Wandering Pole
Earth’s north magnetic pole is sprinting across the Arctic, as shown in this map. In 1831, it was centered at…
Bubbling Sun
Bubbles of hot gas as big as Texas roil the surface of the Sun in this 2020 view from the…
Windy Planet
Winds howl through the upper atmosphere of the planet WASP-127b in this artist’s concept. Winds on the giant planet, which…
Beehive Cluster
The Beehive star cluster sparkles in this view from a ground-based telescope. The Moon and Mars appear quite close to…
Deco Dome
An artist’s rendering from near the time of its dedication depicts the dome of the 82-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory.…
Sun from Solar Orbiter
The Sun’s dynamic outer atmosphere, the corona, looks a bit like an angry jack-o-lantern in this recent ultraviolet image from…
Asteroid Encounter
The Lucy spacecraft snapped this series of images of the asteroid Donaldjohanson as it closed to just 600 miles (1,000…
First Quasar
3C 273, which is the bright object at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image, looks like a star.…
NGC 1514
A dying star is blowing giant “bubbles” of gas and dust into space, sculpting the beautiful scene depicted in this…
Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Jantar Mantar, an observatory in Jaipur, India, was both a scientific and artistic treature. Many of its structures, which formed…