Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe revealing both its densely packed

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

piling up at the collision site

there are many individual blue dots

This area is of great interest to scientists

Eclipsed: A View from Orion, Artemis II Parker Solar Probe revealing both its densely packedSolar 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.