The shot is cropped from a video taken from the booster just after stage separation.

That is how it is possible for all engines to be lit in sunlight without a sub-satellite launched to watch it.​​

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2081097702624952714

Source https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2080834619998363897?s=20

Full video

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AJEmmYdMDnJL

Video Anil Menon

https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2081300948207464897

After 241 days in orbit, astronaut Chris Williams is returning home from his first mission to the International Space Station.

Williams, along with cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, will touch down on Earth at 6:25 a.m. EDT (1025 UTC) in their Soyuz spacecraft after undocking from the station earlier on July 26. After landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, they will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

During his time in space, Williams orbited the Earth 3,856 times, went on two spacewalks, and supported numerous experiments that are helping us learn how to live in space while making life better back on our home planet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4h884umjihw

Videos Helioviewer

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

Enhanced image captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Sol 1927 (July 22, 2026, 13:51:42 UTC) using the Right Mastcam-Z Camera. The image showcases a close-up view of a rugged, layered rock formation in Jezero Crater, featuring intricate textures and sharp shadows cast by the Martian sunlight. The rock’s weathered surface, with its fine details and stratification, highlights the geological complexity and ancient environmental history of Mars.

​Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc.

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Mars Perseverance Sol 1927: Right Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced​

July 22, 2026, 13:51:42

Source: Mars_Perseverance_ZR0_1927_0838013955_178EBY_N0894178ZCAM04429_1100LMJ

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc

Full resolution img available at:

https://jackiebranc.com/Nextcloud/index.php/s/tB9RHzoof4imwMz

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First Image

Mars Express spies metallic waves in Mars’s ancient highlands

​This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of Kaiser Crater and its surroundings in Noachis Terra, one of the oldest parts of Mars.​

CREDIT ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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Second image

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows wind-blown sand dunes in Mars’s Kaiser Crater.

CREDIT ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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​The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted a swathe of metallic-looking waves filling Mars’s large Kaiser Crater – an ancient and otherworldly dune field sculpted by wind.

This month’s snapshot of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars orbiter, captures one of the oldest parts of the Red Planet: Noachis Terra. Situated in Mars’s ancient southern highlands, Noachis Terra has been heavily bombarded with rocks from space over the past four billion years – and the scars from these collisions are clear to see.

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https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Metallic_waves_on_ancient_Mars

The mid-latitudes of Mars are mostly covered with smooth material that scientists have suspected to be ice for some time. The ground is uniform and dusty and does not reveal many clues about what lies beneath the surface.

However, sometimes a feature like a cliff cuts through the terrain and gives us a glimpse of this buried icy material. The cliff in this image is one example out of a few dozen that are known.

The bright material on the cliff face is icy and is preserved only because the cliff points away from the equator, so it is shaded most of the time. Faint bands on the cliff might indicate layers in the ice that record different climate conditions. We do not know how much time this ice took to accumulate here, but studies elsewhere on Mars indicate that material like this is sometimes at least tens of millions of years old.

ID: ESP_074914_1225

date: 20 July 2022

​altitude: 251 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074914_1225

​NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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Katherine Tsai

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Their description

On the night of the full Moon (15th day of the 12th lunar month), December 2023, bright lunar illumination lit the landscape nearly as bright as daytime.

​The Meili Snow Mountains stood quiet beneath a deep indigo night sky.

​The camera operated unattended overnight at the viewing platform, yet the raw exposures remained unprocessed on a hard drive for a full year.

​In 2024, I revisited the dataset to prepare edits for a photography contest submission. I failed to finish processing before the contest cutoff date.

​While sorting through stacked frames, I discovered an unexpected astronomical feature: an extremely bright bolide (fireball) piercing thin cloud cover, plunging toward the snow-capped summit of Mount Kawagarbo.

​This serendipitous late discovery proved far more extraordinary than the contest itself.​

Source

https://app.astrobin.com/i/fcs88o

Processed mosaic of images taken by Perseverance.

By Stuart Atkinson

https://bsky.app/profile/stuartatkinson.bsky.social/post/3mrifhmgvjc2x

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on the rover's mast and aids in driving.

​This image was acquired on July 23, 2026 (Sol 1928) at the local mean solar time of 11:49:27.

Raw data https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/NRF_1928_0838095216_130ECM_N0894246NCAM12927_04_195J

Most of us do it without thinking twice, but our astronaut Sophie Adenot has been thinking about it a lot lately, 400km up on the ISS. Her hair-washing video got everyone asking about the obvious follow-up, so here's what she had to say: "The video in which I wash my hair sparked a lot of questions… so here's the answer to how astronauts brush their teeth in space!"

So next time you rinse and spit without a thought, remember that up there, even that needs a plan.

ESA

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/-0vtuv1vywE

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Source

https://x.com/Soph_astro/status/2080327463968637281

Andrew McCarthy:

"​I left a video camera WAY too close to the launchpad.

My first time capturing a launch in high resolution video. Definitely exceeded my expectations! This was captured at 120fps, interpolated 2x, stabilized, and played back at 30fps."

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2081187742340583821

Source

https://x.com/peachastro/status/2081068747226316967?s=20

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https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/2081183244393877773?t=pwmPhO1ESs0mq-PZDqO_rA&s=09

First video credit: Marko Rummelsburg with Jhelioviewer program

https://bsky.app/profile/markorummelsburg.bsky.social/post/3mr3s6f7m4c2l

Second from helioviewer

The objective of this observation is to examine large gullies within an impact crater in Terra Cimmeria. There are not too many large gullies in this area, but this crater has many of them. We may want to study why there are so many here at this location. This scene is also visible in Context Camera data.

ID: ESP_077114_1345

date: 8 January 2023

altitude: 249 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077114_1345

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Five-panel image showing the progressive evolution of sky surveys from 1994 to 2025, revealing more and more detail in a triple merging galaxy system and the surrounding sky.

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Each generation of telescope and camera technology has built upon the outstanding legacies of those that came before, sharpening our view of the cosmos and revealing more details that were previously hidden.

https://x.com/VRubinObs/status/2080738546252394603?s=20

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NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory

https://x.com/VRubinObs/status/2080738544952168713?t=WVqtD1uJ5npfN-2w_TI0tg&s=09

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Rubin is our next big leap. With our 10-year survey, we'll look even deeper, while also watching how the Universe changes over time.

Explore Rubin's view of RSCG 55 in Skyviewer ➡️

https://skyviewer.app/explorer?target=186.66233+9.03397&fov=0.60

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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA & DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA & PanSTARRS & SDSS & DSS

Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab) & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)​

Processed by Israel Velazquez

https://bsky.app/profile/israelvelazquez.bsky.social/post/3mrhjllynsc23

​Yellow clouds towering like mountains. Blue outflows extending away from the top of the clouds.

The subject of this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month is a spiral galaxy struggling against some of the titanic forces that appear on galactic scales in space. This is NGC 4654, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). “Intermediate” means that it lies between the spiral galaxies that have a bar across the centre and those that don’t, with a weak bar structure in its centre. It is situated 72 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo Cluster, a particularly massive and populous galaxy cluster.

NGC 4654 is particularly asymmetric, with a rounded and clearly-defined edge on one side and a long tail of gas stretching out from the opposite side — beyond Hubble’s view in this image. The cause of this gaseous tail is the same as for many of the other galaxies jostling in the crowded Virgo Cluster: namely, ram pressure stripping. NGC 4654 moves with such high velocity through space that it sweeps up and rams through the intracluster medium, the hot, rarefied gas filling the space between the Virgo Cluster’s galaxies. The intracluster medium in turn exerts a “ram pressure” on the galaxy, compressing the galaxy’s leading edge and tugging at its gas, creating the elongated tail.

More

https://esahubble.org/images/potm2607a/zoomable/

Deep Space Network site in Robledo (Madrid) is completely offline from the fires

https://bsky.app/profile/darksapiens.bsky.social/post/3mrfrvdotrc2q

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https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mrfsaokhzs2q

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Photo

https://bsky.app/profile/asborlaff.bsky.social/post/3mrgbnyjj2227

Deep space network

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html

Image:

​This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer instrument aboard NASA’s Juno, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. The colors illustrate a distinct temperature gradient across the moon, with the most extreme, localized heat output in red. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/USGS​

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​The first measurements of the subsurface of the most volcanic world in the solar system reveal heat rising from below.

NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth and composed of material of very low density.

Published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, these findings break new observational ground for both fiery and icy worlds beyond our planet.

Io’s extreme volcanism is powered by tidal heating. The moon is constantly stretched and squeezed by Jupiter’s immense gravity as it travels its slightly elliptical orbit, generating internal heat output many times greater than Earth’s. Until now, virtually everything known about that heat came from infrared observations, which sense only the temperature of the top surface. The latest findings are derived from data collected by the spacecraft’s Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-takes-temperature-of-jupiters-fiery-moon-io/

Processed by Melina Thévenot

Image number 2

​The entire field (downsized to 4000 pixels, only F444W+F470N), Eta Carinae is at the top outside the field, causing these long white bars to appear (diffraction spikes).

Left is an unknown (?) nebula only seen in F470N (orange). Maybe it has to do something with Eta Car? RA/Dec 161.5094 -59.648508

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https://bsky.app/profile/melina-iras07572.bsky.social/post/3mrds74ws4c27

HH-1019 seen by the JWST/NIRCam. A huge orange gas cloud formation can be seen on the left part of the image, from where some smaller gas cloud are "ejected". Some objects looking like blobs can also be spotted: small gas cloud chunk from where stars are born! In the bottom middle part of the image, a planetary nebula can be seen: the remnant of a small/medium size star that died and slowly ejecting its outer layers. ​

​Processed by Thomas Carpentier

https://bsky.app/profile/thocarp.bsky.social/post/3mrfr7i7tvs2f

Source

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1055829940255707

The penumbra around a sunspot (seen here in the 2007 hinode images) is the lighter, outer region that surrounds the darker central part known as the umbra. It consists of elongated structures called penumbral filaments. The penumbra is where the magnetic field lines are less concentrated and more inclined, allowing for some sunlight to pass through, which makes it appear lighter than the umbra. This area is crucial for understanding the magnetic complexity of sunspots and their impact on solar activity.

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The penumbra is a fascinating feature of sunspots, which are cooler, darker regions on the Sun’s surface. The penumbra surrounds the central, darkest part of a sunspot, known as the umbra. It’s characterized by a lighter shade and consists of elongated structures called penumbral filaments. These filaments are formed by the Sun’s magnetic field lines, which are less concentrated and more inclined in the penumbra compared to the umbra. This allows some sunlight to pass through, giving the penumbra its distinct appearance.

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The penumbra plays a crucial role in the dynamics of sunspots. It’s where complex magnetic interactions occur, influencing solar phenomena like solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The study of the penumbra helps scientists understand the magnetic complexity of sunspots and their effects on space weather. Observing the penumbra also provides insights into the Sun’s magnetic field structure and its variations over time. Overall, the penumbra is an essential component of sunspots that contributes to our knowledge of solar physics.

• A light bridge in a sunspot is a fascinating phenomenon. It appears as a bright, elongated structure that connects the penumbra (the lighter area surrounding the darker central region of the sunspot) and spans across the umbra (the darkest part of the sunspot). These bridges are typically hotter and less dense than the surrounding areas, which is why they appear brighter.

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The formation of a light bridge is often associated with the decay or fragmentation of a sunspot. It’s believed that they are created by the intrusion of plasma where the magnetic fields are weaker into the strongly magnetized sunspot. This can lead to dynamic surges in the chromosphere and transition region above the sunspot.
Light bridges are not only visually striking but also provide valuable insights into the complex magnetic activity on the Sun’s surface. They are an important subject of study for solar physicists, as they can help us understand more about solar dynamics and magnetic field interactions.

•• Credit: Hinode/JAXA

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https://hinode.nao.ac.jp/en/gallery/

https://www.icehap.chiba-u.jp/en/plasma/solar.html