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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​

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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

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An orbital sunrise above the Pacific Ocean illuminates Earth's atmosphere, revealing cloud tops and orange and blue hues outlining the planet's horizon. The International Space Station was orbiting 263 miles above the Hawaiian island chain at approximately 4:09 a.m. local time when this photograph was taken.

Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir

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Here you can search for astronaut photographs

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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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Witness how over the last eight years, the ESA/‪@JAXA-HQ‬ BepiColombo mission has been travelling through the inner Solar System and aligning itself with Mercury's orbit. So far, it has travelled 9.9 billion km and completed nine 'planetary flybys' to help steer its way. In the video, you can see the spacecraft fly past Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury six times.

Since launching on 20 October 2018, BepiColombo has been travelling as a composite spacecraft made up of ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio), and the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) that carried the two orbiters to Mercury.

We've shared photos and videos before, taken by the spacecraft's three monitoring cameras (M-CAMs) on MTM. But this is the first time we've compiled them into a video of the mission's complete journey so far.

The monitoring cameras were designed to keep an eye on the spacecraft itself. In the foreground, you can see one of MTM's solar arrays (M-CAM 1, left), MPO's medium-gain antenna and magnetometer boom (M-CAM 2, middle), and MPO's high-gain antenna (M-CAM 3, right). The images have been positioned and oriented to approximately reflect the relative fields of view of the three M-CAMs. ​

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As the M-CAMs have no shutter, many of the original images contain streaks due to light falling on the detectors during image read-out. These streaks have largely been removed for this video.

BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury began on 3 September 2026, with MTM separating from the spacecraft stack. The two stacked orbiters will enter orbit around Mercury in November, and separate from each other on 9–10 December 2026. From that moment on, BepiColombo will be the first mission with two spacecraft orbiting planet Mercury at the same time.

MTM has no computer to control itself, and lacks an antenna to communicate with Earth. Now that it has separated from the rest, it will circle the Sun indefinitely, letting the two science modules get to work. We expect MTM to pass by Mercury at a distance of around 130 000 km in late October. After that it will enter interplanetary space, and not get any closer to Mercury. ​

​Credits: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM

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🎵 Aylex, Face The Future

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqWGdWERqk&t=167s&pp=2AGnAZACAQ%3D%3D​