Featured Images

Venus's path across the Sun during the transit of 1761
Bright Passage
Monday, June 6, 2011
Artist's concept of upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Facelift for Science
Friday, June 3, 2011
Stars and cities streak past space shuttle Endeavour
Fast Flyer
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A painting by Andrew Wyeth depicts preparations for a Gemini launch in the 1960s
Ready for Liftoff
Monday, May 30, 2011
X-ray view of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,500 light-years from Earth
Star Factory
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 attached to the International Space Station
On Duty
Monday, May 23, 2011
Artist's concept of a free-floating planet in the Milky Way galaxy
Free Agent
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Space shutle Endeavour launches on its final mission, June 16, 2011
Final Endeavour
Monday, May 16, 2011
Cassini view of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus squirting far into space
Faithful Geysers
Friday, May 13, 2011
Primary mirror of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, McDonald Observatory
A Big Bottle of Windex?
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
M8, the Lagoon Nebula, is a vast stellar nurseary
Stellar Canvas
Friday, May 6, 2011
Alan Shepard enters his capsule, then launches aboard Freedom 7, May 5, 1961
A-OK Flight
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Lightning strikes near space shuttle Endeavour, April 28, 2011
Close Call
Monday, May 2, 2011
Moon and planets in the dawn sky, April 30/May 1, 2011
Dawn Encounter
Friday, April 29, 2011
Artist's concept of TW Hydra, a young star encircled by a disk of gas and dust
Messy Youngster
Monday, April 25, 2011
Artist's concept of the planetary system Kepler 11
Close Family
Friday, April 22, 2011

FacebookTwitterYouTube

©2013 The University of Texas McDonald Observatory