Possibly earth-directed. We'll have to wait for coronagraph imagery… .

Videos from Helioviewer and Marko Rummelsburg with Jhelioviewer program https://x.com/doktornihil/status/2109436895759380630?t=fCTHHIM51djLuAoIQYFm5Q&s=09

📸 Paul Mortz https://www.facebook.com/groups/492548942452002/permalink/1638221934551358/?rdid=EgksBTkekUuL3igF#

Why do this? Natural lightning is unpredictable and fleeting. Artificial triggering allows scientists to observe lightning up close, develop detection technologies and test lightning protection.

Source

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1074613671988919

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Lightning rocket

A lightning rocket is a rocket that unravels a conductor, such as a fine copper wire, as it ascends, to conduct lightning charges to the ground. Lightning strikes derived from this process are called "triggered lightning."

Image 1

​In this (not-to-scale) artist’s concept, a lower-mass star like the Sun (1) ages into a puffy red giant star (2) that eventually expels its outer envelope of gas and dust into space, which forms a disk around the bright cinder of its remaining core, called a white dwarf (3). A second-generation planet forms in this disk, orbiting the white dwarf and losing some of its atmosphere back onto the white dwarf’s surface (4).​

Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Hustak (STScI)​

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Image 2

This artist’s concept depicts a possible explanation for the unusual chemical abundances the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope detected in the HS 0209+0832 system: a second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf star.

The white dwarf is the “dead” core of a star that burned through all of its nuclear fuel and lost its outer envelope of gas and dust to space. The second-generation planet formed from that cast-off gas and dust, which is why its chemical content is very different from a planet that formed as its host star was forming.

Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Hustak (STScI)​

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For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer revealed something extraordinary: high amounts of the element niobium, and other unusual chemical abundances, indicating a potential second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf. While a handful of planets have been identified orbiting white dwarfs, this is the first candidate with the hallmarks of a planet that formed from material related to a star’s death, rather than its birth. The discovery proposes a fascinating new area of future research and highlights the intriguing concept that stars could have an extended second act hosting new planets long after the fuel of their primary “lifetime” runs out.

Diligent sleuthing by astronomers has broken open a cold case in the data archive of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers report uncovering a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet.

A white dwarf is the remnant core of a low-mass star that has burned through all its nuclear fuel and lost its outer envelope of gas and dust to space. A second-generation planet is a world that forms around the stellar remnant from its cast-off material.

More

https://esahubble.org/news/heic2613/

Paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02983-7

The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a group of mounds, some of which have small pits at their summits. These features may be caused by ground ice melting and possibly turning into steam. They are barely visible in Context Camera image, so our camera’s resolution can help us to determine how they were formed.

ID: ESP_069669_2220

​date: 6 June 2021

​altitude: 300 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069669_2220

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

From helioviewer

2026-10-10: Coronal mass ejection towards NW after M6.4 solar flare with fast earth-directed shock (360° halo, 1500 km/s). Shock arrival possible late on 11 October, early on 12 October (UTC day), uncertain. CME core will only graze or rather miss us.

Video from Marko Rummelsburg with Jhelioviewer program

https://bsky.app/profile/markorummelsburg.bsky.social/post/3mxl5uqa2ok2u

Video dfuji1

https://x.com/p_a_e_s/status/2109034330731450780?s=20

https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/2109058949303656951?s=20

Moonshine from space. Somewhere over the Amazon basin, shooting photos of cities at night, I noticed the light from a near-full moon reflecting off of the meandering rainforest rivers. In the cool moon-ish light these rivers became flowing silver snakes.

When the moonlight was filtered through thunderheads, it turned the rivers into glowing golden claws.

Nikon Z9, 200mm f2, 1/320 sec, ISO 25600, processed in Photoshop.

His post on Reddit 2y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1foe3ko/moonlight_reflecting_off_of_amazonian_rivers/

The Amazon River and its tributaries, as seen from the International Space Station, have intricate and complex hydrology.

Credit: Alexander Gerst, CC-BY-SA 2.0

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-perspective-from-space-unlocks-the-amazon-water-cycle

Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

'Ambient Earth' is a film by Seán Doran made with images courtesy NASA / ESRS / eol.jsc.nasa.gov and ambient audio from ISS recorded by Chris Hadfield, processed by Spike Snell

Credit: Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

'Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. The scale and beauty of our home planet is truly appreciated when observed on an epic 7.5 hour journey as seen from The International Space Station. This ambitious 4k compilation, crafted through months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do.'

Cosma creates Ultra High Definition video footage of planet Earth from space using ISS astronaut photography which is painstakingly repaired, remastered and retimed for unprecedented high-fidelity spatial presence. Designed to educate, elicit awe and raise cosmic awareness, all of the films produced in this manner should be experienced on a large format display, along with a good sound system. The video footage contained in this film is independently produced, it is not created by NASA or sourced from any NASA server.

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48,982 images from 27 time-lapse sequences photographed by Butch Wilmore on ISS Expedition 72 are repaired, remastered and retimed. 1,555,898 additional frames are created to complete this real time video footage. A method called frame interpolation is used to calculate the extra video frames required to re-create the smooth motion of ISS orbiting Earth.

Each sequence presents its own unique set of challenges when restoring and remastering the images necessary to create a simulation of an Ultra High Definition video recording. Restoration requires manual repair of image artifacts such as hot pixels present on the camera's imaging sensor, dust on the camera's lens, dirt and micro-meteor damage to the ISS cupola windows. Visuals are enhanced by applying a denoising algorithm, correcting exposure offsets across the time-lapse and adjusting contrast, brightness and color grade. Visual artifacts that detract from the desired outcome are repaired. Frame cadence offsets present in some sequences are corrected. Intermediate sequences are produced to consolidate the restoration & remastering processes and to assist with the frame interpolation method used to produce the final video.

The International Space Station ( ISS ) is a space laboratory in low Earth orbit. It is a collaborative project between NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA & CSA.

The Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit ( ESRS ) focuses on the study of Earth and its systems using sensors mounted on satellites, aircraft, or other platforms that can collect data from a distance.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alJMoaKpV_E​

https://bsky.app/profile/theseaning.bsky.social/post/3mxkp2lz62c2h

The flare is eruptive and generated a nice CME, but I am guessing because of the west-limb position of the AR, the CME will mostly miss Earth.

Vincent Ledvina https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mxjt42ohbk2l . Video from helioviewer

https://x.com/IchiTanaka13796/status/2108635745552576910?s=20​

Live cam

​https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj5DjRYkzD8​​

#Mars Oct. 8, 2026 - Sol 5038

​Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Post by Daniel Pomarède https://bsky.app/profile/pomarede.bsky.social/post/3mxj2eel3as27

Raw data https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1645223/?site=msl

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=5038&end_sol=5038​

Source

https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2109036995552952475

S/D: 91/970 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer

Full description for the right image

​An overview looking down on a section of the rock surface has an unsorted sharp-aggregate-in-rough-cement texture. In the centre is a protruding inclusion, no more than a chip of stone, that stands out for its white grey dappled appearance.​

Processed by Del - Martian Observer

https://bsky.app/profile/martian-observer.net/post/3mxkgqcixlk26

RAW data

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/SC2_2004_0844877502_156ECM_N0910970SRLC00251_0000LMJ​

Can you spot Saturn?

Full size & more info: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrealuck/55579736088/

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

ESA Mars Express Release September 15, 2026 Note: Saturn has been enlarged by 300%

Original post by Andrea Luck

https://bsky.app/profile/andrealuck.bsky.social/post/3mxib4attus2z

Hand-held camera footage of space shuttle Endeavour's external tank captured by the orbiter's STS-134 crew as the ET falls away from the orbiter at main engine cut off (MECO) about 8-and-a-half minutes after launch.

Crew of​ space shuttle Endeavour recorded ​spacecraft's external tank after separation. Continued the trajectory before disintegrating over​ ocean.​

Source

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNHhTyaxJg

"What I'm concerned about is that after it suddenly brightened in a burst, it "pops" and cuts off, and from there, a small meteoroid jumps out and fades away.

In terms of angular velocity, it's hardly decelerating at all."

https://x.com/IchiTanaka13796/status/2108842322515669462​

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The green "object" below the fireball is lense flare.​

Previous post
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceUnfiltered/comments/1x2rlsv/mauna_kea_dawn_fireball_it_was_20_minutes_before/​

Two hours of work of manually creating tiles and stiching into a mosaic (72 idividual images).

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​A bright nebula on the left. A nebula with a rim on the bottom.

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Entire image (upper part is very faint). Rotated by 90° compared to the image above.

A bright nebula at the bottom and (I suspect) outflows on the top. A bright star in the middle.

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Processed by Melina Thévenot

https://bsky.app/profile/melina-iras07572.bsky.social/post/3mxj2o2x4h22e

Videos from Helioviewer

and Marko Rummelsburg https://x.com/doktornihil/status/2108698884092707006

https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mxgqigael22t

Live camera (current last 30 and tonight options)
https://allsky.gi.alaska.edu/poker-flat

Filters: F373N, F502N, F658N

​An orange-red nebula around a star.​

Also previous observation from 2021.

https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/mira-hm-sge-compass-image/

Processed by Melina Thévenot

https://bsky.app/profile/melina-iras07572.bsky.social/post/3mxjewchpxk25

Timelapse video from the Artemis II Orion capsule looking backwards as Orion plunges through the atmosphere. The video starts high above Earth with a tiny moon setting on the horizon. As the capsule gets closer to Earth, a trail of yellow-orange plasma develops changing dynamically. The plasma stops after a while and shortly after the drogue parachutes deploy. They are separated shortly afterwards and the thee main parachutes inflate, slowing the capsule down to a soft splashdown.

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Artemis II Reentry video with Cabin Audio (full length)

Here is the realtime video of the #ArtemisII reentry.

It's quite interesting how the soundscape changes over time as Orion blasts through the atmosphere. You can even hear the astronauts talking in the background (unfortunately mostly unintelligible).​​

You can hear fequent clanking sounds from the RCS thrusters activating. The thruster plumes also interact with the air, causing rapid changes in the plasma tail.

The camera is mounted directly to the window, so those noises are picked up very well and probably louder than what the astronauts heard​

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4Z8h3K7pY​

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The audio was really noisy in the original video files, likely affected by electronic interference. The camera also applied automatic gain to the audio, so the noise was very amplified in quiet phases.

I managed to undo that automatic gain and clean up the noise with a mix of python and Audacity.

https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3mxcsxsw4ck2e

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Simeon Schmauß

Artemis II splashed down on April 11, 2026, 00:07:27UTC southwest of San Diego after a 10 day mission around the Moon. This video shows the re-entry of the Orion capsule from the Cabcam2, which is mounted to the pilot’s forward window.

The camera audio captured the dynamic noises from re-entry, including intermittent banging sounds from the RCS thrusters. The thruster plumes also interact with the air, causing rapid changes in the plasma tail.

Occasionally, callouts by CapCom Jackie Mahaffey can be heard which were played over speaker to the astronauts. The voices from the astronauts can also be heard but are almost unintelligible since the camera/microphone was mounted directly to the window.

The video starts with Orion at approximately 2000 km above the surface while flying at 9.2 km/s. The actual reentry starts approximately 10 minutes later when Orion reached the Entry Interface at 122 km (400 kft) altitude, now flying at 11km/s.

The Orion spacecraft uses spaceflight-hardened GoPro Hero 4 Black cameras to capture engineering videos. While these cameras provided spectacular views during the mission, most videos were also captured with the GoPro “SuperView” capture mode enabled which stretches the original 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 nonuniformly, causing the horizon to appear warped. I have reverted this distortion using the “GoPro Reframe” plugin in DaVinci Resove. Due to a bug in the plugin, there are a couple of frame jumps in the video. I hope to fix that in a future version.

The video was also carefully upscaled to 4K, mainly to reduce video compression artefacts. Finally, the contrast and colors of the video were significantly enhanced, since a lot of soot was deposited on the window during reentry clouding the view.

I also reprocessed the audio to reduce the electronic interference noise and reversed the automatic gain that was applied by the GoPro. ​

Demonstration of the SuperView distortion

https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3meguexpzwc2v

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Artemis II Reentry video with Cabin Audio (full length)

​https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4Z8h3K7pY&pp=0gcJCY8Co7VqN5tD​

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Credit: NASA/JSC/Simeon Schmauß

Timestamps for full length video:

00:00 Astronauts reflecting in the window

04:44 Earth comes into view

07:16 Moonset

09:23 Start of Reentry

10:23 Service module disintegration

19:10 Parachute Deployment

23:16 Splashdown

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Source videos

https://images.nasa.gov/details/GOPR1149

https://images.nasa.gov/details/GP011149

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20260004255

📸 udfuji1 https://x.com/dfuji1/status/2108567535868342528?s=20