6+ hour ago  (133+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (47+ words) NASA (. gov) Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (47+ words) NASA (. gov) Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U....

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (177+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately. The recent close conjunction of the two brightest planets in recent evening skies has been hard to miss. With Jupiter at the top,…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (43+ words) NASA (. gov) Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (129+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: While cruising around Saturn, be on the lookout for picturesque arrangements of moons, rings, and shadows. One such striking sight occurred in 2005 and was captured by the then Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft. In…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (172+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: Could the Little Mermaid turn into stardust instead of seafoam? It would seem so in this beautiful nebula. The featured image shows the Mermaid Nebula, also known as the Betta Fish Nebula,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (173+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: What looks as if it is going to swallow the great Pillars of Creation? The Eagle Nebula (M16) is not a bird, a plane, or Superman. M16 is actually a combination of several celestial…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (164+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: What is happening inside this unusual nebula? Planetary nebula Tc 1, captured here in exquisite detail by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the celestial site where buckyballs were first identified in 2010. Buckminsterfullerene…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (166+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: Over 1000 years ago, Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi published humanity's oldest known record of the Andromeda Galaxy in "The Book of Fixed Stars" (Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 144 p. 167). 800 years later, Andromeda became the…...