Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Gibbs (Capturing the NightExplanation: Sometimes the Moon is a busy direction. Last week, for example, our very Moon passed in front of the planet Jupiter. While capturing this unusual spectacle from New South Wales, Australia, a...
Image Credit: N. Scoville (Caltech), T. Rector (U. Alaska, NOAO) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, NASAExplanation: The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is...
Photograph by NASA/ESA & the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the Universe’s most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy’s hallmark is...
Agena Target Vehicle, also referred to as Thus, part of the Gemini 12 mission in November 1966 Alan Shepard is prepared for flight on the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in May 1961. Shepard was the...
This colorful view of Mercury, the innermost Planet, was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the...
A stack image of 31 frames all at 30 sec exposures. Camera Nikon Copyright : Omar Perea http://500px.com/photo/25827927