The Archive
A collection of past featured images listed from newest to oldest.
Medusa Nebula
The above image features only optical and narrowband data, for the inclusion of WISE and Spitzer data, please see the article.
Messier 78
The image to the right is stylized for effect, please see the article for their unaltered version.
Pulsars in the Radio
Artistic interpretation of a pulsar by B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF, featured in accordance with the NRAO’s media use policy and the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Star Clusters
Left to right – NGC 3293, NGC 3330 and NGC 4833; all images are 20 exposures taken on January 27, 2023 at various times; exposures for NGC 3293 and NGC 3330 were taken by PROMPT6 optical telescope in Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile; exposures for NGC 4833 were taken by PROMPT5 and PROMPT6 optical telescopes in Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile and by PROMPT-MO-1 optical telescope in Meckering, Australia. (The above images are stylized for effect, please see the images below for their unaltered versions.)
The Green Comet
[come back later]
The Solar System
Left to right – Mars: 30 exposures taken on January 18, 2023 from 00:48:37 to 00:59:21 UTC; Jupiter: 30 exposures take on January 22, 2023 from 00:56:02 to 01:01:18 UTC; Uranus: 90 exposures taken January 20, 2023 from 00:56:06 to 01:02:03 UTC; Neptune: 30 exposures taken on January 13, 2023 from 00:54:40 to 01:01:14 UTC; all exposures were taken by PROMPT5 optical telescope in Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.
Virgo A
Taken on January 17, 2023 from 06:14:14 to 06:21:27 UTC by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO) 20-meter radio telescope in the Green Bank Observatory, WV.
The Moon
27 images taken on January 11, 2023 from 05:24:41 to 05:37:06 UTC by PROMPT6 optical telescope in Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.
