Yes, it’s a work of art... 1/2🧵🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1854: Right #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced 🔭 May 8, 2026, 12:55:22 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc #RedPlanet #Mars #Perseverance #NASA #ASU #JPL-Caltech #MarsInDetail #SpaceLovers #SpaceExploration #MarsRover #ExploreMars

As NASA accelerates flight test operations for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft, its team is picking up the testing tempo, completing two test flights of the X-59 in a single day for the 1st time. Here we see the X-59's first flight of the day, and 11th overall. www.nasa.gov/blogs/quesst... #X59

1/2🧵🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1854: Right #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced 🔭 May 8, 2026, 13:02:54 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc #RedPlanet #Mars #Perseverance #NASA #ASU #JPL-Caltech #MarsInDetail #SpaceLovers #SpaceExploration #MarsRover #ExploreMars

Wonder if this means a supersonic helicopter isn't that far behind?

'Typhoon Sinlaku' 3,408 frames of Himawari-9 satellite data spanning 8 days in April are repaired, remastered, resized & retimed to create this 08m20s 4k motion portrait with music by Stellardrone. This clip covers 2 days. Credit: Himawari / JAXA / JMA / NOAA / Seán Doran

Experimental 3D visualization of Io, created from a processed JunoCam image acquired by NASA’s Juno mission. Source image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / JunoCam Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos 3D visualization: Thomas Thomopoulos.

Nice to see some news out of JPL about the next generation Mars Helicopters. The test rotor was spun up much faster than Ingenuity's rotors, and withstood tip speeds of up to Mach 1.08. The increased speed will allow for up to 30% more lift. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-pu... 🔭🧪 #Mars

This unassuming little crescent is actually something cool: It's a crescent Mars, seen by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the Red Planet for a gravity assist flyby next week. Details: go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST JUMPS: The JWST Ultimate Medium-band Photometric Survey 2025-05-07 TAR: #MACSJ1149+2223 Withers, Cassandra NIRISS 444 356 277 090 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

Center of NGC 3132, but smooth. (old release) #JWST NIRCam F090W, F187N, F405N program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sol 1,852 (6th May, 2026) Look at this quality abrasion, no misbehaving rocks here. MastCam-Z (Left) ZCAM04371 Captured @ 12:09 lmst S/D: 088/206 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Martian-Observer

The Aquarius Dwarf is a dwarf #galaxy in the local group. It is an isolated dwarf galaxy. 📸 #JWST NIRCam (F277W, F356W, F444W) www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

#Galaxy cluster MACSJ1149+2223 with #JWST NIRCam F150W More filter images exist, but they are lower resolution/longer wavelength. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-05-07 Sol 4888: Chemistry & Camera #ChemCam mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPLCaltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/IAS/LPG /j. Roger

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (MACSJ1149+2223). RGB Filters: 480, 360, 150 PI: Withers, Cassandra, program 05890. CRVAL: 177.386769, 22.378112 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

#JWST 🔭 gone impressionist

Focusing on the mischievous drill bit that got stuck into the Atacama rock 🔍 ℹ️ science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/IAS/LPG #Mars 🧪🔭

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST The determination of the upper initial mass function in the nearest massive star-forming region, #W51A 2025-05-06 TARGET: #w51A Yoo, Taehwa NIRCAM 480 405-444 410 360 335 210 187 182 150-162 140 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

A gorgeous reflection on the impact of one of the most quietly important planetary scientists in recent history. RIP, Candy Hansen-Koharcheck. 🔭🧪

1/2🧵🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1852: L/R #Mastcam-Z Cameras / enhanced mosaic panorama May 6, 2026, 14:06:19 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc #RedPlanet #Mars #Perseverance #NASA #ASU #JPL-Caltech

1/2🧵🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1852: Right #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhaced 🔭🧪 May 6, 2026, 11:56:56 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Jackie Branc #RedPlanet #Mars #Perseverance #NASA #ASU #JPL-Caltech

Good robot did not uplift that rock 🤖 📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social #Mars 🧪🔭

The Ghost of a Dying Star 👻 ESO 378-1 is a planetary nebula with a diameter of almost four light-years. Like all planetary nebulae, it is created by the ejected and expanding gas of dying stars.  Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1532/ 🔭 📷 ESO

Some photos from the glider flight I did on Saturday - my furthest one so far, crossing through Austria and well into the Swiss Alps! It's always a joy to see these amazing mountains from above! www.weglide.org/flight/1066653

A cometary nebula called the "Treasure Chest" inside the Carina Nebula with #JWST NIRCam 🔭🧪 Full resolution: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tr... ↓↓↓ Details in image below ↓↓↓

#Artemis II Crew / NASA JSC / ESRS / j. Roger eol.jsc.nasa.gov

Pillars of creation (M16) | NIRCam #JWST Proposal ID: 2739 (www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...) PI: Pontoppidan, Klaus M. DATE-OBS: 2022-08-14

🔭 JWST Program 5408, Dr. Megan Reiter (PI) - Diving Deeper: uncovering the full spectrum of accretion and outflow in the heart of the Carina Nebula: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... data: NAME-TREASURE-CHEST, released: 2026-05-06 NASA, ESA, CSA/ #JWST NIRCam 444-470, 444, 150-164

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover May 5, 2026 Sol 1851: Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam) mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

1/2🧵 🔭🧪 5408 NAME-TREASURE-CHEST | #JWST Diving Deeper: uncovering the full spectrum of accretion and outflow in the heart of the Carina Nebula 2025-05-05 PI: Megan Reiter Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc #Nebula #CarinaNebula #Webb #Treasure

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST Diving Deeper: uncovering the full spectrum of accretion and outflow in the heart of the #Carina Nebula #Treasure Chest 2025-05-05 Reiter, Megan NIRCAM 444 R 444w-470n + 150w2-164n G 150w2-162m B yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

3C 403 with the jet marked in green. The astrophysical jet originates from the supermassive black hole in the center of this #galaxy. The black hole shines bright because it is feeding on material from an accretion disk. #JWST NIRCam (F444W) from this program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

The problem is that Isaacman can't. Only the IAU can do that. It's like renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" when you don't have the power to really make the change. Instead of quibbling about whether Pluto is a planet, why not send a flagship mission to that world?

Webb & Hubble have looked at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies ✨ Their new findings give us a better grasp of star formation and how planets form. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #extragalactic

#galaxy LEDA 44792 with #JWST NIRCam (F356W) program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock This series of images shows Mars rover Curiosity as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... #Mars 🧪🔭

Two new mosaics of the area excavated by the uplifting and removal (and destruction) of the Atacama rock, captured by the left and right Mastcam eyes. Can you spot the 5 impacts of the laser shots described in the quoted post? Bonus points for finding another series of 5 zoomhub.net/89lpb #Mars 🧪🔭

1/2🧵🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1850: Right Navigation Camera ( #Navcam ) / enhanced mosaic panorama 🔭 May 4, 2026, 12:22:27 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Jackie Branc #RedPlanet #Mars #Perseverance #NASA #JPL-Caltech

NASA’S Juno Misson Captures Jupiter Moon Thebe The spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... 🧪🔭

Walking alone , Kings Cross, London #photography

Sometimes I envy this astronaut. Imagine how much reading he could get done (when he wasn't struggling to survive). spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-...

🔭 JWST Program 5989, Dr. Joseph Jensen (PI) - The JWST SBF Coma Cluster Survey: Building an Alternative Precision Distance Ladder for Cosmology: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... data: IC-3955, released: 2026-05-03 NASA, ESA, CSA/ #JWST NIRCam 356, 150

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sol 1,847 (1st May, 2026) Context images for the abrasion on sol 1844 MastCam-Z (Left + Right) ZCAM09902 Captured @ 12:10 lmst S/D: 088/0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer

Galaxy SF n°264 is now available in print "Weighing in at 198 pages of science fiction spectacularity and sporting cover art by Marianne Plumridge, Galaxy Science Fiction #264 is the biggest issue ever published in the magazine's history!" www.amazon.com/Galaxy-Scien... 📚🪐💙 #scifi

In anticipation of #StarWarsDay, Curiosity fired her laser at the area freshly exposed by the uplifting and removal of the rock! #Mars May 3, 2026 - Sol 4884 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/IAS/LPG

The exposed dirt following the removal of the Atacama rock over the last week. Taken with MastCam by the Mars Curiosity Rover on Sol 4886 (yestersol). The exposed area is a little over two feet wide. flic.kr/p/2sbjqDn

The infamous hole #Mars

Mars - Promethei Terra - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rWMYkb

#Galaxy IC 3955 with #JWST NIRCam commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IC...

Closeups of the action captured by Mastcam Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🧪🔭