A Spectre in the Eastern Veil
Frightening forms and scary faces are a mark of the Halloween season. They also haunt this cosmic close-up […]
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Iridescent Cloud Edge Over Colorado
Sometimes your eclipse viewing goes bad in an interesting way. While watching and photographing last Thursday‘s partial solar […]
Retrograde Mars
Why would Mars appear to move backwards? Most of the time, the apparent motion of Mars in Earth’s […]
Plane, Clouds, Moon, Spots, Sun
What’s that in front of the Sun? The closest object is an airplane, visible just below the Sun’s […]
Too Close to a Black Hole
What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? Featured is a computer generated […]
Sunspots and Solar Eclipse
A New Moon joined giant sunspot group AR 2192 to dim the bright solar disk during Thursday’s much […]
AR 2192: Giant on the Sun
As you (safely!) watched the progress of yesterday’s partial solar eclipse, you probably also spotted a giant sunspot […]
Galaxies in Pegasus
This wide, sharp telescopic view reveals galaxies scattered beyond the stars and faint dust nebulae of the Milky […]
Comet Siding Spring Passes Mars
Yesterday, a comet passed very close to Mars. In fact, Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) passed closer to […]
Comet McNaught Over New Zealand
Comet McNaught was perhaps the most photogenic comet of modern times — from Earth. After making quite a […]