Pictures of viruses ... ... Read more ... ... A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell. ... ... Read more ... ...
Peering deep inside Centaurus A (NGC 5128), the closest active galaxy to Earth at 10 million light-years away, the Spitzer Space Telescope's penetrating infrared cameras recorded this startling vista in February 2004.
About 1,000 light-years...
Pagans have pledged to perform "rain magic" to wash away Homer Simpson, the cartoon character, who was painted next to their famous fertility symbol, the Cerne Abbas giant, yesterday. ... Homer Simpson and Cerne Abbas giant: Pagans to use ...
The Great Nebula in Orion is an immense nearby starbirth region. Glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the image, faint wisps and sheets of dust and gas are...
360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky ... ... ... Expand (1082kb, 4000 x 1216) ... Credit: ESO ... ... The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform,...
Located in the radiant little constellation of Lyra high overhead during mid-summer you will find one of the most enchanting of all deep-sky objects, the Ring Nebula. The Ring formed largely from an expanding shell of material cast off by a st...
Sometimes it's night on the ground but day in the air. As the Earth rotates to eclipse the Sun, sunset rises up from the ground.
Therefore, at sunset on the ground, sunlight still shines on clouds above.
Under usual circumstances, a pretty sunset ...
Credit ISAS, JAXA
This image shows the unusual asteroid Itokawa that was recently visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.
Computer simulations show that 500-meter asteroid Itokawa may impact the Earth within the next few million years....
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