The Carina Nebula is a vast cloud of gas and dust in the southern hemisphere constellation of Carina. It contains areas of star birth and star death.
NASA's Opportunity rover may have a bit of amnesia, but that didn't stop it from capturing a spectacular vista from the rim of a crater.
In this post, we've compiled a list of beautiful, inspiring astronomy images that all have a Public Domain License. Enjoy browsing through the...
10 spectacular images of universe captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Space photos of the week, December 4 — 10, 2016.
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The overall winner was West Midlands-based photographer James Woodend who took a beautiful image of aurora in Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park.
Using atoms in certain quantum states, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, were able to demonstrate that Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is correct.
The Moon and Venus setting on the west.
For a brief time in 1976, it seemed as if NASA's Viking landers had found microbes on Mars! Those results have been vigorously disputed in the years since, but the original experiment's principal investigator, Gilbert Levin, still maintains they really did detect Martian microbes.
By Chris Keegan
