The Fox Fur Nebula
This interstellar canine is formed of cosmic dust and gas interacting with the energetic light and winds from […]
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Dust of the Orion Nebula
What surrounds a hotbed of star formation? In the case of the Orion Nebula — dust. The entire […]
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when – it may be next year, […]
Southern Craters and Galaxies
The Henbury craters in the Northern Territory, Australia, planet Earth, are the scars of an impact over 4,000 […]
Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
Beautiful, luminous decorations on this pinyon pine tree are actually bright stars in the constellation Scorpius and the […]
Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory
Where do Geminid meteors come from? In terms of location on the sky, as the featured image composite […]
SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image
It’s back. Never before has an observed supernova been predicted. The unique astronomical event occurred in the field […]
A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite
There is something very unusual in this picture of the Earth — can you find it? A fleeting […]
Star Streams and the Whale Galaxy
NGC 4631 is a spiral galaxy found only 25 million light-years away, toward the well-trained northern constellation Canes […]
Herbig Haro 24
This might look like a double-bladed lightsaber, but these two cosmic jets actually beam outward from a newborn […]