Can't wait the see the high-res shots of the ecplipse, the commentary from the crew has been amazing throughout, totally worth staying all night for - even impressive from the solar arrays outside the Orion Capsule knowing its live ..
Clean, no-distractions live stream of the Artemis II flyby! 🚀
🌑 Blackout: 18:44 EDT | 22:44 UTC | 05:44 ICT
🚀 Closest: 19:02 EDT | 23:02 UTC | 06:02 ICT
📏 Record: 19:07 EDT | 23:07 UTC | 06:07 ICT
🌎 Earthrise: 19:25 EDT | 23:25 UTC | 06:25 ICT
☀️ Eclipse: 20:35 EDT | 00:35 UTC | 07:35 ICT
Say hi! 👋
A composite image featuring the four Artemis II astronauts on the left: Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen, posed in their orange flight suits. The right side shows a detailed close-up of the ARCHeR biometric wearable on a wrist. The device is a rugged, black rectangular unit with distinct sensor ports. It tracks mission-critical data, including light exposure and sleep cycles, to monitor the crew’s health during their ten-day journey to the Moon.
The crew (Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen) are also undergoing continual biometric testing.
The ARCHeR study uses specialized wearables to monitor sleep and circadian rhythms in deep space. This research is vital for protecting astronaut health on long-duration missions. 🛰️⌚
Beyond the EPIC photo ops, there's some pretty cool SCIENCE on board Artemis II..
The crew is battling deep space hazards with cutting-edge tech..
From AVATAR chips mimicking human tissue 💓 to ARCHeR biometric trackers ⌚, NASA is starting to unlock the secrets of the human body in deep spacce..🌔
A high resolution photograph captured from inside the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, providing a unique perspective of Earth through one of the cabin windows. The composition creates a powerful sense of being a passenger on a deep space journey, reminiscent of looking out the window during a long road trip. The foreground is dominated by the dark, technical interior of the spacecraft, including the thick metallic frame of the window, visible bolts, thermal insulation blankets, and various electrical cables and connectors running along the hull. Through the rectangular pane of the window, the Earth is visible as a brilliant blue and white marble suspended in the infinite blackness of the vacuum. The planet appears as a partial sphere, with sunlight illuminating the swirling white cloud patterns and the deep sapphire of the oceans. The vastness of space surrounding the planet highlights the isolation and distance of the crew as they continue their historic manoeuvre towards the Moon. The lighting within the cabin is dim, allowing the natural light from Earth to serve as the primary focal point of the scene. This high resolution file has been kept in its original state, unedited except for slight noise removal by seriouslyscientific.com to ensure the clearest possible view of our home planet from deep space.
Will all future road trips one day have views like this?
This incredible shot from Artemis II feels like the ultimate version of staring out the back window on a family holiday, only the destination is the Moon. Looking back at home as Orion pushes into deep space.
Image credit: #NASA
A high resolution interior photograph showing the four Artemis II crew members inside the cabin of the Orion spacecraft, which has been nicknamed Integrity by the crew. This shot was captured during their first live media downlink event on 3 April 2026 as the spacecraft continued its journey toward the Moon. The image depicts the crew in a state of microgravity, effortlessly floating within the confined yet technologically dense environment of the capsule. On the left, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency is oriented horizontally, floating near a large bundle of mission supplies secured by black cargo netting. In the centre left, Mission Commander Reid Wiseman gives a cheerful thumbs up to the camera. Positioned in the centre right, Mission Specialist Christina Koch is seen speaking into a professional grade black microphone, her long hair billowing around her head in the weightless environment. On the far right, Pilot Victor Glover waves a hand towards the viewer with a wide smile. The background is a complex arrangement of white padded walls, metallic struts, orange flight suits stowed behind netting, and various cables and stowage lockers that form the living and working space of the astronauts. Floating near the bottom of the frame is a small plush Snoopy doll dressed in a miniature orange NASA flight suit, serving as the mission zero gravity indicator. The scene is illuminated by the bright, white internal lighting of the Orion cabin. This high resolution file has received minimal noise reduction to clarify the image details while preserving the original scientific data of the mission.
The Artemis II crew members Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover share a moment from the Orion spacecraft Integrity during their first live downlink from deep space. It is a historic milestone as they journey towards the Moon.
Image credit: #NASA
A high resolution photograph of Earth captured from the Orion spacecraft during the NASA Artemis II mission. The image shows a stunning crescent Earth set against the absolute blackness of deep space, specifically highlighting the terminator line – the moving boundary that separates the daylight side of the planet from the darkness of night. The Earth occupies the left and bottom portions of the frame, showcasing a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean decorated with intricate, swirling white cloud formations and weather systems. The terminator line is visible as a soft, curved gradient rather than a sharp edge, a phenomenon caused by the Earth's atmosphere scattering sunlight and creating a twilight zone between day and night. The intense blue of the oceans transitions into a deep shadow as the line progresses across the planetary disc. This specific view was captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman on 3 April 2026, using one of Orion's four cabin windows. The photograph was taken shortly after the spacecraft completed its translunar injection (TLI) burn, the critical manoeuvre that propelled the crew out of Earth's orbit and on a trajectory towards the Moon. This version of the image is unedited except for slight noise reduction by seriouslyscientific.com to enhance the clarity of the high resolution file while maintaining the integrity of the original NASA capture.
Artemis II Captures the Terminator Line (Hi-Res)
A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.
Image Credit: #NASA
Artemis II generated 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.. The largest rocket ever made by NASA..
To put that immense power into perspective, imagine sitting in the cockpit of a plane with the combined power of 29 Airbus A380's hurtling down the runway at full throttle right before takeoff.
I hear you and figured; it may be with it 'technically' being a test flight..
I have to agree with you there.
They totally missed the booster separation opportunity just to name one..
I think they could learn a lot from SpaceX live-streams before Artemis lll
History in the making. 🚀 🌕
For anyone who missed the livestream: here are the first 10 minutes of the NASA Artemis II mission. Humanity is officially heading back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years!
#NASA #ArtemisII #Space #MoonMission
Launch will be 18:35 ET
🚀 Artemis II: Returning to the Moon 🌕
NASA is sending humans beyond Earth orbit for the first time since 1972.
Join Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen for a 10-day live-streamed journey into deep space.
The SLS is fuelled and ready.
#ArtemisII #NASA
Watch it live:
Lets go full spectrum with Bill Nye! The Science Guy! 🌈
Exploring refraction, prisms and primary colours..
It was tricky finding a good quality source for this particular episode to remaster, hopefully this V2 version does it justice 🙏
Something for the weekend? 🍿
Dive into the crystal clear waters of the Galapagos with Sir David Attenborough... 🌋
Discover the fiery birth of nature's greatest experiment! See how deep ocean currents fuel abundant marine life and how Antarctic penguins shrank to beat the equatorial heat.. 🐢
Astronauts on board the ISS experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every single day 😱
She would have received the prize as well as I'm aware but she sadly passed away from ovarian cancer in 1958.
These are the audio clips I used:
0:00 - Space Shuttle (Troubleshooting an airlock glitch)
0:56 - Apollo 15 (Firing thrusters on the way to the Moon)
2:04 - Skylab (America's first space station crew discussing EVA suits)
3:21 - Mars InSight Lander (The tense moments before touchdown!)
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” – Pythagoras 🏛️📐
There is also a geometry in the flying of the ISS. 🛰️
I plotted the projected path of the International Space Station for the next 4 days..
Look up when you can 🔭
#ISS #NASA #Space
Think Rosalind Franklin is just the "DNA Diva"? Think again!
Well before Photo 51 she on the front lines of WWII. While volunteering as an air raid warden during the London Blitz, she worked as a physical chemist researching coal and carbon and this work helped develop better war-time gas masks. 🪖😷
They look so cool..
Others suggest it may be more exotic, that it maybe the residue of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonswhich are thought to be abundant in interstellar dust clouds and produced during the death rolls of old stars..
It's only when the astronauts enter the airlock and repressurise that the smell is noticeable.
Some scientists think it may may be caused by atomic oxygen (single oxygen atoms floating in low Earth orbit) clinging to the suit and reacting with the normal air inside the station.
When astronauts return from a spacewalk, their suits bring back the distinct smell of space itself: a metallic scent often compared to seared steak or welding fumes.
There's a space walk happening right now for anyone who may be interested.. 👨🚀
Microscopic Marvels: The Many Faces of Stentor 🔬
Watch how different lighting techniques transform our view of the same Stentor ciliate! Showcasing Brightfield, Phase Contrast and Darkfield to reveal the intricate internal world of this microscopic giant.
#microscopic #nature #biology
Yes I think you've nailed perfectly there actually..
Floating 400km above the Caribbean on the ISS. 🛰️
Listen to the crackle of NASA mission control as the Great Bahama Bank reveals its vibrant turquoise waters.
The sheer unadulterated beauty of our very own spaceship is mesmerising. 🌊⛅
#Space #ISS
A high-detail laboratory photograph of a golden orb-weaver spider being "milked" for its high-strength silk as part of pioneering nerve repair research at Oxford University. The spider is gently restrained on a foam block with soft gauze while a fine, golden strand of dragline silk is reeled onto a motorized spool. Before the 20-minute harvest begins, the spider is safely sedated using CO2 gas to ensure it remains stress-free and still. This humane process is non-lethal; once the silk is collected, the spider is hydrated and rewarded with a high-protein meal of crickets before being returned to its web. This work represents a massive breakthrough in bridging catastrophic human nerve gaps. Discover the full story on the science behind these clinical trials at seriouslyscientific.com.
It may look like a scene from a horror movie, but no spiders are harmed. 🕷️
Spiders are gently sedated with CO2 gas before being held by foam and gauze before "milking" the silk.
After a 20-minute session, they get a hydration break and a double portion of crickets as a reward for their hard work! 🦗
Surgeons have always been REAL Superheroes, but now they can be Spider-Man as well. 🕷️✨
Oxford researchers are using Golden Orb Spider Silk to bridge massive nerve gaps - upto 20cm in some proven cases and possibly upto 80cm 🙏
It is restoring movement once thought lost forever.
Full article here:
