Neptune Snapped By Voyager 2, Twenty Five Years Ago

The Pelican Nebula (IC 5067/5070) an H II region associated with the North American Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus snapped by Don Bryden

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M106/NGC 4258 Nebula in X-ray, radio, infrared and optical light

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Saturn Behind the Moon

Image Credit: Peter Patonai (Astroscape Photography)

Egg NebulaPhoto by geckzilla via flickr(cc)

Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 

These two galaxies are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is spiral galaxy M81, some 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will result in a merger, and a single galaxy will remain.

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann

Crab Nebula, zoomed in.

Earth, as seen from the Lunar surface, visualised

NGC 3576 or the Ibex Nebula which looks like a celestial Ibex mountain goat with those striking horn like nebulous clouds, is situated near the Southern Cross – a four star constellation in the southern hemisphere

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Our home galaxy – The Milky Way above Serengeti , photographed by Chris Tanner

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GLOBAL VIEW OF VENUS IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera at 283 nm and 365 nm distinguishes different components of the Venusian atmosphere.

VENUS' NIGHTSIDE GLOW

This image shows the night side of Venus in thermal infrared. It is a false-colour image using data from Akatsuki.

VENUS' SOUTH POLE IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI, JUNE 20, 2016

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera, showing details along a colourful band encircling Venus' south polar vortex in morning daylight.

Images Credit : JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic

VENUS' COUPLED DYNAMICS AND SULFUR CHEMISTRY FROM AKATSUKI, JULY 23, 2016

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera. Venus' cloud dynamics are just as complex as Earth's.

Note : Akatsuki is a Japanese mission launched in 2010 to orbit Venus (which it failed the first time) but successfully entered Venus' orbit on December the 7th, 2015.

EQUATORIAL REGION OF VENUS FROM AKATSUKI

Images acquired during orbit number 13 of the Japanese probe Akatsuki show an incredible amount of detail on the equatorial, tropical, and extra-tropical clouds of the planet

VENUS IN INFRARED FROM AKATSUKI: CLOUD WAVE

This view of Venus was acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft's IR2 camera, which observes—among other things—the "warmth" of the planet's atmosphere on its nocturnal side.