While we deal with our daily struggles on Earth, the venerable Voyager spacecraft are quietly and boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before, 23.6 and 19.8 light hours away resp.

Currently, both are sending data at 160 bps to the 70m dishes at NASA DSN sites in Madrid and Canberra.

As power levels from their radioisotope thermoelectric generators diminish after 49 years in space, most instruments have been shut off, but they trudge on.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/
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@markmccaughrean do you have any idea about what this can be? I think it's the first time I see one. I did a catch and release using the the cap of a cornetto soft that I use to catch bugs or spiders inside the house and release them outside😄

Mannaggia a sant'Anatolio, vescovo di Laodicea

#savethechildren records a message from the girls of #gaza https://vs.ansa.it/sito/video_mp4_export/v20260702141633735.mp4

ESC by John Holcroft

#Art #illustration

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Today, we proposed how Montenegro will participate in the EU budget - both contributing to it and benefiting from EU investment - once it joins our Union.

Another milestone towards a stronger Europe. 💙

What's the Rothko where you are?

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/mark-rothko-weather-joonas-virtanen-website-design/

#art

Just dropped off my little Sutro Cloud piece at 599 Valencia St for the upcoming SUPERHYPERLOCAL show, featuring artists who love the SF Bay Area. Opening July 11! #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscoart

Mannaggia a san Carileffo, abate

sotto l' #etna #Vulcano lavora anche di domenica *fucine aperte* https://www.ansa.it/sito/videogallery/italia/2026/06/28/eruzione-spettacolare-sulletna-la-colata-lavica-tocca-quota-2800-metri_fabc5c8a-1426-4966-a006-afd556f2af46.html

Ukraine Just Found a Way to Hit Deep Inside Russia That Air Defenses Can't Touch — and It Starts in the Stratosphere

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/ukraine-just-found-a-way-to-hit-deep-inside-russia-that-air-defenses-cant-touch-and-it-starts-in-the-stratosphere/

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini

Mars Marathon by Perseverance
Image Credit: NASA, LPL (U. Arizona), MRO, HiRISE

Explanation: In this recent HiRISE view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the little green dot indicated on the surface of the big Red Planet is the Perseverance Mars rover. Recorded on June 13, the car-sized, six-wheeled robot was imaged a day before completing a Martian marathon, traveling a total distance of 26.218 miles (42.195 kilometers) since it began exploring the surface of Mars. That equivalent marathon distance was achieved by Perseverance on its mission sol (Martian day) 1,890, after about 5 Earth years and 4 Earth months of driving. Perseverance is continuing to hunt for biosignatures. In the HiRISE image, the Mars rover's tracks can be seen leading to its location in an area west of its landing site in Jezero crater near an ancient river delta.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260627.html #apod

Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old tomorrow. Everyone knows and loves his comedy. Not everyone knows he served as a US Army combat engineer in WWII and was in the Battle of the Bulge.

Happiest of birthdays to the GOAT of mocking Nazis. ❤️

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hilarious-way-mel-brooks-taunted-nazis-on-the-world-war-ii-battlefield/

With its 39 m primary mirror, our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will deliver incredibly sharp images of the Universe.

How? Enter the M4, the fourth mirror in the ELT's optical path. This extremely thin levitating mirror will deform up to 1000 times per second, counteracting atmospheric turbulence in real time and yielding crisp images of astronomical objects.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h0QornZm9Y

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering

Climate grill. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#heatwave #ClimateCrisis #Europe

Tonight! At Mini Bar! An art opening to celebrate 415ZINE #10 release. A ton of art from a great group of local artists (including me). 837 Divisadero St, 6pm until late. #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscoart

We're getting new Ghost in the Shell?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRcKC4Rgsc

Another heat wave cartoon from a couple of years ago.

#heatwave #Europe #ClimateCrisis

🗳️Vote locally, no matter which EU country you call home.

Around 14 million EU citizens living in another EU country have the chance to participate in, and run as candidates, for municipal elections in their country of residence.

And we want to make sure they do!
Participation in local democracy just got easier:

🔸Clearer information in a widely understandable language.
🔸Simpler registration procedures.
🔸Equal voting rights as nationals.

EU countries must make this law by June 2028.

SDO Observes a Coronal Mass Ejection
Video Credit: NASA, SDO, AIA; Processing: Richard Petarius III (MTU)
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Explanation: Why does the Sun throw stuff at us? The Sun’s surface is a churning soup of energetic electrons and ions called plasma. The motion of those charged particles creates magnetic field loops that are larger than the Earth. These loops twist, turn, and trap plasma. The featured time-lapse, taken over 2 hours on April 24th, 2026 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows what happens when those magnetic fields become too stressed: they snap and expel billions of tons (trillions of kilograms) of plasma into space at millions of miles (or kilometers) per hour in what is called a coronal mass ejection (CME). The Sun releases a few CMEs each day when it is at the peak of its activity cycle, which passed in 2025. Some of these eruptions hit Earth and can disrupt power grids, disable satellites, and endanger astronauts, which is why space weather monitoring is so important.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260624.html #apod