This visualization of the Scorpius constellation in three dimensions reveals how the stars in the sky become distorted when viewed from a new perspective. 🔭 🧪

SOLAR ECLIPSE OBSERVED FROM SPACE: This could be a first. On Sept. 21st, NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph onboard GOES-19 observed a solar eclipse from Earth orbit. Watch the lights go out as the Moon zig zags between the satellite and the sun spaceweather.com/images2025/2... spaceweather.com

Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrinos from Primordial Black Holes: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... -> Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino? news.mit.edu/2025/could-p...

A Deep VLA Search for a Persistent Radio Counterpart to the One-off FRB 20250316A: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> Non-Detection of Persistent Radio Source Places Tightest Constraints Yet on Non-Repeating FRB Origins: english.shao.ac.cn/news/202509/...

A Post-Starburst Pathway for the Formation of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at z>6: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07113 -> Supermassive Black Holes Shine in the Most Distant "Dying" Massive Galaxies: subarutelescope.org/en/news/topi... - New Evidence for Rapid Co-evolution.

Quasi der Abschlussvortrag der AG-Tagung von Günther Hasinger über das gerade entstehende Deutsche Zentrum für Astrophysik - aber auf Deutsch und mit einigen Facetten mehr in der anschließenden Diskussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVf...

Quasar Lifetime Measurements from Extended Lyα Nebulae at z ∼ 6: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> Are Quasars Growing in Secret? aasnova.org/2025/09/22/a...

What goes on inside the Mars north polar vortex? meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025... -> Mars’s Chilly North Polar Vortex Creates a Seasonal Ozone Layer: www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025...

Discovery of an icy and nitrogen-rich extrasolar planetesimal: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... -> NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object: science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

X-Ray Investigation of Possible Super-Eddington Accretion in a Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.13: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> NASA's Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth: chandra.si.edu/press/25_rel... and chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/r...

Hayabusa2 extended mission target asteroid 1998 KY26 is smaller and rotating faster than previously known: www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> Can Hayabusa2 touchdown? New study reveals space mission’s target asteroid is tinier and faster than thought: www.eso.org/public/news/...

JWST/NIRSpec Detection of Complex Structures in Saturn's Sub-Auroral Ionosphere and Stratosphere: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... -> James Webb Space Telescope reveals dark beads and lopsided star patterns in Saturn's atmosphere: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life: news.fit.edu/academics-re...

NASA is about to get a new crop of astronaut candidates. Start your Monday on a high note: www.youtube.com/watch?v=frX3...

The Flagship galaxy mock catalogue - a comprehensive simulation for the Euclid mission: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... -> A virtual Universe for Euclid: www.euclid-ec.org/public/press... - the largest cosmological simulations catalogue is now public.

The layering of the Martian atmosphere observed in forward scattering geometry: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -> Mars’s atmospheric mille-feuille: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...

The Sun during the Partial Solar Eclipse today (local time) rising in New Zealand: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qg.... See also skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/a... for links to more visuals under that video - in particular the timelapse www.facebook.com/reel/1431275...

Todays partial solar eclipse. Luckily the clouds stayed away until after maximum eclipse. From South Canterbury, New Zealand Lunt LS80tha and Grasshopper 3 camera #eclipse

Shadow of the moon from partial solar eclipse over New Zealand. 21.9.25 Edit by me, from: rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu?sat=goes-18&...

Eclipse imagining in process

The Moon shadow near New Zealand by GOES-West at 19:10 UTC realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/ and simulation

A bit after the maximum phase of the partial solar eclipse another feed from Dunedin, New Zealand, appeared on www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOk... - they have four cameras running but suffered from connectivity issues.

The partial solar eclipse from Dunedin, New Zealand: a screencap from 18:42 UTC from www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOk.... Meanwhile www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/n... is simulating the eclipse's progress live. At maximum 3/4 of the disk will be covered.

The webcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOk... of the solar eclipse is underway and has a feed from New Zealand where the Sun will rise in a few minutes - meanwhile here is the eclipse as seen by SUVI on the geostationary wx satellite GOES-19 at 17 nm wavelength, from www.facebook.com/SolarHam/pos...

From 18:00 UTC today (Sunday) there may be a webcast of the partial solar eclipse on www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOk... - if the weather in New Zealand cooperates. No plan B apparently ...

Prospects for comet Lemmon looking good - as are the viewing conditions in Europe.

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NASA has selected Blue Origin to deliver VIPER to the lunar surface in late 2027 as a second CLPS mission. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

A few captures as Venus and the 5% waning gibbous Moon moved until the planet disappeared behind. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 2/2

One hour before the ingress of Venus, Moon crescent visible faintly.

Heute endet in Görlitz die Jahrestagung der @germanastrosoc.bsky.social (Astronomische Gesellschaft): www.mdr.de/wissen/astro... und ein langer Thread in scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/11.... Ein langer Beitrag in den MDR-Abendnachrichten von gestern: www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD... von 7:45 bis 13:30.

Today (19 September) there will be an occultation of Venus by the lunar crescent - in Germany in broad daylight and only 27° from the Sun, so it will be tough to observe: hints and links in skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/a... (simulations here for Görlitz, Germany).

The nice thing about this update is that NARIT states that Chang'e-7 is scheduled to launch in October 2026, giving us a month for the mission. As it's targeting Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole, the timing may be illumination related.

#DLR_Raumfahrt_Show - heute Generalprobe mit Publikum im #FEZ in #Berlin. 1000 Schülerinnen und Schüler durften schon mal zuschauen und auch mitmachen. Mal hörten die Kinder aufmerksam zu, aber bei den Mitmach-Aktionen tobte der Saal vor Begeisterung. Danke Berlin, danke #Kinder, danke FEZ!

Republicans spent the last 24 hours trying to justify ABC pulling Kimmel based on reasons other than intimidation and threats from the Trump admin, then Trump goes full Col. Jessup & pisses all over the narrative & admits he ordered the Code Red because Kimmel hurt his feelings.

Thanks a lot for organizing a great town hall about the different ideas for the ESO Expanding horizons program 🔭

[reposting] NASA's list of events shows the Cygnus NG-23 cargo spacecraft arriving at the ISS tomorrow (Thursday) morning, but I haven't seen a press release or other announcement confirming that or saying how they solved the propulsion problem.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

✨ Day 2 of #AG2025 in Görlitz ✨ Today’s highlights: 📖 The Denkschrift set the stage for the future of German astronomy 🌐 Insights from ESO’s “Expanding Horizons” strategy 🔬 Engaging splinter sessions across many fields of astrophysics - from ALMA2024 to Multi-Messenger and Star Formation.

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12362 -> Western researchers support international collaboration for planetary defence: news.westernu.ca/2025/09/plan... - meteor physicists from Western Space aid in first comprehensive study.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-t...

Stratified wind from a super-Eddington X-ray binary is slower than expected: www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cejv... <- Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... <- The Hα sky in three dimensions / A three-dimensional, multiwavelength view [...] of the Milky Way’s local ionized gas: academic.oup.com/mnrasl/artic... / academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Sunset at the Berzdorfer See today, ahead of the AG Tagung conference dinner: more in the thread from scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/11...

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies: academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc... -> Distant galaxies reveal hidden effect from Big Bang: www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/distant...

Measuring the mean plane of the distant Kuiper belt: academic.oup.com/mnrasl/artic... -> A Survey of the Kuiper Belt Hints at an Unseen Planet: eos.org/articles/a-s... - an analysis of more than 150 objects in the far reaches of the solar system suggests a planet more massive than Mercury.

From NASA: Minatogawa, Olduvai, and Mungo. What's in a name? A nod to the story of humanity's origins. New official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid our Lucy spacecraft visited in April, recognize research & discoveries about early humans on Earth: go.nasa.gov/4goPDS5

Turns out that nearly all reporting about the annual meeting of the @germanastrosoc.bsky.social in Görlitz - done by very few players - happens on Mastodon: see all my posts in the thread scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/11... and all on the wall live.gwdg.de/wall/?server...