Astronomy Picture of the Day Wikipedia

Those categories include everything from photographing the sun, the planets, galaxies, the moon, and even aurorae. Flip through Hubble’s numerous Flickr albums and see astronauts at work in space, behind the scenes of mission operations, and Hubble’s iconic images from nebulae to gravitational lens. View images from our missions exploring the universe and our home planet. Explore NASA’s media galleries to view and download high-resolution images of the solar system, agency missions, and more. When a young crescent Moon muscled in on the planetary dance it provided him with a compelling photographic opportunity. He experimented with exposures until he had adequately exposed earthshine on the nighttime side of the Moon.

Lunar Eclipse setting over Convict Lake

Sometimes even the simplest of images can turn out to be utterly staggering. On the night of October 27th 2014, the aurorae flowed through the sky like cold river at the bottom of the mighty Skogafoss. We enjoy seeing these photos with lone individuals seemingly lost in magnificent views of nature.

{Astronomy leads the astronomy hobby as the most popular magazine of its kind in the world. Get information about subscriptions, digital editions, renewals, advertising and much, much more. The Perseid meteors streak across the sky from its radiant in the constellation Perseus appearing in this perspective to be lobbed across the sky. This panorama of 17 stitched 60-second frames was taken with a Nikon DSLR at 14mm lens at f/1.8. Nor the spot for an award-winning photograph, but that’s exactly what this one is.}