Oh my.

Earthset, from the Artemis II Crew.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

arth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.

Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby, about six minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region. The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary crater chains. These structures are formed by material ejected during a violent primary impact.

The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side. In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.

Even more Artemis II pictures of Moon (and Earth) released by NASA. My mind still cannot comprehend this. 🤯 Visit the website for almost 8k resolution. 🔭🧪

images.nasa.gov

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳

trump regime: "we're not gonna give up the moon because we're ultra alpha males who want to own space"

*immediately proposes to cut budget to levels not seen since before we first funded apollo*

Never believe a word these dipshits say

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

Short video showing them cruising across the night sky!

Esperemos que la NASA lo sepa. Porque ayer ignoraron completamente a la ESA. Las maniobras de anoche las atribuyeron a Orion. Y por no hablar de que el cuarto astronauta debería ser europeo. Todavía no encuentro la contribución canadiense a la misión o el programa 😡

Everything about the Trump regime is so infuriating and so petty. The moon isn't ours to give up. It's not an industrial goal or a spoil of war or a trophy to covet. It's a world to explore, to understand, to better help us learn about our place in the cosmos.

Comienza una nueva batalla con la ANECA

A time sequence of three panels side by side. From left to right, the panels are labeled November 8, 2025; November 9, 2025; and November 10, 2025. This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1 for short, was taken over the course of three consecutive days. The sequence shows the progressive disintegration of the comet over this brief period. Each panel features several bright, fuzzy, blue, streaking lights in a diagonal line from the upper left to the lower right of a black background. In the first panel, four comet-like objects appear. The largest is the second from the upper left. In the second panel, the largest object has broken into two pieces. In the third panel, the pieces appear to be moving away from each other along the invisible diagonal line.

Hubble just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart! Scientists didn’t know C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was fragmenting until they viewed the images the day after Hubble took them. (1/6) 🧵 ☄️ 🔭

New Open Access research in #Geology shows Martian volcanism is more diverse than thought. A system south of Pavonis Mons evolved from fissures to cones, recording magmatic changes and a long-lived subsurface plumbing system.

Read more: geosociety.co/volcanic

Lava flows🌋 ⚒️from Piton de la Fournaise volcano crossing the main road on February 13, covering over 260 m of the road

⚒️ Want to do a PhD on the application of #MachineLearning to different #petrology problems? There are 15 open PhD positions across Europe with the Marie Curie DTN REALISE led by @maupetrelli.bsky.social. Deadline march 31!!
realise-dn.eu/recruitment/

I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.

Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!

#Satire

Cruzar una calle en Nápoles por un paso de cebra es una odisea. "Tu cruza, ya pararán ellos"

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

🔭 🧪

Dale, mucha suerte Olaya!! 💪

Ayuso recorta en 246 millones los fondos previstos para Ciencia tras su pacto con los rectores Las universidades han firmado aumentar la partida para pagar los sueldos y los gastos corrientes, mientras pierden fondos para hacer investigación

Había truco elpais.com/educacion/20...

#YardangsOrBust

SpaceX Aims to Launch 1 Million AI Data Center Satellites The satellites could ruin dark skies, pollute the atmosphere, and increase space debris — and the public has a limited time to comment.

Experts are concerned that the satellites could ruin dark skies, pollute the atmosphere, and worsen the space debris. The public has a limited time to comment.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

It is time we stop this madness. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. We have to stop these billionaires ruining our planet.

🌋 Piton de la Fournaise – 17/02/2026

L’éruption se poursuit : une seule bouche active avec un cône en formation.

Front de coulée toujours figé à ~2,6 km de la RN2. Trémor globalement stable.

Sismicité sommitale persistante : système sous pression.

Alerte 2.1

Détails ici : tinyurl.com/rrdeu5se

Thin Section Thursday!
Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

A massive hotspot — larger the Earth’s Lake Superior — can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft’s flyby of the Jovian moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

NASA's Juno spacecraft detected the largest volcanic hotspot ever seen in our solar system. It appeared on Jupiter's moon Io, it covers 100,000 square kilometers (bigger than Lake Superior), and it radiates 80 trillion watts of heat. 🧪🔭

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-ju...

TIME’s new cover: Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972

We’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our international partners in Artemis. Our European Service Module is at the heart of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Together, we're extending humankind’s presence in space and demonstrating that multilateral and inclusive cooperation is vital for our future.

Photo from USGS

Kilauea erupted again yesterday in a fierce display. In only the 2nd time in 40 years, park officials closed the area due to the intensity.

Fountains were officially recorded at 500 m high, grapefruit size tephra were being ejected, and tephra fall was measured up to 20 miles away.
#volcano #hawaii

Reminds me of this

Aquellas viejas webs - Jorge Ginés Hice mi primera web en los 90. Luego vinieron los foros y los blogs: Tal vez es hora de volver a ese internet más libre.

Unos pensamientos desordenados, si es que alguien le intersan

"Aquellas viejas webs"

www.jorgegines.com/aquellas-vie...