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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

OK, deep breath: This is the Moon eclipsing the Sun; our star's massive corona is visible, faintly, around each side of the Moon. Our satellite is backlit by the Sun; there's some light falling on the Moon reflected from Earth, which is off to the left. The spacecraft structure is at left.

Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

I'm reasonably sure the bright "star" at left, just above the spacecraft, is Venus. Also, this photo was taken with a GoPro HERO4 Black mounted to one of the Orion capsule's solar arrays. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... Credit: NASA

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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

I think this might the most sci-fi photo from crewed spaceflight I've ever seen. And it wouldn't have happened had Artemis II not launched on 1 April 2026 (because of orbital dynamics).

Stuart Jones
@owenthesignal.bsky.social

Not only the spectacular eclipse and all those planets but saw a post on Fb that they also captured a faint image of comet C/2025 R3 in the top right corner of that photo! 🤯