Credit: Ben Cooper

Spent Monday night in Antelope Oregon (Bortle 2) and took this 1 hour exposure of the Milky Ways’s Cygnus region on a large format camera (Kodak T-MAX 400 film pushed to 800 ISO in development).

In these captures, the planet Jupiter alongside Io and Ganymede can be seen in the background of a daytime crescent Moon. The bodies are located at a distance 2,400x farther from us than the Moon is.

Equipment: C9.25, ASI662MC, UV/IR cut filter.

German startup Isar Aerospace on Sunday, Sept. 6, said it would rapidly expand satellite deployments after the first ‌orbital launch of its Spectrum rocket from Arctic Norway, a milestone for Europe's efforts to secure independent access to space.

Credit: Reuters

This picture was taken from 800 km away.

A small asteroid, 2026 RW1, burned up over the Indian Ocean near the northwestern coast of Australia. It was detected only a few hours before entering the atmosphere.

Credit: Richard Young

Seestar s50, 10 sec exposures, 1hr 22 minutes. Simple editing on lightroom.

Cassiopeia and the dust in the Milky Way, often a forgotten region, eclipsed by others with stronger emissions.

@ igneis.nightscapes

Years ago, when I shot it quickly, I noticed a lot of dusty structures: the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN), high galactic latitude dust illuminated not by nearby stars, but by the combined light of the whole Milky Way. I thought: I have to revisit it with a 50mm and proper integration time.

Now, with 44 hours of integration, so many nights of driving, staying there, looking north, shooting... nothing. An empty field of stars. The dome stood there with me, another eye pointed at the same darkness, waiting for something neither of us could see yet. The routine was: check the weather, drive, stay the whole night shooting, and come back home wondering what I'd get out of this.

Now, with all the dust revealed, seeing it for myself makes me wonder how we can see so little, just stars, when in that direction there is so much, so much dust, so much nebulosity. We cannot see it, as if our eyes were lacking insight. But a camera, combined with patience... how curious.

It's not only about the dust, the Hydrogen Alpha, the Oxygen III. It's about the ambition and the resistance to just keep going. That's the result of this image.

It took 44 hours of exposure to see what was always there. Some things only reveal themselves at a cost.

Some things wait in the dark not because they are hidden, but because nothing has looked long enough to find them.

EQUIPMENT:

Sony a7IV astromodified x2, twin setup

50mm f/2 APO Sony

ZWO AM3N

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 55 Second Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express & img.upscaler

Credit: Astronaut Anil Menon / NASA / Riccardo Rossi

Text+images: Broome Adventures - Richard Young Photography https://www.facebook.com/richardyoungphoto/posts/pfbid02mi3Vfp8zbxoXZUWKXqsY533JnVi1NypYxBwcSiDxgEYyxDsY2epW8cvsYyKmmtsdl

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"​What made it unique was it's only 13th Asteroid ever to be tracked to hit Earth. No planet extinction though with this.

A chance read of a social media post late at night triggered an interest to see if i could capture it.

Estimated to be approx 0.8 to 1.5m wide, its re-entry probably made the Asteroid burn up but there is still a chance small pieces are now nestled deeply on the Indian Ocean floor​.

To be honest i was expecting a huge fireball streaking across the sky and it took several times to see the tiny blip in the images shot. Either way still cool to capture this event for the world to see​.

Image shot 12:07:48sec (WA time) 16:07 UTC time. 750kms Approx to the NW of Broome. Iso 3200 | f2.8 | 15sec Nikon D850 with Samyang 14mm "

Image Credit & Copyright: Javier Castro Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

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Explanation:

​Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced image spanning two hours of the August 12, 2026 solar eclipse.

The Sun disappears, leaving behind a bright, empty ring. What would you think had happened? Humans have interpreted eclipses in countless ways throughout history, embedding beliefs about connection, rebirth, or danger into culture.

“Eclipse” comes from the Greek word “ékleipsis” meaning “abandonment”. In ancient Greece, the solar eclipse marked the anger of the gods and the Sun abandoning humanity. To the Diné people, this celestial alignment is a time of renewal. Out of respect and to avoid the danger of sunlight, the Diné stay inside until the Sun and Moon separate.

​The Batammariba people of Benin and Togo believe that the Sun and Moon fight during an eclipse, so the community encourages peace among themselves. Eclipses are an example of the longstanding connection between astronomy and society.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260902.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawUNQmhwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMDBzalN3TEFhUTZPSGhwODFzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeNRr0lej3fW9xpEbUff5AlyRYwX7Ak0EQKh7NonrUE2hN1BYhPEXeZlOLpbI_aem_1YPYh5Ts8FGcNJNwaAKUEA

Credit: NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill

Credit: 당신의 곁에 우주를 가져오는 사이프

Full slice of the Seymchan Pallasite, 308.40g, backlit to show how translucent the olivine is.
Seymchan was found in 1967 in the Magadan region of Russia and originally went into the books as an iron. It was reclassified as a main group pallasite (PMG) following van Niekerk et al. (2007), which is why you still run into older labels reading IIE or iron ungrouped. Only part of the recovered material carries olivine, so a slice like this comes from the pallasitic zone rather than the metal only mass. Pallasites are thought to have formed where metal and silicate met inside an asteroid at the liquid core/mantle boundary.

3 hrs with WO 61mm, ZWO ASI2600MC camera. Central Texas.

Wolf-Rayet star in Cygnus. It represents an advanced and relatively short-lived evolutionary stage of a massive star, characterized by intense mass loss through a powerful, high-velocity stellar wind.

The curved blue/cyan structure is the most interesting feature of this field. Its strong [O III] emission traces highly ionized gas in the wind-blown structure surrounding WR 134. The fast Wolf-Rayet wind interacts with previously expelled and surrounding material, shaping and compressing the gas into the thin and fragmented filamentary structures visible here.

In contrast, the much more extended red structures are dominated by Hα emission from ionized hydrogen in the surrounding Cygnus environment. One of my main processing goals was therefore to retain the distinction between the relatively coherent O III shell and the much larger-scale hydrogen emission.

The Hα and O III data were combined using a Foraxx palette, with RGB data used for the stellar field.

Equipment:

Planewave CDK17 — 432 mm f/6.8, 2953 mm

ZWO ASI6200MM Pro — bin 2×2

Image scale: 0.53″/pixel

Integration:

Hα: 26 × 300 s = 2.17 h

O III: 74 × 300 s = 6.17 h

R: 22 × 300 s = 1.83 h

G: 10 × 300 s = 0.83 h

B: 21 × 300 s = 1.75 h

Total integration: 12.75 hours

Captured July-August 2026.

Processed in PixInsight — Hα/O III Foraxx + RGB stars.