Astronaut Ron Garan took this image of the moon from his window on the ISS. Since the station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, the crew experiences this about 16 times a day
Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in the nebula NGC 6188, found near the edge of a molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away. By Marco Lorenzi
Taken by Nasa's Hubbel space telescope, this image offers a peek inside a 'cavern' of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula where thousands of stars are forming
The cosmic filaments may be created by shockwaves from exploding stars. The region in the picture is around 15 light years across. Red shows colder gas and dust, while blue and green are warmer material which is being heated by stars which have already formed
Dispersing dust: Energetic light and winds from massive newly-formed stars in the emission nebula NGC 2174 evaporate and disperse the dark stellar nurseries in which they formed
Research has uncovered that young stars blast huge jets of water from their north and south poles (pictured in blue) into space at a speed 80 times faster than a bullet
Post time 10-8-2011 12:41 AM
