Where Your Shadow Has Company
Want to take a relaxing interstellar vacation? Consider visiting Kepler-16b, a world in a binary star system. In […]
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NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis
Magnificent island universe NGC 2403 stands within the boundaries of the long-necked constellation Camelopardalis. Some 10 million light-years […]
Hitomi Launches
On February 17 at 5:45pm JST this H-IIA rocket blasted skyward from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center located off […]
Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia
What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock […]
Star Forming Region S106
Massive star IRS 4 is beginning to spread its wings. Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming […]
White Rock Fingers on Mars
What caused this unusual light rock formation on Mars? Intrigued by the possibility that they could be salt […]
A Heart Shaped Lenticular Cloud
Can a cloud love a mountain? Perhaps not, but on a Valentine’s Day like today, one might be […]
Yutu on a Little Planet
Tracks lead to a small robot perched near the top of this bright little planet. Of course, the […]
LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
Gravitational radiation has been directly detected. The first-ever detection was made by both facilities of the Laser Interferometer […]
Galaxies in the River
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that […]