View Of Saturn's Moon Hyperion As Captured By Cassini Spacecraft

The 2023 Partial (Annular) Solar Eclipse as seen from Nevada // Brian Fulda

Wed. Aug. 21 - We'll be open to the public tonight from 8:30 - 9:30 pm!

The Hidden Galaxy, IC 342 // Ondřej Pešák

"The Imperfect Angel Nebula", NGC 2170 // zombi

A reminder that our public Spring events start this week!

Public nights are here!

Happy Monday!

Today's picture of the day was taken by Matthew Dominick from the ISS! The image shows a giant jet lightning, which is a new discovery (only 23 years!) and associated with thunderstorms. While regular lightning travels between the ground and the clouds, giant jet lightning bursts upwards.

Cosmic fireworks ahead! This dramatically colorful image shows MACS J0717, one of the most complex and distorted galaxy clusters known. It was formed by the collision of four smaller galaxy clusters. A visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows hundreds of galaxies, both within the cluster and throughout the background, and myriad foreground stars. A pink overlay represents radio data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, which traces enormous shock waves and turbulence. The diffuse emission in blue, from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, highlights gas with temperatures of millions of degrees. Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); NASA, ESA, J. Lotz (STScI), and the Hubble Frontier Fields team. ALT TEXT: Hundreds of small galaxies of various shapes on the black background of space. They are concentrated near the center of the image. Dramatic pink ribbons form a curving L shape near the center. Below them, a linear pink feature with a blue blob in the middle extends from upper left to lower right. Diffuse blue light fills much of the field of view and is brightest just to the right of the pink ribbons.

NASA Science

How Gravity Warps Light - NASA Science

Gravity is obviously pretty important. It holds your feet down to Earth so you don’t fly away into space, and (equally important) it keeps y

Article of the Day!

"How Gravity Warps Light" from NASA Universe Web Team

So gorgeous! Here's the NASA article to go with the pic.

Christmas Tree Cluster

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