2021 May 10

Will the spider ever catch the fly?

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster?

Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and small telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this magnificent portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61).

Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so dusty yet colorful?

Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is some 15,000 light-years away.

Large spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of this cosmic galaxy portrait.

This dance is to the death. Along the way, as these two large galaxies duel, a cosmic bridge of stars, gas, and dust currently stretches over 75,000 light-years and joins them.