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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 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! 🤯

thisnthat.bsky.social
@thisnthat.bsky.social

Yup that one and this one are just hard to comprehend: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... What that experience must have been like for the crew I can only guess at. (I was following the stream at the time and they said they needed new words to try and convey what they were seeing.)

flickr.comArtemis II in Eclipseart002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appe...