I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.
The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
The @NASAArtemis crew captured this view of the Moon eclipsing the Sun yesterday. The three "stars" to the lower right of the Moon are actually planets. The middle one has a slightly red tint.
That's Mars.
Mother Earth, from our last visit to the Moon.
Today, we celebrate the planet that keeps pushing us to dream bigger and do more—here and beyond! #EarthDay
Elon Musk explains exactly how Space X's Mechazilla can catch the Super Heavy booster.
On Sunday morning, Space X successfully caught a 20+ story tall rocket booster.
"This is a custom-built tower with arms that are designed to catch the largest flying and heaviest flying object ever made and pluck it outta the air."
"It'll weigh about 250 tons. We'll make that lighter over time."
"So you got a couple hundred tons plummeting at more than half the speed of sound. So this thing is still coming in really fast."
"When the engines land... it's gonna drop the velocity to basically zero and come in between the arms."
"The arms will be wide, and as it's coming in, the arms will, will close, go flush against the side of the vehicle, and the vehicle will be descending through the arms."
"The probability is uncertain, but it is above zero."
Insane.