Planck's Cosmic Pie Chart
Small updates to our estimates of matter, dark matter, and dark energy in the universe. Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
View ArticlePlanck's History of the Universe
An updated timelines of our universe's nearly 14-billion-year-long history. Image: ESA – C. Carreau.
View ArticlePlanck's CMB
The best and most precise map of the early universe ever produced, using data from ESA's Planck spacecraft. Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
View ArticleAnomalies in Planck Data
Odd anomaly showing half the sky warmer and half the sky cooler. Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
View ArticlePlanck Comparison
Sharper and sharper focus achieved by three generations of satellites mapping the cosmic microwave background. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA
View ArticleMar 21, 2013
Asteroid Billiards This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program) sky...
View ArticleView from the top
The view from Orizaba base camp, as clouds lap against the mountain range. (Image Credit: Jeffrey Marlow)
View ArticleSunrise
Sunrise at the summit casts a conical shadow to the horizon. (Image Credit: Joel Scheingross)
View ArticleLabyrinth
Looking upward into the Labyrinth, a steep jumble of boulders below Orizaba's glacier-capped peak. (Image Credit: Joel Scheingross)
View ArticleMar 22, 2013
Sunrise at Tycho Crater NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. Tycho crater's central peak complex, shown here, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to...
View ArticleMar 23, 2013
Hypercolor Mercury in Full On March 18, 2011, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury, becoming the first spacecraft ever to do so. Among the many instruments on this pioneering probe...
View ArticleMar 24, 2013
Beautiful Horsehead Nebula This exceptional image of the Horsehead nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the...
View ArticleMar 26, 2013
Something Wicked in the Trifid Nebula? Three huge intersecting dark lanes of interstellar dust make the Trifid Nebula one of the most recognizable and striking star birth regions in the night sky. The...
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Sea Cucumber Skin
From the shiny, strong nacre that gives abalone shells an unbreakable, opaline sheen, to the goopy mix of proteins fired by a velvet worm that solidify and trap prey upon impact, nature is packed with...
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Chiton Teeth
Chiton Teeth: Superstrong Chitons are marine molluscs. One species, Chaetopleura apiculata, uses a crazy-looking array of teeth (pictured above) to chew up rocks and extract delicious algae. Derk...
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