Galaxies in the Furnace An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous
elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away
toward Fornax,
the southern constellation of the Furnace

The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae,
these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater Fifty three years ago,
in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours
on the Moon
exploring the
Taurus-Littrow
valley, while colleague Ronald Evans
orbited overhead

The Sun and Its Missing Colors It is still
not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors

Flying Over the Earth at Night Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night

The Heart of the Soul Nebula This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar
molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately
recognizable shape

Northern Fox Fires In a Finnish myth,
when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains,
flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights

Galaxies in the River Large galaxies grow by eating small ones

Orion and the Ocean of Storms On December 5, 2022,
a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured
this view as Orion
approached its return powered flyby of the Moon

Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter What would it be like to fly over the
largest moon in the
Solar System?

In 2021, the robotic
Juno spacecraft
flew past
Jupiter's
huge moon
Ganymede and took images that have been digitally
constructed into a detailed flyby

Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains Where are all of these meteors coming from?

In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the
constellation
of Gemini

Andromeda and Sprites over Australia What’s happening over that tree?

Two very different things

W5: The Soul Nebula Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of
Aethopia

Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini Jupiter,
the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial
beacon at the center of this
composite night skyscape

Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus When the Moon
is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the
Montes Caucasus
as seen from the lunar surface

A Solstice Sun Tattoo The word
solstice is from the Latin for Sun and to pause or stand still

Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky

Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy What's happening in the sky?

Lightning

Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe What are these little red dots (LRDs)?

Nobody knows

Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree A star forming region
cataloged as NGC 2264,
this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about
2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation
Monoceros, the Unicorn