Astronomy Picture of the Day

Inside the Eagle Nebula

Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful

Why would the sky glow red?

Will our

Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created.

Where did all the stars go?

Sweeping slowly through the constellation Hercules,

Illuminated by an eerie greenish light, this

About 40,000 light-years across, pretty, irregular galaxy

A mere 12.5 million light-years from Earth, irregular

Where on Mars should you spend the winter?

What's that in the sky?

Which attracts your eye more -- the sky or the ground?

Believe it or not, this is the North Pole of Saturn.

From solstice to solstice,

The Wolf s Moon

Begirt with many a blazing star,

How do stars form?

Double, double toil and trouble;

Is it dawn or false dawn?