Science Source Feb 2010

An illustration of the constellation Taurus (bull), one of the twelve astrological signs of the zodiac. The zodiac is a belt around the sky extending...

An illustration of the constellation Aries (ram), one of the twelve astrological signs of the zodiac. The zodiac is a belt around the sky extending 9...

Big Dipper over a canyon, South Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, with the rising, Waning Gibbous Moon.

Winter constellations illuminated by rising, waning crescent moon.

Crescent moon and venus captured from Old Greenwich, CT on June 12, 1996.

Image showing 1.5 million degree Celcius gas in the sun's thin, outer atmosphere (corona), taken March 13, 1996 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Tel...

This sequence of photos obtained in UV light shows a time series of images of the sun taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraf...

The Orion Nebula.

Full globe centered on Europe.

Artwork depicting an eclipse on Neptune.

Artwork depicting a comet nucleus with solar halo.

Artwork depicting Jupiter and Europa.

The giant planet, 51 Pegasus, bakes under the heat of its parent star. Lightning flashes in its atmosphere and auroral displays shimmer over the polar...

Moon over taiga and Mount Healy; with short winter daylight hours, the moon acts as the primary light source in the subarctic sky; Panguingue Creek, A...

12 Inch Newtonian Telescope; german equatorial mounting.

Lunar Eclipse; 7/6/82

Photo illustration of Galaxy spiral based on Messier 83 (M83).

Star trails and trees.

Siderite, a meteorite consisting mainly of iron and nickel. Meteorites are remnants from the formation of the solar system which fall to Earth from sp...

Siderite, a meteorite consisting mainly of iron and nickel. Meteorites are remnants from the formation of the solar system which fall to Earth from sp...

A 7 inch slice of an iron-nickel meteorite (Siderite). Meteorites are remnants from the formation of the solar system which fall to Earth from space....

Siderite, a meteorite consisting mainly of iron and nickel. Meteorites are remnants from the formation of the solar system which fall to Earth from sp...

Gemini over Parade of Elephants formation, Arches National Park, Utah.

Nebula with planets forming.

A close up view of an iron-nickel meteorite. The metal has been etched with acid to show the unique crystal structure. This special crystal structure...

Circumpolar star trails.

6 hour star trails over barn. Polaris at center

New Orleans, May 9, 1988. Image recorded by the thematic mapper onboard the Landsat 5 satellite, showing about 8,890 square miles. Healthy vegetation...

Orion over Mount Hood, Lolo Pass, Oregon.

Constellations of Delphinus (upper left), Sagitta (center), Vulpecula (upper right), and part of Aquila (lower left) over rocks in Bandon, Oregon.

Skyline Arch and stars in Arches National Park, Utah.

1st magnitude stars Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae) and Capella of Auriga, as seen beyond a double arch formation in Arches National Park, Utah.

Native American and the Milky Way.

Saturn's rings at night from Saturn.

Orion nebula and planets.

Nebula interior with planets.

Ancient Pueblo girl with arch and meteor.

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter.

Crab Supernova over China

Jupiter eclipsing sun with Amalthea.

Binary star with rock formation.

Jupiter in diamond ring effect over Europa landscape.

Titan sunrise with Saturn and moons.

Neptune with rings and moonlet, (Triton at right).

Brown Dwarf & Moonlet.

Binary sunset over a desert landscape.

Solar halo and Charon over Pluto landscape.

Re giant Betelgeuse rising over a landscape.

Giant variable star Mira, with jagged mountains.