Total Lunar Eclipse over Waterton Lake
Recorded in 2014 April, this total lunar eclipse sequence looks south down icy Waterton Lake from the Waterton […]
Astronomy
M31 versus M33
Separated by about 14 degrees (28 Full Moons) in planet Earth’s sky, spiral galaxies M31 at left, and […]
Pluto’s Snakeskin Terrain
A mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa sprawls some 530 kilometers (330 miles) across this Plutonian landscape. […]
LDN 988 and Friends
Stars are forming in dark, dusty molecular cloud LDN 988. Seen near picture center some 2,000 light-years distant, […]
Antarctic Analemma
Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A better and more […]
Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina
What are those streaks of light in the sky? First and foremost, the arching structure is the central […]
Spiral Galaxy M96 from Hubble
Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the […]
Global Ocean Suspected on Saturns Enceladus
Do some surface features on Enceladus roll like a conveyor belt? A leading interpretation of images taken of […]
A Prominence on the Sun
This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun’s eastern […]
A Plutonian Landscape
This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon of a small, distant world. […]