La Silla Eclipse Sequence
The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led in to […]
Astronomy
In the Shadow of the Moon
On July 2 denizens of planet Earth could stand in the Moon’s dark umbral shadow during South America’s […]
Robotic Dragonfly Selected to Fly Across Titan
If you could fly across Titan, what would you see? To find out and to better explore this […]
NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy
If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe […]
Virtual Flight over Asteroid Vesta
What would it be like to fly over the asteroid Vesta? Animators from the German Aerospace Center took […]
The Longer Days
This persistent six month long exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (December 21, 2018 to June […]
Carina Nebula Panorama from Hubble
How do violent stars affect their surroundings? To help find out, astronomers created a 48-frame high-resolution, controlled-color panorama […]
Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia […]
A View Toward M106
Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of […]
Our Galaxys Magnetic Center
What’s the magnetic field like in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy? To help find out, NASA’s […]