Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a fantastic shot of the canyons of Valles Marineris on Mars using the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera.
The Minor Planet Center has confirmed that the Earth has acquired a temporary mini-moon, designation 2020 CD3, which orbits every 47 days and is the size of a car.
Motion Designer Christian Stangl and Composer Wolfgang Stangl used the 400,000 images released by the ESA of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to make a short film. The footage uses digitally enhanced real footage from the probe.
LightSail2 has successfully demonstrated that space flight by light is possible! LightSail2 demonstrated controlled solar sailing in a CubeSat by changing the spacecraft's orbit using only the light pressure of the Sun.
In a great tweet thread this week, artists Ciaran Duffy released a set of illustrated the solar system and planets in Irish. You can buy the range of beautiful prints here.
LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project from the Planetary Society which launched this week on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Deployment in space of the cubesat with attached solar sail is due on July 2.
