Brilliant Echo
Light from an erupting star illuminates vast clouds of gas and dust in this 2006 view from Hubble Space Telescope.…
Hot Lake
A giant lake of molten rock forms a dark horseshoe on the surface of Io, one of the big moons…
Close Twins
The two stars that form the system MY Camelopardalis are so close together that they share their outer layers of…
Final Approach
The dwarf planet Ceres spins on its axis in this animation compiled from 27 images from the Dawn spacecraft, which…
On the Frontier
The gravity of the galaxies that form a cluster known as Abell 2744 warps and magnifies the view of more-distant…
Reborn Stars
The star cluster M3 contains many “reborn” stars among its half-million members. These stars have merged with other stars or…
Family Portrait
The Cassini spacecraft saw this glorious view of Saturn and its family of rings in 2013. The spacecraft was viewing…
Double Double
Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Markarian 231, an odd spiral galaxy. Recent research suggests it’s the remnant of…
Cyclops?
Although it looks like an alien Cyclops, this is a Hubble Space Telescope view of the Eskimo Nebula, the last…