Two planets for the price of one 🙂👍 Playing around in Celestia, I was able to identify the approximate time & orientation of that #Artemis II shot of Earth's nightside. Revealing that the bright object at lower-right is Venus. Thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting that I check 🙇‍♂️

You'll have seen this – Earth from #Artemis II en-route to the Moon. But look again – it's Earth's *nightside*, lit by the near-full Moon, not the Sun 🌕️ The aurorae, airglow, stars, & city lights in Europe, Africa, & the Americas give the game away. Cool. NASA/Reid Wiseman #Space #Photography

/cc @thocarp.bsky.social @yuvharpaz.bsky.social @melina-iras07572.bsky.social Aloha folks – just to let you know that these data go public tomorrow, but we're still working on them, as there tricky issues with saturation, banding, noise, etc. Plese be sure to tag me if you also make & post images 🙇‍♂️

Sneak preview 👀 More of our #JWST data are going public tomorrow, for the galactic star-forming region Sharpless 305 & nearby massive protostar RAFGL5232. Work in progress, as the data are rather problematic 😬 But as others will be quick to post images, here's our snapshot first 😉 #Astronomy

Hello folks – it's been a while 👋 Just popped in to show off my new #JWST NIRCam image of a young protostellar jet in Cassiopeia, HH288, aka The Dragon Jet 🐉 If you like what you see, there's much more info & a movie over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@markmccaugh... and Flickr: flic.kr/p/2rTPMvp

Aloha again 🤙 Materialising briefly to let you know my book, "111 Places in Space That You Should Not Miss", published by Emons Verlag, is out now in Europe & the UK, & the US in September 🔭🚀🛰️🪐☄️✨ 10% discount at uk.bookshop.org/p/books/111-... with code "lovebookshops" 📚 100% Tigger approved 😽

Aloha 🤙