This is incredible - you can sometimes see bugs/insects on weather radar! Apparently they organize in zones of rising air, so they make it possible to understand localized atmospheric movements!

'April Flow' 3,408 frames of Himawari-9 satellite data spanning 11-18 April 2026 are repaired, remastered, resized & retimed usinf frame interpolation to create this 16m20s 4k motion portrait with music by Stellardrone. Credit: Himawari / JAXA / JMA / NOAA / Seán Doran

Typhoon Sinlaku 'Wow. Absolutely stunning.' 'Really spectacular stuff!' 'I wanted to comment but got lost in it.' 4K HDR 08m20s www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPU...

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 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

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

🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

☄️ Le 27 avril, l'étage supérieur de la fusée Soyuz 🇷🇺 qui a lancé le cargo Progress MS-34 vers l'ISS rentrait dans l'atmosphère. L'astronaute Chris Willams, à bord de la station, a photographié sa désintégration 🤯 J'ai aligné les images pour en faire une vidéo 👇️ eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...

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

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

APOD 82 Retrograde Neptune & Saturn 2025-6 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260506.html vimeo.com/1177973763 I photographed Neptune and Saturn every 6 to 11 days between 9th May 2025 and 25th February 2026 while both planets traced their retrograde loops.

From NASA: Got something weighing you down? Shake it off (like Curiosity)! The Martian explorer unintentionally picked up a rock while drilling a recent sample, but the team was able to dislodge it by having the rover move its robotic arm and vibrate the drill until the rock fell off. 1/2

A set of crescent Earth images from Artemis II. flic.kr/p/2sbqh4t flic.kr/p/2sbipsC flic.kr/p/2sbpeBv flic.kr/p/2sboRSy

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

Soyuz upper stage (2026-093B) from the launch of the Progress MS-34 supply ship to the ISS two days earlier

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "X class flare from Sunspot 4419" by Karthik P www.astrobin.com/e3wx8v/ #astrophotography

Fantastic new addition in the Marslife app with an inset interactive map featuring position, line of sight and field of view. Very useful to explore the local cartography! marslife.org #Mars 🧪🔭

When the abyss stares back... astronaut photo from Artemis II eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...

This is the best image we have of Triton, Neptune's largest moon. This image is a composite of the colour mosaic, overlain by the highest-resolution monochrome mosaic from the USGS, all from Voyager 2. Yet we've only seen 40% of Triton's surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/M. Bland

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

"Ok, what should we do next?" "ohhh! How about we all take a selfie with the crescent Earth in the background!" "yaaaaasssssss" #ArtemisII

NASA released over 12,000 Artemis II images today. Here's one I processed purely to look cool, not to be scientifically accurate or worthy!

Just back from an amazing 15 day adventure in Namibia, Africa. There are no words to describe the vast beauty of this place on the other side of the world. Here is one photo taken early morning of our last day camping. It was tough to say goodbye. #milkyway #astrophotography #astronomy

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

IMMA JUST TAKE THIS ROCK RIGHT HERE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Hemos soltado la piedra. #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4868 2026-04-17 > 4883 2026-05-02 Front Hazard Avoidance Camera (Front Hazcam) mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

A rock got stuck on Curiosity’s drill, which allowed it to pick the rock up like some kind of sci-if trash picker and reveal the dirt underneath. (Sadly, no bugs.) The good news is the team has now managed to shake the stowaway stone off, which means the rover’s wacky adventures can continue…

Un recopilatorio hasta hoy de los devenires de nuestra nueva amiga #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-04-17 >> 2026-04-30 Sol 4868-Sol 4881: Front Hazard Avoidance Camera (Front Hazcam) mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

This was not on my Mars Bingo Card. Curiosity rover lifts the rock that is stuck to its drill, gives it a shake which liberated some loose material, but fails to dislodge the errant rock on Sol 4881 (April 30, 2026). The team has an option to eject the drill […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Delighted to see @hankgreen.bsky.social creating this Artemis II photo timeline and explaining how he figured out the differing timestamps between cameras, he's now officially a true space nerd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZE...

Aurora visible on the night side of Jupiter from the Juno's SRU camera during orbit 76. Bright spot in the right part of the image is probably footprint caused by Europa's movement through Jovian magnetic field. Date: 2025/09/14. Time: 23:52:33 (UTC). Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI/D. Machacek.

Jupiter with Callisto on March 1st. Close inspection of Callisto reveals hints of its old and battered surface. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Hi @hankgreen.bsky.social, really cool idea with your Artemis II photo timeline! (artemistimeline.com) If you like you could add all the audio transmissions from Orion to Earth, they have all been uploaded to the Internet Archive complete with their timestamps! archive.org/download/Art...

Spider terrain near the south pole of Mars, as seen by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February. The area shown is about a kilometer across. These araneiform structures are likely caused by gas escaping from beneath a layer of ice. www.uahirise.org/ESP_091490_0...

Dark Energy Camera image of Arp 289, also known as NGC 3981. The galaxy's irregular arms is likely due to gravitational interactions with a neighboring galaxy. Credit: Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, R. Colombari, M. Zamani Source

Take a break from <waves vaguely> all this and let your brain soak up the amazingness of the Sombrero Galaxy, the stunning result of several cosmic collisions. [Also in this issue: will Andromeda really collide with us? The chance just went up.] badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-specta... 🔭 🧪

Meanwhile on Mars: Did Curiosity Rover's just lift a rock after drilling into it? Here's a short animation of its drilling operation with timestamps on front HazCam images from Sol 4877 (April 26, 2026) The first subframe image shows the drill above the target […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

A #galaxy with both a lens and a dust lane with #Hubble WFC3 (F606W, F814W) program: archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... DESI-220.6199+00.3515

#ROSETTA INTERNATIONAL MISSION COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO ☄️ 23 apr 2016 Distance 30 km OSINAC 3x Near_Ir Orange Blue rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_20... ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/j. Roger

Collected on April 23, 2026, by one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites, this image of the Hubble Space Telescope from above was acquired from only 61.8 km away.

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST Fullerenes in #Tc 1: a quantitative study of the interaction of large molecules with their radiative environment #PN-TC-1 2025-04-22 PI: Cami, Jan MIRI 2550 2100 1800 1500 1280 1000 1130 770 560 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

15 years after a team of Westernu.ca astronomers led by prof Jan Cami discovered ‘buckyballs’ in space using NASA's Spitzer Telescope, the team has returned with the JWST, revealing the first-ever detailed view of the planetary nebula - with spectacular results. news.westernu.ca/2026/04/jwst...

Oh my! "Transcendent" really is a fitting title for this video. Ethereal views of the Earth and the aurora from the ISS, magnificently processed by @theseaning.bsky.social! 🔭🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSK...

AB Aurigae is a young star only a few million years old, about 500 lightyears from Earth. The swirling mass around it is a protoplanetary disk. And where there's a small "twist", just to the lower right of the centre, is where a giant planet is growing.

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

Happy #EarthDay everyone. Here's a video of a dying glacier as seen by @planet.com satellites. ⚒️🧪🛰️ www.planet.com/stories/burr...

Oh my! "Transcendent" really is a fitting title for this video. Ethereal views of the Earth and the aurora from the ISS, magnificently processed by @theseaning.bsky.social! 🔭🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSK...

🇦🇽 Island #earthday Earth is an Artist 👩‍🎨 My Pareidolia thinks this is a big friendly smiling blue icebaer 🧊🐻‍❄️ 📸🛰 #Sentinel2 2026.04.21 Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social