With Blue Monday shortly coming up, we're here to brighten your week with this Webb image. This is the clearest infrared view yet of the famous Helix Nebula 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

Io out in front of Jupiter as Cassini was passing through on January 2nd, 2001. flic.kr/p/HGzdye

NASA’s Moonbound Artemis II Rocket Reaches Launch Pad www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... 🧪🔭 #Artemis

📸 This was our #WeekInImages 12-16 January 2026. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images_12-16_January_2026

Sunset over Maunakea and the Subaru Telescope Preparing for Observation Credit: Dr. Vera Maria Passegger/NAOJ 🧪🔭 subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/f... #Maunakea

Phobos over Mars - Tharsis Region. Click on the image to spot it Full size image 23000x8784 on my Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pG5toU 🔭 ESA Mars Express HRSC Orbit: 25000 2023-10-20 Product IDs: HP000_0000_ND3 HP000_0000_GR3 HP000_0000_BL3 For Phobos I only used one filter HP000_0000_GR3

Mars - Phobos over Tharsis Region - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pG5toU

As expected, the content farms nonsense around this comet has vanished, with no follow ups… as noise always does. What remains is an unprecedented effort to gather data using every possible instrument on the ground, in space and on Mars! A reminder to follow real scientists, not dodgy clicks.

Enceladus - February 15 2016 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/VTk7Ly

Mars2020 mission highlight: Nasa Perseverance rover at Belva crater on the delta in Jezero crater, Mars, 968-sols ago on Sol 772 (22nd April, 2023) ZCAM08788 Captured by Mastcam-Z Site 39 / 650 📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer www.flickr.com/photos/13433...

Hubble’s Album of Planet-Forming Disks This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of gas and dust that surround forming stars, in both visible and infrared wavelengths. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

On the cover of Nature's new issue: Little Red Dots - Enigmatic objects in the distant Universe could be young black holes in a cocoon of gas. 🧪🔭 Credit image: The CEERS Survey/The JADES Survey/PRIMER/The UNCOVER survey/Dawn JWST Archive www.nature.com/nature/volum... @nature.com

Yeah it’s a zoom animation :) bsky.app/profile/andr...

Saturn’s south polar vortex in near-infrared false color. Processed using imagery taken by the Cassini spacecraft on October 12, 2006. flic.kr/p/2h4L2U1

#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Dione Time: 2011-10-01 Body Center Distance (km): 488391.389 Camera: 15x Narrow Angle CLEAR Filter opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instr... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

#JunoCam: The Juno spacecraft captures myriad images from Jupiter and its moons as it orbits the gas giant, but it is participatory scientists like you who bring the images to life. This artistic collage of Jupiter and its moon Europa was processed and assembled by Jackie Branc.

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) TARG: #A521 2026-01-14 PI: Fujimoto, Seiji NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

These maps can be used to better understand the geophysics of the Moon and prepare the way for future exploration, as we identify safe places to land and scientifically interesting places to explore. Full story: buff.ly/UrK1QFL

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST NIRCam-NIRSpec galaxy assembly survey - GOODS-S - part #3 TARG: #GOODS-South 2025-01-12 PI: Isaak, Kate NIRCAM 440 410 356 335 300 277 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

Big #planetSci news: @cometinterceptor.bsky.social is no longer planned to launch alongside the Ariel mission. Michael Küppers, ESA project scientist for CI at the SBAG meeting: Working to identify a launch opportunity for Aug. 2028 - July 2029. spacenews.com/esas-comet-i...

Cosmography archives First Approximation to a Chart of the Nubecula Major, or greater Magellanic Cloud. 🧪🔭 by John Herschel (1847) ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1847raom...

Can highly recommend submitting a proposal in response to this call by @issibern.ch! Successful proposals allow you to meet twice for one week in Bern with a small group of researchers of your choosing to discuss and work on your favorite science topic. I also encourage ECR to apply! #panetSci 🔭

1/2🧵🐚"Shells" Sculptural Accent, S. #Lewiński, site B | 1981 | Location: John Paul II Avenue, #Szczecin, #Poland. Photo by Jackie Branc #Sculpture

Last night I set up my telescope so we could all watch the planets while waiting for the new year to arrive. After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography Happy New Year everyone!

Here's some ice I can get behind. The southern polar cap of Mars, imaged by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft in December 2012. Much of this ice is frozen CO₂, with some portion of conventional (to us) water ice, too.

The moon from various spacecraft (left to right): Top Row - Nozomi, Cassini, Deep Impact Middle Row - Nozomi, NEAR, Stardust (takes up two rows) Bottom Row - Messenger, Hayabusa.

The members of the Pluto system, to scale at 1 km per pixel in the original version, from New Horizons in 2015.

239 years ago, William Herschel discovered Oberon & Titania, the largest Uranian moons. All but a few of Uranus' moons are named after characters from Shakespearean plays. Oberon and Titania pay homage to the fairy king and queen in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

21 years ago, humanity landed on Saturn's moon Titan.

New infrared observations from Webb are changing how we see the material near the Circinus Galaxy’s supermassive black hole! Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/circi... 🔭🧪

Environment of crab #pulsar CM Tauri in the center of Messier 1 from 2012 to 2016. #Hubble images (ACS F550M). Programs 14329, 13772, 13751, 13109, 12748.

On the left, Venus with an overexposed sunlit side and infrared night side. On the right, and a little further away, are Earth and the Moon. Observed in ultraviolet and infrared by Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter at Venus on October 21, 2016. flic.kr/p/2maa5QV

A Conservative Influencer Apologized for Her Anti-Trans Past. Elon Musk is Trying to Take Her Kid. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

A look at planetary exploration planning and the expanding war in Indochina in early 1968, the year Apollo astronauts first orbited the Moon. spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-ro... From my blog No Shortage of Dreams.

"Un bain bouillonnant pour recréer Jupiter en laboratoire", Laura Hood #Jupiter #gasgiant

Uranus with its rings on January 23, 1986, as Voyager 2 approached, looking down on the planet's south pole.

#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Titan Time: 2008-05-12 Saturn Orbit Number: 067 Distance to Surface (km): 175810.031 Camera: Narrow Angle UV3 Filter opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/COISS... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

Saturn’s northern hemisphere on April 4, 2014. Processed in near-infrared false color and true color using images taken by NASA’s legendary Cassini spacecraft. flic.kr/p/2hyVew5 flic.kr/p/2hyVevJ

Really clear night. Got much better images of Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy, M31, than posted last time. And took longer exposures. Enjoy

Cat's Eye Nebula - NGC 6543 - ESA Euclid - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj

In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren. - Arthur C. Clarke

Cosmography archives Astronomical Observations relating to the Construction of the Heavens, arranged for the Purpose of a critical Examination, the Result of which appears to throw some new Light upon the Organization of the celestial Bodies. 🧪🔭 by William Herschel (1811)

'A beautiful spirit' - the Northern Ireland Christian work of Renee Nicole Good, shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis

🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble ❤️ 🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) #tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens

#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Saturn #Titan #Tethys Time: 2008-01-30 Saturn Orbit Number: 057 Body Center Distance (km): 1246911 2545000 1012950 Camera: Wide Angle Filter: Red Grn Bl1 opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instr... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

America began as an experiment in displacing indigenous people with violence, and Greenland is one of the few places in North America where that didn't happen: 90% of the population is of indigenous descent, higher than almost anywhere else in North America. It would be *awful* if the US invades.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead Congress backs Trump administration’s efforts to kill project that would ferry martian rocks to Earth 🧪🔭 www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

📷 These #Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show Brussels and Amsterdam covered in snow on 6 January 2026. ❄️ The winter weather caused widespread disruption, with hazardous road conditions and numerous train and flight cancellations reported throughout the week. 🧪🔭

This is what it would look like to fly over the Martian North Pole aboard @esa.int's Mars Express orbiter. This sequence of 117 images was captured by the VMC camera on June 14th, 2019 over the course of 3 hours and is played a 1200x speed. #planetsci Credit: ESA/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2rQAPdw