NASA will Observe Airglow to improve Space Weather
NASA’s new Atmospheric Waves Experiment will observe the airglow from a perch on the Space Station to help scientists understand, and ultimately improve forecasts of, space weather
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Earth surrounded by Airglow
An astronaut aboard the Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph while orbiting at an altitude of more than 250 miles over Australia.
Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way
Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere.
Panoramic Skyscape with Airglow Australis
An exceptional panoramic skyscape filled with stars, clusters, and nebulae along the southern Milky Way including the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. Credit Yuri Beletsky
Milky Way with reddish Airglow
Photographer Yuri Beletsky captured an exceptionally intense, glorious Milky Way with reddish airglow flooded this Chilean winter night skyscape, just after sunset on September 1. Image
Unique Green Glow at the Red Planet
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other
Stargazing From the Space Station
An astronaut aboard the Space Station (ISS), took this broad, short-lens photograph of Earth’s night lights while looking out over the remote reaches of the central equatorial
Earth and Milky Way from ISS
To celebrate Space Station’s 15th anniversary, consider this unique snapshot from ISS, of our galaxy and our home world, posing together beyond the orbital outpost.
Moon and Orion from Space
The waning crescent Moon, the stars of Orion rising above the eastern horizon and a rare red sprite, as seen from the International Space Station, on August
The Milky Way over the Arizona Toadstools
The magnificent central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy arches over the aged Toadstool hoodoos rock formations in northern Arizona, USA. Image credit David Lane & R.