A 360-degree view of the Earth from the Crew Dragon spacecraft's dome

Astronaut is a profession with the most beautiful views 👨🏻‍🚀

Close view of Saturn's small moon, Elena, during the Cassini spacecraft's flyby on June 18, 2011. Elena is 43 kilometers in diameter.

🌏 The Earth's shadow on the Moon.

An astrophotographer captured a time-lapse video. The footage shows the Earth's blue shadow gliding across the Moon's surface, revealing a rare color palette ranging from deep shadows to vibrant highlights.

Despite its complexity, the result is a masterful and mesmerizing display.

A unique moment of an asteroid falling on the Moon during the day

Without an atmosphere on the moon, the asteroid does not burn, but crashes into the surface at high speed, creating new craters — it is such "scars" that over billions of years shape its appearance

🔵 A planet named George?

In 1781, William Herschel discovered the seventh planet of the solar system and named it George's Star after King George III. However, astronomers around the world unanimously said "No" and returned to the tradition of naming planets after Roman gods.

An impressive animation from the GOES-18 satellite showing a dust storm in Mexico from space.

Visualization of a black hole

Since the effect of gravity near its border (the event horizon) is so great that it bends the trajectory of light, we can see not only the part of the accretion disk that is in the foreground, but also the one that should have been hidden from us behind the black hole.

All phases of the lunar cycle in one frame

Barnard 68 is a molecular cloud, a dark nebula. This cloud is located in our galaxy, 500 light-years away from the Sun. There are no stars between the Earth and the nebula. Since the nebula does not allow visible light to pass through, its interior is very cold, with a temperature of about -257 °C. The mass of the nebula is about twice the mass of the Sun, and its size is estimated to be half a light-year.

A photo of clouds in the sunset from the ISS ☁️

The size of space - from the cosmonaut to the observable universe!

This is not a comet, but Mercury and its sodium tail in Sebastian Voltmeter's frame 🌠

Do you know what this object is? It's the first meteorite... to be found on another planet. Yes, there are many meteorites on Earth, and even on the Moon, but this is the first meteorite to be found on another planet.

It was discovered by the Opportunity rover on January 20, 2005. Analysis revealed that it has a diameter of approximately 30 centimeters and is composed of iron and nickel. Judging by its volume and density, its mass is about 50 kilograms.

What would Mars look like if it had a thick atmosphere, a magnetic field, and water?

👽 A free view from space.

A new free-flying camera module was deployed on the recent New Shepard mission. This impressive image was taken from it.

The visible "bubble" is the junction of two 180-degree lenses.

🚀 On the way to Artemis II.

NASA has combined supercomputers and wind tunnels to improve the SLS rocket for the first Artemis mission around the Moon.

The new technique allows for unprecedented accuracy in analyzing test data. This helps engineers create more reliable and efficient designs that can withstand extreme conditions.

The simulation shows how the air flows around the rocket as it ascends: the colors represent the force of friction and changes in air density, while the special design elements smooth out vibrations, making the flight more stable.

❤️❤️ Docking in slow motion.

On the 139th day of the Crew-11 mission, the astronauts captured a time-lapse of the Dragon cargo ship (CRS-33) docking with the front port of the Node-2 module. The footage was captured directly from the porthole of their own Dragon spacecraft.

This is a rare opportunity to witness the process through the eyes of the crew.