Stunning Martian landscape from Gale Crater by Curiosity rover.
NASA
One of the best images of Jupiter
photographed by NASA's Juno probe
The Beautiful Carina Nebula!
23.12.2024 12:14 — 👍 57 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0No That's not a comet. That's the planet MERCURY WITH ITS SODIUM TAIL. (Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer)
21.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 385 🔁 34 💬 14 📌 0The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall.
20.12.2024 10:01 — 👍 58 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0Do you recognize the constellation?
19.12.2024 11:21 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2Clearest image of Uranus ever taken....
18.12.2024 13:55 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Pillars of Creation
Hubble
The famous Italian volcano, Mount Vesuvius, shot from the International Space Station
15.12.2024 14:34 — 👍 90 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3A 3000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole seen by Hubble.
15.12.2024 12:51 — 👍 188 🔁 26 💬 8 📌 3New data from the world's largest telescope, Gran Telescopio Canarias, confirmed the blue oxygen arc IS NOT part of the Andromeda galaxy (Image Credit: Bray Falls)
14.12.2024 13:10 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Jupiter, The King of Worlds
NASW
Four different images of the same distant quasar due to strong gravitational lensing by the foreground galaxy.
NASA
I stayed up until 4am to capture this! HDR Waning Moon - Composite Image
By DomCraggoo
On this day in 1972, during Apollo 17, astronaut Gene Cernan was captured by Harrison Schmitt testing the lunar rover on EVA-1, shortly after its deployment. A remarkable moment in humanity's exploration of the Moon!
13.12.2024 05:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Butterfly Nebula (aka NGC 6302, Bug Nebula, or Caldwell 69)
12.12.2024 16:47 — 👍 406 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 3New Hubble Image Revisits A Grand Spiral Galaxy (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess, D. Thilker, D. De Martin, M. Zamani)
12.12.2024 16:45 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0