On October 25th, Sun and New Moon set together as seen from Agra, India. Their close conjunction near the western...
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When does a nebula look like a comet? In this crowded starfield, covering over two degrees within the high flying...
This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part...
Jupiter and its moons move like our Sun and its planets. Similarly, Jupiter spins while its moons circle around. Jupiter’s...
During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet...
What are those red clouds surrounding the Andromeda galaxy? This galaxy, M31, is often imaged by planet Earth-based astronomers. As...
What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in...
Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the outline of...
When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves...
Looking north from southern New Zealand, the Andromeda Galaxy never gets more than about five degrees above the horizon. As...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct....
A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured these star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years...
Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains...
Do we dare believe our eyes? When we look at images of space, we often wonder whether they are "real",...
Could the stem of our Milky Way bloom into an auroral flower? No, not really, even though it may appear...
After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha...
Why would x-ray rings appear around a gamma-ray burst? The surprising answer has little to do with the explosion itself...
Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral....
