Busy View
A NASA poster shows a fanciful future view of a spaceport on Trappist-1e, one of seven planets in the tightly…
Cloudy Giant
Bands of high-altitude clouds decorate this image of the planet Neptune, which is shining at its best and brightest in…
Caroline’s Rose
NGC 7789, a star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, is also known as Caroline’s Rose. It was discovered by Caroline…
Long Cloud
A long ribbon of clouds streams away from the summit of Arsia Mons, a volcano on Mars, in these images…
Breath of Life
A cloud of debris from an exploded star contains large amounts of oxygen (shown in green). Most of the oxygen…
Cold Volcanoes?
A combined image from two spacecraft shows possible plumes of ice or water erupting from Europa, one of the larger…
Milky Way Bar
A new study produced this diagram of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It consists of a long bar of…
Lightness and Darkness
Thousands of stars sparkle in the globular cluster Messier 22 in this image from an amateur astronomer. The cluster contains…
Night Light
A Perseid meteor streaks through the dark night skies of West Virginia in this 2015 image. This year’s shower will…
Dangerous Defense
A scene from the 1974 German film “Johannes Kepler” depicts the great astronomer with his mother, Katharina, who was on…