Sunlight and Shadow

Sunlight filters through the rings, casting shadows upon the cloudtops with Mimas watching it all - Saturn, from Cassini

Spot on the Sun

Last June, an event occurred which no one living had witnessed before - Venus, transiting the Sun

Boom!

Remnant of the glorious death throes of a massive star - work by Ravi on Kepler's Supernova Remnant, from Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra

Expanding in Space

Stellar winds, dense clouds, hot gas: work on the Bubble by Bemo - NGC 7635, from Hubble

Just can't get enough

So fragile, so isolated - Saturn's rings and tiny moon Mimas, from Cassini

The Eye of Sauron?

A planetary nebula, as only Hubble can show us

Happy Birthday

Complicated, mysterious, ever-changing, beautiful - for Greg, Saturn from Cassini

Vroom

It's all a matter of perspective - airplane and sunspot, posted on Spaceweather.com - January 17, 2005

Ripples

Formed by wind - sand dunes of Mars, from Mars Global Surveyor

Explosive

And still a mystery - Eta Carinae, from the Hubble Space Telescope

Just like we imagined

Channels, springs, volcanoes...the possiblities are endless - Titan, from Huygens

Unmatched halves

Craters, shades, and ridges - Iapetus, from Cassini

Ladder leading to?

Rung-like structures in a planetary nebula - the Red Rectangle, from the Hubble Space Telescope

Our Fate?

A planetary nebula surrounding a white dwarf - NGC 2440, from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Jewels on velvet

I've always thought that open clusters look like gems scattered on deep dark velvet - NGC 346 from Hubble Space Telescope.

A new view

We've been waiting for this for years - Titan, from Huygens.

Is it what it looks like?

This may well be an image of an iron meteorite on Mars. (From Opportunity, in Meridiani Planum)