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cometsmeteoroids: Conjunction of Venus, Moon & M44 by Conrad Jung
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ikenbot: Waterway to Orbit Credit & Copyright: James Vernacotola The 32nd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-130, left planet Earth on February 8, 2010. Its early morning launch to orbit from Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A followed the long, graceful, eastward arc seen in this 2 minute time exposure.
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cwnl: Milky Way Bridge by P-M Heden A dark starry night near Gysinge, Sweden. The Milky Way is photographed above this 100-year old railway bridge over Dal River.
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cwnl: Eclipsed Moon rises over the Black Sea Copyright: Emil Ivanov
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cwnl: Rotation Dome of CLIMSO The Christian Latouche IMageur Solaire (CLIMSO), is an observatory stationed at Pic-du-Midi museum of France. CLIMSO is an astronomical observation instrument specialized in the study of the Sun. It makes multiple films of the sun , particularly the globality of the surface and crown. In the image above it was captured in exposure as it rotated putting on a beautiful show against the backdrop of the night sky. Copyright: Alain Sallez