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A deep look at Orion
This composite - made of 7 images - will show you what the eye alone can't see in the area of the sky in and around the constellation Orion.
November 8, 2019
TESS planet-hunter shows you the southern sky
Mosaic of the southern sky constructed from 208 images by NASA’s TESS spacecraft, taken during the mission’s first year of science operations.
November 6, 2019
Mist over an Antarctic research station
A photo of mist above an Antarctic research station. Sunlight returned to this part of the world in August, after 4 months of continuous night. Now the station is getting ready for an influx of summer visitors.
November 1, 2019
Hubble brings you a spooky cosmic face
This ghostly face, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 19, is actually a collision of 2 galaxies of about equal size, 704 million light-years from Earth.
October 30, 2019
Jupiter at sunset
Jim AndRobin Moore in Nitro, West Virginia, captured Jupiter as the sun was setting on Monday.
October 30, 2019
Cosmic saguaro
Saguaro cactus in the starlight, in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona.
October 27, 2019
Star trails from the ISS
Photo of star trails by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
October 24, 2019
Tycho supernova
New image of the Tycho supernova remnant from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
October 23, 2019
Spiral galaxy in profile
Hubble Telescope view of a spiral galaxy - called NGC 3717 - oriented sideways.
October 19, 2019
Rainbow over Bavaria
A rainbow glows over Kranzhorn Mountain in Germany's Bavarian Alps.
October 18, 2019
