2021 May 9

The next few months will be the best for seeing this familiar constellation as it rises continually earlier in the night.

Do you see the hourglass shape -- or does it see you?

These cosmic dust clouds drift some 1,300 light-years away along the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus.

How far can you see?

Will the spider ever catch the fly?

The constellation of Orion is much more than three stars in a row.

Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging.

Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar.