The Seagull and The Duck
Seen as a seagull and a duck, these nebulae are not the only cosmic clouds to evoke images […]
Astronomy
Catalog Entry Number 1
Every journey has first step and every catalog a first entry. First entries in six well-known deep sky […]
The Complete Galactic Plane: Up and Down
Is it possible to capture the entire plane of our galaxy in a single image? Yes, but not […]
Flying over the Earth at Night II
What would it be like to orbit the Earth? The International Space Station (ISS) does this every 90 […]
Phases of the Moon
Look at the Moon every night and its visible sunlit portion gradually changes. In phases progressing from New […]
Horsehead: A Wider View
Combined image data from the massive, ground-based VISTA telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope was used to create […]
Cyclones at Jupiter s North Pole
Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper data was used to construct this stunning view of cyclones at Jupiter’s North […]
Arcs, Jets, and Shocks near NGC 1999
This tantalizing array of nebulas and stars can be found about two degrees south of the famous star-forming […]
Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way
Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, […]
Southwest Mare Fecunditatis
Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders journeyed from Earth to the Moon and back again in December […]