Billions of people on Earth were bathed in tears of emotion when the Chairman of the Central Committee called Gagarin while he was admiring the emptiness of space without God 🤧

jw04513-o001_t001_niriss_clear-f200w_i2d.jpg DRACO-F0 Internal Dynamics of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: DRACO-F0.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
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RAFGL 5232 protostar with the f140m, f162, and f212n filters.
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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

Viktor Orbán has CONCEDED with the Hungarian opposition on course for landslide election win

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¡ya está!

PSZ2G229.74+77.96 | NIRCam #JWST
A casi un año de haber echo mi primera imagen, hoy quise hacerlo de nuevo, lo considerare mi primer paso.
Y aquí una versión mejorada de todo lo que he aprendido.

Proposal ID: 5594 (www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-...)
PI: Mahler, Guillaume.

With all the Moon mania on the back of Artemis II, here’s one of my favourite pieces of lunar art.

It’s from the 19th century artist Étienne Trouvelot, who used the chromolithography technique.

There’s more of his artwork in the 🧵 below

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#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity

2026-03-23 Sol 4844: Mars Descent Imager #MARDI

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger

An ochre toned mosaic of 82 images capturing a Martian landscape.

A zoom on a nearby butte.

A zoom with layered rocks in the foreground

A Martian rock (not part of the large mosaic of the first image).

Mastcam imagery captured a few days ago by Curiosity

#Mars Apr. 8, 2026 - Sol 4860 🧪🔭
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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All planetary nebulae are blue and located in very star-rich fields. Upper left nebula shows maybe spiral-like structure. Upper middle nebula is circular with a donut-like shape. Upper right is bipolar with a distinct eye-shape in the middle. Lower left is bright, small and circular with a distinct outer wall and a relative bright central star. Lower middle is very faint, large and circular. Lower right is elliptical with two shells.

Planetary Nebulae with #Hubble ACS (lower left image uses WFC3) with filters F606W, F814W.

All from this program: archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea...

PI: Sean Terry @seanterry.bsky.social

2/2 ... because in reality, in a statistical sense, we are all becoming more foolish at an alarming scale. I am aware that I have lost, and I only wish to live out my days in relative peace, in a place that allows for a kind of inner emigration.

1/2 I simply wish to remember the colour of the eyes of the people I speak to.

Incompetence and intellectual laziness have long since become virtues, and they are advancing at a geometric rate. I will not construct a conspiracy theory about who exactly might benefit from this, ...

Every time I'm on MSL planning I still almost can't believe that we're able to say "I would like to take a picture of that rock (or whatever)" and within a handful of days get a photo of that rock (or whatever) FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS.

A1068-OFF | MIRI #JWST

Proposal ID: 5018 (www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-...)
PI: Salome, Philippe.

Filters: f560w, f770w and f1130w.

1/ Between February and April, after nearly two months of relentless effort (and without even counting the attempts from the past three years), I finally managed—almost—to get to grips with the complex Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443)... >>>

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#Astrophotography

©️Robynne Limoges ‘Momentary’ (infrared film, Kodak HIE)

I meditated for hours in the Rothko Room, practically rubbing my nose against the canvas... the cosmos...

Rothko Room
©️Monty Reid

Enter
inter
the dead
breathe
somewhere
else

*
The color
slips through
itself
through the stilled space
of itself
an excess

data: GAL-CEN, GAL-CENTER-Tile - 2, 3, 4 & 6/ five releases: 2025-05-01 to 2026-04-01/ NASA, ESA, CSA/ MIRI 1500, 1000, 770/ processed: C.Blanchard

🔭 #JWST Program 3571, Dr. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (PI) - MIRI observations of YSO candidates for Unambiguous Evidence of Star formation in the 10pc Molecular Ring Orbiting the Galactic Center Black Hole

5th and final tile of this program was recently released.
See alt for details. MIRI 1500, 1000, 770

This is a JWST Space Telescope near infrared image of a star forming region and a nearby protostar. A vast expanding cloud like formation fills the scene set against the dark of space dotted with countless background stars and galaxies. Parts of the cloud rise in uneven shapes that resemble ridges. The cloud appears soft and mist like with its inner regions glowing in bluish tones while the outer edges fade into warmer orange hues.

Star forming region Sharpless 305 and protostar RAFGL5232 by JWST Space Telescope NIRCam

Full 170MP image: flic.kr/p/2s6Uqff 🧪🔭

Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Credit: Mark McCaughrean (@markmccaughrean.bsky.social),MPIA/NASA,ESA,CSA/STScI/j.Roger ( @landru79.bsky.social)

I think that in the long run we’ll lose this battle, but we have to give it a go.

An AI faked image of the Integrity spacecraft with the orange floats at the wrong end sitting on the sea with a raft nearby, onboard which are the crew all, remarkably, in the same or similar poses

Honestly, bollocks to the people posting AI fakes of post splashdown Integrity and crew, especially when…

I'm sharing one of my lunar images, in celebration of the safe return of Artemis II. Congratulations, and welcome home! 🌎️
High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/l1l382

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #natrue #moon #lunar #eastcoastkin #photography

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as the agency’s Landing and Recovery team, along with U.S. Navy personnel work to recover the spacecraft into the well deck of USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as the agency’s Landing and Recovery team, along with U.S. Navy personnel work to recover the spacecraft into the well deck of USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as the agency’s Landing and Recovery team, along with U.S. Navy personnel work to recover the spacecraft into the well deck of USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as the agency’s Landing and Recovery team, along with U.S. Navy personnel work to recover the spacecraft into the well deck of USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Hero spacecraft inside the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha

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A blue elliptical galaxy with a bright nucleus. Some smaller blue galaxies around it, likely belonging to the same galaxy cluster. Red and green more distant background galaxies are also seen.

Galaxy cluster Abell 1068 with #JWST MIRI (F560W, F770W, F1130W)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Not much interesting to see.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard is seen as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 8:07p.m. EDT, NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard is seen as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 8:07p.m. EDT, NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard is seen as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 8:07p.m. EDT, NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Thank you for your service, parachutes!

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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