Observatory

 

A Meteor and the Gegenschein

2021 May 12

Clouds of the Carina Nebula

2021 May 2

Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star

2021 April 27

سیاره زمین در شفق


Centaurus A's Warped Magnetic Fields


Da Vinci Rise

An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.

Little Planet to Exoplanets

Of course this little planet is really planet Earth in a digitally stitched 360 x 180 degree mosaic captured high in the Chilean Atacama desert.

Recycling Cassiopeia A

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives.

Messier 61 Close Up

Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and small telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this magnificent portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61).

1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula

By the turn of the 20th century advances in photography contributed an important tool for astronomers.

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