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Reindeer under a New Year’s aurora
As 2015 opened, a beautiful aurora and reindeer gazing on northern tundra.
January 6, 2015
Supernova in the Superwind Galaxy
This is a Type Ia supernova. A white dwarf pulls matter from its companion star until it begins to collapse. Suddenly .. bam! It explodes as a supernova.
January 4, 2015
Volcano shadow in Hawaii
Mountains cast shadows, of course, but it's not often we get this perspective on one. Thank you, Stephen Green of Imaginscape Photography!
January 2, 2015
New Year’s Comet Lovejoy
Wow! Comet Lovejoy is really living up to its name! A wonderful December 29 photo from Justin Ng of Singapore and a link below to how you can see the comet.
December 31, 2014
Year’s end at Achill Island, Ireland
Late December night sky over the Irish island of Achill.
December 30, 2014
Analemma 2014, from Hong Kong
If you could record the position of the sun in the sky at the same time every day for a year, you'd record this figure-8 path, called an analemma.
December 28, 2014
Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud as captured by astrophotographer Justin Ng of Singapore. This hazy cloud in Earth's sky is a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.
December 26, 2014
Celestial snow angel
A massive, young star lies is central to this "snow angel" nebula. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glow blue in this image, forming the angel's wings.
December 24, 2014
Venus over Saronikos Gulf, Greece
The waxing crescent moon will be moving up past Venus in the first few days of this new week. Watch for them exceedingly low in the west after sunset.
December 21, 2014
