1. Visions of Valhalla: Skywatcher Captures Spectacular Aurora on Camera
Swedish skywatcher P-M Heden snapped this amazing photo of the stunning northern lights over a frozen lake in northern Sweden. The auroras are caused by interactions of the solar wind and Earth's upper atmosphere. Swedish skywatcher P-M Heden snapped this amazing photo of the stunning northern lights over a frozen lake in northern Sweden. The auroras are caused by interactions of the solar wind and Earth's upper atmosphere.
2. Colossal Coma Cluster of Galaxies Dominates Skywatcher Photo
Astrophotographer Adam Block captured this image of the Coma cluster, or Abell 1656, from Arizona's Mount Lemmon Sky Centre in February 2012.
3. Majestic Sunspot Blesses Basilica at Sunrise in Spectacular Picture
A magnificent sun rises alongside the Basilica of Superga in Turin, Italy, with the massive sunspot AR 1476 in clear view.
4. New Private Space Plane Passes 1st Flight Test
The private spaceflight company Sierra Nevada took its Dream Chaser space plane out on a captive-carry flight test on Tuesday (May 29).
5. Space Shuttle Replica Docks in Houston Lake, Launches 'Shuttlebration'
A full-scale space shuttle replica came into dock on Friday (June 1), but rather than pull into an orbiting space station, it arrived at port in a Texas lake near NASA's Houston space centre.
Photo credit link: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman
6. Transit of Venus 2012: An Observer's Guide (Gallery)
Make sure to see the June 5 passage of the planet Venus across the face of the sun: a similar event won't happen again until the year 2117.
7. 'Prometheus': Scenes from Ridley Scott's Alien Saga (Pictures)
"Prometheus," set in the universe of the "Alien" franchise and directed by Ridley Scott, opens June 8, 2012.
8. The Romance of the Telescope
The antennas of the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) telescope stand against the the Milky Way, in this photo taken on the Chajnantor plateau in Chile's Atacama region. The constellations of Carina (The Keel) and Vela (The Sails) glow in this picture. The Milky Way shines from middle top left to middle bottom right. The bright orange star in the upper left is Suhail in Vela.
9. Talkin' 'Bout the Young Style …Talking ‘Bout the Old Style Too
Star cluster M46 is a young celestial object only some hundreds of millions of years old, containing a large population of massive blue stars. M46 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, and the star cluster is coincidentally joined in this photo by a star in the foreground, NGC 2348, a much older star already at the stage of planetary nebula.
Top image – Top: 'Big Bird' on the Sun Spotted in Spacecraft Photo, Credit: NASA/SDO. Bottom: Milky Way Galaxy's Head-On Crash with Andromeda, Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger. [Related Post]
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