When photographer Josh Dury traveled to Easter Island for last month's annular solar eclipse, he wasn't going to let a single moment go to waste. Although primarily there for the eclipse, Dury also managed to capture some images overnight, with some of the island's famous statues, known ...
images, viewed by visitors through a giant window, will give the impression of looking straight on to the alien, Martian landscape.Man's quest to chart the universe dates back to the 17th century when astronomers and physicists such as Galileo drew images of space seen through their telescopes...
1993, thespace shuttle Endeavourferried a crew of seven to fix Hubble during five days of spacewalks. Two new cameras, including the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2), which later took many of Hubble's most famous photos, were installed during the fix. In December 1993, the...
Eagle Nebula:A star-making region famous for its space pillars appears in this infrared view from Spitzer. Green denotes cooler dust, including the pillars seen in the center. Red represents hotter dust thought to have been warmed by the explosion of a massive star about 8,000 to 9,000 yea...
A distant galaxy has created four images of a supernova even further away, via gravitational lensing, that have been captured for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The “Einstein cross” pattern forms as light from the distant super...
The Orion constellation is named after a hunter in Greek mythology. Orion is often depicted in star maps as either facing the charge of Taurus, the bull, or pursuing the Pleiades sisters, represented by the famous open cluster. He is also depicted as chasing after the hare (constellation Lepu...
which can be quite spectacular to see. Ultimately, whether one shower is better than the other will depend on personal preference and the conditions on the night of the shower.The Geminids meteor Showeris probably more famous and easier to spot as you don’t have such a narrow time window...
Cassiopeia is one of the 88 modern constellations we see today. It is famous for its distinctive “W” shape. This asterism is formed by five bright stars; Epsilon, Ruchbah (Delta), Gamma, Schedar (Alpha Cassiopeiae), and Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae). The Cassiopeia constellation gets its ...
But arguably, it is the eight planets that make up our Solar System that are the most interesting and photogenic. With their spherical discs, surface patterns and curious geological formations, Earth’s neighbors have been a subject of immense fascination for astronomers and scientists for millennia...
The famous galaxy—also referred to as M1, or Messier 1—is located close to the orbital plane in which most of the Solar System’s asteroids can be found. In other words, it was only a matter of time before one appeared in a shot of the Crab Nebula. ...