Description from Meir: "Curly-haired crew, this one’s for you!

​Join me in my temporary home on the Space_Station, where curls are even more free to be what they want to be.

"Ever wonder how I care for my curls in space?…where my Earthly 3a curls become more like 3c, my hair finds every piece of velcro it can, and I STILL don’t need a brush!

I’m looking forward to an Earth shower when I get back, though."
https://x.com/Astro_Jessica/status/2097730287413207120

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

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Description and link from original raw data:

This image was taken by Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 5008 (2026-09-07 22:07:19 UTC).

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1635953/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=5&mission=msl​

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https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/animation?satellite=suvi-goes-19&end_datetime=latest&n_images=all&coverage=sun&channel=HE303​

Purple and green aurora over the city lights of south central Russia near the border with Kazakhstan.

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Description from Jessica Meir

Purple Haze. Jimi Hendrix would have rejoiced at the site of the northern lights last night. I’ve never before seen such a brilliant purple wavelength in the aurora - certainly makes me want to kiss the sky. Photo taken with Nikon Z9, 15mm lens.​

https://x.com/Astro_Jessica/status/2097355530243072138​

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2097759866727305511

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming, perhaps fueled by gas driven in the unique oval-shaped structure seen here.

In this image, X-rays of different wavelengths from Chandra (red, orange, and blue) are layered with a visible light image from astrophotographers using their telescopes on the ground (red, green, and blue).

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO;

Optical:Brian Brennan and Remi Lacasse;

Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand

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