Sunday, April 10, 2005

Hazy days

Changes visible in the haze - Titan, from Cassini

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Electricity

High voltage activity - x-ray aurora on Jupiter from Chandra

Our Twin

A spiral galaxy resembling our own - NGC 7331 in infrared, from Spitzer

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Movement

A dance of destruction - Seyfert's sextet, from Hubble

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

New Territory

No longer unknown - Titan, from Cassini

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Farside

Can't see it from here - the lunar farside, from Apollo 11

Monday, April 04, 2005

Enough?

Never! - Saturn,from Cassini

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Clarity

Tectonics, volcanism, craters - Claritas Fossae, from Mars Express

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Countless

Lots of stars - globular cluster M13, by Eddie Guscott

Friday, April 01, 2005

Power

I tell my TA to take pretty images of galaxies, and he does it! - NGC 3198, by Jason Cook

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Dust bunnies!

Dust just gets everywhere - NGC 1316, from Hubble

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Interaction

Beautiful and strange, a ring around a galaxy - NGC 4650A, from Hubble

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Not the center

This is how we knew Earth wasn't the center of the universe - Jupiter and its four largest moons

Monday, March 28, 2005

South Pole

A webcam from one of the most intriguing places on Earth - the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

Sunday, March 27, 2005

Never Enough

This planetary nebula is so spectacular, I never get tired of looking at it - NGC 2392, from Hubble

Saturday, March 26, 2005

This is why

People inclined to believe in conspiracies ask, "With Hubble, shouldn't there be images of the flag left on the Moon?" The answer is, "No." - the Moon, from Hubble

Friday, March 25, 2005

Edges

A tiny world seen in the ring-plane - Saturn's rings and moon Janus, from Cassini

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

View from Work

And my office doesn't even have a window - astronauts Grunsfeld and Linnehan with Hubble, from Columbia

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Sunset

Perspective on a different world - mountains on Io at sunset, from Galileo