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Painting by Lucien Rudaux ( 1874–1947) was a French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 1930s.

Here in this image in which Rudaux painted showing what a lunar eclipse might look like from the surface of the Moon.

The Moon's surface appears red because the only sunlight visible has refracted through the Earth's atmosphere on the edges of the Earth in the sky.

He was the director of a small observatory, Donville-les-Bains in Normandy, and contributed to the establishment of the "Astronomy" in the "Palais de la découverte"

The Rudaux crater on Mars and the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award are named in his honor. The asteroid 3574 Rudaux is also named for him.

Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA.

Ahead of Asteroid Day (June 30), the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater.

About 50,000 years ago, an iron-nickel meteorite, estimated to be 30–50 m wide, smashed into North America and left a massive hole in what is today known as Arizona. The violent impact created a bowl-shaped hole of more than 1,200 m across and 180 m deep in what was once a flat, rocky plain.

During its formation, millions of tons of limestone and sandstone were blasted out of the crater, covering the ground for over a kilometer in every direction with a blanket of debris. Large blocks of limestone, the size of small houses, were thrown onto the rim.

One of the crater's main features is its squared-off shape, which is believed to be caused by flaws in the rock which caused it to peel back in four directions upon impact.

The wide perspective of this image shows the crater in context with the surrounding area. The impact occurred during the last ice age, when the plain around it was covered with a forest where mammoths and giant sloths grazed.

Over time, the climate changed and dried. The desert that we see today has helped preserve the crater by limiting its erosion, which makes it an excellent place to learn about the process of impact cratering.

Impact craters are inevitably part of being a rocky planet. They occur on every planetary body in our solar system—no matter the size. By studying impact craters and the meteorites that cause them, we can learn more about the processes and geology that shape our entire solar system.

Over the past two decades, ESA has tracked and analyzed asteroids that travel close to Earth. ESA's upcoming Flyeye telescopes will survey the sky for these near-Earth objects, using a unique compound eye design to capture wide-field images, which will enhance the detection of potentially hazardous asteroids.

ESA's Hera spacecraft, launching later this year, will closely explore asteroids and improve our understanding of these celestial bodies and help us better prepare for potential future asteroid deflection efforts.

iPhone 15, 5 30 second exposures, stacked on DeepSkyStacker and edited on Siril and Photoshop Express.

The Moon was only a very small crescent in this photo. The extremely light-sensitive camera settings made it appear much brighter, almost resembling the Sun.

I was trying to complete all my planned shots before moonrise, but this unplanned moonrise photo might be my favorite from the night. Funny how that works.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation.

This image shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar – but just as amazing – view of the pillars.

In this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze.

Credit NASA /ESA

Location: Soest, NRW, Germany Date/Time: 2024-07-28 23:23 CEST Kamera: Google Pixel 6 Pro Editing: Only minor color correction and contrast

By photographer Patrick Hsieh.

Original description provided with image.

Transit of the Sun by the International Space Station, track identified through transit-finder.com, total duration 0.54 sec.

I neglected to adjust the tilter, so the bottom of the sun is out of band (and thus mostly cropped off ).

Usually I image with a 2x PowerMate with this setup, but went without to get a full disk for this event.

Imaged from Henderson, NV with a modified William Optics FLT132 carrying a Lunt DSII double stacking etalon from an LS80THa. ZWO AM5, Altair TriBand D-ERF, ASI 1600

Artist’s impression of how the surface of Pluto might look, according to one of the two models that a team of astronomers has developed to account for the observed properties of Pluto’s atmosphere, as studied with CRIRES.

The image shows patches of pure methane on the surface. At the distance of Pluto, the Sun appears about 1,000 times fainter than on Earth.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), shows bright stars and light, pinkish clouds of hot gas. The bright red-yellow streaks that have been superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), revealing regions of cold, dense gas which have the potential to collapse and form stars. The unique web-like structure of the gas clouds led astronomers to the nebula’s spidery nickname.

Credit: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

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Astronaut Steven L. Smith, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission 3A payload commander, retrieves a Pistol Grip Tool (PGT) power tool while standing on the mobile foot restraint at the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS).

Many of the tools required to service Hubble were stored on the toolboard stanchion attached to the RMS.

Credit: NASA