Volcano of Fire Erupts Under the Stars
First, there was an unusual smell. Then there was a loud bang. But what appeared to the eye […]
Astronomy
Aurora over Icelandic Glacier
Several key conditions came together to create this award-winning shot. These included a dark night, few clouds, an […]
Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova
What are the unusual spots surrounding that galaxy? They are all images of the same supernova. For the […]
Stars at the Galactic Center
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds […]
NGC 602 in the Flying Lizard Nebula
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 […]
Cometary Globule CG4
The faint and somehow menacing cometary globule CG4 reaches through the center of this deep southern skyscape. About […]
Enhanced Color Caloris
The sprawling Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the solar system’s largest impact basins, created during the […]
Pillars and Jets in the Pelican Nebula
What dark structures arise from the Pelican Nebula? Visible as a bird-shaped nebula toward the constellation of a […]
A Dust Devil on Mars
It was late in the northern martian spring when the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spied […]
Lenticular Cloud, Moon, Mars, Venus
It is not every day that such an interesting cloud photobombs your image. The original plan was to […]