#PPOD: Hubble Space Telescope Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula This newly reprocessed image, released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater #EagleNebula,

The ISS transiting our sun: a photograph that requires the right equipment and sufficient planning to pull off. While I’ve captured the ISS many times, this is one of my favorite photos of it. Something incredibly humbling seeing it juxtaposed against the power of our star.

'LEDA 1313424: The Bullseye Galaxy' Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250207.… 02-07-2025 #space #astronomy

Capturing a photo like this can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. The sun’s energy focused into an eyepiece would blind you, and melt your camera. By modifying the optics like I did, you can get incredible photos. Our sun is so ridiculously cool.

We're the first generation of humans that can witness a sunrise on another planet. This is a dawn on Mars captured by Opportunity rover.

My cameras were powered off more than 25 years ago, but people often want to know what it would look like if I could take a picture now. 📸 From interstellar space, our Sun would look like nothing more than a star in the night sky – and Earth wouldn't be visible at all! -V1

#PPOD: ISS and the Moon Once again, photographer Andrew McCarthy has stunningly captured the International Space Station transiting the Moon. He noted, "[There is] something so ethereal about seeing something we built juxtaposed against the grandeur of a celestial body." Credit:

If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and

Where is time? 'When' are you?

Biggest black hole ever seen - weighs as much as 36 billion of our Suns, distorts the light of a more distant blue galaxy into a ring around its own, ancient orange galaxy. Beautifully pushing the edge of what we understand. details: ras.ac.uk/news-and-press…

The Paradox of Knowledge

Saturn and Titan imaged from the planet's night side by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on August 11, 2013

Images of Saturn's moon Enceladus spraying water vapor and ice particles into orbit captured with NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a close pass on August 13, 2010 #OTD

The Moon was looking too good to pass up this morning - here's a close up view of Pythagoras Crater captured at some ~8 meters focal length.

The Himalayas (including Mt. Everest, bottom foreground) photographed from orbit in October 1968

Photographer Shaaz Jung captured a rare and enchanting moment: An elephant, deep within the mist-shrouded forest, stood in quiet communion with a tiny bird perched on his tusk.

The non-poisonous Snake-Head Caterpillar inflates its tail to resemble a poisonous viper. It’s found in the Eastern United States in all summer long.