Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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NASA’s Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its record-breaking drive of 1,350.7 feet (411.7 meters) on June 19, 2025. The navcam images were combined with rover data and placed into a 3D virtual environment, resulting in this reconstruction with virtual frames inserted about every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of drive progress. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech​

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After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de Charmes,” where it will be searching for rocks to sample in the coming year.

Like its predecessor Curiosity, which has been exploring a different region of Mars since 2012, Perseverance was made for the long haul. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which built Perseverance and leads the mission, has continued testing the rover’s parts here on Earth to make sure the six-wheeled scientist will be strong for years to come. This past summer, JPL certified that the rotary actuators that turn the rover’s wheels can perform optimally for at least another 37 miles (60 kilometers); comparable brake testing is underway as well.

Over the past two years, engineers have extensively evaluated nearly all the vehicle’s subsystems in this way, concluding that they can operate until at least 2031.​

More

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-ready-to-roll-for-miles-in-years-ahead/

SN 1987A was a Type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs (168,000 light-years) from Earth and was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova in 1604.

Light and neutrinos from the explosion reached Earth on February 23, 1987, and it was designated "SN 1987A" as the first supernova discovered that year. Its brightness peaked in May of that year, with an apparent magnitude of about 3, brighter than the constellation's brightest star, Alpha Doradus.

Credit: David Malin AAT.

I just completed my first attempt at a SHO/Hubble palette using the Heart and Soul nebulas as a test project.

Askar SQA55

Nikon D850

MLAstro SAL-33 mount

Touptek GS150 guide scope and GPM662m guide camera

Touptek Stellavita for controlling the system

After going through the data and using only the best subs I ended up using 6.5 hours of OCS data, 7 hours of HaOIII data using an Askar Color Magic C1 filter, and 9 hours of SIIOIII data with the C2 filter. The OSC photos were 180 second subs and the narrow-band were all 300 second subs. Stacked and processed in Pixinsight, then layered and edited in Photoshop.

Imaging was done under bortle 3-4 skies in SE Colorado

More information at

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-astronaut-christina-koch-acting-deputy-chief-engineer/

OC, procedural volumetric setup

For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of Saturn and its family of icy moons.

It took us to astounding worlds where methane rivers run to a methane sea and where jets of ice and gas are blasting material into space from a liquid water ocean that might harbor the ingredients for life.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Following the expected LSP minimum in June 2026 (Goldberg et al., 2024, ApJ, 977, 35), Betelgeuse has been steeply declining in brightness, going from V ~ 0.5 mag to V ~ 0.95 mag between August and October 2026.

If similar to the Great Dimming, there are only a few weeks remaining until the minimum brightness (likely around November 2026).

This picture was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), reveals one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of Betelgeuse.

Image Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Dent et al.

✨ Target: NGC 7822 + Sh2-170

🔭 Mount: Star Adventurer 2i

📷 Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro Color

🔎 Scope: Askar FMA180 Pro

🕶️ Filter: Dualband Svbony SV220

🎯 Guide Camera: ASI 120mm Mini Mono

🦮 Guide Scope: Svbony SV165

🔬 Sampling: 2.66"/px (x2 drizzle)

❄️ Cooling: -10°C

🔴 Acquisition: Gain 120

⏰ Integration: 78x300s (6h 30min)

📊 Calibration: 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat

💻 Processing: PixInsight, RawTherapee

📍 Location: Turin (Italy)

📅 Date: Oct. 13-14, 2026

🌌 Sky: Bortle

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 2:51:10 Integration (10S Subs)

Edited In PS Express.

The city lights outshine the stars in the City That Never Sleeps. Who would have thought that the Milky Way could be visible in this sky?

This image was taken with a filter that blocks most visible light, capturing instead only light in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum (with lower energy than visible light). The astrophotographer's clever setup blocks most of the light pollution from the city: old incandescent light bulbs and some neon lights are still bright in the near-infrared, but fluorescent and LED light bulbs are not.

Of course, stars are also bright in the near-infrared! This image is a reminder that we all live under the same sky, and astronomy allows all of us to learn more about humanity's place in the Cosmos.

Credit: Jason Kurth, Ty Buckley

Videos from https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/goes-solar-ultraviolet-imager-suvi

Captured just after sunset on October 13, 2024.

This time-lapse plays at 160x speed.

Credit: 星の観察館「満天星」

This was taken from my backyard with my 10” Meade telescope. I hope you like all the tiny details.

I used a 6-inch refractor telescope, an astronomy camera, and specialized filters to capture light from singly ionized Hydrogen, doubly ionized Oxygen, and singly ionized Sulfur emissions. I then processed the image and assigned each wavelength color using the Hubble / SHO palette.

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070^\1])) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus). The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name.^\1]) The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a foreground molecular cloud filled with dark dust.^\2]) Both are part of the larger H II region of Westerhout 80.^\2])

The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.^\1]) Millions of years from now this nebula might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will leave something that appears completely different. - Wiki

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al.

Credit: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal, Vojan Höfer

MMX is going to explore Phobos and Deimos, Mars’s two moons and our German-French rover Idefix is coming along for the ride. 🚀

We’re livestreaming the launch in German together with YouTuber Senkrechtstarter on Monday, 19 October, from 18:15 UTC.
👉 Watch with us: LIVE: MMX Start

Idefix was developed and built by DLR and CNES in close cooperation with JAXA.
Find out more about the rover and its mission here: https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/projects-and-missions/mmx

Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer

Tracked + Blended image, alignment is real and all images were shot at the same time on the same night

Credit: Nick Krasznavolgyi