Space Facts & Astronomy

Discover amazing space facts, astronomy pictures of the day, and fascinating information about our universe from NASA.

Nov 4, 2025

Comet Lemmon has been putting on a show for cameras around the globe. Passing nearest to Earth in late October, the pho...

Nov 3, 2025

The image was timed to capture a total lunar eclipse -- but it came with quite a twist. First, the eclipse: the fully E...

Nov 2, 2025

What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured here, the grav...

Nov 1, 2025

The lovely Pleiades star cluster shines in Earth's night sky, a compact group of stars some 400 light-years distant towa...

Oct 31, 2025

Halloween is an astronomy holiday and spooky shapes always seem to lurk in planet Earth's night skies. In fact, near the...

Oct 30, 2025

Sure, Halloween is an astronomy holiday. But astronomers always enjoy scanning the heavens for spook-tacular galaxies, s...

Oct 29, 2025

Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with...

Oct 28, 2025

Can you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supe...

Oct 27, 2025

How many bright tails does Comet Lemmon have? Two. In the featured image it appears to have three, but why? The reason...

Oct 26, 2025

Halloween's origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-qu...

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