Last month's storm, seen from the ground and from space.

🔭 Artemis I: Flight Day 13 Image Credit: NASA, Artemis I apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26013...

Mars - Cloudy Protonilus Mensae - CNSA Tianwen-1 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2r2HXah

A few months ago they let me walk around the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex at night. Don't know if it was the desert rain, watching skyscraper-sized antennas swivel to catch signals from beyond Saturn, or just my fillings buzzing from the radio signals, but I had goosebumps all night.

🔭📡 #astronomy #space #science www.mpe.mpg.de/8134359/news...

Breakthrough Listen used the Green Bank Telescope to study 3I/ATLAS! (Dec 2025) 🌠 No artificial radio emission was detected; researchers say it appears to be a natural astrophysical object. @setiinstitute.bsky.social #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #3iatlas #GreenBankTelescope #GBT #SETI

This is MACS J1149. It's one of the largest known galaxy clusters. It's 5 billion lightyears away. And it's so massive it visibly bends spacetime. (1/2)

#PPOD: This ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and unexpected arcs and clumps, which hint at the presence of planets shaping these disks. 🧪 🔭

There's such beauty in the cosmos. This is a view from #JWST of a portion of the Helix Nebula, an expanding shell of ionised gas moving away from a central star that shed most of its mass about 10,000 years ago. And these smaller structures are cometary knots... each larger than the Solar System.

HiPOD: Ancient Rivers In this HiRISE image, we see a dark ridge snaking across the surface. The dark ridge is the old river bed. More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_070975_2060 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Deep Space: Ocean World’ (2025)

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

ICYMI, our VLT has discovered a mysterious type of shock wave originating from the interaction between a dead star and the surrounding interstellar gas. This shock wave can’t be explained by any known mechanism. Video summary 🎥 👇 Full story: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2601/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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.

-7 degrees Fahrenheit in the Uintah Mountains of Utah. It was worth it. Met an elk, and a fox. Found what I came for.

UFO art circa 1973-77 by Bruce Pennington

Enjoy “ImpetuoUs” (youtu.be/4xZRfyezod8) — the final preview of Normal Isn’t. The visualizer offers a first look at the upcoming Puscifer comic book series, "Tales From The Pusciverse." More details soon. Normal Isn’t arrives February 6. Pre-order: Puscifer.com

Scientists trained Hubble’s sharp vision on a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud and identified a new type of astronomical object—a failed galaxy that never produced stars. Nicknamed Cloud-9, it is considered a fossil from the early universe: https://news.stsci.edu/4bdj2Ov #AAS247

This is one amazing photo. Jets of water vapour and ice crystals blasting out through four deep fractures in the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus. This is the only alien ocean we know of that we can directly access. (1/2)

‘Space Fantasy 4’ (1974) by Steve R Dodd.

"Programming The Skull", by Mark Rogers. #art #painting #nhi #ufosky

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Top #PPOD of 2025 - Number 5: The Jagged Shores of Pluto’s Highlands This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula. 🧪 🔭

Each of the arcs in this image are distant background galaxies that appear bent around the massive, white galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This #NASAWebb observation reveals many previously unseen galaxies. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); R. Endsley.

Saturn's tiny icy moon Mimas hangs in space against a backdrop of the giant planet itself. The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond. NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.

🔭 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

An amazing time-lapse photo of Volcanic Lightning, taken by Francisco Negroni. #sky #art #nature #science

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. There is currently no evidence to suggest that it is anything other than a natural astrophysical object. However, given the small number of such objects known (only three to date), and the plausibility of interstellar probes... 🧪

My god. It's full of stars. This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known. Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.

‘Visit’ by Kikuo Hayashi from Future Life magazine Sept 1981

#PPOD: When the Sun, Moon, and Earth align just right, moonlight meets the mist at the base of a great waterfall. The result is a moonbow: a rainbow born not of daylight, but of reflected lunar light. Credit: @joshduryphotomedia.bsky.social 🧪 🔭 📷

This world needs an intervention. Art by Martin Hoffman for The Visitors (Clifford D Simak, 1980)

🔭 Andromeda and Sprites over Australia Image Credit & Copyright: JJ Rao apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...

#PPOD: These polar dunes on Mars show both carbon dioxide frost (the white colored areas) along with darker material that’s been exposed due to sublimation, and is blown by the wind to form these dark spots. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona 🧪 🔭

This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Portals and Skyships’ (2025, acrylics on canvas board)

Top: Sunset on Mars (Curiosity rover, April 2015) Bottom: Sunset on LV-426 (Alien, 1979)

Future cities by John Harris

Check out this new #JWST image. It's another stunning view of the deep universe, but in the box at right is a small, red blob. That's a galaxy in which a supernova was detected in March. That galaxy is thirteen BILLION lightyears away. It's the oldest supernova found so far.

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

"The Hot Lava Lamp", by Mark Rogers. #art #painting #nhi #ufosky

Let's dive into the dusty central region of the Milky Way! There, a swarm of stars orbits an invisible, supermassive #BlackHole. As we get closer to it, we see these stars, as observed by the VLT (in 2019) and VLTI (mid-2021). Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2119/ 🔭

#PPOD: NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#PPOD: The object captured here by the Hubble Space Telescope is a reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8. Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, as other nebulae do. 🧪 🔭 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne

"Myrl And Roxy", by Mark Rogers. #art #painting #drawing #nhi #ufosky

Here's a cool photo of Uranus.

Io beauty shot. Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024. The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun. On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine. Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS

Join us on a trip to the region between the Scorpius and Ophiuchus constellations, home to tens of rogue planets. Rogue planets do not orbit a star but roam freely. Since they are not illuminated by nearby stars, they are hard to discover.  Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2120/ 🔭

The night sky is not the only marvel of the Atacama Desert. One example? The Licancabur volcano, one of the great gatekeepers of ALMA. 5920 m high, it‘s part of a chain of mountains that separate Chile and Bolivia 🌋 https://www.eso.org/public/images/licancabur-yuri/  🔭