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Andrea Luck
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🛰️🪐 Space voyager processing space images 📡💻

🎞️ HD Photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/
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🌍Glasgow, Scotland 🌱 (He/Him)
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · Dec 27
Hey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔

Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

@esa.int Mars Express HRSC
300 MP Photo quoted below
Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026
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Aurora over Raisting Earth Station - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pQvMHo
What a crazy night, we went into it not expecting much since the solar storm was forecast for after sunrise in central Europe. However, before the sun had even set, I got the alert that the first CME had impacted Earth, so the chances immediately looked a lot better. What then unfolded surpassed even our wildest expectations. We ended up driving to this satellite ground station south of Ammersee in southern Bavaria and just when we arrived we spotted the first diffuse pillars north of us. We experienced three waves of incredibly strong Aurora, especially for our rather Southern latitude. During the second wave we saw individual pulsating filaments dancing over our heads. What a breathtaking experience! Many thanks to Christopher for accompanying me on this adventure, Max for being an all round great guy, and Sebastian who lent me his wide angle lenses that made these shots possible.
February 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Later this month there's a 5th anniversary of Perseverance rover landing on Mars, so it's a perfect time to do a little throwback series to my Mars rovers artworks, starting with the good old MER-A Spirit, which explored Mars for 1538 days and traveled over 7,5 km.

Digital painting, Photoshop, 2017
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper

Perijove 72 Target: #IO
START TIME = 2025-05-06
EXPOSURE DURATION = 0.002 sec

atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS...

NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger
February 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space?

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭

youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY

Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Just an incredible and unusual landslide at Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, as captured by @planet.com SuperDove satellites 🧪⚒️🛰️
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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One of my favorite images from last year, but it never gained much traction, perhaps due to Bluesky’s resolution limits… 🧪🔭

Easy zoom 170 MP: easyzoom.com/image/633505...

Download: flic.kr/p/2r95M3B
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Olympus, Ascraeus Mons and a Dust Storm - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2r95M3B
Download full size image here 170MP: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54569075691/sizes/o/ See license below. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY You can browse the full size image here: easyzoom.com/image/633505 Check out also the video of the dust storm on the move here: flic.kr/p/2r8KW9d Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int Mission: ESA Mars Express North is approx on the bottom right side of the image Instrument: HRSC Orbit: 25411 Time: 2024-02-16T14:43:18.832 Filters: HP411_0000_ND3.IMG HP411_0000_GR3.IMG HP411_0000_BL3.IMG Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
January 31, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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The Magnificent Neptunian System - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/nix1x1
Voyager 2 Data Revisited This image is made from data acquired during Voyager 2's closest approach to Neptune on August 25, 1989. Visible is the backlit planet viewed from Voyager 2 on its way out of the Solar System after the spacecraft had passed closest approach. The crescent shape of Neptune shows bright cirrus clouds and a dark band encircling the South Pole region, as well as a cyclonic structure at the pole itself, perhaps similar in nature to Saturn's now famous hexagon. Encircling the planet is the very faint ring system and the three bright ring arcs in the Adams ring; Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité, which were discovered by Voyager 2 during the fly-by. To my knowledge a comprehensive high resolution image of the entire Neptunian system has never been released. However, image data for both the planet itself as well as the ring system and the largest moon Triton, taken within fairly short intervals from similar vantage points, do exist in NASA image archives. To produce the image I scoured the Voyager 2 image data freely available from NASA's Planetary Data System. I was able to find raw images of a crescent Neptune showing intriguing cloud bands around the South Pole. No complete image of the ring system exist, but based on available long exposure images of portions of the rings I was able to create a model of the density profile. I then fitted this model around the crescent planet to get a complete view, in accordance with the viewing angle as seen in the...
January 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Titan, Dione - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/bs8mqP
Cassini NAC RGB view taken on 2010-04-20 15:00 UTC. Distance to Titan: 1.29 million km Distance to Dione: 2.28 million km Phase angle: 100 deg
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Mars - Cloudy Protonilus Mensae - CNSA Tianwen-1 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2r2HXah
Protonilus Mensae is an area of Mars in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle. Credit Image Processing: Andrea Luck Raw data Copyright: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC Mosaic of 3 images created using data processed from moon.bao.ac.cn/ Mission: CNSA Tianwen 1 Camera: MoRIC Time: 2022-03-01T23:50:27.510000Z Longitude: 39.206461 Latitude: 46.255012 Altitude: 394 km North is up File name: HX1-Or_GRAS_MoRIC-F-0040_SCI_N_20220301235027_20220301235027_00941_A.2C HX1-Or_GRAS_MoRIC-F-0039_SCI_N_20220301234957_20220301234957_00941_A.2C HX1-Or_GRAS_MoRIC-F-0038_SCI_N_20220301234927_20220301234927_00941_A.2C Map of the area: maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/#map=7/2421621.05/2532685.46 Credit Image Processing: Andrea Luck Raw Image Copyright: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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NASA Mars Perseverance Rover at Jezero crater
Sol 1756 (28th January, 2026)

Obligatory rover-on-tour post Mars solar conjunction selfie

NavCam (right) @ 14:30 lmst
Site 83 / 1252
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Martian-Observer
Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The rover, parked on the rocky gritted ground, behind which lies a rugged tumbled rock terrain.
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Still on Mars with Curiosity. Still doing awesome science.

Love this recent "MAHLI after dark" image we acquired last month of our drill in the super cool boxwork region:
science.nasa.gov/resource/cur...
Curiosity Lights Up ‘Nevado Sajama’ at Night - NASA Science
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used LED lights on the end of its robotic arm to create this rare nighttime view of the Red Planet’s surface on
science.nasa.gov
January 28, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Hello folks – it's been a while 👋

Just popped in to show off my new #JWST NIRCam image of a young protostellar jet in Cassiopeia, HH288, aka The Dragon Jet 🐉

If you like what you see, there's much more info & a movie over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@markmccaugh...

and Flickr: flic.kr/p/2rTPMvp
n image of a young protostellar outflow called HH288 in the constellation of Cassiopeia, as seen with JWST. Much of the background is dark black and blue, with many stars sprinkled across with different colours and brightnesses, many showing the classic eight-pointed shape that comes from the JWST optics. The Dragon Jet itself is a swath of red, orange, and yellow emission spread horizontally across the image, with at least two crossing flows. The main flow resembles a Chinese dragon, hence the name. The presence of several protostellar outflows associated with The Dragon and also in the separate dense core below it, The Dragon's Egg, suggests that this is an interesting place to study young outflows from protostars spanning a range of masses.
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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A few months ago they let me walk around the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex at night. Don't know if it was the desert rain, watching skyscraper-sized antennas swivel to catch signals from beyond Saturn, or just my fillings buzzing from the radio signals, but I had goosebumps all night.
A huge antenna dish pointed at a cloudy sunset sky. The crescent moon hangs over a distant desert ridge. This is the Goldstone DSCC Station 13. Now decommissioned, this antenna was built for the Voyager 2 encounter of Uranus. Photo: NASA/Bill Dunford
January 30, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Reflecting upon the Stars

A dead calm evening at Moke Lake, Queenstown.
I was lucky enough to catch a faint aurora in the background too!

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#Queenstown, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"

#Astro #Aurora #Nightscape #Scape #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Travel
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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A young protostar is launching this outflow into space.

Herbig-Haro object HH 288 with #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F200W, F358W, F444W)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
A young protostar launching large outflows into space. Other bright blue and yellow stars are also seen.
January 30, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

The intermediate-mass protostellar outflow, HH288

TARG: #HH288
2025-01-26
PI: McCaughrean, Mark J.

NIRCAM f444w-f470n f444w-f466n f444w R f356w G f212n f200w f150w B

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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A really brilliant exclusive to be working on this past few weeks!

Wonderful views of stars slightly bigger than the Sun forming, producing some messy and stunning jets in the process! What a beauty!

Image credit: Mark McCaughrean (MPIA)/NASA, ESA, CSA (CC BY-SA 4.0)
the background of the image is filled with stars. In the center a large, mostly stright jet that looks like flames is visible. smaller jets criss cross this one.
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Early stars -- Properties of lensed stars at z~7

TARG: #ClG 0451-03
2025-01-28
PI: Furtak, Lukas Jonathan

NIRISS 356 277 200

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 28, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Time to post this rather incredible photo again.

The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it.

Photographed from Mars orbit.

Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY
The surface of Mars occupies most of the scene, the limb of the planet to the right (with space beyond). In the upper centre is the massive Olympus Mons. The small dark body is the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope

Full size 12K: flic.kr/p/2rTo3xx 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY

Date: 2024-10-24
PI: Macarena Garcia Marin
NIRCam F115W, F187N, F212N, F356W, F444W, F470N
An image from JWST of the Helix Nebula. Glowing clouds of golden/orange gas and dust, packed into uneven, finger like shapes that fill most of the frame. Near the center and top, the clouds thin into a dark background scattered with stars and galaxies. Bright blue-white stars punctuate the scene, standing out sharply against the glowing nebula and deep space.
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Hidden Clusters No More! Completing a Full Cluster Catalog from NUV to MIR in *The Extreme* Star-Forming and Dusty Galaxy #NGC1614

2025-01-23
PI: Caputo, Miranda

NIRCAM 480 410 277 210 200 182

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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40 years ago today, Voyager 2 became the first (and, so far, only) spacecraft to visit to Uranus, sending back astonishing images of the planet, its thin rings, and its peculiar set of moons. 🧪🔭

www.nasa.gov/history/35-y...
Three views from Voyager 2: crescent Uranus, the rings of Uranus, a mosaic of the Uranian moon Miranda.
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Part of galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0437.1+0043 with #JWST NIRCam (F090W, F200W, F444W) program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
A cluster with lenses, spiral and elliptical galaxies. On the lower right are some brighter stars.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Ganymede!!! No. 1 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/5sZoAV
Cassini narrow-angle composite showing Ganymede shortly before transit of Jupiter's disc. Near-infrared (CB2) and blue filter frames were processed to approximate natural color. Time: 2001-01-10 05:23 UTC Distance to Jupiter: 14.18 million km Distance to Ganymede: 13.11 million km Phase angle: 108.5 degrees For a desktop-sized, enlarged version click here.
January 25, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

HH211 Kinematics

TARG: #HH211
2025-01-24
PI: Ray, Thomas P.
NIRCAM (f444w-f470n f444w-f466n) R f444w G (f212n f210m f200w) B

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 25, 2026 at 11:29 AM