Photos

Aurora slathers up the sky

Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in...

NGC 1300: Barred spiral galaxy

Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar ...

NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula

Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with...

NGC 188: Old cluster in the New General Catalogue

The New General Catalogue of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. In f...

Hebridean oystercatcher

A postcard from Isle of Lewis

Thistles in Torry

A postcard from Aberdeen.

James Webb telescope shows hellish, airless exoplanet 4...

Astronomers have gotten their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet —...

Dawn at Aberdeen Beach

The start of a new day brings hope.

Prominences and filaments on the active Sun

This colorized and digitally sharpened image of the Sun is composed of frames re...

Markarian's Chain

Near the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a string of galaxies known as Markar...

Seven-spot ladybird

Spring has sprung!

Crinan Wood, Argyll, Scotland

A prime example of the UK’s rare surviving temperate rainforest.

Mystic mountain monster being destroyed

Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying...

UGC 1810: Wildly interacting galaxy from Hubble

What's happening to this spiral galaxy?