The Moon and Sun - Two or three times a year, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the moon traveling across the sun, blocking its view. While this obscures solar observations for a short while, it offers the chance for an interesting view of
Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches International Space Station - The Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft approaches the International Space Station, carrying Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer
Ice Bridge flight over Baffin Island - Ice Bridge closed out the fourth week of its Arctic campaign with a flight over the striking landscape of eastern Greenland's Geikie Peninsula and a survey of a Canadian ice cap before taking two days off over
Egyptian Dust Plume, Red Sea - This astronaut photograph acquired on June 22, 2013 provides a panoramic view of most of the length of the Red Sea. The northernmost end, the Gulf of Suez, is just visible at the top centre of the image and is fully 1,
The Butterfly Nebula - This sharp and colorful close-up of the dying star's nebula was recorded in 2009 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, installed during the final shuttle servicing mission.
Sun Over Earth's Horizon - The sun is captured in a "starburst" mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, as the orbital outpost was above a point in southwestern Minnesota on May 21,
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.
This spectacular image displays a huge hexagonal weather pattern over the Saturn's north pole. The picture has been taken by the Cassini spacecraft on December 10.
In this picture, called a coronagraph, the bright light of the Sun itself is blocked so the structures around it are visible. The comet ISON is seen in the lower right; a giant cloud of solar material, called a coronal mass ejection or CME, is seen
NASA's Hubble spots a stranger in the crowd - The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) which is the largest of the Zodiac constellations, and the second largest overall after Hydra (The Water Snake). In this picture, among a crowd of face-and edge-on
This stunning image of a dying star along with the steroid shots was taken by NASA's WISE spacecraft. The bright blue color emitting from the dying star is due to the heated gas and dust getting discarded by it.
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Herschel is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission with important
'Witch Head' Brews Baby Stars - A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile
Ghost of Jupiter Nebula - This ghostly image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of a dying star, called a planetary nebula. Planetary nebulas are a late stage in a sun-like star's life, when its outer layers have
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has showcased it's talent with an image showing the energized remains of a dead star, a structure nicknamed the 'Hand of God' after its resemblance to a hand.
Hubble Space Telescope finds source of Magellanic Stream - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way
Dwarf Galaxy caught ramming into a large spiral Galaxy - Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a galaxy which is at a distance of about 60 million light years from Earth. The
This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (foreground) is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. It shows some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space.
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000
This image from Pioneer 11 shows Saturn and its moon Titan. The irregularities in ring silhouette and shadow are due to technical anomalies in the preliminary data later corrected. At the time this image was taken, Pioneer was 2,846,000 km (1,768,
Celestial Valentine - Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities.
At the centre of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole which is about 70 million times bigger than Sun. This black hole in M81 feeds just like stellar mass black holes, with masses of only about ten times that of the Sun.
Sun's Quiet Corona - This image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.
Solar Filament Eruption creates 'Canyon of Fire' - A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the Sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere