#267 Information: March 12, 1996“The many spectacular colors of the Rho Ophiuchi (oh'-fee-yu-kee) clouds highlight the many processes that occur there. The blue regions shine primarily by reflected light.

#259 Information: March 04, 1996“Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of valleys and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed this moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the above photograph.

#250 Tomorrow's picture: February 24, 1996“Sixteen minutes after the liftoff of STS-29, the Space Shuttle Discovery's jettisoned External Tank (ET) is seen here, in a photograph by shuttle astronaut James

#241 Tomorrow's picture: February 15, 1996“citement mounts as NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft nears launch - currently scheduled for 3:53 ET on February 16. NEAR's mission is to

#234 Tomorrow's picture: February 08, 1996“Get ready for one of the most impressive but least anticipated light shows in modern astronomical history. Next month, newly discovered Comet Hyakutake will pass

#224 Tomorrow's picture: January 29, 1996“The dramatic and mysterious looking object revealed in this Hubble Space Telescope image is known as the Egg Nebula. It is an aging star about 3,000 lightyears

#216 Tomorrow's picture: January 21, 1996“The surface of the planet Mercury is not without fault. In this case, however, "fault" refers to unusual surface features that are the topic of much

#209 Tomorrow's picture: January 14, 1996“very bright object in this 1994 photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope is a galaxy. Oddly - most of the objects are spiral galaxies. This rich cluster of galaxies,

#202 Tomorrow's picture: January 07, 1996“Space suited project Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. (left to right) are pictured here posing in front of a Redstone

#184 Tomorrow's picture: December 20, 1995“Sometimes it takes a keen eye to see a good mirage. Around the center of the red galaxy image in the above photograph lie four blue "smudges." Each

#177 Tomorrow's picture: December 13, 1995“A Delta rocket is seen being launched in 1988. In use since 1960, Delta rockets have been launched successfully over 200 times. Scientific satellites placed into

#168 Tomorrow's picture: December 04, 1995“What type of matter makes up most of the universe? This question is arguably the most perplexing astronomical mystery of our time. A leading candidate is a type

#159 Tomorrow's picture: November 25, 1995“Enceladus orbits Saturn between the smaller Mimas and the larger Tethys. Enceladus is composed mostly of water ice and has the cleanest and purest ice surface

#155 Tomorrow's picture: November 21, 1995“The Great Nebula in Orion is one of the most interesting of all astronomical nebulae known. Here fifteen pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope have been merged

#143 Tomorrow's picture: November 09, 1995“The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a bright nearby spiral galaxy. The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name.

#135 Tomorrow's picture: November 01, 1995“The photogenic M16 shown above is composed of a young star cluster and a spectacular emission nebulae lined with distinct regions of interstellar dust. Most of

#125 Tomorrow's picture: October 22, 1995“In 1963 astronomers were astounded to discover that certain faint, star-like objects have very large redshifts. The large redshifts imply that these objects, now

#118 Tomorrow's picture: October 15, 1995“Iapetus has an unusual surface, one half of which is very dark, the other half very light. This caused it's discoverer Cassini to remark that Iapetus could only

#109 Tomorrow's picture: October 06, 1995“The dark spots in the above picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. Bok globules, named after astronomer

#99 Tomorrow's picture: September 26, 1995“As the Earth spins on its axis, the sky seems to rotate around us. This motion produces the beautiful concentric arcs traced out by the stars in this time exposure