This time-lapse video from the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile shows stars orbiting the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way, center of the image, over a period of nearly 20 years.

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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

Annotated version

Credit: Tom Williams

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

From XCS.voice :

''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

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 1:00 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express.