball is lense flare.

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