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Credit: JAXA / NHK Kaguya Orbiter archive / Seán Doran

Credit: IgnacioA320

Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – converging with the advancing twilight shadow as dusk fell over Europe.

From its vantage point in geostationary orbit, MTG-I1 keeps its imaging instruments focused on Europe and northern Africa from a distance of 36 000 km above Earth’s surface. This enabled it to track the Moon’s shadow, called the path of totality, as it swept first over Greenland and Iceland, then over a small part of northeastern Portugal and finally, Spain.

Credit: ESA/Eumetsat

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A total eclipse viewed from the sky: on March 20, 2015, an eclipse was filmed from an airplane at an altitude of over 10,000 meters. This timelapse shows how the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth.

Credit: Sylvain Chapeland

On August 6, Meir and fellow astronaut Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install hardware for new IROSA solar arrays on the International Space Station. Her photos show vivid coastal scenes, mountain ranges, and sunsets framed by solar panels and robotic gear.

Credit: Astronaut Jessica Meir

He wrote on his post:

>Timelapse of the ISS Optimal Propellent Maneuver (OPM)! We use this to reorient station's attitude in preparation for docking events. This one occurred over some magnificent Mediterranean city lights!

Credit: NASA astronaut Don Pettit

Link to the science release on NASA website

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments.

The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.”

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI;
Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)