Astronomy Photo of the Week
How to clean windows without a ladder ....
This is a night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Amazing!
An extra treat: this is from a series called 'Alien Landscapes on Earth'. The copyright belongs to Martin Rietze, and you can see it if you click
Mercury, in colour
Image courtesy of NASA, and the Messenger spacecraft
Here's a chunk of rock...the smallest object found so far in the Kuiper Belt, a circle of icy debris at the outer rim of the solar system, just beyond Neptune.
I grew up in a Welsh town near the sea, a town built on sand dunes. As kids we used to play cowboys and Indians among the dunes.
So this image really spooks me out; it's sand dunes on Mars:
Image courtesy of NASA
Here's one from my archive of images that haunt me....
I love this image from last week of a roll cloud - I've never seen anything like it before.
But here's my pick of the week's images - all available on the right hand link Astronomy Photo of the Day. It's an astronaut, catching a satellite. How often do you see that?
I generally start my day by clicking the link to the right of this page, marked Astronomy Picture of the Day...with images of space and the solar system.
Here's my favourite pic from last week.