Global Ocean Suspected on Saturns Enceladus
Do some surface features on Enceladus roll like a conveyor belt? A leading interpretation of images taken of […]
astronomy
A Prominence on the Sun
This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun’s eastern […]
A Plutonian Landscape
This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon of a small, distant world. […]
Pickering’s Triangle in the Veil
Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth’s sky toward the constellation of […]
Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres
What created these bright spots on Ceres? The spots were first noted as the robotic Dawn spacecraft approached […]
A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
What’s happened to the sky? Aurora! Captured late last month, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its […]
Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New […]
A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the […]
ISS Double Transit
Not once, but twice the International Space Station transits the Sun on consecutive orbits of planet Earth in […]
A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat
Very faint but also very large on planet Earth’s sky, a giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and […]