Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
Ringed, ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space […]
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NGC 7331 Close Up
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About […]
The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to […]
Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars
What’s happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. […]
Star Trails and Lightning over the Pyrenees
The beauty in this image comes in layers. On the bottom layer is the picturesque village of Manlleu […]
Analemma over the Callanish Stones
If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, […]
Perseverance in Jezero Crater s Delta
The Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z captured images to create this mosaic on August 4, 2022. The car-sized robot was […]
The Tarantula Zone
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant […]
Harvest Moon over Sicily
For northern hemisphere dwellers, September’s Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset it rises […]
Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula
It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky — why isn’t it better known? Roughly the […]