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What’s that under the surface of Mercury? The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft that had been orbiting planet Mercury for […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 6, 2015 by Farzin

Sometimes the sky lights up unexpectedly. A trip to northern Norway to photograph auroras was not going as […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 5, 2015 by Farzin

How can the Moon rise through a mountain? It cannot — what was photographed here is a moonrise […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 4, 2015 by Farzin

Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper’s bowl until you get to the handle’s […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 3, 2015 by Farzin

The first to orbit Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft came to rest on this region of Mercury’s surface yesterday. […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 2, 2015 by Farzin

A long solar filament stretches across the relatively calm surface of the Sun in this telescopic snap shot […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 1, 2015 by Farzin

What’s that in front of the Moon? It’s the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space […]

Why isn’t this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar […]

Located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, the young cluster and starforming region Westerlund 2 fills this […]

Lapping at rocks along the shore of the Island of Nangan, Taiwan, planet Earth, waves are infused with […]