Astronomy Picture of the Day - Equinox and the Iron Sun

From the Latest News section of the September 23, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's hot image is a view of the sun at the equinox. Today, the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading south at 03:09 Universal Time. Known as an equinox, this astronomical event marks the first day [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Discovery Rollout Shadow

From the Latest News section of the September 22, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is a shadow of Space Shuttle Discovery. Who goes there? Although the spotlighted figure in white might not be identifiable by itself, surely the huge shadow behind it makes its identity clear: the [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Starry Night Over the Rhone

From the Latest News section of the September 21, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's colorful image is actually a famous Van Gogh painting. How can the majesty of the night sky best be captured in a painting? This was a continual challenge for Vincent van Gogh, a famous painter [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurora Over Norway

From the Latest News section of the September 20, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is a fantastic aurora over Norway. Auroras can make spectacular sights. Photographed above last weekend, flowing multi-colored auroras helped illuminate a busy sky above Tromsø, Norway. Besides the spectacular aurora pictured above, the [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Veil Nebula

From the Latest News section of the September 16, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is the remnants of a star explosion. Delicate in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas, draped in planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, make up the Veil Nebula. The nebula [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus

From the Latest News section of the September 15, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is a menagerie of sky things. Sometimes the sky above can become quite a show. Last week, for example, the Moon and Venus converged, creating quite a sight by itself for sky enthusiasts [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - LL Pegasi Spiral

From the Latest News section of the September 14, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's spinning image is a spiral in LL Pegasi. What created the strange spiral structure on the left? No one is sure, although it is likely related to a star in a binary star system entering [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Zodiacal Light Over Namibia

From the Latest News section of the September 13, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is of a false dawn. An unusual triangle of light is visible this time of year just before dawn, in the northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn, this triangle of light is [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Cepheus: Trunk to Bubble

From the Latest News section of the September 9, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's neat image is of the constellation Cepheus. Star clusters, glowing nebulae and dark dust clouds abound in Cepheus, royal constellation of the northern hemisphere. You can follow them in amazing detail across this broad skyscape, [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Space Shuttle Tribute Poster

From the Latest News section of the September 7, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's neat image is a tribute to the Space Shuttle. They are some of the most complex machines ever built. From a standing start they can launch a school bus-sized object up so high and moving [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Small Clouds of Magellan

From the Latest News section of the September 3, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Bubble Nebula

From the Latest News section of the September 2, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's extremely awesome image is of NGC 7635, or the Bubble Nebula. Blown by the wind from a massive star, this interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar shape. Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Earth and Moon from MESSENGER

From the Latest News section of the September 1, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesomeimage is what the Earth and Moon look like from Mercury. What does Earth look like from the planet Mercury? The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER found out as it looked toward the Earth during its closest [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Annotated Galactic Center

From the Latest News section of the August 31, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's fact-filledimage is the center of our Milky Way. The sky toward the center of our Galaxy is filled with a wide variety of celestial wonders, many of which are visible from a dark location with [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mars Comanche Outcrop

From the Latest News section of the August 30, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's coolimage is a desolate one from Mars. Could life once have survived on Mars? Today, neither animal nor plant life from Earth could survive for very long on Mars because at least one key ingredient [...]

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