The Northern Winter Hexagon
December’s New Moon brought a solar eclipse to some for the holiday season. It also gave beautiful dark […]
Astronomy
An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
What is this person doing? In 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun was visible over a narrow […]
A Northern Winter Sky Panorama
What stars shine in Earth’s northern hemisphere during winter? The featured image highlights a number of bright stars […]
Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu
Where is the best place to collect a surface sample from asteroid Bennu? Launched in 2016, NASA sent […]
Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse
The 2019 December Solstice, on the first day of winter in planet Earth’s northern hemisphere and summer in […]
Late Afternoon on Mars
Shadows grow long near sunset in this wide panoramic view from the Curiosity rover on Mars. Made with […]
Apollo 17 s Moonship
Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17’s lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of […]
A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface
What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to […]
The Horsehead Nebula
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. […]
The Magnetic Fields of Spiral Galaxy M77
Can magnetic fields help tell us how spiral galaxies form and evolve? To find out, the HAWC+ instrument […]