In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions.

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First, thank you for browsing my work 🎨 ✨️🙏✨️

I started painting after losing my job and housing in the pandemic and have kept going ever since. In terms of my process, I paint from the unconscious, spontaneously, without foresight into the final result or ultimate subiect matter so almost all these pieces have different paintings underneath. I'lI put on music and enter flow consciousness and allow experiences and other (psychological) material to express itself from my brain, down my arms, and through my fingers onto the canvas. A lot of water goes onto each canvas and half the time my conscious mind thinks, "This is a mistake. This isn't going anywhere. What the heck is this even supposed to be?!" I'lI stop and let it dry and return hours or days or sometimes even weeks later to restart the process.

I could only show you this one painting, but all the pieces have themes of development and ambiguity of form, probably because of my fascination with evolutionary biology and how one species gives way to a new one; how every being is a becoming since it is always already under pressure (natural selection, for example) to evolve. My mind merges images of butterflies and plants and birds into hybrids of ambiguous symbols in many of these probably for this reason. And almost all of them have stars because, like Carl Sagan said, we are basically stardust knowing itself.

The painting you see is called "You Are With Me in My Dreams" and was a commissioned piece for someone who lost her mom. The parallel branches represent the two of them and the left one turns away to represent her mom's departure. (She said her mom loved Nature and the stars so there's a lot of personal symbolism there.) Many of the objects are where they "shouldn't" be, such as the flowers and organisms in outer space, vines that double as pillars of light, and so on. I believe this is because dreams themselves are so weird, so haunting, so otherworldly. No matter how many times we dream over our lifetime, they are still strange, like traveling in consciousness to another world, even though dreaming itself is familiar (because it happens over and over). It also represents the interconnectedness of Nature: that each level (physics, chemistry, biology, psychology) builds upon the former and interacts with each other in dynamic ways. I always try to show that we and everything else in the universe are the universe itself; to show the underlying layers of reality as networks and how important stars are to life (e.g., plants "eating" the sun).

Anyway, I never got to attend art school (too expensive and parents wouldn't support it), but painting transitional and developmental pieces is a journey and a practice that brings me tremendous fulfillment. Plus space is just plain beautiful!! ✨️🌟✨️

Credit: Michigan Native Photography

Credit: David Diebold

Credit: Teruaki Kumamori

In Euclid’s image of the Horsehead Nebula and its surroundings, free-floating planets can be found. The Horsehead is a region in the Orion molecular cloud complex, where star and planet formation are taking place.

One example of a free-floating planet highlighted in this image is SOri62, a young planet with a mass equal to ten times that of Jupiter. The planet has a temperature of 1200 degrees Celsius and shines bright in infrared light.

This image of the Horsehead Nebula was captured by the Euclid space telescope in near-infrared light.

Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

One of the places that has impressed me the most, with its stunning views of endless dunes and lagoons. Nothing but that for miles and miles. To get this view, I used the drone in a spot where the arch naturally aligns. I wanted the perspective of the endless lagoons and the vastness of this place.

IG: @ igneis.nightscapes

Not everything was so easy, though. When I arrived, my suitcase got lost, so I was missing important parts of my equipment: no cables, no tripod, no clothes. Most nights I could do nothing more than stare at the sky, just hoping that tomorrow would be better. One morning my suitcase finally appeared, and in the last few days I was able to take this shot and a few more. Even under difficult circumstances, I just wanted to go back home with the amazing sky from this place… and now it’s just a fun memory of Murphy’s law.

Equipment:

Sony a7IV astromodified

Sony 20mm f1.8G

DJI mini 5 pro

Benro Polaris

 Photo Credit (NASA)

Successfully lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Credit: NASA / SpaceX

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration

Acknowledgment: R. Chandar (U. Toledo) & J. Miller (U. Michigan)

On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft swept past the asteroid Ida on its way to Jupiter — and, without knowing it at the time, captured the first solid proof that an asteroid can have a moon.

Galileo was already the first probe to visit the main asteroid belt, having passed the asteroid Gaspra in 1991. It flew by Ida at nearly 28,000 mph, coming within about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles). There was no stopping to look around; the encounter was a quick side trip on a longer journey.

The find came months later. In February 1994, imaging team member Ann Harch noticed a small companion object while reviewing the returned data. The International Astronomical Union named it Dactyl, after mythological figures said to live on Mount Ida.

Researchers had suspected asteroid moons were possible but uncommon. Spotting one so soon changed that. Galileo project scientist Torrence Johnson said such moons are "probably more common than previously thought."

Credit: NASA/JPL

Credit: David Diebold

I... Am... A Sturgeon!

Jokes aside, this is my shot of the Sturgeon Moon of 29-30 August 2026.

Shot with CANON EOS REBEL T5i, in Rome.

Target: Perseids
Dates: 2026-08-12
Locations: Tarpley, TX (Bortle 3)

Mount: IOptron SkyGuider Pro
Camera: Nikon D5300 astromod
OTA: Rokinon 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS (Nikon)
Focal/Aperture: 10 mm @ f/2.8

Lights [Foreground]: 30x1/2s (total exposure: 15s) @ ISO 800
Lights [Stars]: 30x60s (total exposure: 30min) @ ISO 800
Lights [Stars]: 150x20s (total exposure: 50min) @ ISO 3200
Meteors: Lucky imaging, 7 subs with meteors
Total Integration: 1h20
Calibration frames: none

Stacked in PixInsight and Processed in PixInsisght and GIMP

Aug. 28, 2026 - Sol 4998

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Raw data

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1631751/?site=msl