Seeing Spots
Mercury passes across the face of the Sun in this time-lapse image from 2006. Mercury will stage another transit on…
All Mixed Up
A small planet smacks into the young planet Jupiter in this artist’s concept. Studies of Jupiter’s interior suggest the giant…
Planetary Bullseye
This animation shows the aspect the planet Uranus will present to Earth through the year 2030. Uranus lies almost on…
Busy Neighbor
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a small section of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is our closest large galactic…
Messy Star System
This artist’s concept shows the aftermath of a collision between two asteroids orbiting NGC 2547-ID8, a star about 1200 light-years…
Big Chips
An array of charge-coupled devices sits at the heart of the Dark Energy Camera, which is attached to a telescope…
Following Up
An artist’s concept shows CHEOPS, a European space telescope, scanning the skies from Earth orbit. The craft is designed to…
Hot Moon
Io, one of the largest moons of Jupiter, passes in front of the planet’s clouds in this false-color image from…
Joining the Search
This array of telescopes in southern Arizona has joined Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence to date.…
Double Darkness
A computer simulation shows two black holes locked in a tight orbit around each other. The black holes are so…