Space

The Sun and details of its surface, captured through a narrowband H-alpha filter ☀️

NASA has announced the crew of the Artemis III mission, whose flight is scheduled for 2027 The Artemis III crew poses for an official portrait (from left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio).

The celestial bodies of the Solar System with correctly proportioned sizes, axial tilts, and rotation speeds 🌎

Comparison of the Earth, some planets, and satellites

🛰️Astronauts on the ISS have been instructed to transfer to the Dragon spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation due to a growing air leak in the Russian segment of the station, according to NASA. The Russian crew is attempting to fix the leak in their part of the orbital laboratory.

☄️ Comet destroyed by the Sun. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) approached the Sun so closely that it did not survive this encounter. The footage shows the comet's nucleus stretching, disappearing behind the solar disk, and then breaking up into a cloud of debris. The video is compiled from data from SOHO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observe the Sun through special coronagraphs.

✨ Explosive Northern Lights. One of the most powerful moments of the season: the aurora literally "exploded" in the sky, filling the horizon with movement and light. The season was so active that nights like these became almost the norm.

🚀 A trip on the Moon on 'Apollo 16'. During the Apollo 16 mission, astronauts used the lunar rover to move between research points. Footage from onboard shows a real trip on the Moon's surface — with dust and shaking.

🛸 Axiom 3 leaves the ISS. The Axiom Mission 3 is a commercial flight on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. In the footage — the moment of undocking and the beginning of the crew's return from the ISS back to Earth.

⚡️ The Crab Nebula pulsar in action. The Crab Nebula contains a neutron star at its center — a pulsar that rotates about 30 times per second. It emits streams of particles at nearly the speed of light, creating bright structures in the surrounding gas. A series of images from the Hubble telescope showed the real dynamics of this process — frames compiled into a time-lapse to see cosmic physics.

🚀 Starlink and record landings. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit from the coast of California. At the same time, the mission approached an important milestone — the 600th successful orbital-class rocket landing, which became a symbol of a new era of reusable space.

🌌 The Cartwheel Galaxy and the expansion of the Universe. The Cartwheel Galaxy is moving away from us every second along with the expansion of the Universe. Its unusual shape appeared after a collision with another galaxy — the impact created a giant "ring" of active star formation.

In Florida, Jeff Bezos's rocket exploded, giving the world one of the most epic explosions. The incident occurred during a planned firing of the engines of the heavy New Glenn rocket — a launch was scheduled for the following week. Blue Origin has not yet determined the cause of the explosion, but claims that none of the employees were injured. The total damage amounted to $4 billion — for the near future, Jeff Bezos may have to forget about launching his rockets.

☄️ A comet among satellite trails. In the photo, comet C/2025 R3 literally "got lost" among the satellite trails, stretched out due to the long exposure. The photo clearly shows how modern night skies are already filled with orbital objects.

🌌 Thousands of galaxies in one frame. The Coma Cluster contains more than a thousand galaxies and has become one of the key pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter. The galaxies inside move too fast to be held together by visible matter alone. Also, this cluster bends the light of more distant objects — an effect known as gravitational lensing.

🟠 Mars in two eras. Two rovers are working on the planet: Perseverance and Curiosity. They study different "layers of time" on Mars: one — the ancient rocks of Jezero Crater, the other — Mount Sharp with an archive of the planet's climate changes. Together they are collecting the complete history of how Mars went from a wet world to a dry desert.

🚀 Docking in space. The ISS receives spacecraft through precise multi-stage docking: orbit alignment, slow approach, then soft contact and locking. After sealing and pressure equalization, the crew can move between the ships — all of this happens with centimeter-level precision in orbit.

🌌 Morning in space with Pink Pony Club. On board the ISS, there is a tradition of wake-up songs — the crew wakes up to music chosen by their family. On this day, Pink Pony Club was playing

The largest rocket in human history was launched by SpaceX — the 124-meter Starship V3 turned out to be more powerful than Saturn V and NASA's latest SLS. Although this is a test flight, it is precisely on Starship that they plan to send people and cargo to Mars in the future. The spacecraft will be able to deliver up to 100 tons of equipment there. During the test, the first stage will splash down in the Gulf of Mexico, and the spacecraft itself will later land in the Indian Ocean.

Blue arcs near Andromeda 🌌 The mysterious arcs of SDSO 1 near Andromeda turned out to be not an intergalactic object, but a rare "ghostly" planetary nebula inside our galaxy. The blue color is the glow of oxygen, and the red color is the old traces of hydrogen.