M53 Globular Cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWO ASI585MC Pro.
945mm, f6.3, 150 exposures of 30’’.

After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top!
The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon!

Full panorama: https://www.360cities.net/image/marsrover-perseverance-navcam-sol-1354

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
Credits: High-Z Supernova Search Team, HST, #NASA

Woohoo! First post to the Fediverse *from space* via the International Space Station!!!! (Packet sent via RF to space, then retransmitted to earth from the ISS digipeater back to earth, detected by my bot and posted to the Fediverse). Message from @wd9ewk

On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world.

First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before...

"We came in peace, for all mankind"

#Apollo11 #Apollo #science #OTD #1969