2019 October 12 Interplanetary Earth Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA & NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington Explanation: In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mer […]
2019 October 11 Planet Earth at Blue Hour Image Credit & Copyright: Matthias Ciprian Explanation: Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour. That’s the transition in twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, when the Sun is below the hor
2019 October 10 Mid-Air Meteor and Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Wagner Explanation: On September 24, a late evening commercial flight from Singapore to Australia offered stratospheric views of the southern hemisphere’s night sky, if you chose a window seat. In fact, a well-plan
2019 October 9 NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl Explanation: Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars? Probably not. Although the precise dynamics behind the featured image is yet unclear, wha
2019 October 8 Sprite Lightning in HD Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (TWAN) Explanation: This phenomenon occurs in the sky over our heads, not the sea. It is a type of lightning known as red sprite, and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail. Even though sprites have been
2019 October 7 Io Eclipse Shadow on Jupiter from Juno Image Credit & License: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing: Kevin M. Gill Explanation: What’s that dark spot on Jupiter? It’s the shadow of Jupiter’s most volcanic moon Io. Since Jupiter shines predominantly by reflecte
2019 October 6 The Horsehead Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego Explanation: The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the red emission nebula in the center of the above photograph. The horse-head feature is dark
2019 October 5 Jupiter and the Moons Image Credit & Copyright: Derek Demeter (Emil Buehler Planetarium) Explanation: After sunset on October 3, some of the Solar System’s largest moons stood low along the western horizon with the largest planet. Just after nightfall, a pairing of the Moon
2019 October 4 InSight on a Cloudy Day Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Mars InSight Explanation: Clouds drift through the sky as the light fades near sunset in this three frame animated gif. The scene was captured on sol 145 beginning around 6:30pm local time by a camera on the Mars InSight lander.
2019 October 3 The Hydrogen Clouds of M33 Image Data: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope – Image Processing: Robert Gendler Additional Data: BYU, Robert Gendler, Johannes Schedler, Adam Block – Copyright: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope, NAOJ Explanation: Gorgeous spiral ga
