The Geekiest One: Astrophotography

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Solstice Illuminated: A Year of Sky

Explanation: Can you find which day is the winter solstice? Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an en...

Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. In fact, at 800 million pixels the full resolution mosa...

Image Credit & Copyright : Data - ESO / MPIA / OAC , Assembly - R.Colombari Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star...

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern con...

Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins U. APL , SwRI What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon C...

Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence tha...

What creature lurks near the red Lagoon nebula? Mars. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph has captured the red planet passing below tw...

Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, tha...