Located in the picturesque southern constellation of Centaurus, the Gum 41 nebula takes up most of this image brought to you by the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. 

Credit: ESO

Apr. 8 2024 Eclipse

Credit: Victor Toth

In dark evening skies over June Lake, northern hemisphere, planet Earth, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks stood just above the western horizon on March 30. Its twisted turbulent ion tail and diffuse greenish coma are captured in this two degree wide telescopic field of view along with bright yellowish star Hamal also known as Alpha Arietis.

Image Credit: Dan Bartlett`

This is a fascinating cosmic scene captured by Hubble: jets firing out from the rotational poles of a newly-ignited star illuminate gas and dust inside the Orion B cloud, 1,350 light-years away, forming what's called a Herbig-Haro object. 

Credit: Jason Major

Central part of the NGC 2516 Open Cluster

Credit: G Furtado

NGC 5248 is a compact intermediate spiral galaxy about 59 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes

Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

NGC 6352 is a globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Ara, located approximately 18.3 kly from the Sun. It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on May 14, 1826.

Credit: NASA/ESA, Hubble

Seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest that this hive of stars is a spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way, with swirling, luminous arms and a bar-shaped centre. Sites of active star formation, known as HII regions, are seen prominently in the image, appearing bright pink. These resemblances aside, NGC 4945 has a brighter centre that likely harbours a supermassive black hole, which is devouring reams of matter and blasting energy out into space. NGC 4945 is about 13 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus.

Credit: ESO

North America Nebula

Flaming Star Nebula by David Joyce

NGC 7331 Acquired with the Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon

Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Io satellite of Jupiter

Credit: Stuart Rankin

Neptune and Triton by James Webb telescope

A view of Mars made from pictures captured with the EXI camera aboard UAE's Hope Mars Mission spacecraft on August 21, 2023 from an orbital distance of 20,132 kilometers.

Credit: Jason Major

The Pleiades: Seven Dusty Sisters Image Credit: Craig Stocks

Enceladus - taken by the Cassini orbiter on January 30 2017. 

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

Jupiter with moons Europa & Io

Credit: Roger Hutchinson