Night Sky Brightness
From many places on the Earth including major cities, the night sky has been reduced from a fascinating display of thousands of stars to a
10.5-billion-year-old Globular Cluster
The spectacular NGC 6496, 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind!
Stars Above Himalayas
Stars above the roof of the world. Mt Everest and other Himalayan peaks in the World Heritage Sagarmatha National Park of Nepal appear in this
This is a detailed catalogue of the visible Milky Way
A new catalogue of the visible part of the northern part of our home Galaxy, the Milky Way, includes no fewer than 219 million stars.
Visit nearby Stars
Visit nearby stars, a gorgeous video made in collaboration with The Barbarian Group for the 100 Year Starship foundation, showing some of the stars we
Earth-like Exoplanets are right Next Door
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, have found that six percent of red dwarf
Space- Crazy Far
Space- Crazy Far. To the stars, that is. Will we ever get crazy enough to go? Thousands of colonists might live on this interstellar Mayflower
100,000 Stars interactive visualization
Explore 100,000 Stars in the Stellar Neighborhood, an exceptional interactive visualization tool from Google, exploring our nearby Space. Click here for the fascinating journey.
It’s full of stars!
This full of stars image by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, offers an impressive view of the center of Globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of
More exoplanets from Kepler
This illustration shows the 63 hot Jupiter systems, planetary systems with Jupiter-size planet candidates in three-day orbits, and their stars as well as approximate stellar
The Light of Stars
An astronomical timelapse captures the true beauty of the landscape and the night sky in National Park Teide, Tenerife. What the eye can not see
Black Hole devouring a Star (video)
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high
