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According to a newly published study, 2002 XV93, an icy object smaller than New Mexico, defies expected physics by holding onto an atmosphere. A world this tiny shouldn't have enough gravity to retain gas.
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According to a newly published study, 2002 XV93, an icy object smaller than New Mexico, defies expected physics by holding onto an atmosphere. A world this tiny shouldn't have enough gravity to retain gas.

u/Davicho77 — 7 hours ago
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The highest resolution view ever captured of Mars' south polar ice cap. Spanning over 430 miles (700 km) across, this water-ice cap was photographed by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft during a recent gravity assist flyby.

u/Davicho77 — 8 hours ago
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A cool photo I took of Juipiter, the Moon, and I think Venus.

Reason I say I think is that the positioning is weird (maybe). Venus may be behind that tree.

My hands were shaky im sorry

u/Shipsarecool1 — 7 hours ago
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This photo was taken by NASA astronaut Chris Williams on April 13, 2026, from a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. If you can find a dark enough sky, you may be able to see a similar view back on Earth!

Credit: NASA/Chris Williams

u/Nikky_cat — 8 hours ago
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Just a couple of tiny, pale dots. Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and Physicist David Nadlinger's Single Atom in an Ion Trap

The top image is a view from the Cassini spacecraft, looking back across billions of miles of space through the rings of Saturn. That tiny, bright blue pixel pointed out by the arrow is Earth.

This is Carl Sagan’s famous "Pale Blue Dot." Every human who ever lived, every war fought, every triumph, and everything you have ever known took place on that single, fragile pixel suspended in a vast cosmic dark. From Saturn's perspective, our entire world is just a stray speck of dust caught in a sunbeam.

The bottom image is almost the exact opposite. That tiny glowing speck in the center is "Single Atom in an Ion Trap," a famous, award-winning photograph captured by physicist David Nadlinger at the University of Oxford.

A single, positively charged strontium atom suspended between those two metal electrodes. It is held near-motionless by electric fields and illuminated by a blue-violet laser. The atom absorbs and re-emits the laser light so rapidly that a standard camera can actually capture its glow on film. It is a single basic building block of matter, made visible to the human eye with a Canon 5D Mark II with a long exposure.

u/Botsworth1985 — 18 hours ago
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Dragon spacecraft docking with ISS on May 17

NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot monitored CRS-34's arrival and docking with the ISS at 6:37am EDT on May 17.

Credit: sen

u/Busy_Yesterday9455 — 18 hours ago
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Near-Earth Asteroid 2026JH2 in an image taken by the Virtual Telescope Project on May 16, when the object was 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. The asteroid originates from the asteroid belt, an area between Mars and Jupiter,- Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project

u/Grahamthicke — 7 hours ago
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Last night's Jupiter-Moon-Venus conjunction

Credit: 東京荻窪天文台

u/Busy_Yesterday9455 — 12 hours ago
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Composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth by Paul Byrne. Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars from Psyche mission.

Three crescents. Top: the Moon. Midde: Mars. Bottom: Earth. Background: the infinite black of space.

​The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission.

Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

The Moon: Artemis II image ART002-E-19570 Earth: Artemis II image ART002-E-25101 Mars: Psyche Imager A

Credits:

The Moon and Earth: NASA/Artemis II Crew Mars: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Source

https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.bsky.social/post/3mm5ou3cnhs2k

u/Neaterntal — 21 hours ago
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I painted the Planets (& Pluto) in Infrared!

I wanted to keep them loose, the photographs are already perfect (thank you James Web and various probes!) so why not add some human touch to it.

These are Acrylic on 6x6in panels each and I painted them one color at a time, like a CYMK printer :D

Saturn has been the fan fave!

u/huf-finearts — 20 hours ago
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Mars from NASA's Psyche probe after its flyby on May 16

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

u/Busy_Yesterday9455 — 23 hours ago
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Mars from NASA's Psyche probe after its flyby on May 16

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

u/Busy_Yesterday9455 — 23 hours ago
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Say Hello To NGC 4096, An Intermediate Spiral Galaxy Located Roughly 35-40 Million LY Away.

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 3:21:00 Integration (10s subs)

Edited In PS Express

(Had to reupload btw because my seestar ran dead mid session when i fell asleep by mistake, so before i left this morning i assumed the 3 hour version was gone)

u/Exr1t — 15 hours ago
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A 50-mile crater packed with ancient ice on mars, shot by ESA's Mars Express.

u/WickedBloomer — 2 days ago
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The Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) [2000x1968]

Mid-infrared image

u/Czech_Coconut — 1 day ago