An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands
Can the night sky be both art and science? If so, perhaps the featured image is an example. […]
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An Unusual Globule in IC 1396
Is there a monster in IC 1396? Known to some as the
Io in True Color
The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how […]
America and the Sea of Serenity
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view of another world. Fifty years ago the […]
Mars Rises above the Lunar Limb
On the night of December 7 Mars wandered near the Full Moon. In fact the Red Planet was […]
Orion and the Ocean of Storms
A camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view on December 5 as Orion approached its […]
NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, toward the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. The […]
M16: A Star Forming Pillar from Webb
What’s happening inside this interstellar mountain? Stars are forming. The mountain is actually a column of gas and […]
Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it […]
Video: Powers of Ten
How different does the universe look on very small scales? On very large scales? The most famous short […]