Simeon Schmauß

I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our Sun has a lot of dust around it that we can rarely see. This so called Zodiacal light is giving the moon this eerie backlit glow.

And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind!

Credit: NASA
Processing: Simeon Schmauß

Full quality: https://flic.kr/p/2s6ionW

#Artemis #Nasa #Moon #Eclipse #space #zodiacallight #orion

Astronaut Chris Williams managed to capture this cool image of the Artemis II exhaust plume from the ISS.

Original: https://flic.kr/p/2s5xGkc

Credit: NASA/Chris Williams

#NASA #Artemis2 #ISS #space

Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

18 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography #comet #c2025a6 #c2025a6lemmon #astrodon #space

Last November the ESA JUICE Spacecraft captured the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas shortly after its closest approach to the sun.

Here is my reprocessed version of the Juice NavCam images from this encounter. For this animation I removed the static noise and aligned the images to the nucleus.

Credit: ESA/Juice/NavCam
Processing: Simeon Schmauß CC-BY-SA

#esa #space #comet #3IAtlas

Fresh from the NASA archives:

Two stunning views from the Launch Abort System Jettison

Original video here:
https://images.nasa.gov/details/Launch%20Abort%20System%20Jettison%20-%20Two%20Views

I have made some slight color adjustments and reverted the SuperView distortion used by these modified GoPro cameras.

#Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #Orion #Moon

It still seems unreal to me that humans will soon be flying back to the moon! They will be returning to Earth at a speed of 40.000 km/h, the fastest ever reentry of a crewed spacecraft.

To get an idea what such a reentry looks like, I made this remastered version of the Artemis 1 reentry from 2022 with trajectory data overlayed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QbYrs5SZ5M

#Artemis2 #Artemis #Moon #Nasa #Apollo #reentry #space

This is possibly the most incredible tracking video of a rocket launch that I have ever seen, and Shuttle had some really incredible videos too!

Just look at those gorgeous flame dynamics and then the booster separation...

https://youtube.com/shorts/a1uvU8Y7h10

#Artemis #NASA #SLS #Moon #rocket #space

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@stim3on/115849709999908242

I'm delighted to see that my Mars Express VMC video is featured on today's #APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260303.html

#ESA #Mars #Space #solarocks

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@stim3on/114026761167620464

Five years on Mars and counting!

#NASA #Mars #Perseverance

Another Gem from the archives:

Separation of the ICPS (Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage)

https://images.nasa.gov/details/cmasaw1_20260402015754_3

#Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #Orion #Moon

Amazing views of the Artemis II launch filmed from NASA's WB-57 high altitude aircraft

Full duration on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pa-dMk2VnUg

#Artemis #NASA #SLS #Moon #rocket #space

RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-c8c98246-5138cded57c895d1

Some cool new pictures and interesting preliminary findings about 3I/Atlas from the JUICE flyby last November.

The article also features my processing of the NavCam image sequence :)

#space #esa #comet #3iatlas

I uploaded a video with all four available tracking views of the Artemis II launch next to each other.

https://youtu.be/ydUeuJvZ97s

#Artemis #NASA #SLS #Moon #rocket #space

Some really gorgeous and fascinating slow-mo flame dyamics for your weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHF7L_Fh9Q

#slowmotion #fire

@hareldan@mapstodon.space Cool! It's rare to get a behind the scenes look of that project, even if I would have liked to see more technical infromation nuggets :)