Credit: Petr Horálek

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 23:10 Integration & 30:00 Integration.

Edited & Stitched In PS Express.

This annotated First Look image of the Virgo Cluster was captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. From sizable stars to sprawling galaxies, Rubin transforms seemingly empty pockets of space into glittering tapestries.

Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

image by Dave Doctor from Las Cruces, New Mexico

Credit: Louis Leroux

Credit: Günther Strauch

At the top of the image, newly discovered Objects 1, 2, and 3 appear as blue phantoms, revealing the presence of ionized oxygen. credit: Louis Leroux-Géré, Thibault Rouillée, Vincent Martin, Cédric de Decker (Starfront Observatories)

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 45 Second Video Composite.

Edited In PS Express.

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.

The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, touching down within three feet (one meter) of the targeted location. The team on Earth received confirmation at 6:08 p.m. EDT that successful touchdown occurred. Preliminary data show the one-foot-wide (0.3-meter-wide) sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

I drove over halfway to another country at 4 AM this Sunday to position myself in the path of a celestial event I’ve been anticipating for nearly two years: the International Space Station transiting Jupiter.

Captured from Burlington, Washington, at 6:03 AM PDT, this image contains seven human beings onboard the ISS (Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov, Pyotr Dubrov, Anil Menon, and Anna Kikina) in the same frame as the surface of Jupiter. In the full frame image on my Instagram (@aj.smadi), the Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) are also visible.

With this long-awaited capture complete, Mercury remains the only planet outside the distant ice giants left to photograph for my ongoing “ISS Meets” series.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ADC, UV/IR cut filter, ZWO ASI662MC.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Link: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/martian-dawn/

Taken by Voyager 1 in February 1979, it spans a period of approximately 15 hours. This equates to one and a half Jovian days.

Credit: Ian Regan
NASA

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently observed IC 348, a star-forming region just 1000 light-years away. This is one of the largest Webb images released to the public so far. This near-infrared vista of IC 348 reveals a collection of objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller than the smallest stars.

Researchers used the unparalleled sensitivity of Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) to track down the smallest brown dwarfs in IC 348, which weigh in at just just twice the mass of Jupiter. These are the least massive brown dwarfs known, and their existence poses challenges to models of how stars form.

In addition to the brown dwarfs and young stars scattered across the swirling nebula, this image provides a unique perspective on a handful of protostars, which can be seen in the upper-right corner. These protostars are ejecting powerful jets that have crashed into the gas and dust surrounding them, creating luminous regions called Herbig-Haro objects.

Credit:

ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Luhman, C. Alves De Oliveira, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

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Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid) streaks across the sky (annotated)

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet: C/2026 S1 (Euclid).

In this image sequence it moves against background stars and galaxies in three of Euclid’s VIS camera exposures captured during the Euclid Deep Field North survey.

The images were taken at 00:41:07, 00:58:53 and 01:16:39 UTC on 17 September 2026. Each image is a 560.52 second exposure, so the comet appears like a streak because it moves across the sky during the long exposure. A fuzzy atmosphere, known as a ‘coma’ in cometary terms, is seen around the object.​

CREDIT ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, M. Pöntinen et al. 2026​

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​The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet, in images taken between 16 and 24 September 2026.

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The discovery is impressive for a mission that is designed to take deep, steady images of distant galaxies – not for following fast-moving Solar System objects like comets [2]. Furthermore, the quick turnaround between identifying and validation proves the case that Euclid can detect new comets while they are still relatively far from the Sun, potentially leading to a suitable target for ESA’s future Comet Interceptor mission.

Mikko Pöntinen of the University of Helsinki​, together with the Solar System Objects Science Working Group of the Euclid Consortium, made the initial discovery using moving object detection software that Mikko developed to monitor small Solar System objects in Euclid’s images: “I was excited to see my software flag a ‘streak’ smeared across several images – the result of a fast-moving object. By predicting its position I could identify it in other images, in total finding it in five image sets​. Further inspection revealed that it had a fuzzy cloud around it, indicative of an active object like a comet that is shedding dust and gas.”​

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https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_discovers_new_comet?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEQbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7PFi_Y-jXqc2cd30qJsqvxwB0lsCEZ24FOjMAI6LHPSPguqhIufoCZSF_Yyw_aem_r991ETL2kiI39X624jY-Jg​

Taken Using 2, 1 minute video stacks composited together in PS Express.

Ocala, Florida 7:08 AM

The spacecraft, Martian Moons eXploration (MMX), will enter orbit around Mars before transferring to Phobos, where it will land once or twice and collect regolith samples using a pneumatic sampling system.

The mission is designed to return at least 10 grams (0.35 oz) of material from the moon's surface. After departing Phobos, the spacecraft will conduct several flybys of Deimos before releasing a return capsule for Earth, with sample return planned for 2031.

Phobos image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona

A 1st quarter moon setting over the ruins of St. Raphael's church in South Glengarry county, Ontario, Canada.

Two exposures for the ground and separate 1/50s exposures for the Moon during its descent.

Canon RP + Tamron 150-600mm lens at 250mm