Artistic Giant
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and several other giant storms highlight this view of the planet’s southern hemisphere, compiled from three…
Getting Famous
Albert Einstein (center) became world famous even without social media after the results of observations of the solar eclipse of…
A Planet That Never Was
The Dawn spacecraft provided this view of Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt. Occator Crater, at the center…
Loud and Clear
Lanes of dark dust punctuated by bright stellar nurseries highlight the center of Centaurus A, a distant galaxy that is…
Looking Deep
A radio telescope stares into deep space in this artist’s concept of an observatory based on the far side of…
Last Look
Hubble Space Telescope flies free after its final servicing mission, in May 2009. Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis installed new…
Big Bash
This artist’s concept shows an asteroid slamming into Greenland thousands of years ago. The collision left a crater that was…
The Herdsman
The constellation Bootes, the herdsman, climbs high across the sky on spring and summer nights. It is well up in…
Mars in the Middle
The crescent Moon anchors a lineup of bright objects in the early evening sky of May 7. The closest companion…
Stars Everywhere
A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the busy center of Messier 3, a globular cluster about 30,000 light-years from Earth.…