Archivo de la etiqueta: Astronomy photo

NGC 4258, a galaxy about 23 million light years away, is the site of impressive, ongoing fireworks.

This loose collections of stars, known as an open star cluster, is image 100 of the Caldwell catalog.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch makes observations from the International space Station’s cupola.

The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago.

The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures.