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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana Explanation: This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably

Image Credit & License: NASA/JPL/SSI; Composition: Gordan Ugarkovic Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited

Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: How was the unusual Red Rectangle nebula created? At the nebula's center is an aging binary star system that surely

Image Credit & Copyright: Roy Spencer Explanation: On April 30, a Full Moon rose opposite the setting Sun. Its yellowish moonglow silhouettes a low tree-lined ridge along Lewis Mountain in this

Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace Photography Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol Masztalerz Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Explanation: From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 3344 face-on. Nearly 40,000 light-years across, the big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just

Image Credit & Copyright: Damian Peach Explanation: Wandering through the constellation Sagittarius, bright planets Mars and Saturn appeared together in early morning skies over the last weeks. They

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, ChileScope Explanation: About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our own Milky Way. Seen nearly face-on, its bright

Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Cornell, Opportunity Rover Team, Explanation: The robotic rover Opportunity sometimes passes small craters on Mars. Pictured here in 2010 is Intrepid Crater, a 20-meter across

Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team, Processing - Johannes Schedler Explanation: About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million

Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Mark Hanson, Warren Keller, Rex Parker, Tommy Tse, and Peter Proulx (SSRO / PROMPT / CTIO) Explanation: Carved by a bright young star in Orion's dusty molecular

Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer Explanation: What is that bright red spot between the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas? Mars. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph captured the red planet passing

Image Credit & Copyright: Albert Barr Explanation: Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic image. Centered in the scene it's anchored right and left by

Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Cancelli, Paul Mortfield Explanation: Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it the Silver Dollar Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Derrick Lim Explanation: Do you recognize this constellation? Although it is one of the most recognizable star groupings on the sky, Orion's icons don't look quite as colorful

Image Credit & Copyright: Bernhard Hubl (CEDIC) Explanation: Every journey has its first step and every catalog a first entry. First entries in six well-known deep sky catalogs appear in these panels,

Illustration Credit & Copyright: Universe2go.com Explanation: What might you see in the night sky over the next few months? The featured graphic gives a few highlights. Viewed as a clock face centered

Video Credit: NASA, Gateway to Astronaut Photography; Music: The Low Seas (The 126ers) Explanation: What would it be like to orbit the Earth? The International Space Station (ISS) does this every 90 minutes,

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe Collaboration; Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (NASA's GSFC), T. Megeath (U. Toledo), B. Reipurth (U. Hawaii) Explanation: This might look