Unusually Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa
Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? The answer seems likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid t...
Astronomic Photos
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M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind
Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent...
AR 4478: Giant Sunspot Group
Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 4478 is not only b...
Mars Marathon by Perseverance
In this recent HiRISE view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the little green dot indicated on the surface of the...
Milky Way Urban Style
In a cosmic vista you can never see, the Milky Way arcs through the night above Seoul, South Korea. Remarkably, this ...
Anticrepuscular Rays over Sicily
The Sun has just set... in the opposite side of the sky. Pictured here are anticrepuscular rays apparently convergi...
SDO Observes a Coronal Mass Ejection
Why does the Sun throw stuff at us? The Sun’s surface is a churning soup of energetic electrons and ions called pla...
Flying Past Neptune's Moon Triton
What would it look like to fly past Triton, the largest moon of planet Neptune? Only one spacecraft has ever done th...
M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The first hint of our Sun's future was discovered inadvertently...