All Sky Steve
Familiar green and red tinted auroral emission floods the sky along the northern (top) horizon in this fish-eye […]
Astronomy
NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere […]
Star Cluster NGC 362 from Hubble
If our Sun were near the center of NGC 362, the night sky would glow like a jewel […]
Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles
What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock […]
Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres
What created this unusual mountain? Ahuna Mons is the largest mountain on the largest known asteroid in our […]
Dark Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Where did all the stars go? What used to be considered a hole in the sky is now […]
Eclipsosaurus Rex
We live in an era where total solar eclipses are possible because at times the apparent size of […]
The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region […]
Ice Ring around Nearby Star Fomalhaut
Why is there a large ice ring around Fomalhaut? This interesting star — easily visible in the night […]
Two Comets and a Star Cluster
Two unusual spots are on the move near the famous Pleiades star cluster. Shifting only a small amount […]