Night Sky Reflected
What’s that in the mirror? In the featured image of the dark southern sky, the three brightest galaxies […]
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A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
What’s happened to the sky? Aurora! Captured in 2015, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its great […]
Saturn at Night
Still bright in planet Earth’s night skies, good telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make […]
Bruce Is a Parrot With a Broken Beak. So He ...
The bird is a kea from New Zealand, and his fabrication of an instrument to help him preen […]
Rosetta’s Comet in View
Faint comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) sweeps past background stars in the constellation Taurus and even fainter distant galaxies in […]
M16 Close Up
A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, M16 […]
The Deep Sky Toward Andromeda
What surrounds the Andromeda galaxy? Out in space, Andromeda (M31) is closely surrounded by several small satellite galaxies, […]
How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: It’s Genetics, Not a ...
Researchers took a deep dive into embryonic development to tease out the source of the tabby pattern in […]
NGC 520: Colliding Galaxies from Hubble
Is this one galaxy or two? The jumble of stars, gas, and dust that is NGC 520 is […]
Firefly Milky Way over Russia
It started with a pine tree. The idea was to photograph a statuesque pine in front of the […]