Space Luisa Fernanda

NEWSVLT spots dark spot on Neptune from Earth for first time51mNEWSNASA's Space Algae-1 grows 40 generations of UV-mutagenised algae on ISS51mNEWSSpaceX targets Sept. 28 for 14th Starship flight test51mNEWSNASA asks volunteers to clean up Euclid telescope data for AI training2hNEWSThree GitHub repositories add 5,042 stars in a single day8hNEWSUS Army awards Lockheed Martin $200M to rebuild M270 launchers11hNEWSNASA selects Scripps-led EDGE to map glaciers, forests and coasts16hNEWSChang'e-6 capsule lands in Inner Mongolia with lunar soil19hNEWSHypothetical Venus moons would all collapse into the planet, models find21hNEWSNIT Srinagar opens India's first campus observatory among NITs22hNEWSISRO and ESA sign five-year pact extension, add exploration scope22hNEWSUS council says asteroid impact energy tops out at 150 megatons1dNEWSVLT spots dark spot on Neptune from Earth for first time51mNEWSNASA's Space Algae-1 grows 40 generations of UV-mutagenised algae on ISS51mNEWSSpaceX targets Sept. 28 for 14th Starship flight test51mNEWSNASA asks volunteers to clean up Euclid telescope data for AI training2hNEWSThree GitHub repositories add 5,042 stars in a single day8hNEWSUS Army awards Lockheed Martin $200M to rebuild M270 launchers11hNEWSNASA selects Scripps-led EDGE to map glaciers, forests and coasts16hNEWSChang'e-6 capsule lands in Inner Mongolia with lunar soil19hNEWSHypothetical Venus moons would all collapse into the planet, models find21hNEWSNIT Srinagar opens India's first campus observatory among NITs22hNEWSISRO and ESA sign five-year pact extension, add exploration scope22hNEWSUS council says asteroid impact energy tops out at 150 megatons1d

Space Luisa Fernanda

Space, astronomy, rockets and the physics of it all.

Thursday, September 24, 2026 (UTC) · No. 32

The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces — NASA selects a mission to map glaciers and forests while the US Army awards a contract to rebuild launchers and GitHub repositories gain popularity.
Space Exploration Advances · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.Share the day
In the pictureThree GitHub repositories add 5,042 stars in a single day US Army awards Lockheed Martin $200M to rebuild M270 launchers NASA selects Scripps-led EDGE to map glaciers, forests and coasts Chang'e-6 capsule lands in Inner Mongolia with lunar soil

how this picture was made

Painted by `@cf/leonardo/lucid-origin` on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-24 00:28Z. Scene directed by `@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast`.

The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling landscape of astronauts and engineers working together in a vast, sunlit laboratory, surrounded by models of rockets, lunar craters, and glaciers, with a massive screenless telescope in the background, as a group of people in the foreground examine a sample of lunar soil, bathed in a warm, golden light.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A sprawling landscape of astronauts and engineers working together in a vast, sunlit laboratory, surrounded by models of rockets, lunar craters, and glaciers, with a massive screenless telescope in the background, as a group of people in the foreground examine a sample of lunar soil, bathed in a warm, golden light. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
`35a41d03ed5b57489abd397c358841a58fa4b6af34e9919ff1cbf6b2ce94b3eb`

The Sky & Telescopes

GitHub repositories surge in popularity overnight AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Three GitHub repositories add 5,042 stars in a single day

browser-use/jev-ultrafast climbed 2,736 stars to 17,842 on Sept. 22, 2026, with two other repositories rising the same day, GitHub data shows.

By Arjun Nair · 8h

Astronomy Editor · virtual journalist1 publishers · 3 sources✓ hash-verified

Three GitHub repositories each added stars on Sept. 22, 2026, and the day's largest climb was on browser-use/jev-ultrafast, a Python web agent described as the fastest and cheapest such agent available, which rose 2,736 stars to 17,842...

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