Science Source Feb 2010

Afghanistan was one of many countries in southern and central Asia suffering through extreme cold and snow in January 2008. Most of the country was co...

A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black ho...

Though the days may be different, gathering with family and friends for major holidays is the same the world over. China's biggest holiday, the Lunar...

Iraqis in Baghdad woke to the novelty of white flakes drifting to the ground as the city experienced its first snowfall in about 100 years on January...

Winter settled heavily over Southwest Asia in January 2008. Intense cold and moist air to bring rare or unusually heavy snow to Iraq and Iran. Snow ar...

What's happening to the galaxies of cluster Abell 2667? On the upper left, a galaxy appears to be breaking up into small pieces, while on the far righ...

As if emerging from a cocoon, space shuttle Atlantis races into the sky on mission STS-122 to the International Space Station. The launch was the thir...

This scene was imaged by MESSENGER's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) during the spacecraft's flyby of Mercury on J...

A full Moon and a starry sky, over the Anza-Borrego Desert, in California.

Total solar eclipse. Morombe, Madagascar. June 21, 2001

Depiction of the Big Bang

Last quarter moon, 8 hours before. Greenwich, CT. 10/8/93. slide 6 in a series of 6.

Major ocean currents. False color map of the world, showing the major ocean currents. These are seen as red patches. At top left is the Kiro Shio curr...

The classic image of earth from space, taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the moon in December 1972. Arabia and the continent of Africa ma...

Constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius.

The Milky Way from Scutum to Serpens and northern Sagittarius, July 4, 1997, 30 minutes. 80mm lens medium format.

Hidden side of the moon. One of the first wide-angle views of the moon's hidden side, photographed by Lunar Oribter V. The lighted portion represents...

Lunar map.

A large region of the moon near the crater Copernicus. Note the spectuacular ray system extending outward from the crater for hundreds of miles.

Solar prominence. Whole edge of sun taken in violet light of calcium. December 9, 1929.

Portion of the farside of the moon looking NNW toward the Mare Moscoviense on the horizon. The most conspicuous lunar feature is the smooth-floored Ko...

Tektites from eastern Thailand near the Laos border. These examples were selected from a large collection to show a variety of forms. Tektites are per...

A coarse Octahedrite, fallen in Arispe, Sonora, Mexico, date of fall unknown. Nickel content is 6.77 percent.

Allegan meteorite, a chondrite or a high-iron meteorite that fell in 1899 in Allegan County, Michigan. Weight: 66 pounds. Note the crumbly mass of cho...

Imilac, one of the pallasite fragments found on the Atacama Desert, Chile, in 1822. It is a type of iron meteorite.

Estherville Mesosiderite from Emmet County, Iowa. The metallic inclusions show the same Widmanstatten structure as in iron meteorites; the metal is di...

Solar corona photographed at the total eclipse of June 8, 1918, from Green River, Wyoming.

Moon, 17 days old.

Southern portion of the moon at last quarter showing the region from from Ptolemaeus to the limb. 100-inch photograph.

Central region of the moon, Ptolemy and Eratosthenes, age 21 days. 100-inch photograph.

Portion of the moon at last quarter from Ptolemaeus to Tycho. 100-inch photograph.

Sun at sunspot maximum, December 21, 1957.

Solar prominence 205,000 miles high, photographed in violet light of the calcium K line, July 2, 1957.

Venus in blue light, 200-inch photograph.

Comet Cunningham, December 21, 1940, photographed with 5-inch aperture Ross lens.

Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, seated in the Gemini Procedure Trainer at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis, Missouri taking a flight test profile and tra...

Apollo 4, first unmanned space vehicle in NASA's Apollo program.

Apollo II rises past the launch tower pad to begin man's first lunar landing mission. Kennedy Space Center.

Monument Valley, Utah; early evening.

Computer graphics of UFO's.

Total Solar Eclipse; Kona, Hawaii; 7/11/91. The "Diamond Ring," effect, when the last point of direct sunlight is visible before being obscurred by th...

Antenna, radio astronomy, Stanford University, California.

Composite of full moon against backdrop of starry night sky.

Moon, Pegasus & Andromeda over Mt. Rainier National Park.

Big (bottom) and Little (top) Dippers rising over moonlit Mt. Rainer

The constellations of Auriga, Cassiopeia and Perseus, with a moonlit canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.

Big (left) & Little (right, top) Dippers rising Mt. Rainier

Crescent Moon and Venus rising over a canyon wall, in Death Valley, CA.

Taurus and Pleiades; shot from Greenwich, CT.

Canis Major; shot from Greenwich, CT.