Eclipsed in Southern Skies
This stunning panorama in southern skies was recorded on the colorful night of September 27/28 from Carnegie Las […]
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Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars
What creates these changing streaks on Mars? Called Recurring Slope Linea (RSL), these dark features start on the […]
Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm
What’s more rare than a supermoon total lunar eclipse? How about a supermoon total lunar eclipse over a […]
Total Lunar Eclipse over Waterton Lake
Recorded in 2014 April, this total lunar eclipse sequence looks south down icy Waterton Lake from the Waterton […]
M31 versus M33
Separated by about 14 degrees (28 Full Moons) in planet Earth’s sky, spiral galaxies M31 at left, and […]
Pluto’s Snakeskin Terrain
A mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa sprawls some 530 kilometers (330 miles) across this Plutonian landscape. […]
LDN 988 and Friends
Stars are forming in dark, dusty molecular cloud LDN 988. Seen near picture center some 2,000 light-years distant, […]
Antarctic Analemma
Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A better and more […]
Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina
What are those streaks of light in the sky? First and foremost, the arching structure is the central […]
Spiral Galaxy M96 from Hubble
Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the […]