Catégorie : Images

Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon

Why does a cloudy moon sometimes appear colorful? The effect, called a lunar corona, is created by the quantum mechanical

What happens if you ascend this stairway to the Milky Way? Before answering that, let’s understand the beautiful sky you

Dark markings and bright nebulae in this telescopic southern sky view are telltale signs of young stars and active star

What’s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual — it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of 2012, a

Orbiting 400 kilometers above Quebec, Canada, planet Earth, the International Space Station Expedition 59 crew captured this snapshot of the

Star formation can be messy. To help find out just how messy, ESA’s new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the

Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years

It was bright and green and stretched across the sky. This striking aurora display was captured in 2016 just outside

Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? It’s not even close. The « claw » of this odd looking « creature » in the