Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
After a couple days of black-and-white imagery and blurry color thumbnails, the Mars rover Curiosity has downlinked its first full-color, 360-degree view of its new home in…
View ArticleNew Speckly Image Shows Non-Planet Pluto In the Sharpest Detail Yet
This blurry image of Pluto and Charon may not seem that impressive at first glance, but consider this: The resolution here is equivalent to separating a pair of car…
View ArticleCheck Out The Most Richly Detailed Image Ever Taken Of Uranus
Uranus looks a lot like some of our solar system's other planets in these spectacular new images from the Keck Observatory. Rather than beholding a pale bluish orb (like…
View ArticleHere Is What 84 Million Stars Look Like. You're Welcome.
In this picture, you are looking at a central concentration of ancient stars in the bulging part of our galaxy. The bulge is full of dust, gas and most of the stars in the…
View ArticleBigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars
The high-resolution image above shows a region on Mars called Charitum Montes, a mountain range on the planet's southern hemisphere. The brighter features are covered in seasonal carbon dioxide frost....
View ArticleHubble Captures Earliest Views Yet Of The Universe
Ever since the Hubble Space Telescope's final upgrade, astronomers have been able to push it farther and farther in look-back time--that's a technical term--to the infancy of the universe. Now they...
View ArticleFor The First Time, Astronomers See Giant Planets Helping Their Star Grow
As young stars form, they hoover up dust and gas around them, and the remaining material spins into a flat, rotating disk. Planets start out as small clumps in that disk,…
View Article4-Billion-Pixel Panorama Lets You Explore Mars As If You Were Standing Next...
If you were standing next to the Mars rover Curiosity, this is what you'd see. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together 407 images from two Curiosity…
View ArticleBig Pic: A Hurricane On Saturn, In Incredible Technicolor
The hellish red hurricane at the center of this picture may look like a harbinger of destruction, but it is stuck in place with nowhere else to go. The storm has been swirling in the north for who...
View ArticleBig Pic: Hubble Space Telescope Captures The Ring Nebula In Astonishing Detail
Astronomers love to point their telescopes at the Ring Nebula. Located 2,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra, this ring of glowing gas has a distinctive elliptical shape when seen from...
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