Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow
What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full f...
Astronomic Photos
Check out the beauty of the cosmos!
The Protostars within Lynds 483
Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this near-infrar...
NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy
Why does this galaxy look like a curly vegetable? The Fiddlehead spiral galaxy likely gets its distorted spiral appe...
NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest centr...
NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space ...
Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole
Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched. NASA's robotic...
Galaxies in Space
The plane of our Milky Way galaxy extends beyond the limb of planet Earth in this space age exposure captured by astr...
Planetary Nebula Abell 7
Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's...
Starburst Galaxy Messier 94
Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the ...