Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles
What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock […]
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NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the […]
Andromeda in Southern Skies
Looking north from southern New Zealand, the Andromeda Galaxy never gets more than about five degrees above the […]
Orionid Meteor Shower: How and When to Watch It Peak ...
Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can […]
Webb Telescope Captures New View of ‘Pillars of Creation’ by ...
The NASA space observatory’s infrared eye finds out what’s going on within the cloudy cosmic nursery. Published: October […]
Pillars of Creation
A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured these star forming columns of cold gas and […]
First Known Family of Neanderthals Found in Russian Cave by ...
Fossilized bone fragments of a father, teenage daughter and other related Neanderthals were found alongside stone tools and […]
A Galaxy Beyond Stars, Gas, Dust
Do we dare believe our eyes? When we look at images of space, we often wonder whether they […]
Milky Way Auroral Flower
Could the stem of our Milky Way bloom into an auroral flower? No, not really, even though it […]
X Ray Rings Around a Gamma Ray Burst
Why would x-ray rings appear around a gamma-ray burst? The surprising answer has little to do with the […]