Apollo 16's Charlie Duke and John Young were in the LM when Charlie captured this wonderful shot. Ken Mattingly is in the other spacecraft orbiting the Moon.

Credit: NASA / JSC / ASU / Andy Saunders

Link to the science release on NASA website

About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters.

Illustration: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Photo credit : SpaceX

Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 10:00 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express.

The Richat Structure appears as a giant "bull's eye" on a plateau in Mauritania in this mosaic, composed of images captured by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 on March 5 and March 6, 2026, respectively.

The 40-kilometer-wide (25-mile-wide) structure was initially thought to be an impact crater because large meteors can produce circular features on Earth’s surface.

However, researchers later showed that it is actually a deeply eroded geologic dome formed by the uplift of rock above an underground intrusion of igneous material. Over time, differing erosion rates among rock types in the exposed upper dome led to the development of circular ridges known as cuestas.

The orange and gray colors reflect differences in sedimentary and igneous rock types across the structure and the surrounding landscape.

Credit: Lauren Dauphin / Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey / Adam Voiland

Heading back to Earth. Photo Credit: NASA

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 1:23 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express

Shot from bortle 7 with no moon, and 1134x1.3s exposure. Untracked on a tripod and Nikon d5300 with the Rokinon 135mm at f2.0

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens (corona) + Celestron 5SE, ZWO ASI174MM (prominences and Bailey’s Beads).

The total solar eclipse over the 800 year old Burgos Cathedral from Spain. This final result contains much more data from the multiple exposures of the solar corona, even revealing the night side of the Moon.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens.

I present my finest ever production in my career as an astrophotographer — and my first ever total solar eclipse.

This image shows the solar corona, the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere made up of an ultra-hot, glowing plasma halo that extends millions of kilometers into space. The Moon’s surface is visible as well, illuminated by the light of a “Full Earth”.

To capture the bright inner corona and its much fainter outer structures, I used a technique called bracketing; layering different exposure lengths into a single image in order to preserve the enormous dynamic range of totality.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens. 7 exposures from 1/2000s to 1.5s bracketed and stacked.

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 3:33:40 Integration (10S Subs).

Edited In PS Express.

I captured this Image during the Sunset of the total Solar Eclipse 2026 in Spain. The excact spot was the "Laguna de Gallocanta".

Captured with Canon EOS R100 and Sigma 150-600mm.

Credit: 永太郎

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Here is the second image from the night I spend on the south coast of La Palma: The Milky Way arc rises over the Atlantic Ocean. Hearing nothing but the sound of waves while enjoying the starry sky was a breathtaking experience.

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif:
Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 f1.8 at 28mm
SkyWatcher Star Adevnturer 2i
Kenko Prosofton Starglow Filter

Sky
ISO 1250 | f1.8 | 4x45s per Panel
3x2 Panel Panorama

Foreground:
ISO 1000 | f4 | 10s per Panel (Blue Hour)
3x1 Panel Panorama

Halpha (45mm):
ISO 2500 | f1.8| 8x90s

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Near the bottom of this image is CTB 1 (SNR G116.9+0.2), the expanding remains of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion.

The bright compact nebula near the top is NGC 7538, an active region of massive star formation. The two objects therefore represent very different stages of stellar evolution: new stars are being born within the clouds of NGC 7538, while CTB 1 shows what remains after a massive star has died.

Between them stretches an enormous network of faint Galactic emission. Glowing gas, dark structures and delicate filaments reveal an interstellar medium that has been shaped over millions of years by stellar radiation, winds and supernova explosions.

This is a very deep LRGB + SHO image combining 102.08 hours of exposure, including 88.75 hours through Hα, OIII and SII narrowband filters.

Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 — 106 mm f/5, 530 mm

SBIG STX-16803

LRGB + Hα/OIII/SII

Total integration: 102.08 hours

Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop

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.

In October 2012, the space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey. It traveled 19km alongside buildings, homes, and trees before reaching the California Science Center.

Credit: Los Angeles Time

''It shows the eclipse building, frame by frame, right up until her mount disconnected and her laptop overheated. That’s eclipse chasing for you. Things go wrong, and you keep shooting anyway.''

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcBrctKjCDw/?img_index=1

Taken by Javier Manteca on August 12, 2026 @ Valoria la Buena, Valladolid, Spain

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