Return at Sunrise
Thursday, shortly after local sunrise over central Asia, this Soyuz spacecraft floated over a sea of golden clouds […]
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The Great Wall by Moonlight
Last Friday, an almost Full Moon rose as the Sun set, over this mountainous landscape north of Beijing, […]
Along the Cygnus Wall
The W-shaped ridge of emission featured in this vivid skyscape is known as the Cygnus Wall. Part of […]
Volcano of Fire Erupts Under the Stars
First, there was an unusual smell. Then there was a loud bang. But what appeared to the eye […]
Aurora over Icelandic Glacier
Several key conditions came together to create this award-winning shot. These included a dark night, few clouds, an […]
Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova
What are the unusual spots surrounding that galaxy? They are all images of the same supernova. For the […]
Stars at the Galactic Center
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds […]
NGC 602 in the Flying Lizard Nebula
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 […]
Cometary Globule CG4
The faint and somehow menacing cometary globule CG4 reaches through the center of this deep southern skyscape. About […]
Enhanced Color Caloris
The sprawling Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the solar system’s largest impact basins, created during the […]