Latest Focal Point
Spectacular image of the Rosette Nebula
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 10 Jul 2017
This image displays the intergrowth of Zinc oxide crystals.
Trappist travel poster
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 1 Mar 2017
A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist…
The Storr
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 11 Nov 2016
The Old Man of Storr with the Milky Way in the background.
Nanoparticles
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 15 Aug 2016
Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 17 Nov 2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet o…
Veil Nebula
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 28 Sep 2015
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that …
Bullet Through Lemon, 1955.
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 11 Sep 2015
This image, taken in 1955, is part of the exhibition Revelations: Experiments in Photography at Med…
Rosette Nebula
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 13 Aug 2015
The vivid green Northern Lights dance above Lyngenfjord, the longest fjord in Troms county in Norwa…
Thor’s Helmet
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 30 Jul 2015
The stellar nursery of the Lagoon Nebula lies in the constellation of Sagittarius is situated some …
Spiral Planetary Nebula
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.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
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 8 Jun 2015
This mosaic of the Caloris basin (main image) on the surface of the planet is an enhanced colour c…
NASA's MESSENGER mission has come to an end
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 5 Jun 2015
NASA’s MESSENGER mission has come to an end.
