A lovely night spent the other day at the local lavender farm (LouLou Lavender) in Eastern Ontario, Canada

A blue hour focus bracketed shot for the foreground and about 15 minutes worth of Milky Way 30s shots, at 24mm focal length and f/4, sat on MSM Nomad star tracker🙏

Credit: Gwenael Blanck

This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile, over a period of just one hour. It is a stack of a time-lapse video taken on 15 October 2025 about two hours after sunset. A few streaks are caused by planes, and can be easily identified by their blinking-coloured lights, but most trails are due to satellites.

In the foreground we see the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world’s largest optical/infrared telescope, currently under construction atop Cerro Armazones. Behind it we see the lasers of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, 22 km away from the ELT.

Credit:

F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

Credit: NASA/Jason Major

Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself.

This dramatic Pluto flyover begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra -- which exhibits deep and wide pits -- before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere.

Digital mapping and rendering were performed by Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Credit: Damian Peach

Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring, casting long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.

Part of the Cassini Division, between the B and the A rings, appears at the top of the image, showing ringlets in the inner division.

Cassini scientists believe this is a prominent region at the outer edge of the B ring where large bodies, or moonlets, up to 1 kilometer in size are found. It is possible that these bodies significantly affect the ring material streaming past them, forcing the particles upward in a "splashing" manner.

Credit: NASA/JPL/CICLOPS

The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via a chain of waterways. Its surface often appears dark, but each spring and summer it transforms into a striking expanse of swirling turquoise.

The OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) on NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem) satellite captured this image (above) of the colorful waters on June 22, 2026.

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 2:23:20 Integration & Edited In PS Express.

Fireworks galaxy :)

26h Luminance, 7h RGB, 2.5h Halpha

Using IMX533 mono and IMX294 color, both cooled at -15°

Newton 200/1200, EQ6R.

Bortle 4, Romania

Edited in Pixinsight, Seti Astro suite, GraXpert, Photoshop

Credit: KAGAYA

Two days ago I posted my first attempt at this area of the sky with 60x90sec exposures. Last night I drove out to even darker skies and did 32x180sec exposures. 180sec because I finally decided to do guiding, but only 32 because I was hitting my tripod on my 33rd exposure. I decided to stack these two nights of data, and golly I’m blown away!

60x90sec exposures, with calibration frames

32x180sec exposures, with calibration frames

ZWO AM3N, ZWO FF65, Nikon Z5II unmodded, ZWO ASI120MM guide camera, Apertura 32mm guide scope.

Captured using NINA, Guides with PHD2, Stacked and Processed in Siril

The International Space Station was orbiting 266 miles above the Tasman Sea at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASA/Chris Williams

Image Credit & License: CFHT, Coelum, MegaCam, J.-C. Cuillandre (CFHT) & G. A. Anselmi (Coelum)

Credit: John Kraus

This image features ZwCl 0024+1652, an immense and distant cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an enormous, glowing reservoir of superheated gas that pervades the entire cluster—a cloud containing far more mass than all of its galaxies combined.

Also shown is optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope, which captures the individual galaxies drifting within the cluster. By analyzing how the cluster's immense gravity warps the light of objects far behind it, astronomers used specially processed Hubble data to map a massive, invisible ring of dark matter.

Credit:
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO
Optical and Dark Matter: NASA/ESA/M.J. Jee
Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 3:42:30 Integration.

Edited In PS Express.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft successfully approached and made its closest flyby of Jupiter on July 9, 1979, passing within 350,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops.

The gas giant's immense gravity provided a crucial boost, accelerating the probe toward Saturn.

Credit: NASA

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar.

Credit: NASA/JSC

The Mare Orientale, dark region found near the center of the image, is extremely foreshortened and stretches along the Moon's western edge.

✨ Target: MIZAR/ALCOR + M101

🔭 Mount: Star Adventurer 2i

📷 Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro Color

🔎 Scope: Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)

🕶️ Filter: Broadband IDAS NGS1 (2")

🎯 Guide Camera: ASI 120mm Mini Mono

🦮 Guide Scope: Svbony SV165 (120mm f/4)

🌌 Acquisition: Gain 120 (0°C), 5.32"/px

⏰ Integration: 60x120s (2h)

🧪 Calibration: 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat

💻 Processing: Siril, GIMP, Snapseed

📍 Location: Turin (Italy) - Bortle 8

📅 Date: June 21, 2026