The moon in earthshine, the solar corona, and the planet Venus towards the top from the Clementine spacecraft in 1994.
This Artemis II eclipse is giving me Clementine 1994 vibes with Venus in the background.
Side-by-side comparison of Saturn. Left image is labeled Webb Infrared Light, November 29, 2024. Right image is labeled Hubble Visible Light, August 22, 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. Wong (University of California); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)
Webb and Hubble join forces to share the most comprehensive view of Saturn to date 🪐
Hubble reveals subtle colour variations across the planet, while Webb senses clouds and chemicals at many different depths in the atmosphere 👉 https://esawebb.org/news/weic2606/
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Prismatic warp effect done in Lightwave 11.6
A cosmic first! 🚨
Hubble has spotted a comet that slowed and reversed its spin. Outgassing jets acted like thrusters, literally pushing it into a new rotation, shown here in this science visualization: https://news.stsci.edu/4c2u6hv
Here is my reprocessed version of the Juice NavCam images of comet 3I/Atlas taken last November shortly after it's closest approach to the sun. 🧪🔭
For this animation I removed the static noise and aligned the images to the nucleus.
Credit: ESA/Juice/NavCam
Processing: Simeon Schmauß CC-BY-SA
Composite showing two red dots, representing the exoplanets WISPIT 2b and 2c, embedded in the white ellipses of scattered light.
Delighted to see our WISPIT team announce the second directly imaged exoplanet from the WISPIT 2 system! Led by Chloe Lawlor (Galway) with Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden), we also have a spectrum of the inner, more massive planet, showing carbon monoxide features. ☄ #exoplanet #astrodon
Patata visible a las 8
#Emirates #Mars Mission 🌈 مسبار الأمل
#Mars #Phobos #potato 1
2025-06-04 Orbit: 698
Spacecraft altitude: 20.491 km
#EXI 635 546 437 filter Mode xos1
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Sediment plumes and fractured sea ice trace swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system.
A zoom on the first image.
A zoom on the first image.
NASA Earth Observatory image of the day
Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Credits: images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Two color images of the crescent of Mars with a cyclone near the north polar ice cap at the top of the image. The images were taken on August 7, 2025 at 12:30 and 14:20 UTC.
Two color images of Mars with a cyclone near the north polar ice cap at the top of the image. Also visible in the center of the images are the three large volcanoes of Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons volcano. The images were taken on August 7, 2025 at 16:18 and 18:10 UTC.
Seasonally recurrent annular cyclone on Mars in processed images from newly released data from the EXI camera system onboard the Hope probe (EMM - Emirates Mars Mission).
The images were taken on August 7, 2025 between ~12:30 and 18:10 UTC.
Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.
Works perfectly - thanks!
Tiff would be ok. What's important is the ability to create a 16 (or 32) bit file. Whether the resulting file is tiff or PNG doesn't matter.
(3/3) It seems I might use TCT extensively from now on for color correction. The only drawback I have noticed so far is that apparently it can only produce 8 bit PNG files and not 16 bit PNGs ( @askaniy.bsky.social it would be great if this could be fixed in the future).
(2/3) I like the result, the color might be more accurate than earlier. Jupiter appears slightly redder. The left image is linear data. In the right one, a gamma curve has been applied - it should be similar to how the human eye would see the Jupiter (but this is subjective as mentioned earlier).
(1/3) Another set of Jupiter test renders from the Voyager 2 map I'm working on. Here I used True Color Tools (TCT) to correct the color. This is a great set of tools by @askaniy.bsky.social to compute realistic colors (see github.com/Askaniy/True... )
🚀 10 years ago, our largest and most sophisticated martian explorer left Earth behind.
To mark the launch anniversary, here are 5 remarkable things @esa.int's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was made for 🧵👇
Screenshot of the ESA Juice progress bar showing 35% completion rate.
A white, glowing egg-shaped object lies in the centre of the black-and-white image, on a dark, starry background. Glowing streaks spread upwards from the object. In the top left, a yellow arrow marked ‘Sun’ points straight down, and a blue arrow marked ‘Velocity’ points towards the 7 o’clock direction. In the bottom left, an inset shows the same object on a lighter grey starry background, filled with ragged-edged, concentric egg shapes gradiented black-to-white.
🧃 Juice update!
👩💻 Science teams are busy analysing the 3I/ATLAS data received from five Juice science instruments ☄️
They're also looking forward to a star occultation by Jupiter’s moon Kallichore on 18 March, which could refine its known position – valuable data for a possible 2031 flyby.
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Recent painting of a couple of exomoons.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #Exoplanets
(4/4) An interesting way to view this simulated image is to view it in darkness (turn off all lights) several meters away from the computer monitor. Also put a hand close to one eye and use it to create a 'cylinder'. This can be remarkably similar to viewing Jupiter with an astronomical telescope.
(3/4) Examples of these various factors include Jupiter's angular size, how dark adapted the eye is and whether Jupiter is totally surrounded by black space or if there is some object in the foreground.
(2/4) And this image is a preliminary gamma corrected version intended to simulate Jupiter's appearance through an astronomical telescope. It should be noted that this is highly subjective because how Jupiter would appear to the human visual system at fairly close range depends on various factors.
(1/4) Jupiter test renders from Voyager 2 data. The left one is from a map I made years ago. The right one is from a new map I'm working on from the same data. The color is better and will be even better in the final version. But the biggest change is that the new map is geometrically more accurate.
An oblique view of mountains on the Moon. NASA/Apollo 17/Kevin M. Gill
An oblique view of mountains on the Moon. The horizon is dominated by the darker lunar maria. NASA/Apollo 17/Kevin M. Gill
Cool views of lunar highland mountains from Apollo 17. Zoom to examine and you can get a good feel for the hight and ruggedness of the terrain.
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Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.
The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.
Charon (upper left) and Pluto (lower right)
Pluto and Charon from the approaching New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
Earth's horizon from ISS shows the scene suffused with auroral display of greens, reds, purple & pink against a starry night sky. The Earth below is faintly illuminated with pale green by the aurora above.
Earth's horizon from ISS shows the scene suffused with auroral display of bright greens, reds & purple against a starry night sky. The Earth below is illuminated green by the aurora above.
Earth's horizon from ISS shows the scene suffused with auroral display of bright greens & reds & purple against a starry night sky. We are in the midst of the aurora.
Earth's horizon from ISS shows the scene suffused with auroral display of bright greens & reds & purple against a starry night sky. We are in the midst of the aurora.
'Sea Of Light'
Some high quality stills from the short film. Source photography by Zena Cardman on ISS is repaired, remastered & retimed.
The 4k UHD video with music by Jesse Gallagher can be viewed here...
youtu.be/0Izl-XNE9ZY
It might also be possible to obtain SRU images of Metis but I don't know if the flyby geometry makes this possible.
I also didn't expect it to last for nearly as long as it did. And I find it absolutely amazing that the best and highest resolution images of some regions on Ganymede, Europa and Io were obtained by JunoCam.
The Deep Space Network has frequently been in contact with the spacecraft over the past several weeks/months (see eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/). I'm pretty sure the Juno mission has not ended.
As far as I know this is due to problems with the camera.
A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.
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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
