Sky Candy Jellyfish

This one is wild — clearly the point of view is right along the ground track, and it's beyond the terminator on the ground, so the flare is right at sunset, but on the ground it's already dark.

Beautiful jellyfish effect during this morning's Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, which was seen up the U.S. eastern coast pic.twitter.com/SnG5YJ4cQ1

— John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) August 25, 2026

And this video is also very cool.

Here’s my view of this morning’s rocket launch from Washington D.C.: pic.twitter.com/xZLL8Ydhku

— Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) August 25, 2026

Andrew McCarthy with another banger. You know, this could have been a science fiction movie. But it's not.

I went through the entire archive from the Artemis Il mission to create timelapses of many scenes experienced by the astronauts.

Many of these views are firsts of their kind.

While this was a ton of work, I see it as practice, as one day I plan on capturing these images myself. pic.twitter.com/hhPqbZZGax

— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) August 23, 2026

If you're feeling ambitious, you too can do things with the raw images.

This is crazy! All the raw files from Artemis II are available to ANYONE! I did a few edits to some of these and I'm just in awe that this is possible. I didn't crop any of these as I wanted to preserve the original feel. Try this out for yourself! https://t.co/C0VnBHe1oa pic.twitter.com/fgn6ptmIg3

— Asher B. (@asherbphotos) August 22, 2026

I've got a weird memory (yeah, yeah, I know...) and I worry sometimes that I've repeated an image. I think this one is fresh, but there was one that looked a lot similar last week. 

Panning across NGC 2467 reveals a breathtaking landscape of glowing gas, dark dust, and brilliant stars.

(Credit: ESO) pic.twitter.com/FwaMyajeMN

— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) August 21, 2026

The Artemis II crew sometimes looked at the sky, with no Earth or Moon.

Sky full of stars.

Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. pic.twitter.com/pzqcLZNB71

— NASA (@NASA) April 8, 2026

Click through on this one; it's even more spectacular in its full format.

What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain over the Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland. This image was taken in a single 5 second exposure by the photographer in April 2025. Seeing an aurora is on many people's bucket lists. But it is not… pic.twitter.com/tbHVEXssra

— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) August 28, 2026

Another APOD image. Your head is spinning.

At the latitude of ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth's rotation moves the planet's surface eastward at over 1,500 kilometers per hour. And while that's faster than the speed of sound at sea level, the motion is imperceptible. Still, that motion can… pic.twitter.com/ejq7M3Uh8a

— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) August 28, 2026

The Stellar Sword is particularly spectacular. Someone should write this into a science fiction or fantasy story.

Some beautiful images of @NASAHubble

1. Stellar Sword
2. Southern Crab Nebula
3. Prawn Nebula pic.twitter.com/R9AmxX9vti

— ISHMAL KHAN (@astroishmalkhan) August 27, 2026

The Sombrero Galaxy 

800 billion stars captured in a single frame.

This is Sombrero Galaxy captured by Hubble.

31 million light-years away from us. pic.twitter.com/tDAwgatd3h

— The Astronomy Guy (@astrooalert) August 26, 2026

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More flashy nebulae. Hard to think of what else to say except "ooh ahh".

Stunning nebulae and galaxy cluster images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope 🌌 pic.twitter.com/CARa72kJw5

— Latest in space (@latestinspace) September 22, 2025

And there you have it. Remember to come back for the Sunday Supplement on Sunday and come back for more Sky Candy next week.

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