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On 5 August 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the lunar surface near Einstein Crater.South Korea's Danuri lun...
08/08/2026

On 5 August 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the lunar surface near Einstein Crater.

South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter captured the region before and after the impact, allowing scientists to see the changes to the lunar surface and the resulting ejecta.

📸 Image: KASA / KARI – Danuri (KPLO)

🚀 A.U.R.A. Command Founder and Operations Director Anthony Hughes was proud to be part of the Starchaser Industries team...
07/08/2026

🚀 A.U.R.A. Command Founder and Operations Director Anthony Hughes was proud to be part of the Starchaser Industries team exhibiting the Skybolt rocket.

It was a fantastic opportunity to engage with members of the public, discuss UK rocketry and spaceflight, and help inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.

Supporting outreach and sharing the excitement of space exploration remains a key part of A.U.R.A. Command's mission.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn more about Skybolt and the future of British spaceflight.

Per Tenebras Cognoscimus
Through Darkness We Understand.

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed Target DW0309M4101 as part of Programme 18061 – Hubble Census of Nearby Satellit...
21/07/2026

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed Target DW0309M4101 as part of Programme 18061 – Hubble Census of Nearby Satellites, led by Dr Michael Gordon Jones (California Institute of Technology).

Observation Details
• Observation Date: 13 July 2026 – 01:02 UTC
• Release Date: 13 July 2026 – 03:12 UTC

The first image is the original Hubble quick-look observation released through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).

The second image has been AI-enhanced for outreach and educational purposes, using the original observation as its foundation to improve visibility of the galaxy's structure, dust lanes, and star-forming regions. No scientific data have been added or altered—the enhancement is intended solely to help communicate the underlying features to a wider audience.

Original scientific data: NASA/ESA/STScI
AI enhancement: A.U.R.A. Command (Outreach Visualisation)

A New Milestone on MarsThis extraordinary image, captured by NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
30/06/2026

A New Milestone on Mars

This extraordinary image, captured by NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Perseverance as a tiny blue speck on the surface of Mars (highlighted by the yellow circle).

The rover has now completed the equivalent of a full marathon—42.195 km (26.2 miles)—across Jezero Crater, reaching the milestone in just over five years of exploration.
The dark lines visible across the landscape are the rover's tracks, marking thousands of metres of scientific exploration as Perseverance searches for evidence of ancient habitable environments and collects samples for future return to Earth.

Sometimes the biggest achievements appear incredibly small from orbit.

NGC 4402 — Seen by the James Webb Space TelescopeThis incredible view of galaxy NGC 4402 is based on raw observational d...
12/06/2026

NGC 4402 — Seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

This incredible view of galaxy NGC 4402 is based on raw observational data captured by JWST and enhanced for public outreach.

Located around 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster, NGC 4402 is an edge-on spiral galaxy surrounded by an immense sea of stars and distant galaxies.

What may look like image “grain” is actually countless individual stars captured in infrared light by one of the most advanced telescopes ever built.

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI
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This Hubble Space Telescope observation targeted the distant Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2014 EA52 during a programme s...
14/05/2026

This Hubble Space Telescope observation targeted the distant Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2014 EA52 during a programme searching for moons around mid-sized icy worlds beyond Neptune.

The field is filled with: • distant galaxies
• tracking streaks
• cosmic-ray artefacts
• and thousands of background stars

During the observation, Hubble experienced a guide-star acquisition issue but continued operating in a degraded-yet-functional tracking mode — a good reminder that even one of humanity’s greatest observatories still has to wrestle with real engineering limitations in orbit.

The image has been enhanced using AI-assisted processing for outreach and educational purposes
Credits: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / ESA - European Space Agency / STScI Hubble Space Telescope
Observation Program 18010 — Benjamin Proudfoot
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Department of Space Monitoring

“May the 4th be with you.”Not a Death Star explosion but the remains of a star that exploded nearly 1,000 years ago.The ...
04/05/2026

“May the 4th be with you.”
Not a Death Star explosion but the remains of a star that exploded nearly 1,000 years ago.

The Crab Nebula is the expanding debris field from a supernova recorded in 1054.
Colours are enhanced to reveal structure and composition.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope

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📡 Deep Space Observation — Hubble WFC3This image captures a dense field of distant galaxies observed by the Hubble Space...
01/05/2026

📡 Deep Space Observation — Hubble WFC3
This image captures a dense field of distant galaxies observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The target, J144115.93−231330.43, is not a single object but a precise region of space. Each faint point and smudge in the frame represents an entire galaxy, with light travelling across billions of years to reach us.

Observation Details:
• Date: 29 April 2026
• Programme: 18137 — University of Arizona

Image Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration/ ESA - European Space Agency / Hubble Space Telescope

Processing Note: This image was enhanced using AI-assisted processing for outreach purposes.

A.U.R.A Command — Digital Space Agency
Department of Space and Analytical Research

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks like static at first glance—but almost every speck you see is a galaxy....
20/04/2026

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks like static at first glance—but almost every speck you see is a galaxy.

Captured in the Virgo Cluster, one of the closest large galaxy clusters to Earth, this field reveals what’s happening between galaxies:

Thousands of distant systems
A mix of galaxy types shaped by gravity
Faint light from stars drifting through intergalactic space

Some of those galaxies are billions of light-years away. You’re not just looking into space—you’re looking back in time.

Image Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / ESA - European Space Agency / STScI Hubble Space Telescope

What you’re looking at here is the same galaxy—NGC 4351—raw data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on 9 April 2026....
15/04/2026

What you’re looking at here is the same galaxy—NGC 4351—

raw data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on 9 April 2026. It may look faint and washed out, but this is exactly how space telescopes collect real scientific data.

Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Space Telescope Science Institute
Processing: A.U.R.A Command (Archive Enhancement Division)

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