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.​

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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.

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

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

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

Edited In PS Express.

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

This is a brand new version of the Pleiades (M45) from my backyard in Aveyron, France.

I actually captured over 10 hours of data on this target. However, since M45 is extremely bright and my telescope is very fast (f/3.4), I decided to try a ruthless culling approach. I threw away 85% of my subs and only stacked the absolute best ones with perfect seeing/FWHM. I ended up with only 106 frames of 60 seconds (1h 46m total).

The sacrifice in signal-to-noise ratio was completely worth it for the massive gain in sharpness and resolution in the blue reflection dust. What do you guys think? Are you strict with frame culling on bright objects, or do you stack everything?

Equipment:

• Telescope: TS-ONTC Hypergraph 10″ (with 0.85x reducer, f/3.4)
• Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC DUO (-15°C)
• Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8R-Pro

Acquisition & Processing:

• Exposure: 106 x 60s (1.7 hours total integration).
• Software: N.I.N.A, PixInsight (SubframeSelector is the hero here, DBE, SPCC, BlurX, NoiseX, stretching).

Full HD image on my website: see First comment

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

✨ 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

4 min exposure in astrophotography mode on my Pixel 9A, from Felanitx, Spain, Sat. 10.10.2026, 5:55 am.

Its not the best quality but I am still in awe how many stars (and planets) are up there!

And no, I do not ask, I know it's always the Pleiades ;)

Who can pinpoint Uranus?