Strong and Fast
CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia, stares skyward as Aldebaran and the Pleiades wheel overhead. The telescope has discovered…
Double the Beauty
Hundreds of stars glow in the Double Cluster, a pair of star clusters in Perseus. The clusters are about 7,500…
A New Season
The Cassini spacecraft snapped this view of Saturn and its magnificent rings shortly before the start of summer in the…
Giant Crescent
Voyager 2 captured this view of the giant planet Neptune shortly after flying past it in 1989. The image has…
Zodiacal Light
A glowing pyramid known as zodiacal light extends upward from the horizon in this view from the European Southern Observatory…
Stellar Bubble
This bubble of hot gas is giving birth to new stars in the constellation Scorpius. Known as RCW 120, it's…
On the Road
Harvey Nininger, perhaps the world's leading expert on meteorites, opened the world's first meteorite museum 75 years ago. The American…
Still Going
One of the twin Voyager spacecraft heads into interstellar space in this artist's concept. The two probes are still working…
Inhospitable Clouds
Towering clouds and violent thunderstorms highlight this artist's vision of the atmosphere of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. The…
Anti-Hunter
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2, an instrument designed to hunt for cosmic rays and particles of antimatter, is attached to the…