The Ring Nebula by Stefan Heutz. Click to enlarge When stars similar to our Sun have exhausted their nuclear fuel,…
Zodiacal Light by Tony and Daphne Hallas The night sky, from a dark location, is filled with many sights full…
Leo 1 by Bernhard Hubl Astronomers are beginning to see a pattern in what was previously viewed as the random…
Abell 34 by Jim Misti Most stars do not end their existence in a cataclysmic supernova explosion. For example, our…
The Vela Nebula Complex by Johannes Schedler Floating like a vast, thin wreath on a sea filled with colorful, bright…
The Planet Jupiter by Mike Salway Thirty years ago the clearest views of the planet Jupiter could only be obtained…
The Vela Supernova Remnant by Loke Kun Tan About 11,000 years ago, around the dawn of human history, a fantastic…
Comet Pojmanski by R. Jay GaBany Set your alarm clocks between 4:30 and 5:00AM sometime over the next two or…
A pair of stars with about the same mass will evolve in about the same manner. But if one of…
There are many icons that represent the universe: brilliant stars, the rings of Saturn or something as familiar as Earth's…