HiPOD: Frosted Dunes in the Depths of Winter This picture was taken far north of the equator after the winter solstice when the Sun was just a few degrees above the horizon. Sand dunes are moving across this landscape from left to bottom. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074942_2295 #Mars #NASA

Soaring over Pluto In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon,

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Gum 15" by Tim Ray www.astrobin.com/cqbw70/ #astrophotography

HiPOD: The Ever-Changing Swiss Cheese of Mars HiRISE monitors many areas of the cap to study these changes. When we study changes, we align the images with features that haven’t changed, but here, nearly everything is different! https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074829_0945 #Mars #science #NASA

Synoptic drawing of the solar disk - Many small fragmented coronal holes make the solar wind forecast difficult - Sunspot group 4485 is about to leave the visible disk - Minor growth of sunspots NW of the central meridian - Severe decay of former X-flare player 4482

M1.19 flare from AR 4485 on west side of Sun12.7.26 At the beginning the dark thing that is eclipsing the sun is Earth . Video from helioviewer

Filament eruption from west side of the Sun, near sunspot 4485 12.7.26 www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/a...

Sophie Adenot x.com/Soph_astro/s...

Onboard view of descent and views of the capture.

This is big: China just launched the Long March 10B and caught the first stage out at sea with a net recovery system. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8VpyAMwNaV...

On the Earth-facing disk, solar activity remains pretty minor, but flip the Sun around 180 degrees, and it's a different story! The farside is teeming with active regions, some old and some new. Ex-AR 4479 and 4478 are seen towards the east (left of frame), but there is new growth as well.

Opportunity's shadow on the surface of Mars. A view captured by NASA's rover on July 10, 2017. Processed Jason Major x.com/JPMajor/stat... you can search for raw data here​ pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/atlas/...

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Forty Million Light-Years Away: The Needle Galaxy 📸kbarth001 www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...

There are a number of "holes" on the Sun--coronal holes--and at least one is affecting Earth right now with solar wind speeds on our upstream solar wind monitors pushing 650 km/s, about 2x higher than usual. Coronal holes may look disconcerting in these images, but they are nothing to worry about.

#OnThisDay: 10 July 2010, the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta Mission comet-chasing spacecraft captured this spectacular image of the asteroid #Lutetia at the moment of closest approach: a distance of just 3162 km! 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2010/07/Lutetia_at_closest_approach

Simulated view from Valladolid, Spain (total, according to peak finder page) peakfinder.com/?lat=41.65356&lng=-4.72598&off=69&azi=287.26&alt=-6.21&fov=58.35&date=2026-08-12T18:30:18Z&cfg=esm&name=

Simulation of New Horizons from Eyes on the Solar System program eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

After 321 days in hibernation, New Horizons woke up healthy about 5.9 billion miles from Earth and is preparing to send back stored science data from the Kuiper Belt.

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "SH2-91 - SNR G065.2+05.7" by Sam Groth www.astrobin.com/bbirgd/ #astrophotography

A Bubbly Cosmic Celebration 🍾 In the brightest region of this nebula, gas is heated by young stars & expands into the surrounding cooler gas. Once the heated hydrogen reaches the borders of the gas cloud, it bursts outwards into the vacuum like the contents of an uncorked champagne bottle 🔭 1/2

Small plasma eruption - 9.7.26 📸helioviewer

Here is the CME from the filament eruption last night: what a beautiful sight! If this were directed at Earth, we might be preparing for a decent-sized geomagnetic storm right now. Per usual though, the Sun has trouble launching activity in our direction :)

HiRISE 3D: Mounds Revisited Today’s HiPOD is also going to double as our 3D image post. Anaglyph images help to characterize potential landing/exploration sites. https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092989_1960_ESP_092633_1960_RED NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

HiPOD: Young Lava Flows of Elysium Mons The team at NASA ARC is working on a project aimed at selecting potential future landing sites for a robotic mission. The area of interest is located on young lava flows in Elysium Mons. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_092989_1960 #Mars #NASA #science

Spectacular filament eruption from the Sun’s northeastern limb. 7.7.26 Edward.Vijayakumar, Jhelioviewer program x.com/edwanx/statu...

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M4.05 flare occurred from Region 4482 with impressive plasma eruption. Doesn't look like much escaped though. @loveon9.bsky.social Jure Atanackov x.com/JAtanackov/s... 7.7.26 Helioviewer www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/a...

The X1.3 flare from newly numbered region AR 14482 looked less eruptive than the three M-class flares in AR 14479 (X1.1 on 06/30, M4.2 on 07/02 and M6.7 on 07/03), as suggested by coronagraph images. But it was accompanied by weak coronal wave Credit: @halocme.bsky.social x.com/halocme/stat...

📣 Most ancient quasars ever found! Euclid has discovered 31 ancient quasars. Two of them shone with the light of a trillion Suns back when the Universe was 670 million years old – just 5% of its current age. Discover more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Transition video: Centaurus A In new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever seen before.

📸Yuri Beletsky: ''I captured this image of the great Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS from Carnegie Las Campanas observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. The comet was setting behind the domes of Magellan 6.5-m telescope, and what a majestic moment it was!'' x.com/YBeletsky/st...

◀Centaurus A (MIRI + NIRCam image) esawebb.org/images/weic2... ▶Centaurus A (NIRCam image) esawebb.org/images/weic2...

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Close-up look at (98943) Torifune, captured during yesterday's flyby by HAYABUSA2 spacecraft. 🚀 Every close encounter with small world reveals new clues about the history & evolution of our Solar System Frames at 11:27 youtu.be/ptnVCeR3rqI?... video alone x.com/comets77/sta...

Asteroid Torifune was just imaged by Japan's Hayabusa 2. This asteroid is a rubble pile. If you could gently place it in the middle of a parking lot, it might look something like this. 🔭 #astro

“Breaking point” One rare double Rainbow and Bolt over Miss Liberty 📸mirro_hero www.instagram.com/p/DaWuM-yEYL...

📸abdul : ''same image stacked differently. i capture about an hour of starlight and align them to get more detail out of the milky way. but if i don’t align them it demonstrates the rotation of the earth.'' x.com/Advil/status...

☀️ Solar Synoptic Map 🔴 Active regions 4479 and 4478 are leaving the visible disk, strong flares are still possible. 🔴 Active region 4482 near the east limb is an x-flare player, let's see if it survives. 🔴 Fast solar wind from coronal hole CH73– can be expected in 1-4 days.

Gorgeous filament eruption near the northeastern limb. 6.7.26 Helioviewer and www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/a... @loveon9.bsky.social video from JHelioviewer, by Edward.Vijayakumar x.com/edwanx/statu...

Asteroid Trifune as seen by the Mid-Infrared Camera (TIR) ©JAXA Date and time of capture: July 5, 2026, 18:29:58 (Japan Standard Time) (Preliminary value) • Distance to Trifune: Approximately 10km www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...

Image of the asteroid "Torifune" acquired by the asteroid explorer "Hayabusa2". 📸Date and time of capture: July 5, 2026, 18:29:59 (Japan Standard Time) ©JAXA

On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe took an image of asteroid 2016HO3 at a distance of approximately 20 kilometers. (Image provided by China National Space Administration)

HiPOD: Equatorial Gullies on Mars This image shows a 3-kilometer-wide impact crater with gullies all along the steep inner slopes. An enhanced-color cutout better distinguishes the gully deposits from the surrounding boulder fields. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_035945_1755 #Mars #NASA #science

From 📸 Andrew McCarthy: "Sometimes reality is crazier than science fiction. This is ISS,carrying humans, passing between my spot in desert & the moon This video was slowed down significantly, as the ISS was only in my field of view for about 150ms" x.com/AJamesMcCart...

I missed it too, thanks @loveon9.bsky.social (After long time I downloaded SpaceWeatherLive app for 🔔) 💥M5.39 📸 Helioviewer

10 days of an active, flaring Sun (SDO AIA 94 + AIA 131)

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