Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: The North America Nebula 2025-01-22 The North America nebula on the sky can do what the North America continent on Earth cannot -- form…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Comet ATLAS over Brasília 2025-01-21 What's that in the sky? Above the city, above most clouds, far in the distance: it's a comet. Pictured,…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun 2025-01-20 Why does Comet ATLAS have such colorful tails? Last week Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passed its closest to…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Full Moon, Full Mars 2025-01-18 On January 13 a Full Moon and a Full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A 2025-01-17 Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: M83: The Southern Pinwheel 2025-01-16 Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies a some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: The Twisted Disk of NGC 4753 2024-12-31 What do you think this is? Here’s a clue: it's bigger than a bread box. Much bigger.…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula 2024-12-30 Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The first hint of our Sun's future was discovered…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Methane Bubbles Frozen in Lake Baikal 2024-12-29 What are these bubbles frozen into Lake Baikal? Methane. Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: A December Winter Night 2024-12-28 Orion seems to come up sideways, climbing over a distant mountain range in this deep skyscape. The wintry scene…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Planet Earth at Twilight 2024-12-27 No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Grand Spiral NGC 5643 2024-12-26 Viewed face-on, grand spiral galaxy NGC 5643 has a festive appearance in this colorful cosmic portrait. Some 55 million…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Diamond Dust Sky Eye 2024-12-25 Why is there a huge eye in the sky? Diamond dust. That is an informal term for small ice…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Fox Fur, Cone, and Christmas Tree 2024-12-24 What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: Christmas Tree Aurora 2024-12-23 It was December and the sky lit up like a Christmas tree. Shimmering, the vivid green, blue, and purple auroral…
Foto astronómica del día Descripción original: The Local Fluff 2024-12-22 The stars are not alone. In the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 10 percent of visible matter is…