Aurora and Manicouagan Crater from the Space Station
How many of these can you find in today’s featured photograph: an aurora, airglow, one of the oldest […]
Astronomy
Coronal Rain on the Sun
Does it rain on the Sun? Yes, although what falls is not water but extremely hot plasma. An […]
Galaxies Away
This stunning group of galaxies is far, far away, about 450 million light-years from planet Earth and cataloged […]
The Gum Nebula Expanse
Named for a cosmic cloud hunter, Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), The Gum Nebula is so large […]
Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator
Why does the right part of this image of the Moon stand out? Shadows. The terminator line — […]
Jupiter Cloud Animation from Juno
How do Jupiter’s clouds move? To help find out, images taken with NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its last […]
In the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula
In the heart of monstrous Tarantula Nebula lies huge bubbles of energetic gas, long filaments of dark dust, […]
Reflections of Venus and Moon
Posing near the western horizon, a brilliant evening star and slender young crescent shared reflections in a calm […]
Milky Way vs Airglow Australis
Captured last week after sunset on a Chilean autumn night, an exceptional airglow floods this allsky view from […]
Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud
This image is not blurry. It shows in clear detail that the largest satellite galaxy to our Milky […]