Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe This black hole

This black hole

revealing both its densely packed field of stars and its gas-rich regions (those stunning yellow swirls) in unprecedented detail

there are many individual blue dots

piling up at the collision site

Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C

Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe This black holeSolar eclipse, Saturn, Mars, Earthshine, and Orion. One photograph. April 6, 2026. The Moon passes directly in front of the Sun during the Artemis II flyby, and the crew captured this from Orion. The spacecraft is visible on the left foreground. The Moon's disk is backlit, its edge glowing with the Sun's corona behind it. On the left side, a subtle brightness on the lunar surface: that's Earthshine, our planet reflecting sunlight back onto the Moon.