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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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Stereo3D view captured yesterday by Curiosity To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye. #Mars Sept. 22, 2026 - Sol 5022 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies capturing the Mars rover Curiosity instrumented turret stretched over a sand ripple. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

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Three years ago on this day, September 24, 2023, the sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission touches down in the desert in Utah. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu three years before. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber flic.kr/p/2qisTV8 🔭🧪

The sample return capsule from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, September 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. After dropping off the sample, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis in 2029.
Credit text: NASA on the Commons

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NOIRLab image of the week Rubin and the Seven Sisters Credit: NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand noirlab.edu/public/image... 🔭🧪

The Pleiades glow in the southern sky above NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory from a viewpoint on Cerro Pachón in Chile. Rubin Observatory is jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) began earlier this year on 29 June 2026.

This NOIRLab Image of the Week captures the seven bright stars of the sisterly asterism. The Pleiades are part of an open star cluster of more than 1000 confirmed members, known as Messier 45. This cluster is dominated by hot, blue luminous stars, of which up to seven can be seen with the naked eye under normal dark skies. There are reports of 11 members seen in the darkest skies with perfect naked-eye vision.

The Milky Way contains thousands of star clusters like the Pleiades, and Rubin Observatory will precisely measure them across six spectral bands. With unprecedented depth and homogeneous sky coverage, Rubin will make some of the first detailed observations of many star clusters in the southern hemisphere. Its observations will also uncover new star clusters and inform our understanding of the evolution of star clusters and of stars generally. During LSST, Rubin will measure approximately 17 billion stars.

Hernán Stockebrand, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador.
Credit image:
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand
Credit text: NOIRLab

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Cosmography archives Schematic decomposition of the dipole anisotropy into its principal components. by Marc Aaronson and co-authors (1986) ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ.... #Cosmology 🧪

Schematic decomposition of the dipole anisotropy into its principal components: Local Group motion within the Supercluster, dominated by gravitational infall toward Virgo ; and bulk motion of the entire Supercluster, the direction of which lies close to the nearby Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paris, captured by Sophie Adenot from the International Space Station flic.kr/p/2sBqtXq

Paris and the greater Paris area captured from the ISS, August 18, 2026. Credit: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pikachu in the Cupola Credit: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot flic.kr/p/2sCdqCr 🔭🧪

A special Astronaut Pikachu plush travelled to the International Space Station to join ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot as part of a collaboration between ESA and The Pokémon Company International.
In this image, Astronaut Pikachu floats inside the Cupola, the European-built observation module that offers spectacular views of Earth and is a favourite spot for astronauts living and working on the Station to watch our home planet pass by below.
The International Space Station orbits Earth around 400 km above it, circling the planet every 90 minutes and treating its crew to around 16 sunrises and sunsets each day – a beautiful sight that has now been shared with Pikachu. Since 2000, astronauts have lived and worked continuously aboard the Station, carrying out science research using the unique microgravity conditions in orbit.
Sophie has spent more than 200 days in space as part of her εpsilon mission, conducting scientific research and completing three spacewalks over the summer to help maintain the orbiting laboratory.
ESA and Pokémon are teaming up to inspire the next generation of explorers. Whether through science or imagination, discovery begins with curiosity.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ahmakiq Undae, named after the Mayan deity who locks up the crop-destroying winds, is the name of the large dune field where Dragonfly will land on Titan Credit: NASA/Jason Barnes flic.kr/p/2sBxDDy #Dragonfly 🔭🧪

Highlighted in purple, located in the equatorial dune fields of Saturn’s moon Titan, Ahmakiq Undae has a diameter of approximately 500 miles (810 kilometers) and borders the roughly 50-mile (80-kilometer) diameter Selk impact crater, to the upper right. Deposits formed during the impact that created Selk Crater are primary exploration targets for NASA’s Dragonfly mission. The yellow box on the global image of Titan denotes the approximate area.
Credit text: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Shishangeni Crater Natural color image processing by the Mastcam-Z team at ASU. #Mars 🔭🧪

A mosaic of five red-toned images, on top of a zoom on its central region, capturing a 25-meter wide crater on Mars, somewhere in the expanses west of the rim of Jezero Crater. Images acquired by Perseverance on sol 1946 (August 10, 2026).

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Perseverance Mastcam-Z “Image of the Month” Shishangeni Crater Submitted by Sydney Larriva and the Mastcam-Z Payload Downlink Leads. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/sh... #Mars 🔭🧪

September 9, 2026: Pit stop! In the middle of a 3-sol (Martian day) drive to a new location called Idubi, the Perseverance rover made a stop to capture this stunning Mastcam-Z mosaic of Shishangeni Crater. Because Perseverance is equipped with auto-navigation capabilities, the Mars 2020 operations team can tell the rover where to stop during its drive to take mosaics like this and can trust the rover to take the images once it determines it’s where it needs to be. In the picture, we can see ejecta from the 25-meter wide crater impact off to the right side. This mosaic is made up of 26 individual frames and has been created with an enhanced-color stretch to show greater visual contrast. Credit image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Credit text: Mastcam-Z Team.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stereo3D view captured by Curiosity a few days ago To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye. #Mars Sept. 13, 2026 - Sol 5014 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies capturing a Martian landscape. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars science.nasa.gov/photojournal... #Mars 🔭🧪

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day. The first was taken on Aug. 30, 2026, at 9:56 a.m. local Mars time; the second was taken on Sep. 2, 2026, at 5:39 p.m. local Mars time. Those dates correspond to the 5,000th and 5,003rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission.
After being sent back to Earth, the two images were merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. The resulting “postcard” is similar to past examples created with rover images, such as one taken in November 2021.
The rover’s deck can be seen in the foreground, including its can-shaped UHF antenna, used for sending data to orbiting spacecraft, and its finned Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG), a nuclear power source, at its rear. The rover’s tracks can be seen trailing off in the distance.
Curiosity is in the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that sits within Gale Crater. This image looks down toward the crater floor, with the crater rim barely perceptible on the horizon.
Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.
Credits image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit text: NASA Science

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mars' moon Phobos, named after the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology, captured yesterday by the Perseverance rover. #Mars 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

A black and white image capturing the potato-shaped Martian moon Phobos. The Stickney crater is delineated at the top of the object.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A 24-images mosaic capturing the Chocolatal sand ripple from afar. Images acquired by the Curiosity rover two days ago. #Mars Sept. 9, 2026 - Sol 5010 🔭🧪 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape

A zoom on the a sand ripple perturbated by the rover's tracks

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Aug. 27, 2026 - The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft fires its engines while berthed to the Unity module, lifting the International Space Station’s orbit. Credit: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/iss0...

A blue toned image capturing the Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft as it fires its engines while berthed to the Unity module, lifting the International Space Station’s orbit. The orbital reboost placed the station at the correct altitude for the rendezvous and docking of the Progress 96 resupply ship, scheduled to launch in early September. Credit photo & text: NASA.

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

The space potato captured once more by Percy yesterday 🥔🔭🧪 #Mars Sept. 8, 2026 - Sol 1974 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Mars' moon Phobos captured by the Perseverance rover

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

NASA Minute: September 4, 2026 From low Earth orbit to deep space, NASA had a huge week in exploration and discovery. #Roman is officially on its way, #Artemis III is coming together, and station crews are keeping the work moving in orbit. 🧪🔭 images.nasa.gov/details/NASA...

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On this day, 49 years ago, September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 lifts off Credit: NASA flic.kr/p/2sz6avf 🔭🧪

Voyager 1 aboard the Titan III/Centaur lifts off on September 5, 1977, joining its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, on a mission to the outer planets of our solar system. It made its closest approach of Jupiter on March 5, 1979, flew by Saturn in November 1980, and today continues its journey through interstellar space.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 9141932
Date: September 5, 1977
Credit text: NASA on The Commons

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A 107-images, 360° panorama captured three days ago by Perseverance with her Mastcam-Z science camera. ➡️ www.360cities.net/image/persev... Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU #Mars 🔭🧪

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape with some elements of the Perseverance rover in the foreground and its track receding away in the distance.

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape with some elements of the Perseverance rover in the foreground.

An ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape, with some outstanding rock in the foreground featuring an abrasion patch freshly drilled by the rover.

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape with some elements of the Perseverance rover in the foreground to the left.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Beautiful view offered by Curiosity after crossing the sand ripple in the foreground #Mars Sep. 3, 2026 - Sol 5004 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🔭🧪

A black and white panorama capturing a Martian landscape, with the UHF antenna of the rover in the foreground to the right. The tracks of the rover go across a fine sand ripple barring the view. This panorama is obtained by stitching together four images acquired by the left navigation camera.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mars' moon Phobos, a.k.a the 'space potato', captured again by Perseverance a few hours ago 🥔 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU #Mars 🔭🧪

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A mosaic of 22 images captured two days ago by the Mars rover Perseverance 🔎 zoomhub.net/a/BGB4jeixzKa #Mars Sept. 1, 2026 - Sol 1967 🔭🧪 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing Martian rocks

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The waning gibbous Moon appears above Earth’s blue atmosphere Captured Aug. 30, 2026 from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/iss0...

A blue toned image capturing the Moon above Earth's atmosphere as seen from the ISS.

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Sept. 1, 2026 - Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir of NASA rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a spacewalk for navigation and science maintenance outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA flic.kr/p/2syKg7z

Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir of NASA rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a spacewalk for navigation and science maintenance outside the International Space Station. Meir was attached to an articulating portable foot restraint installed on Canadarm2’s latching end effector. The orbital outpost was soaring 259 miles above the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico when this photograph was taken. Credit text: NASA.

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Awesome drone view of the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Sound up!🔊 images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🔭🧪

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Booster that helped launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope returns to land at Landing Zone 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🔭🧪

One of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy side boosters that launched NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, returns to land at Landing Zone 40 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Credit photo: SpaceX. Credit text: NASA.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A group of newly launched Starlink satellites above Inner Mongolia. Photographer Kouyu Wang created the image by superimposing frames from a time-lapse video. The shot won the ‘Impact of Light Pollution’ category in the 2026 Capture the Dark photography contest. www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🔭🧪

Artificial Comet
by Kouyu Wang
“This frame captures a newly launched Starlink satellite group. In time-lapse footage, they appear as short lines. The stacked images show their orbital drift and reveal the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky.”

Award
First place | The Impact of Light Pollution

Photo Location
Jiang’an Sumu, Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Technical details
Stacked | Nikon D750 | Lens: Sigma 14mm Art | Aperture: f/2 | Shutter speed: 20s | ISO: 2000

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Cosmography archives Correspondence between Messier's Catalogue and Dreyer's New General Catalogue identifiers, with positions and descriptions, in a convenient tabular form. by Harlow Shapley and Helen Davis (1917) ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1917PASP... #Cosmology 🧪

a table with seven columns: Messier Id, NGC Id, R.A., Dec., Galactic Longitude, Galactic Latitude, Description, for the first 58 objects of Messier's catalog

a table with seven columns: Messier Id, NGC Id, R.A., Dec., Galactic Longitude, Galactic Latitude, Description, for the objects 58 to 103 of Messier's catalog, with footnotes

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A mosaic of 45 Mastcam images captured by Curiosity on the occasion of the 5000th Martian day of her mission Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🔭🧪

A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a fine sand ripple disrupted by the track imprinted by the rover on the ground.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NASA image of the day NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches Credit: NASA/John Kraus ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-of-the... ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-articl... #Roman 🔭🧪

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30, 2026. Roman is named after the agency’s first chief astronomer.
Roman will survey billions of stars and galaxies with a field of view far larger than Hubble’s, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets, and the evolution of the universe.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Artemis III: Booster Stacking in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett #Artemis

Artemis III Booster Stacking
NASA ID: KSC-20260828-PH-KLS02_0001
Technicians inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida complete integration of the left and right center center solid rocket booster segment onto the left and right aft center booster segment for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on the mobile launcher inside High Bay 3 on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. The twin boosters, comprising of five segments each manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, will provide more than 75 percent of the SLS rocket’s total thrust at launch. The Artemis III mission will launch crew in the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.
Date Created:2026-08-28
Credit text: NASA

Artemis III Booster Stacking
NASA ID: KSC-20260828-PH-KLS02_0007
Technicians inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida complete integration of the right center center solid rocket booster segment onto the right aft center booster segment for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on the mobile launcher inside High Bay 3 on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. The twin boosters, comprising of five segments each manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, will provide more than 75 percent of the SLS rocket’s total thrust at launch. The Artemis III mission will launch crew in the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.
Date Created:2026-08-28
Credit text: NASA

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another fantastic shot of the launch of the Roman Space Telescope images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🔭🧪

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch
NASA ID: KSC-20260830-PH-SPX01_0006
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rises to space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. The milestone begins the observatory’s journey to explore the large‑scale structure of the universe. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

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in case you missed it: Roman spacecraft separation #Roman 🔭🧪

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rises to space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. 🔊 sounds up! Credit: NASA/Cory S Huston images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🔭🧪

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Curiosity: 5000 days on Mars! mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... #Mars 🔭🧪

A black and white image acquired by the Mars rover Curiosity on 5000th Martian day (or sol) of her mission. The image captures a track crossing a sand ripple, with elements of the rover in the foreground.
This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 5000 (2026-08-30 11:51:56 UTC).
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch NASA/John Kraus images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ2... #Roman 🔭🧪

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on board launches from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, will survey billions of stars and galaxies with a field of view far larger than Hubble’s, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets and the evolution of the universe.

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Thank you for your service, booster! Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky flic.kr/p/2sy8vtw #Roman 🔭🧪

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch (NHQ202608300009)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy side booster is seen as it lands at LZ-2 following the launch of NASA’S Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Launch occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT. Photo Credit (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky flic.kr/p/2sy1edG #Roman 🔭🧪

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with NASA’S Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Launch occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT.

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch Credit: NASA/John Kraus images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ2... #Roman 🔭🧪

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope on board is seen transiting the sun during launch from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, will survey billions of stars and galaxies with a field of view far larger than Hubble’s, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets and the evolution of the universe.

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