Captured by Voyager 1 in February 1979 as it closed in on Jupiter, this sequence spans roughly 15 hours—one and a half full Jovian days—revealing the giant planet’s restless, ever-shifting atmosphere in a single mesmerizing stretch of time. Credit: Ian Regan / NASA

A microblazar in the Milky Way — confirmed for the first time Think of it as a pocket-sized blazar: a compact black hole or neutron star locked in a tight dance with a companion star. It pulls in material, heats a swirling accretion disk to extreme temperatures, and fires a narrow relativistic jet straight toward Earth. These systems are the Galaxy’s high-energy engines — X-ray binaries that also shine in gamma rays. IRAS 18293−0941 is the first confirmed microblazar. It harbors a black hole of roughly 10 solar masses paired with a blue giant/supergiant, sitting about 11,700 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. Its long-lived, powerful jets accelerate particles to TeV–PeV energies — some of the fastest particles known in the entire Milky Way.

A cosmic dawn: what morning looks like over Brazil from an ISS porthole 🌅 This breathtaking shot captures the moment when the sun’s rays first begin to illuminate the curve of the South American coastline from an altitude of over 400 kilometers.

The Statue of Liberty Nebula: A Glowing Stellar Nursery NGC 3576, also known as the Statue of Liberty Nebula or ESO 129-EN5, is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Carina. Lying about 9,000 light-years away in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way, this vast star-forming region stretches roughly 100 light-years across. It shines because intense ultraviolet radiation from newly formed massive stars ionizes the surrounding hydrogen gas, causing it to glow vividly. The nebula earned its nickname from the way its luminous ridges and pillars resemble the silhouette of the Statue of Liberty. Within the cloud, powerful stellar winds and radiation from young stars carve the gas and dust into intricate shapes, while denser pockets continue to collapse and give birth to new stars. NGC 3576 remains an active stellar nursery, where the cycle of star formation is still unfolding. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ Survey / CASU