Tagged: Astronomy

Here is a photo of the area near the southwestern edge of the Moon. The triangle of similar sized craters at...

This little blue fuzzball is the Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009) in the constellation Aquarius. The Saturn Nebula is a planetary nebula...

Here is the southern polar region of the Moon. Tycho is the crater with the central peak near the bottom of...

Here is crater Gutenberg again, with the Montes Pyrenaeus extending toward the top of the photo. Crater Columbo is the larger...

Here is a photo of the southeastern part of the moon. Crater Gutenberg is at the top, with the right part...

Photo of the crater-pocked southern area of the Moon. The crater with the central peak in the middle of the photo...

These are the Moon’s Caucasus mountains.  The two large craters extending down from the mountains are Eudoxus and Aristoteles. The large...

Messier 2 is a bright globular cluster in Aquarius that can be seen by the naked in excellent conditions. It is...

Messier 15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. It is among the oldest globular clusters, around 12 billion years...

Messier 30 (the fuzzy object in the middle of the photo) is a globular cluster in the constellation Capricorn. Not only...