Starship Asterisk*

Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's “Lost” Inner Moon Images credit: Mark Schowalter/SETI Institute More about: http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/press-release/archival-hubble-images-reveal-neptunes-lost-inner-moon Naiad_Recovery_v1.jpg Naiad_Recovery_v2.jpg Venus, airglow, the Milky Way and s...

22 and 46 degre Sun halos Copyrights: Jose Agustoni IMG_1342_o.jpg halos_22_46_a.jpg halos_22_46.jpg ISS Copyrights: Hervé Douris 130930-324241psph.jpg Astronomers Find Distant Galaxy Powered by Primordial Cosmic Fuel Credit: MPIA (G. STINSON / A. V. MACCIÒ) More about: http://www.keckobservatory.o...

Tuscan sky at a UNESCO World Heritage Site Copyrights: Yuri Beletsky toscana_cp.jpg NGC 134 and 131 in Sculptor Copyrights: Martin Pugh NGC134_NGC131_small.JPG Comet & galaxy meet - Sep 29th Copyrights: Damian Peach c2012_v2_2013_09_29dp_small.JPG SpaceX Falcon rocket launch - 9/29/2013 Copyrig...

Comet & galaxy meet - Sep 29th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) - October 01, 2013
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini

Ice calving time lapse
Credit: Jason Amundson, Martin Truffer and Mark Fahnestock/Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

Venus, zodiacal light and the galactic centre Copyrights: Jurgen Schmoll galcentre_venus_jschmoll_small.JPG Scientists Find a Martian Igneous Rock that is surprisingly Earth-like Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS More at: http://www.caltech.edu/content/scientists-find-martian-igneous-rock-surprisingly-...

The Man of the Sun watching the Man on the Moon Copyrights: Francis Audet Man of the Sun watching Man on the Moon_small.JPG Caroline's Rose and the Double Cluster Copyrights: Albert Barr CarolinesRose_small.JPG DoubleCluster_RGB_small.JPG Nova Delphini Reddishing Copyrights: Davide Manca Nova_delph...

Sky diver and rocket launch
Copyrights: U.S. Air Force/Vandenberg Base
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... aunch.html

Nova Delphini Reddishing
Copyrights: Davide Manca

The Cool Glow of Star Formation Credits: ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit More about: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1341/ eso1341a_small.JPG NASA'S Chandra Catches Our Galaxy's Giant Black Hole Reject...

Home at the Shore
Copyrights: Jack Fusco

Lunar close-ups Copyrights: George Tarsoudis 130920_Endymion_Tar_small.JPG 130920_Langrenus_Tar_small.JPG 130920_Petavius_Tar_small.JPG M81, M82 and IFN Copyrights: Ivan Eder m81-82_flux_ederL_small.JPG NGC3324 - Gabriela Mistral Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade...

Comet Ikeya-Zhang
Copyrights: Paul Zelichowski Comet Ison
Copyrights: John Chumack

Sun in Calcium-K light Copyrights: Marco Bruno cak fl 0010 13-09-21 11-23-16 p1c.jpg cak fl 0011 13-09-21 11-25-35 p1c.jpg Chamaeleon I region Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes lorand_fenyes_waving_monkey_middle_small.JPG Eta Carinae Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes DS-Lorand_Fenyes-Eta_Carinae2_small.JPG M45 Cop...

LDN 978 Copyrights: andyc67@gmail.com 9514572956_37cc24aa07_b_small.JPG When astronomy and poetry collide Image copyrights: Michael West; Poetry: Pablo Neruda Neruda_small.JPG Aurora Jacuzzi Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado hestheimar-jcc_small.JPG Harvest Moon Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi HMUno_small....

Clues to the growth of the Colossus in Coma Copyrights: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/J.Sanders et al, Optical: SDSS coma_label_525.jpg Hale-Bopp (1997) Copyrights: Bruno Cirillo HaleBopp_19970410_BrunoCirillo.jpg Harvest Moon in Boston Copyrights: Chris Cook boston-harvestmoonset_small.JPG Loch Ness Monster...

NGC700 Region Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi NGC7000-Region-for-apod_small.JPG Analemma Over Ancient Corinth (Temple of Apollo - God of Light) Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis ayiomamitis-solar-analemma-070000-utc-resampled_small.JPG M31 Copyrights: Paloma Vidal Moro M31-OBS Aldebarán-08-2013-v2_smal...

Summers Night Sky Story In Petrilo
Copyrights: Konstantinos Basilakakos
Suggested by Dimitris Papadopoulos

PV Cephei Region Copyrights: Jeff Herman PV_Cephei_LRGB_MED-RES_small.JPG Ring galaxy AM0644-741 Copyrights: Damian Peach am0644741_2013_08_31dp_small.JPG Moon Air Wind and Sun Copyrights: Dani Caxete Moon Air Wind and Sun.jpg Orion Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso Orion 16-09-2013.jpg

4 Seasons of Lake Venus Copyrights: Tunc Tezel LakeVenusSeasons_small.JPG Milky Way Copyrights: Konstantinos Basilakakos Όλη μου η ζωή απάνω στα βουνά να κοιτάω τον γαλαξία_small.JPG Fogbow Copyrights: Patrick Lécureuil arc_blanc_ayous_s_small.JPG pano_lac_ayous_f_small.JPG NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 fi...

Shooting Star Over Key Monastery Arun Kandpal Shooting-Star-at-Gompa.jpg Inside the Small Magellanic Cloud Copyrights: Marco Lorenzi SMC_Core_HaOIIILRGB_3000_small.JPG Lenticular Cloud Formation Copyrights: Beata Czifrik clouds.jpg Cometary Globule CG-30-Subaru-DSS Composite Copyrights: Robert Gend...

Rho Opuchi Copyrights: Eduardo Latorre and José Joaquín Pérez Mosaico Rho Ophiuchi jpg 2000px_small.JPG Contemplating Milky Way Copyrights: Juan Filas 8797135343_57988cd246_b_small.JPG NGC5139 Omega Centauri Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory NGC5139_we...

C/2012 V2 LINEAR
Copyrights: Damian Peach

NASA's Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space Image credits: NASA More about: http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2013/130912.asp VoyagerTwo_small.JPG Aurora over Viking house Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado qassiarsuk-jcc_small.JPG PV Cephei and Gyulbudaghian's Nebula Copyrights: Leo Bette...

Fantastic coronal mass ejection on the Sun (Sept11th)
Copyrights: JP Brahic