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A view of Mercury from MESSENGER's October 2008 flyby (NASA / JHUAPL / Gordan Ugarkovic) Every now and then a new gem of a color-composite appears in the Flickr photostream of Gordan Ugarkovic, and this one is the latest...

To call Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsävainio a magician is definitely not an exaggeration! Take a look at his latest handiwork, this amazing 3-D animation of Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula, IC 1805. Metsävainio ha...

For the past week or so, we've had either a waxing or waning crescent Moon (save for the New Moon on January 11) and astrophotographers have been out in full force capturing the beauty of this sliver of light, and someti...

Zoomable map of the US and Canada pinpoints everyone with a dot. (Credit: Brandon Martin-Anderson/Census Dotmap) Now this is something different: an interactive and zoomable map of the United States and Canada, made not ...