The second strongest Earth-facing SolarFlare since 2017 is currently underway on the Sun! X8.0-class levels exceeded.
The X8.11 flare from AR 4366 has generated a CME which may have Earth-directed components. You can see a clear shockwave traveling outwards from the site of the flare. It is too early to say if this CME will be heading away from Earth or if we may receive a glancing blow.

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Targeting this afternoon for Falcon 9’s launch of 25 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit →

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Not feeling the love this Valentine’s Day? This image is for you.
This NASA / USGS Landsat image shows Lake St. Clair looking like a heart that’s halfway frozen over. The lake, which is located near the border between the U.S. and Canada, was caught between winter and spring when the Landsat 8 satellite captured this image in March 2021.

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First Photo of the Lunar Far Side

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Night on Titan
Venture Science Fiction cover art, 1958
by Morris Scott Dollens (1920 - 1994by retro rockets

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Earth’s Clouds Casting Giant Shadows From Space
From the International Space Station, astronauts often capture stunning views of clouds casting long shadows across Earth’s surface. These shadow patterns form when sunlight hits tall cloud towers at a low angle, especially near sunrise or sunset along the planet’s curve. From orbit, the contrast between bright clouds and dark shadows becomes extremely visible over oceans and deserts. Scenes like this show how Earth’s atmosphere is not just weather—it’s a living system constantly reshaping the planet below.

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A close-up photo of the Sun’s surface

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The "Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan: A giant gas crater that was accidentally lit by Soviet scientists in 1971. They expected it to burn out in a few weeks, but it has been burning non-stop for over 50 years.

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The Sun's love note: This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, taken on February 1, 2013, shows something special on the Sun: a heart‑shaped dark spot called a coronal hole.
Coronal holes are areas where the Sun’s magnetic field opens up and sends particles streaming far out into space. These regions generate the fast solar wind, which blows at about 800 km/s — roughly 1.8 million miles per hour.

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Ice giant Neptune, its ring system, and its moon Triton in a frame from the James Webb telescope

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Apollo 13’s damage was far worse than anyone realized.

After separating from the Service Module, the crew of Apollo 13 saw a blown-out panel and extensive external destruction — the result of an oxygen tank explosion that crippled the spacecraft’s power and life-support systems.

With systems failing, the astronauts relied on the Lunar Module as a lifeboat, looping around the Moon before beginning their tense journey back to Earth.

The haunting image of the damaged Service Module remains one of NASA’s most sobering reminders of how close the mission came to catastrophe — and how ingenuity turned crisis into survival.

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Captured in infrared by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, this planetary nebula looks like a cosmic flower. It forms when a Sun-like star sheds its outer layers and becomes a white dwarf, offering insight into the future of our own Sun.

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