Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...
This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station, offering a ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station, offering a ...
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...