Our home: Planet Earth
Our Place in the Universe: Cosmic Picture Album |
Our home: Planet Earth |
Our home star: the Sun |
 The Moon: Earth's satellite |
 Lining up of the planets in the Solar System |
 The inner planets |
 The outer planets |
 Planet Mars (where there is likely seasonal salt water) |
 Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa |
Star-birth clouds in M16: stellar "eggs" emerge from molecular cloud |
Star cluster: globular cluster NGC 6397 |
 Crab nebula: a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054. |
 Our home galaxy: the Milky Way |
 Our nearest peer galaxy: the Andromeda Galaxy |
 Spiral galaxy NGC 4414 |
 Spiral galaxy M101 |
 A grazing encounter between two spiral galaxies (NGC 2207 and IC2163) |
 A group of galaxies: the Hickson compact group 87 |
 A zoo of galaxies |
 Hubble Deep Field North image: a very deep view of space reveals lots of galaxies (thousands in this picture) |
 Hubble Deep Field South image |
 Hubble Ultra Deep Field image |
 Baby Universe The imprint of primordial seeds (matter density fluctuations) in the cosmic microwave background as seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. |