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Water droplet

Added: 15 Jul 2019

This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silico…

Spectacular image of the Rosette Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Jun 2018

This spectacular image is of the Rosette Nebula and is in the direction of the constellation Monoce…

Saturn's North Pole

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Oct 2017

An image of Saturn's North Pole captured by Cassini as it began its dives between the planet's ring…

Zinc oxide crystals

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Jul 2017

This image displays the intergrowth of Zinc oxide crystals.

Trappist travel poster

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Mar 2017

A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist…

The Storr

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Nov 2016

The Old Man of Storr with the Milky Way in the background.

Nanoparticles

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 Aug 2016

Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 Nov 2015

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet o…

Veil Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 2 Nov 2015

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small section of the debris of one of the best-known s…

Comet Lovejoy

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 30 Sep 2015

Comet Lovejoy sails through the solar system in a green haze leaving cometary dust in its wake.

NASA confirms that liquid water flows on today’s Mars

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 Sep 2015

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that …

Bullet Through Lemon, 1955.

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Sep 2015

This image, taken in 1955, is part of the exhibition Revelations: Experiments in Photography at Med…

Rosette Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Aug 2015

Measuring 50 light years in diameter, the large, round Rosette Nebula is found on the edge of a mol…

Orion Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Aug 2015

One of the most well-known astronomical objects in our universe is the Orion Nebula and this image …

Aurora Panorama

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 13 Aug 2015

The vivid green Northern Lights dance above Lyngenfjord, the longest fjord in Troms county in Norwa…

Thor’s Helmet

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Aug 2015

The distinctive shape of the nebula NGC 2359 has led to it also being known as Thor’s Helmet, resem…

Lagoon Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 30 Jul 2015

The stellar nursery of the Lagoon Nebula lies in the constellation of Sagittarius is situated some …

Spiral Planetary Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 26 Jun 2015

The strange S-shape that gives the Spiral Planetary Nebula its common name is seen clearly in this …

Solar flare

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 12 Jun 2015

On 11th March, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a significant burst of radiation known as…

The mosaic of the Caloris basin, Mercury

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Jun 2015

This mosaic of the Caloris basin (main image) on the surface of the planet is an enhanced colour c…