Cosmic Dance of Spiral Galaxies: Arp 238

Taurus Molecular Cloud

National Geographic: ‘Eye on Infinity’ (2003) photo courtesy: NASA

Orion and the Geminids l Yin Hao

Surface of our sun! Absolutely stunning

Two galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 — also known as Wild's Triplet.

Distance: 200 million light-years from Earth.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton.

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Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways - April 29th, 1996.

"Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6th, 1995, when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops! Titan itself looks a brownish colour because of its thick atmosphere. Four other moons of Saturn can be seen just above the ring plane, which are, from left to right: Mimas, Tethys, Janus, and Enceladus. If you look carefully, you will note that the dark band across the planet is actually the shadow of the rings, and is slightly displaced from the real rings - which are best seen away from the planet. Saturn's rings are not solid - they are composed of ice chunks, which range in size from a grain of sand to a house."

M57, Ring Nebula