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 […]
astronomy
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 […]
Pillars of Creation
A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured these star forming columns of cold gas 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 […]
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is […]
GRB 221009A
Gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A likely signals the birth of a new black hole, formed at the core of […]
The Falcon and the Hunter s Moon
The Full Moon of October 9th was the second Full Moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, traditionally […]