~ Street Lights On Earth At Night ~
~ Pics From Jupiter ~
~ The First Moonshots ~
The first-ever image of the Earth above the moon's horizon, captured by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23rd 1966.
~ Pics From Cassini ~
~ The Earth Also Rises ~
All over the world, people gaze out at the horizon as the moon rises – and perhaps ponder distant worlds. This famous shot was made as Apollo 8 astronauts rounded the far side of the moon in 1968.
NASA
~ Sun With A Monstrous Claw ~
The view from the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, shows the sun as a complex, busy sphere. On the lower left is a large flare reaching out like a giant claw.
NASA/ESA
~ Our Galactic Neighbour ~
The Andromeda Galaxy is our Milky Way's closest spiral galactic neighbor, located about 2 million light-years away. Though visible as a faint smudge with the naked eye, the galaxy comes to life when viewed with basic observing equipment. Amateur astronomer Robert Gendler combined 40 gray-scale frames of the galaxy to create this beautiful image. Color came from previous images.
Robert Gendler
~ Our Galactic Neighbour ~
The Andromeda Galaxy is our Milky Way's closest spiral galactic neighbor, located about 2 million light-years away. Though visible as a faint smudge with the naked eye, the galaxy comes to life when viewed with basic observing equipment. Amateur astronomer Robert Gendler combined 40 gray-scale frames of the galaxy to create this beautiful image. Color came from previous images.
