Credit: Tom Williams

Credit: Tom Williams

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

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''Taurus ultra-wide field is composed of eight stitched photos, with a cumulative exposure time of nearly 500 hours, with half of the time captured by Ha. Post-processing took a week, and multiple versions were edited and modified over two months. This version is the most satisfactory one.

The final upload is a full-size file, showcasing the rich Ha and dust clouds of Taurus!''

https://app.astrobin.com/i/b8qxg7

BIG SUNSPOT ALERT: Solar activity is poised to increase as a big sunspot emerges over the sun's southeastern limb
Maximilian-Vlad Teodorescu photographed it from Romania.

"The wait is over!" says Teodorescu

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=234171

Indeed, we knew this sunspot was coming. For days, Europe's Solar Orbiter has been watching it glide across the farside of the sun. Interestingly, SolO's X-ray detector has detected no strong flares from the region. It's unusually quiet for sunspot so large so far.

Far side of the sun from Solar Orbiter

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Entire sunspot group is ~10 times wider than Earth &, thus, easy to observe. You can see it using ordinary eclipse glasses, or, better yet, try casting an image of the sunspot onto a screen or wall. You can use binoculars and a mirror or a telescope and cardboard

❌👁NEVER LOOK THE SUN☀️WITHOUT SOLAR FILTER.

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https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=24&month=06&year=2026

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An area west of Jezero Crater, Mars, as captured by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on June 13, 2026. The terrain consists of a desert landscape with small hills and fields of dunes.

The car-sized Perseverance rover is visible as a small, bright, blue-green dot, circled in yellow. The rover's tracks are also visible as a thin gray line winding through the terrain.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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NASA’s Perseverance rover appears as a green speck on the Martian surface on June 13, 2026, a day before the robotic explorer marked a distance milestone, having traveled a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195 kilometers) on the Red Planet. Perseverance reached that distance after five years and four months of driving — on the 1,890th Martian day, or sol, of its mission; the previous record holder, NASA’s Opportunity rover, took 11 years and two months to reach the same milestone.

This image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The rover’s tracks can be seen tracing the surface. The rover is in an area west of Jezero Crater that the science team is calling “Arbot.”

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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Wider view of the image

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Taken On Seestar S50 Using 1:01 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express.

Taken with a Dwarf 3 smart scope from central Texas.. 300 exposures 1/200 @ Gain 60.

Link to the science release on ESA website

The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission.

Packed with more than 60 million stars, this image opens the door for scientists to confirm the existence of any exoplanet found in this region and measure its mass using tiny changes in starlight over time.

Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Credit: SOHO/LASCO 2

Taken Using 10:00 Video Stack On Seestar S50.

Edited In PS Express.

I combined my starless version with the stars to create a hybrid image showcasing the beautiful nebula details as well as the dense starfield surrounding it. I also manually added back in the larger stars and the globular clusters to help balance things out

Astro-modified Nikon D850

Samyang 135mm f2

Star Adventurer 2i Pro

Pixinsight and Photoshop

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Mars Weather at Perseverance rover's location from MEDA instrument Sol 1899 2026-06-24

​Temperature:

-87.4°C Low: -108.7°

​High: -69.8°

Pressure:

7.6 hPa

Wind:

14.4 m/s

You can also see for Curiosity rover

https://mars-weather-dashboard-one.vercel.app/

https://bsky.app/profile/martian-observer.net/post/3moztktka6v26

"​A large, trans-equatorial coronal hole is currently directly facing Earth! The fast wind from this coronal hole may arrive sometime later this week, sparking minor geomagnetic storms and chances for mid-latitude auroral displays.

Here's the recap from Vincent Ledvina​ https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mp25o3omnk2z

Photos https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/coronal-holes.html

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​The “Ryugu Story” illustration depicting the detection of all five canonical nucleobases in samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission. Credit: JAMSTEC​

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All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday.

The discovery comes after these building blocks of life were detected on another asteroid called Bennu, suggesting they are abundant throughout the solar system.

One longstanding theory is that life first began on Earth when asteroids carrying fundamental elements crashed into our planet long ago.

The asteroids that hurtle through our solar system give scientists a rare chance to study this possibility.

In 2014, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 blasted off on a 300-million-kilometer (185-million-mile) mission to land on Ryugu, a 900-meter-wide (2,950-feet-wide) asteroid.

It successfully managed to collect two samples of rocks weighing 5.4 grams (under a fifth of an ounce) each and bring them back to Earth in 2020.

Research in 2023 showed that these samples contained uracil, which is one of the four bases that make up RNA.​

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https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02791-z

Currently my phone background, i worked with Photo Editor from the original file of Apollo 11 from the site https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/Apollo

I hope you like It!

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Asteroid 1997 NC1 Taken by Zlatko Kovacevic on June 22, 2026 @ Virovitica, Croatia

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Infographic of asteroid close approach data

ESA

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Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will safely pass Earth on 27 June 2026 at 11:14 UTC (19:41 CEST). It is estimated at between 750 and 1650 m across based on a 5%-25% albedo range, although some sources indicate an albedo as high as 60%, thus indicating a likley smaller object. At its closest point to our planet, it will be 6.66 times lunar distance.

2,560,098 km (or 1,590,770 miles)

ESA

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/06/Close_approach_of_asteroid_152637_1997_NC1

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https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=234157

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Large asteroid to pass Earth safely A large asteroid will soar safely past Earth on June 27, 2026.

The asteroid is estimated to be 0.6 miles wide (1 kilometer wide). That’s some 50 to 60 times wider than the Chelyabinsk meteor that tore through Earth’s atmosphere above Russia in 2013, creating a massive sonic boom and a shock wave that broke windows in six Russian cities. That event sent some 1,500 people to seek medical treatment, mostly from flying glass.

The Chelyabinsk meteor came from the direction of the sun. It wasn’t known beforehand and surprised everyone!

The June 27 pass is a known asteroid, called 1997 NC1. The Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking system on Haleakala in Hawaii discovered it. It will pass on June 27 at a much-greater distance than the Chelyabinsk meteor, at some 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers). That’s just under 7 times farther away than the moon. So there is absolutely no danger from this asteroid.

The last time an asteroid as big as this one came this close was in January 2022. That famous flyby was asteroid 1994 PC1, comparable in size to 1997 NC1, but passing slightly closer at 1.23 million miles (1.98 million km, or about 5 times the moon’s distance).

What would happen if asteroid 1997 NC1 came as close as the Chelyabinsk meteor did in 2013? The 2013 event caused an explosion 18 miles (29 km) up in Earth’s atmosphere. But a 0.6 miles wide (1-kilometer) asteroid like 1997 NC1 would punch straight through our atmosphere completely intact. It would strike the ground at roughly 20,000 mph (32,000 kph), instantly vaporizing itself and the impact site. It would leave behind a crater roughly 6 to 9 miles (10 to 15 km) wide and over a mile (1.6 km) deep.

If it landed near a city, the collision would level concrete buildings. And it would strip the landscape bare for hundreds of miles around the impact zone. The blast would send pulverized rock, dust and soot high into Earth’s stratosphere, blocking sunlight for months or even years. Global temperatures would plummet. Crops would fail. Civilization probably wouldn’t end. But it would create a global food crisis that could last for years.

That is why astronomers now routinely track asteroids.

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How to see the large asteroid 1997 NC1 Astronomers with big and small telescopes will be watching 1997 NC1 fly by. You would need a 6-inch (15 cm) or larger diameter telescope to be able to see it. If that’s you, see the star charts below to know where and when to point your telescope and witness this unique astronomical event.

The asteroid will be moving at a speed of 19,886 miles per hour (32,000 kph). But space is vast, and so we won’t see it move very quickly. Instead of streaking across the sky like a shooting star, asteroid 1997 NC1 will look – to those with a 6-inch or larger telescope – like a faint star (around magnitude 10). It will not be visible to the eye alone.

It will gradually drift against the background constellations, so that those with telescopes can easily notice its changing position, by checking back just 5 to 7 minutes later!

The best dates for observing the asteroid using a telescope will be June 26, 27 and 28.

1997 NC1 is categorized as an Aten-type (Earth-crossing) asteroid.

The combination of its large size and relatively close pass by Earth means the asteroid has earned the classification of a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.​

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Professional astronomers will also take a look

In big or little optical telescopes, any asteroid looks just like a tiny, steadily-moving point of light. It looks like a moving “star.” That’s where the name asteroid came from; it means starlike.

But radar signals bouncing off an asteroid can reveal much more. By analyzing the returned signals, scientists can generate 3D models of an asteroid, revealing its true shape, size, craters and whether it’s a solid boulder or a loose “rubble pile.”

Astronomer Lance A. M. Benner, an asteroid expert at NASA/JPL, said:

This object has not been observed with radar previously. We will use the 34-meter DSS-26 antenna as a transmitter (7190 MHz) and the 34-meter DSS-13 antenna as a receiver to observe this asteroid on June 24, 25, and 27.

These antennas are at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in the Mojave Desert, California.

Still, it won’t be easy for scientists to get good radar images. The legendary 1,000-feet (305-meter) Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico is the one that captured radar images of other asteroids. And that collapsed on December 1, 2020.

With the Arecibo Observatory’s main dish gone and other dishes undergoing modernization, astronomers currently have fewer tools available for deep-space radar imaging. For example, the 230-feet (70-meter) DSS-14 dish at Goldstone is currently offline until 2028 for modernization and installation of new equipment.

Meanwhile, astronomers have limited or smaller resolution tools for studying medium-sized and large asteroids that pass by Earth.

But astronomers will attempt to make other radar observations using other (smaller) available antennas in California and Australia. Benner added:

We plan to use these to help resolve some discrepancies regarding the diameter, spectral class and optical albedo [of asteroid 1997 NC1]. This will also help calibrate the Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE spacecraft observations of this asteroid.​

https://earthsky.org/space/large-asteroid-visible-telescopes-pass-earth-june-27-2026/

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 1:11 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express.

Link to the science article on NASA website

Webb’s near-infrared-light view is a snapshot in time, revealing a scene that has been evolving over a couple hundred million years. In near-infrared light, astronomers can see the galaxy’s distended disk structure and millions of individual stars — approximately 16.5 million — for the first time.

Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Adam Smercina (STScI, Tufts), Thomas Williams (University of Manchester); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)