Volc�n de Colima Eruption

Colima, Mexico January 26, 2017 Image Credit & Copyright: Sergio Tapiro

Globular Cluster Messier 79

It�s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles a swirling...

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398

This picture shows spectacular ribbons of gas and dust wrapping around the pearly centre of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398. This galaxy i...

The Bluest of Ice

Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica's Mc...

p1 Gruis

Astronomers using ESO�s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside...

Cassiopeia A

Where do most of the elements essential for life on Earth come from? The answer: inside the furnaces of stars and the explosions that mark t...

Interacting Galaxy NGC 5256

A riot of colour and light dances through this peculiarly shaped galaxy, NGC 5256. Its smoke-like plumes are flung out in all directions and...

Mount Agung Volcano

Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia November 26, 2017 Image Credit: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images

Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5866

NGC 5866 is an edge-on galaxy that is tilted to our line-of-sight. It is classified as an S0 lenticular, due to its flat stellar disk and la...

Exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf

This artist's concept shows an exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf. White dwarfs are dim, dense remnants of stars ...

Mount Agung Volcano Eruption

Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia November 27, 2017 Image Credit: Firdia Lisnawati/AP

Saturn

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing t...

Exoplanet NGTS-1b

The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) instrument at ESO�s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile has found its first exoplanet, a hot Jup...

Galaxy Cluster Abell 2537

This picturesque view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant Universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537....

Jupiter's Clouds

See Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The Juno spacecraft captured this image w...

Exoplanet WASP-18b

A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide an...

Cygnus Spacecraft seen from the International Space Station at Sunrise

Orbital ATK's Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-ike UltraFlex solar arrays approaches the International Space Station's robotic a...

U Antliae

Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Ant...

Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

The super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist's concept, likely has an atmosphere thicker than Earth'...

Amazon River seen from the International Space Station

Image Credit: ESA/NASA