A storm on Saturn is like nothing on Earth. This one is about the size of a continent.
Category: Space
Horsehead nebula
The cataclysmic events in the Horsehead Nebula (as photographed by Hubble) make the Milky Way look like a walk in the park.
Jupiter’s Aurora
Starry night
No, this isn’t the famous painting by van Gogh, or the famous song by Don McClean, but it is a stunning photo nonetheless.
The Sun
Earth by night
You can make out the night time lights of East Asia and the Indian sub-continent in this NASA snap of the Earth at night.
Earthrise over moonscape
Which one would you rather live on?
The brown rock, or the colorful marble? Fortunately we are on the marble.
Mercuryscape
Marsscape
A Happy New Year to one and all.
Somewhere out of this world, Mars to be precise.
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Transit of Venus
This a NASA photo of the planet Venus (which is only slightly smaller than the Earth) as it passes over the sun. If you didn’t see it today then you have to wait another 105 years for your next chance.
The sun is much much further away than Venus, just shows how small the planets are in comparison with the sun.
Jupiter red spot
This is not an eye, it is the great red spot on the planet Jupiter. This spot is the scene of a giant storm that has been going on for hundreds of years, and is big enough to absorb three Earths. This close-up photo was taken by NASA.
Annular eclipse
Today many places in east Asia and western America got to see this annular eclipse. Usually when there is a solar eclipse the moon can entirely block the sun, but at the moment the moon is at its farthest from the Earth so it is not able to block all the son and leaves a ring (an annulus) of sunlight around the black centre. It is quite a sight.
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Space shuttle’s last flight
The last flight of the space shuttle happened a few days ago as the Space Shuttle Discovery was taken piggy-back by a 747 Jumbo-jet to a museum in Washington DC. Along the way it passed the Washington Monument for this spectacular photo.
Jupiter, Venus and the Moon in alignment
It may look like a nice, starry night scene, but these celestial bodies are much closer than regular stars.
From left to right they are Jupiter, Venus and the Moon in almost perfect alignment. Of course they are not really in a straight line, but it appears that way to us.
So, not a starry night, more like a planety night.
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