Highlights of the Summer Sky
What’s up in the sky this summer? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth’s northern hemisphere. […]
Astronomy
Orion: Belt, Flame, and Horsehead
What surrounds the famous belt stars of Orion? A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star […]
Perijove Passage
On May 19, the Juno spacecraft once again swung by Jupiter in its looping 53 day orbit around […]
Black Holes of Known Mass
Add GW170104 to the chart of black holes with known mass. The extremely energetic merger of two smaller […]
Shadowrise and Sunset
The road tracking through this stunning 360 degree view crosses a remote mountain area of Jämtland, Sweden, planet […]
A Kalahari Sky
You wake up in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa. You go outside your tent, set up your […]
Beneath Jupiter
Jupiter is stranger than we knew. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has now completed its sixth swoop past Jupiter as […]
Comet Clark is near the Edge.
Sweeping through this stunning field of view, Comet 71P/Clark really is in the foreground of these cosmic clouds. […]
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It […]
NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
Is our Galaxy this thin? We believe so. Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet […]