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Hubble’s new portrait of Jupiter
This new Hubble Space Telescope portrait of Jupiter reveals a smaller-than-usual Great Red Spot and an intense color palette in Jupiter's swirling clouds. NASA said, "The colors, and their changes, provide important clues to ongoing processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere."
August 9, 2019
Butterfly trio
Crystal Kolb captured these 3 butterflies along a pathway behind her house in Bedford, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday morning.
August 8, 2019
A mountain on dwarf planet Ceres
Here's a reconstructed "perspective view" of the tallest mountain on Ceres, which in turn is the largest world in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Earthly astronomers call the mountain Ahuna Mons.
August 4, 2019
Rare reflection rainbow over Michigan
Between the usual primary and secondary rainbows, you can see a 3rd bow, caused by sunlight reflecting off the water.
August 2, 2019
Ten million stars
When you see it with your unaided eye, Omega Centauri looks like a fuzzy, faint star. But it is, in fact, a collection of 10 million stars.
July 30, 2019
Morning moon
Photographer Lee Capps captured this week's morning moon from North Carolina. Thanks, Lee!
July 20, 2019
Apollo 11 launch pad
A satellite image from January 2019 shows launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. From there - on July 16, 1969 - a Saturn V rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 11 launched humanity's historic voyage to the moon.
July 17, 2019
Cactus blossom near Shimla, India
Contributed by our friend Swami Krishnananda, a photo essay of a walk up a hillside near Shimla, India, closer and closer to a cactus blossom, with thoughts on impermanence.
July 15, 2019
Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds over Nova Scotia
Photographer Tanvi Javkar spotted Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds spread across the sky on June 28, 2019, in Nova Scotia.
July 13, 2019
