Blowing Bubbles
A multi-wavelength image shows the Ring Nebula, the last gasp of a dying star. As the nuclear reactions in its…
Making Waves
The moon Daphnis, which is about five miles (8 km) long, creates ripples in Saturn’s rings as it orbits the…
Jovian Pearls
Three giant storms cruise beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (top left) in this 1979 image from the Voyager 1 spacecraft.…
Scary Storm
A solar flare erupts on the limb of the Sun in this 2015 image. A similar solar storm in 1967…
Faint Cat
Lynx is a long but faint constellation that stands well up in the west to northwest at nightfall on May…
Two-Faced Moon
Saturn’s moon Iapetus is one of the oddballs of the solar system. One hemisphere is almost completely white, while the…
Star Globe
This Hubble Space Telescope view shows the core of 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster in the southern constellation Tucana, the…
Volcanic Connection
The volcanic moon Io swings in front of Jupiter in this false-color 2007 view from the New Horizons spacecraft. Io…
Icy Layers
Ceres, the largest resident of the asteroid belt, consists of a layers, as determined by the orbiting Dawn spacecraft. The…
Leftovers
Millions of asteroids orbit the Sun in a wide belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as shown in…