Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet

Why is AE Aurigae called the flaming star?

From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 20 million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation of Cepheus

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this awesome stereo view of another world

Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty

Jupiter looks a bit different in infrared light

What's happened to top of the Sun? Last week, parts of Earth's southern hemisphere were treated to a partial solar eclipse, where the Moon blocks out part of the Sun

How did we get here?

Stars can make waves in the Orion Nebula's sea of gas and dust. This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow

City lights shine along the upper east side of Manahattan in this dramatic urban night skyscape from February 13