Flying over the line between day and night in the International Space Station.

Because I am a color cam dude I have not appreciated enough how nice mono Ha images can look:

This is around 3h worth of starless Ha data on the christmas tree/cone nebula.

https://www.ufofeed.com/115099/the-shack-waipapa-point-new-zealand/ The shack Waipapa Point, New Zealand #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration

A quick hour of imaging as the moon rose last night. This is the Pinwheel Cluster in the upper left and the Starfish Cluster in the lower right. There are a couple of small nebulae in the lower left quadrant, but I would have needed more time to really bring them out.
#space #astronomy #astrodon

"[T]he NASA of over 50 years ago is beating SpaceX at their own game.

[…] the current design can only take “40–50 tons to orbit,” with no obvious way to correct this.

Starship is an embarrassment, not just for SpaceX, but for the US. It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that. It’s pathetic and dangerous, and we can do so much better."

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has-finally-figured-out-why

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a constellation of satellites known as the Copernicus Sentinels. Collectively the system generates terabytes of Earth Observation (EO) data daily. Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) is a free, public platform that provides access to Copernicus data and a range of analysis and visualization tools. A talk delivered at FOSDEM 2025 dives into the details:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5112-unlocking-open-source-capabilities-in-the-copernicus-data-space-ecosystem/

1/9 Martian Potato1

Animation of Phobos Over Mars: a time lapse from 2007 to 2021

Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2qREua9
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

8 frames, captured by ESA Mars Express. It's stabilized on Phobos (Todd crater) to play with the disorienting effect.

All images below

Check out also my Album about Phobos on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

A Sagittarius Starscape
Credits: AAO, ROE, UKS Telescope
#nature #space #astrophotography

Saturn by the James Webb Space Telescope.

More info: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01H3X9BMPCX165ZK9RA49J2416?keyword=saturn&itemsPerPage=15&page=1

Hat noch wer heute Abend im Raum #Oldenburg oder sogar in #Norddeutschland dieses Phänomen am #Himmel gesehen? Sah aus wie ein #Komet, bewegte sich west-/nordwestlicher Richtung aber langsam gen Horizont. Ist da irgendwas verglüht, wenn ja, was? Konnte bisher keine Infos dazu finden.

Gerne boosten.

A pertinent question:

Would you rather have NASA or SpaceX?