Delicate in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas, are draped across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus.

The two appear separated by only half a degree on the sky, but they actually lie at quite different distances.

What it would look like to leave planet Earth?

Have you seen a panorama from another world lately?

Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System.

Why would a bright full Moon suddenly become dark? Because it entered the shadow of the Earth.

On October 29, the Juno spacecraft once again dove near the turbulent Jovian cloud tops.

Some night skies are serene and passive -- others shimmer and flash. The later, in the form of auroras and meteors, haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on 2009 December 13.

You can pack a lot of sky watching into 30 seconds on this tiny planet. Of course, the full spherical image timelapse video was recorded on planet Earth, from Grande Pines Observatory outside Pinehurst, North Carolina.

This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit.