20 years ago, on 11 April 2006, Venus Express was making history by entering orbit around Venus. Europe’s first mission to Venus answered many questions, especially concerning the planet’s atmosphere. Still, many mysteries remained. 1/2 🔭 🧪

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Oh... you thought I was done ? Nope 😉 #Ariane6

Glaciar Cerros de la Plaza ✝️ 2015 | 2025 IDEAM just officially declared extinct (as of March 2026) this glacier located in the Sierra Nevada de Güicán o El Cocuy 😭

Good morning Europe

Australia now front and center in view with some nice storm systems around it! #Artemis

Here's the full chute deployment and splashdown of the Integrity capsule containing the Artemis crew (at 1.5x speed to fit within the Bluesky video limit). Welcome home!

Orion's main parachute has deployed. The spacecraft has a system of 11 chutes that will slow it down from around 300 mph to 20 mph for splashdown. Get more updates on the Artemis II blog: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/

Big smiles from Christina and Victor on the deck of the USS John P. Murtha, as they waited to be escorted for their routine post-mission medical checks. Original post

All four of the Artemis II astronauts have been successfully extracted from the Orion spacecraft following splashdown and are now on the USS John P. Murtha. Next up, they will be escorted to the medical bay where they will undergo post-mission medical evaluations. Original post

The crew module on Orion has separated from its service module. After traveling around the Moon, seeing its far side, and experiencing a solar eclipse, the Artemis II astronauts are on the last leg of their trip home. Original post

🔴 LIVE REPLAY! The Artemis II capsule has completed a textbook splashdown! 🌊🚀 Witness the exact moment humans safely returned from the Moon for the first time in 50 plus years. 🌍✨ #Artemis2 #NASA #SpaceExploration

Weather satellites were able to see the Artemis II launch and re-entry. Space is cool, satellites are cool. It's all cool!!!

🌑 L'atterrisseur lunaire automatique Blue Moon MK1 Endurance de Blue Origin (📷) a réussi ses tests en chambre à vide thermique au centre Johnson de la NASA. Retour ensuite en Floride pour la préparation au lancement (date inconnue)

Hey, did you know about Madagascar giraffe weevils

Major news in the French military programming law: - an operational SAR system will be on orbit in 2035, following the DESIR demonstrator in 2029 - a geostationary early warning satellite will be launched before 2035 - ground to space jammers by 2030, and a laser by 2035

The key aspect of Chang'e-7 is the hopper/mini-flying probe designed to head into permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole and drill for water-ice. Many plans for lunar exploration hinge on the presence of water.

The Chang'e-7 spacecraft arrived at Wenchang spaceport on April 9. The robotic lunar south pole landing mission will be prepared for launch for the second half of 2026, according to CMSEO. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/B8Hh_lCU43...

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

1/x Just over one day to go untill #ArtemisII splashes down near the California coast. Here is a map showing the ground-projected approach trajectory which I created using HORIZONS State Vector data and (for the very last bit) a Tudat ballistic continuation of the last State Vector

If you're wondering what the Artemis II astronauts will be experiencing during tomorrows reentry, I recently made this video showing the Artemis I reentry with a telemetry overlay. 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full video on YouTube: youtu.be/-QbYrs5SZ5M

L'ADN issu des restes de 10 Néandertaliens (dont 1 fœtus) met en lumière le "goulot d'étranglement génétique" qui pourrait avoir contribué à la disparition de l'espèce. La population a diminué il y a environ 65 000 ans, pour subsister dans un "refuge glaciaire" dans le sud-ouest de la France. 1/2

🚀 Pour la première fois, on a une indication du coût d'un lancement d'Ariane 6. Pour le satellite européen Sentinel-1D, lancé sur Ariane 62, le lancement est revenu à 82 millions €. C'est sensiblement le même coût que pour un vol sur Falcon 9

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

NASA released infra-red footage of the Artemis II launch, including this shot of the engine section. You can see how much overexpansion the RS-25 nozzles have, causing the exhaust to be pushed in. That's because they are designed to run all the way to orbit at higher altitudes.

👨‍🚀 On remerciera jamais assez la personne qui a eu l'idée de mettre des caméras au bout des panneaux solaires 😍 Les images sont juste tellement magnifiques 🤩 Incroyable photo prise au moment du coucher de Terre derrière la Lune, avec la capsule Orion d'Artemis II au premier plan 🤯 📸 NASA/ESA

Via #NASA A better annotated image of the two craters around Mare Orientale that Jeremy Hansen asked to be named "Integrity" after the Artemis II Spacecraft and Carroll Crater, named for the wife of Reid Wiseman, who passed away in 2020 after a 5-year battle with cancer.

Via #NASA - Starstruck (April 7, 2026) - A stunning snapshot in time. The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Credit: NASA. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Is it really the corona of the Sun or the zodiacal light we are seeing ?

Passez de : iranien reprenez votre pays en main. Tenez bon. On arrive ! A Tiens si on associait aux Ayatollahs et racketait les autres nations ? La colonne vertébrale de trump : si il y a un dollar a empocher je fais tout ce que vous dites.

A Room With a View A view from the window of the Orion spacecraft approximately 9 minutes before Earthset during the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. flic.kr/p/2s6oWha #Artemis 🔭🧪

ISAR Aerospace is now targeting NET 9 April for the launch of Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ during the available launch window, which opens at 22:00 CEST (20:00 UTC). The final date remains subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure.

ce qui est redoutable et faux depuis toujours. , c'est de penser que la "modification du génome" présente en soit un risque quelconque la science seulement quand ça les arrange

La collision entre les gesticulations de trump et Artémis 2 m'a vraiment donné l'impression de l'insignifiance du personnage. J'en avais le vertige.

J'ai l'impression que cet article (derrière paywall donc je ne peux pas juger de l'intégralité) est du même acabit que celui dans le même journal al sur l'Inde disant que l'Inde ne fait rien pour le climat et tourne qu'au charbon (ce qui est faux). www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

🔭 Earthset Image Credit: NASA Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260408

Iran's strategic victory couldn't happen to a worse regime. It shores up the IRGC just when the population was turning against it. A more capable American regime may have been able to leverage this moment, but the US has run through its munitions a year before China will be ready to attack Taiwan.

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

🇪🇺 "Résumons, pour ceux qui ne suivent pas l'actualité, 🇺🇸et 🇮🇱 ont déclaré la guerre à 🇮🇷..." 🇷🇺 "Popopo..." 🇪🇺 "Pardon, une opération militaire spéciale et l'estimé leader maximo Donald Trump avait donné un 25ème ultimatum à l' 🇮🇷, faute de quai, il leur ravalait la tronche"

1/2 This morning I managed to image #Artemis II 'Integrity' on its return journey from the #Moon, using the 41.5-cm MISO telescope of #Delft #University of Technology (Delft, the Netherlands). At a sky elevation of only 8.7 degrees and in twilight, so positively surprised by the outcome!

So it seems that Iran is now the new Denmark (but without the bacon...)

🇫🇷 - France : EDF fête ses 80 ans au service de la 🇫🇷 en mettant 3 x 80M€ sur la table de l'électrification : ➡️ PAC pour les ménages modestes ➡️ Transports lourds ➡️ Sites industriels clés en main

✅ #Artemis II update: Day 7, Orion now heading back to Earth at 2245 km/h, 367 530 km from Earth and 77 666 km from the Moon. Image is from early morning of 7 April, during the eclipse period (pic: NASA). Track at nasa.gov/missions/art... @exploration.esa.int

Some annotation on the original image

It works very well. #ArtemisII

I'm curious to know the path of the messages.

🌓🛰️🌍 Ship to ship call. The #Artemis II crew are about to speak with the crew on the International Space Station, including @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot 👩‍🚀

Les 30 °C restent encore hors de portée à Paris, mais la date à laquelle la moitié du pays a franchi ce seuil survient de plus en plus tôt dans la saison : mi-mai en 2022, record à battre, et fin mai en 2025, par exemple. 5/6

The NASA Flickr has the HUUUUGE versions of all the amazing lunar flyby photos www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...