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NASA Lucy Full View Image Asteroid Donaldjohanson
On April 20, 2025, from just 1,700 miles away, the Lucy spacecraft snapped a jaw-dropping high-res photo of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a space rock that’s been spinning through the solar system for 150 million years. Captured by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), the image shows a rugged, stretched-out asteroid, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide, looking a bit like a cosmic potato with details as small as 130 feet across.

Martian Meteorite Mars NWA 16788 For Sale
Photo credit: Sotheby’s
A 54-pound chunk of Mars, dubbed NWA 16788, is stealing the show at Sotheby’s Geek Week auction, running online through July 16, 2025. This massive Martian meteorite, the biggest of its kind ever found on Earth, tells a wild tale that stretches across millions of years and 140 million miles. Discovered in Northwest Africa in 2023, it’s a cosmic relic from a violent past that has bids already hitting $1.92 million (including the buyer’s premium) and a top estimate of $4 million.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy ISS Transiting Sun
Photo credit: Andrew McCarthy
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy snagged a “once-in-a-lifetime gem” on Sunday when the International Space Station (ISS) glided across the Sun, perfectly timed with a dramatic solar flare bursting from the star’s surface. “I start with one photo as my ‘base’ and layer in stacked versions of the Sun and ISS to cut noise and boost clarity,” he posted on X.

ESA Proba-3 Mission Artificial Solar Eclipse Satellites
ESA’s Proba-3 mission, consisting of two orbiting satellites, has officially created the world’s first artificial solar eclipse. ASPIICS Science Operations Centre (SOC), hosted by the Royal Observatory of Belgium, processed the images that you are about to see. How so? A dedicated team of scientists and engineers creates operational commands for the coronagraph based on requests from the scientific community.