PLUTO (bottom Image: Lower Right) AND ITS MOON, CHARON (top Image, Bottom Image: Upper Left)

Jupiter’s south pole, taken by Cassini

stars, mercury, and solar corona, photographed by stereo a, january 2009.

27 frames, photographed over 36 hours, 2nd-3rd january. the sun is out of frame right.

image credit: nasa/stereo. animation: ageofdestruction.

The Pinwheel Galaxy - this giant disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across; nearly twice the diameter of the Milky Way. It is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars, approximately 100 billion of which could be like our Sun in terms of temperature and lifetime [6000x4690]

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Constellations.

How beautifully our system works

NASA astronaut films lightning from ISS

Astronaut Reid Wiseman posted a Vine from the International Space Station today showing lightning over Houston. Tornado warnings were issued in the Houston area earlier this afternoon but have since expired.

M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

new photos of jupiter from the juno spacecraft | (good to know that van gogh had a say in how jupiter was designed)

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

NGC 6302- The Butterfly Nebula