Jupiter (left) and Venus are putting on a great show in the evening sky. They will be even closer Monday and Tuesday. 🔭

Sad to hear of the passing of astronomer Alan Hale. Comet Hale-Bopp was the first comet I ever photographed, using my dad’s 35mm camera and slide film (!) #astronomy

Keep an eye on the dusk sky over the next week, and you’ll see Jupiter and Venus getting ever closer to each other in the west, in one of the best planetary pairings of 2026. Here’s our latest post on the cosmic planetary tryst for @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/cos...

Much more methane and CO2 detected in the interstellar comet than in comets from our solar system. Very cool that we can figure this out from afar! #science

This evening’s sky at sunset from rural Ottawa. #NoFilter

Great Lakes

me and the boys now that grilling season is here

9:52:47 AM on Thursday, May 28, 2026, over Chad.

Reports of an explosion heard around Boston are believed to be a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere, a very large flash was detected by GOES-19 satellite that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. https://t.co/MSDGX6ZnMA

Spudcophagus 🥔 ⚰️

Average bsky poster:

Saturday night Moon photobombed by a Lancair IV-P. The privately owned airplane was traveling from Miami (TMB) to Daytona Beach (DAB) at 7,125 feet and 240 knots. 🧵 #aviation #avgeek #lunartransit #planespotter

Aurora appearing almost like angel wings with deep purple hues.

My second favorite palindrome is: Lisa Bonet ate no basil.

making this my new phone lock screen

This brought me joy.

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured this stunning view of Mars on Friday, while approaching the planet from the night side for a flyby. #Psyche 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2sdBDyw

5:30:58 PM on Thursday, May 14, 2026, over Mexico.

guys is everything ok

Now, that’s just showing off… check out this fine capture of Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS passing near the Witchhead Nebula from May 6th, courtesy of Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger, taken from Farm Tivoli in Namibia.

I don’t have an order, but if pressed I think these would be my top 5 as well! #MayTheFourth

Watching this really makes the 3D nature of the Jovian system apparent for me. Beautifully done! 👏 #astronomy

Wow this rock just won't let it go! #Mars 🧪🔭

What do you get if you cross a palindrome with a joke? One KO joke, no?

6:13:22 PM on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

2:29:08 AM on Saturday, April 11, 2026, over the Philippine Sea.

I’ve been asked a bit over the past week about the ‘astronomy of Artemis 2,’ so I thought I’d annotate two key images from the mission. The crew of Ingenuity had an enviable view as they passed into the shadow of the Moon, with Saturn, Mars, and Mercury arrayed to the observer’s right.

“Moon’s haunted.” - First words from Artemis crew, hopefully. #ArtemisII

Splashdown! Welcome home #ArtemisII 🌍 🚀 🌕

3 good parachutes! #ArtemisII

We can hear the crew!!! #ArtemisII

The view just before blackout. #artemisII

Entering 6-minute blackout #ArtemsII

That was very cool to watch!!! #artemisII

Jeremy Hansen Takes a Selfie in Orion Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen is seen through a window of the Orion spacecraft, on his way to the Moon. This selfie-style photo was taken using a camera on the end of one of Orion's solar array wings. Credit: NASA. flic.kr/p/2s6tJe1 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Wow! The astronauts brought the Apollo 18 flag to space with them. This flag would have been placed on the Moon had Nixon not canceled the program, which ended with Apollo 17. #ArtemisII

NASA just shared a beautiful photo on X of the Milky Way taken from the Orion spacecraft. Some star clusters, colourful nebulae and a Magellanic Cloud visible! 🚀🌌

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.

Orion is behind the Moon. For the first time in my lifetime, there are humans who cannot see this planet ❤️

That moon is getting quite big out the window… #ArtemisII

The crew is asking such good questions! #ArtemisII

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen describing the moon as VERY bright out the window with lots of brownish hues. Hansen also notes that the farside is “impossibly rugged.” 🚀 🌔

As someone who loves photographing the moon through a telescope I am GEEKING OUT over the detailed conversations about features and topography happening between the spacecraft and the ground! Amazing! 🤩 🌒

Nice new photos coming down from the moon with more to come as the flyby begins! Here’s a recent one from today - rotated and edited by me. Original here: flic.kr/p/2s65HsF #ArtemisII

I edited one of the moon photos shared by NASA today using the processes I use on my own lunar photos to bring out additional detail. Familiar yet foreign! #ArtemisII

#NASA #ArtemisII - Here is a NASA graphic outlining all the milestones for tomorrow.