Pickering’s Triangle in the Veil
Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth’s sky toward the constellation of […]
Astronomy
Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres
What created these bright spots on Ceres? The spots were first noted as the robotic Dawn spacecraft approached […]
A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
What’s happened to the sky? Aurora! Captured late last month, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its […]
Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New […]
A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the […]
ISS Double Transit
Not once, but twice the International Space Station transits the Sun on consecutive orbits of planet Earth in […]
A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat
Very faint but also very large on planet Earth’s sky, a giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and […]
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the constellation Musca, […]
NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Their investigation […]
Distorted Green Flash Sunset over Italy
This was one strange sunset. For one thing, the typically round Sun appeared distorted, geometrically, and multiply layered. […]