"Courtesy NASA/JPL /Caltech/MSSS" processing 2di7 & titanio44

curiosity Navcam Left B sol 374 det - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/fCBvc6

Opportunity MARS NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger

Opportunity (29) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKTGoo

The Trifid Nebula (M 20) in H-alpha (green) [O III] (blue) and [S II] (red filters) using the WFC (Wide Field Camera) instrument at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain) in 2005. This was one of the very first colour images using professional telescopes that I processed when I was doing my PhD at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain). I used this image for illustrating my PhD Thesis and for explaining H II regions. The data were taken by Sergio Simón-Díaz as a part of a study of Galactic HII regions we were conducting at the moment. This is a reprocessing of the data I've done in 2020, where I performed some cleaning of saturated stars, color correction, removing artefacts, hot pixels, and selective smart sharpen for revealing some extra details. However, I can't find the original FITS data of the individual channels, so this has been done over the Photoshop file I created in 2006, when I first created the colour image. The data is actually a mosaic including the blue reflection nebula (at its top in this image), but I have not reprocessed (yet) the other ccd as it is very tricky (plenty of artefacts and a very saturated star). I hope to eventually do it. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez, Sergio Simón-Díaz, Jorge García-Rojas & César Esteban.

The Trifid Nebula with the INT - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2jWP5kf

See what it's like to watch a rocket launch from up close, and find out why will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas was hanging with nerds: www.ridingwithrobots.org/2011/11/lets-go-to-mars/ Then find out how to fly a spaceship at 73,000 mph toward a moving target millions of miles away: www.ridingwithrobots.org/2011/12/cruising/

Rising - Curiosity Launch in 2011 - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/aS8LHX

Family portrait of our Earth-Moon system taken by the JANUS camera onboard ESA's JUICE spacecraft. This is approximately how it would appear to the human eye. I applied gamma correction to the image which is needed to correctly display a raw camera image on digital displays. This is also the reason why the original release looked so dark. I also rotated the image and upscaled it to 200% using spline36 resampling and applied a bit of sharpening. Since the Moon moved a tiny bit between the different filter acquisition I had to re-align the RGB channels for it. Thanks to ESA for providing a 16bit tiff of the image and making this processing possible. original: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/09/Juice_snaps_an_... Credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS/Simeon Schmauß

Juice Earth Moon portrait - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qhyLDY

The Trifid Nebula, M 20, from my backyard, 15 km North from Sydney's city center, on 15th June 2020. This image compiles 40 x 300s images (3.3 hours total integration time) obtained with my Skywatcher Black Diamond 80, an Orion X0.8 focal reducer (f/6), the ZWO ASI178MC camera and an OPTOLONG L-Pro filter. I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). Flats and darks included. Data processed with Siril software. Color / saturation / levels / contrast / smart sharpen with Photoshop. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ).

The Trifid Nebula from Sydney - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2jcFe2M

Cassini WAC RGB view.

W1786977026 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/vTfNy6

On June 10, 2013, the Cassini spacecraft observed Titan from a distance of 1.43 million kilometers (0.89 million miles) and to study Titan's upper haze layers. This is a true color composite of Titan using raw images from Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem. These images were taken on June 10, 2013 and received on Earth June 11, 2013. The camera was pointing toward TITAN, and the images were taken using the BL1, GRN, RED, CL1 and CL2 filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans

Titan's Hazy Crescent - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/eKDt39

Imaged in broadband RGB from Chuchupate Campground on 8/10/24, using APM 140 doublet at f/5.6, asi2600mm, and Astronomik MaxFR color filters. 7 hours total integration.

Cocoon Nebula (IC-5146) - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2q9SpuX

Hubble rocks out with heavy metal stars! This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The stars comprising this spectacular spherical cluster are enriched with much higher proportions of metals — elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are curiously known as metals in astronomy — than stars found in similar clusters. A handful of these high-metallicity stars are also variable stars, meaning that their brightness fluctuates over time. NGC 6496 hosts a selection of long-period variables — giant pulsating stars whose brightness can take up to, and even over, a thousand days to change — and short-period eclipsing binaries, which dim when eclipsed by a stellar companion. The nature of the variability of these stars can reveal important information about their mass, radius, luminosity, temperature, composition, and evolution, providing astronomers with measurements that would be difficult or even impossible to obtain through other methods. NGC 6496 was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. The cluster resides at about 35,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt Text credit: European Space Agency Read more: go.nasa.gov/1U2wqGW

Hubble Friday - Heavy Metal Stars - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/GSP1oW

Titan — Leading Hemisphere (N1519650235_1) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/Ckiqa9

6th picture taken by RTE camera aboard Ingenuity helicopter on sol 689 (January 27, 2023) at 16:02:03 Martian local time.

Flying above Rockytop - Ingenuity, sol 689, flight 41 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oiJMz9

The objective of this observation is to examine what appears in a CTX image (P16_007242_2159): many short curved channels. They may have been caused by hot ejecta melting the ground ice. Image is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and is 296 km (184 mi) above the surface. For full images including scale bars, visit the source link. www.uahirise.org/ESP_047091_2165 NASA/JPL/UArizona

Short Channels in the Ejecta of a Northern Mid-Latitude Crater - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kRFB11

DAWN MISSION VESTA NASA/j.Roger

DAWN MISSION VESTA - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iPVa1J

Helheim Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier along the eastern edge of Greenland Ice Sheet and one of the island’s largest ocean-terminating rivers of ice. Named after the Vikings’ world of the dead, Helheim has kept scientists on their toes for the past two decades. Between 2000 and 2005, Helheim quickly increased the rate at which it dumped ice to the sea, while also rapidly retreating inland- a behavior also seen in other glaciers around Greenland. Since then, the ice loss has slowed down and the glacier’s front has partially recovered, readvancing by about 2 miles of the more than 4 miles it had initially -retreated. NASA has compiled a time series of airborne observations of Helheim’s changes into a new visualization that illustrates the complexity of studying Earth’s changing ice sheets. NASA uses satellites and airborne sensors to track variations in polar ice year after year to figure out what’s driving these changes and what impact they will have in the future on global concerns like sea level rise. Since 1997, NASA has collected data over Helheim Glacier almost every year during annual airborne surveys of the Greenland Ice Sheet using an airborne laser altimeter called the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM). Since 2009 these surveys have continued as part of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s ongoing airborne survey of polar ice and its longest-running airborne mission. ATM measures the elevation of the glacier along a swath as the plane files along the middle of the...

Two Decades of Changes in Helheim Glacier - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/Xg22SG

Animation available here: www.flickr.com/photos/thomasappere/46238246284/sizes/o/

Deployment of Wind and Thermal Shield - step 1 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2drV6GQ

Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The photos were captured shortly after separation from SpaceX’s second stage, marking the start of Intuitive Machines' first journey to the Moon under NASA’s CLPS initiative. Credit: Intuitive Machines Additional color processing, artefact removal and panoramic reprojection: Simeon Schmauß Better viewer: www.360cities.net/image/im-1-mission-public-affairs-camer... source: flic.kr/p/2pyGoSX

IM-1 Mission Public Affairs Camera Image 2 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pANZvG

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide. — Melville Aurora and a meteor over Woodruff Narrows Reservoir

Time and Tide - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rFDmdm

Opportunity MARS NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger

Opportunity (46) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKWqxC

Limb of Jupiter, featuring the Great Red Spot - as seen by Voyager 2 on 28th June 1979, just prior to its historic encounter with the giant planet. Reprocessed by Ian Regan.

Jupiter taken by Voyager 2 - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/8wi2Ey

Note: On 2018 Oct 10 this description was updated to correct a typo. Previously the galaxy was mislabeled as NGC 1674. I apologize for this error. Thanks to Courtney Seligman for pointing it out. A Spitzer "hidden treasure" found in the archive as a result of a discussion about barred galaxies at APOD's forum. As far as I know, this nice dataset has not been officially processed and published yet. Red: IRAC4 (8 microns) Orange: IRAC3 (5.8 microns) Cyan: IRAC2 (4.5 microns) Blue: IRAC1 (3.6 microns) North is 27.55° counter-clockwise from up.

NGC 1672 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/LLYrFS

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8/21/2017 Eclipse - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/Y7DVUr

Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). NIRCam has three specialized infrared filters that showcase details of the planet. Since infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum: the auroras are mapped to redder colors, hazes to yellows and greens, and light reflected from a deeper main cloud to blues. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt. #NASA #STScI #jwst #jameswebbspacetelescope #NASAGoddard #NASAMarshall #planet #Jupiter Read more More about the James Webb Space Telescope NASA Media Usage Guidelines

A Peek Into Jupiter’s Inner Life - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nLdWAu

RGB false color composite from the Titan (T-89) Flyby, in infrared, visible (blue), and ultraviolet filters. (From Rev181) The green-ish areas on the top center correspond to Titan's vast dune desert, in Belet. Just to the right is a region called Adiri (Huygens landed off the northeastern edge of Adiri in 2005.) In addition, Titan's south polar vortex can be seen at the bottom of the image. More detailed information: These images were taken on February 18, 2013 and received on Earth February 19, 2013. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 519,747 miles (836,452 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the CL1, CL2, BL1, UV3 and CB3 filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans

Titan in Infrared, Blue & Ultraviolet Light - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/dWuGsd

My LEGO MOC of InSight lander in Geoazur laboratory (Nice) where Jean-Luc Berenguer, InSight education team leader, works. Copyright: Jean-Luc Berenguer

InSight LEGO model at Geoazur laboratory, Nice - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rnEtWd

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, airborne mission found that most of Greenland's glaciers that empty into the ocean are at greater risk of rapid ice loss than previously understood. OMG's six-year field campaign studied the ocean's role in glacial ice loss by gathering precise measurements of ocean depth, temperature, and salinity in front of more than 220 glaciers. The mission's goal was to clarify our understanding of sea level rise over the next 50 years. This photo of Apusiaajik Glacier was taken near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 26, 2018, during OMG's field operations. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech #NASA #NASAMarshall #MSFC #AmesResearchCenter #Earth #Greenland #glacier Read more For more about OMG NASA Media Usage Guidelines

The Beauty of Ice - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nvwZAZ

This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA) Go here to learn more about Hubble 3D: www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premier... or www.imax.com/hubble/ Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the a...

NASA's Hubble Universe in 3-D - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7LM7YP

NASA Image Release Date: September 14, 2011 This image showing the surface of Mercury, acquired with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), shows Sōtatsu crater, the large crater extending out the left side of the frame. Named for Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, the crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in the 1970s; this is the first close-up view by MESSENGER. The bright spots on Sōtatsu's floor are caused by small, fresh, young craters. This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-resolution surface morphology base map. The surface morphology base map will cover more than 90% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 250 meters/pixel (0.16 miles/pixel or 820 feet/pixel). Images acquired for the surface morphology base map typically have off-vertical Sun angles (i.e., high incidence angles) and visible shadows so as to reveal clearly the topographic form of geologic features. The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MDIS is scheduled to acquire more than 75,000 images in support of MESSENGER's science goals. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washing...

Setting Eyes on Sōtatsu - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/angyJf

This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. The images were obtained by JunoCam. Once every 53 days, Juno swings close to Jupiter, speeding over its clouds. In just two hours, the spacecraft travels from a perch over Jupiter’s north pole through its closest approach (perijove), then passes over the south pole on its way back out. This sequence shows 11 color-enhanced images from Perijove 8 (Sept. 1, 2017) with the south pole on the left (11th image in the sequence) and the north pole on the right (first image in the sequence). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines

95 Minutes Over Jupiter - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/XVzQFC

The storm formerly known as tropical cyclone 15S, now called Tropical Cyclone Ernie continued to strengthen as NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image that showed the storm developed an eye. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Ernie on April 7 at 0645 UTC (2:45 a.m. EST) and saw an eye had formed as the storm strengthened into a hurricane. Thick bands of powerful thunderstorms surrounded the eye. Image Credit: NASA Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines

NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Ernie Intensify - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/SoCZvG