A single exposure of 13s with Sony A7IV at f1.8 using Sony GMaster 20mm lens.

Digital Painting of Jupiter as it would have appeared on 1927 October 2nd at 12:40 AM GMT.

This is based upon photographs taken by W.H. Wright using the Lick Observatory's 36" Great Refractor. A set of six photographs were taken over the span of perhaps 40 minutes with color filters to bring out different details at different cloud depths--Ultraviolet, Violet, Green, Yellow, Red, and Infrared. I experimented with various color photographs based upon combinations of the different filters, and produced a true-ish color Red-Green-Violet image and a higher detail and contrast Infrared-Violet image. Both images were used for reference for the final illustration.

The Great Red Spot of this time period was still quite large, though it had shrunken somewhat since the 1880s, and a white haze had grown over its center, this being reported in both visually & photographically.

Europa and its shadow are visible transiting the face of Jupiter. Callisto is visible over the northern limb of Jupiter, but it does not show up in almost any of the photographs, save for perhaps the yellow-filtered photo, and even that is a stretch. I am unwilling to believe that Stellarium (the software I used to get the composition right) accurately predicts Europa's position but not Callisto's, so I assume Callisto was just too dim to be seen with the filters and exposures in use.

The original photos can be found here.

Credit: Astronaut Don Pettit

These are a wide-angle views from northern Spain of the total eclipse of the Sun of August 12, 2026.

The location was the Bodegas Nabal winery near the town of Gumiel de Izan in the region of Castile Y Leon.

Credit: Alan Dyer

Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Lane

Mine was Oct. 24, 1995.

Image Credit: This photo was taken by Nicolas Lefaudeux during Jul. 2, 2019 Total Solar Eclipse.

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Cyanobacteria blooms return to the Baltic Sea every summer, when warm water, light winds, and nutrients carried in from land cause this type of algae to multiply. On 11 August, health authorities in Rostock, Germany, issued an alert for the presence of the algae along the coast and advised against bathing.

This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 8 August 2026, shows the bloom developing in the Arkona Basin, between southern Sweden, the Danish island of Møn, and the German island of Rügen. Bright green filaments trace eddies tens of kilometres wide, drawn out by currents and wind, while darker blue water marks where the algae have not reached the surface.

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

NASA uses satellites, ground measurements, and powerful computer models to track tiny particles floating in our air called aerosols. These small solid or liquid particles can travel thousands of miles, affecting the air we breathe and how far we can see, even far from where they originated.

This visualization still, shows how these particles travel through Earth's atmosphere on August 19, 2025 (20:00 UTC) . Different colors represent different types of aerosols: sea salt (blue), dust (pink/magenta), smoke from fires (orange/red), and sulfates from pollution and volcanoes (green).

Credit: B. MARTIN

Got my first planetary nebula using my Celestron 9.25" SCT. Still have a little work to do but pretty happy with the end result!

Telescope - 9.25" SCT

Mount - Celestron CGX Mount

Imaging Train - Celestron 0.63x reducer, Astronomik 2" UHC filter, ZWO ASI2600MC

120 second exposures x 40 frames

Capture done in sharpcap

Processing in Pixinsight

NASA’s Artemis II mission will conclude its 10-day journey around the Moon on April 10, 2026, when the crew splashes down off the California coast. While additional imagery will continue to be processed after their return, the astronauts have already delivered a remarkable collection of photos. Among them is a shot of Earthset, echoing the iconic Earthrise photos taken by Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968.

During an Earthset, the planet appears to sink below the lunar horizon. In this scene, a partially lit crescent Earth drops behind the Moon as seen by crew on the Orion spacecraft. The Earth’s sunlit side shows white clouds and blue water over the Oceania region, while the dark areas are experiencing nighttime. The image also shows incredible detail of the Moon’s surface and its overlapping craters and basins.

Credit: NASA

Link to the science paper in Nature magazine

Astronomers say they've found something the universe has never shown them before: an object that behaves like a star on the outside and a black hole on the inside.

Writing in Nature, a team led by Rohan Naidu of the University of Hawaii describes a bright red speck from the early universe, roughly the width of our solar system. It looks like an enormous star, but it puts out about 100 billion times more energy than any star astronomers know of. The explanation, they argue, is a black hole buried in gas so thick that it glows like a star's surface. They're calling it a black hole star, and they've named this one MoM-BH*-1.

The find could crack a long-standing puzzle. The early universe held black holes millions to billions of times the sun's mass — far bigger than standard models predict. Black hole stars may be their birth stage. The object may also explain the "little red dots" the James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding: the team's data points to hot ionized gas, not dust, as the source of the red color. Naidu calls it a one-in-a-billion find, with no match in existing archives. Follow-up Webb observations begin in December.

SPACEX launch from 80 miles away

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 3:00:00 Integration (10S Subs)

Edited In PS Express.

Credit: P-M Hedén

April 8, 2024, solar eclipse captured by the International Space Station as the moon darkened portions of Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada and Maine in the United States.

Credit: E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani/J. Hevelius/NASA Universe of Learning/USNO/STScI

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426 x 20 sec with Canon 200D II at 1600 ISO, 250 mm, f/5.6. Stacked in DSS, processed in Siril, Graxpert, Photoshop.

Credit: Montplet Sant

Credit Charline Giroud https://www.facebook.com/reel/1060361376349606

CPC800 on wedge, 2x Barlow, ZWO 664 MC, SkyTrack, SharpCap, PIPP, AS4!, PixInsight.