The prettiest place you’ll see today. ✨🦙
Soft pink fields, clear mountain streams, and a herd of alpacas enjoying the perfect sunny day. Nature's color palette never fails to amaze us!
Kīlauea Eruption Update — The Big 5-0! Episode 50 of Kīlauea summit lava fountaining began at 10:10 a.m. HST today, June 27, and is ongoing. This is the 50th lava fountaining episode in the eruption that began in Kīlauea summit caldera in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on December 23, 2024. The lava fountain from the north vent is reaching an estimated 600-700 feet high above the vent. According to the National Weather Service, surface winds below the inversion level (about 8000 feet or 2400 meters above sea level) are forecast to be moderate to strong tradewinds out of the northeast, which will move the lower part of the plume to the southwest and result in tephrafall in that direction. Above the inversion layer, very light winds are forecast up to 18000 feet (5000 meters), which might allow the plume to spread out. Above this, winds will become more westerly and strengthen. Higher level winds could push parts of the plume to the east and could result in ash and Pele’s hair falling to the east. Fountaining episodes typically last 12 hours or less, but ash can remain in the air for longer depending on wind and weather conditions. Please stay aware of hazards and rely on official updates from USGS, National Weather Service, and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. 🎥 Video of episode 50 on June 27, 2026. #Kilauea #Eruption #Lava
In a cosmic vista you can never see, the Milky Way arcs through the night above Seoul, South Korea. Remarkably, this urban night skyscape reveals our galaxy's faintly luminous central region and dark obscuring dust clouds in spite of the brilliant city lights. To overcome the extreme light pollution of the metropolitan area and record faint cosmic details, an infrared filter was used to capture the night scene in a single exposure. While the filter transmits predominately infrared light, it still passes some visible light to give the scene a natural appearance. The view is from Seoul's Ttukseom Hangang Park, with the Han River and a well lit railway bridge across the foreground. The 123 story Lotte World Tower looms in the distance, the tallest building in South Korea.
Image Credit & Copyright: Shingoo Lee
This image of Messier 64 is a combined view from @NASAHubble and @NASAWebb.
The gas in the outer regions is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behavior may be due to a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy.
In this recent HiRISE view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the little green dot indicated on the surface of the big Red Planet is the Perseverance Mars rover. Recorded on June 13, the car-sized, six-wheeled robot was imaged a day before completing a Martian marathon, traveling a total distance of 26.218 miles (42.195 kilometers) since it began exploring the surface of Mars. That equivalent marathon distance was achieved by Perseverance on its mission sol (Martian day) 1,890, after about 5 Earth years and 4 Earth months of driving. Perseverance is continuing to hunt for biosignatures. In the HiRISE image, the Mars rover's tracks can be seen leading to its location in an area west of its landing site in Jezero crater near an ancient river delta.
Image Credit: NASA, LPL (U. Arizona), MRO, HiRISE