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Христос Воскресе, Christ has risen! Happy Easter to all those celebrating it today. To all those who don’t, Happy Cosmonaut Day!

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.” ― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman

🚨: You are looking at the brightest star in the night sky, 'Sirius' seen through a telescope. It is 56 trillion miles away from us.

🚨: Absolutely insane view of Artemis II core stage separation 🚀

@JackCarrUSA Looks like a Kalik Light there 🤘

“Somewhere further south…"

Depending on launch time and conditions, those within the white range rings may be able to spot #ArtemisII on its way to space 🚀 (Map via @Dillonshrop06)

The launch team at @NASAKennedy are GO to begin filling the Artemis II rocket with fuel. The official launch broadcast begins at 12:50pm ET (1650 UTC). Liftoff is scheduled for no earlier than 6:24 pm ET (2224 UTC). Tanking coverage can be found here: youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8T…

If you could name the first city on Mars, what would it be called?

🚨: Imagine a planet bigger than Earth, with no land in sight. Just waves and water from pole to pole. That is TOI-1452 b.

This is the last thing Venera 14 ever saw on Venus... before the planet's hellish atmosphere melted it alive.On March 5, 1982, the Soviet lander pulled off the unthinkable. It plunged through a choking soup of carbon dioxide laced with sulfuric acid, survived crushing pressures equivalent to nearly a kilometer underwater, and touched down on a surface hot enough to melt lead—465°C (869°F).What it revealed was a true cosmic inferno.The image is drenched in an oppressive, golden-orange glow. This isn't a camera trick or faded film—it's the planet's insanely dense atmosphere scattering away every trace of blue light. Stand on Venus, and this is exactly how the world would look: a hazy, sulfurous twilight over a barren, volcanic plain.The surface is a jigsaw of jagged, flat basaltic slabs, forged by relentless volcanic fury. No gentle soil or rolling dunes—just hard, fractured rock stretching to the hazy horizon.But the real legend of Venera 14 isn't just the photo. It's a saga of brilliant engineering... and one hilariously catastrophic stroke of bad luck.The Legend of the Lens CapEarlier Venera probes had repeatedly failed to shed their protective lens caps, dooming their cameras to darkness. Engineers finally fixed the problem for Venera 13 and 14—the only two missions to ever return color images from Venus's surface.On Venera 14, the fix worked perfectly....A little too perfectly.Look at the bottom center of the panoramic view. That saw-toothed metallic ring? Part of the lander's landing structure. Right beside it sits the spring-loaded arm meant to test the compressibility of Venusian soil.Now zoom in on the exact spot where that arm deployed.See the small, silver disc lying there?That's the lens cap.By an absurd cosmic joke, the ejected cap landed in the single precise location the probe needed to sample the ground. Instead of probing an alien world, Venera 14 spent its final minutes dutifully measuring the mechanical properties of its own discarded lens cap.The lander was designed to last 32 minutes. It endured 57 minutes in that nightmare environment—long enough to capture this panorama, analyze the atmosphere, and (ironically) "sample" its own hardware—before the heat finally cooked its electronics beyond recovery.No spacecraft has returned color images from Venus's surface since.These fleeting 57 minutes remain our entire color visual record of another planet's surface. A stunning testament to human ingenuity, raw ambition, and the universe's wicked sense of humor: even when you conquer the harshest world in the solar system, sometimes the universe still finds a way to make you measure your own

:It took 9 years and nearly 3 billion miles of silent travel through the void for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to finally capture this breathtaking view.You’re looking at Pluto’s majestic ice mountains — raw, towering, and utterly alien.

Farthest ever landing. We landed on a moon of Saturn 1.4 billion km away and most people have no idea. This is actual footage from Titan's surface. The Huygens probe dropped through orange haze for 2.5 hours before touching down on an alien world.

143 years of looking up at the same giant. Jupiter didn't change. Our eyes did.

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World. This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

800 billion stars captured in one frame. This is Sombrero Galaxy captured by Hubble. 31 million light-years away from us.

Goodbye Comet Lemmon. See you again in 1,155 years. ☄

What name would you choose for the very first Martian city?

It’s kind of crazy watching #TheBeastInMe… but what an incredible battle of two powerhouses @MatthewRhys and #ClaireDanes @netflix

This week on the DANGER CLOSE Podcast, experience an exclusive first listen to Chapter One from CRY HAVOC. Brought to life by the legendary voice of Ray Porter, this exclusive excerpt places you on the icy waters of the Sea of Japan—where a naval standoff becomes the opening shot in a shadow war that threatens to bring the world to the brink. Find this audio sneak peek on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Jack Carr YouTube Channel. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

The last one… they don’t make it like that anymore… 🙏