IC 405: The Flaming Star Nebula
Rippling dust and gas lanes give the Flaming Star Nebula its name. The orange and purple colors of […]
Astronomy
Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter
Some cloud patterns on Jupiter are quite complex. The featured tumultuous clouds were captured in May by NASA’s […]
A Starry Night of Iceland
On some nights, the sky is the best show in town. On this night, the sky was not […]
Aurora Slathers Up the Sky
Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June […]
Quadrantids over the Great Wall
Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower is an annual event for planet Earth’s northern hemisphere […]
The Fainting of Betelgeuse
Begirt with many a blazing star, Orion the Hunter is one of the most recognizable constellations. In this […]
Betelgeuse Imagined
Why is Betelgeuse fading? No one knows. Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most recognized stars in the […]
Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturns Ring Plane
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn’s “appendages” disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand […]
A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to […]
A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected
What’s happened to the Sun? Yesterday, if you were in the right place at the right time, you […]