Science

Jupiter

Most Beautiful Picture September 14, 2022
Jupiter

This image obtained from NASA and taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, shows Jupiter’s weather patterns, tiny moons, altitude levels, cloud covers and auroras at the northern and southern […]

Atmosphere

Most Beautiful Picture May 6, 2021
Earth Atmosphere

From an average altitude of 400 kilometers above the surface of Earth, the brilliant shades of orange and red along our planet’s curving limb are often stunning. They also showcase an […]

Mega Chad

Most Beautiful Picture February 20, 2020
Lake Mega Chad

About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers at […]

Surface of the Sun

Most Beautiful Picture February 3, 2020
Sun surface

This is the first image from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope of the sun’s surface. Released 30 January 2020. This picture is showing the highest ever […]

Meteor shower from space

Most Beautiful Picture January 23, 2020
Meteor shower from space

Every January, bits of asteroid 2003 EH1 cross paths with Earth’s orbit to create a beautiful annual meteor shower: the Quadrantids. As the fragments collide with our atmosphere, they disintegrate […]

Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

Most Beautiful Picture December 1, 2019
Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

The incredibly smooth surface of the sea ice indicates that it is topped with ample snow—possibly as much as tens of meters—which also drifted onto the berg’s left side. “That […]

CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope

Most Beautiful Picture November 12, 2019
CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope

The 64 m radio telescope at Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia, as seen in 1969, when it received signals from the Apollo 11 Moon landing. This photo, taken in […]

Terkezi Oasis, Chad

Most Beautiful Picture November 1, 2019
Terkezi Oasis, Chad

A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. This image was acquired by Landsat 7 on […]

Pyrocumulonimbus

Most Beautiful Picture August 15, 2019
Pyrocumulonimbus

On August 8, 2019, a team of atmospheric scientists got an exceedingly rare look at these clouds as they were forming. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large […]

Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia

Most Beautiful Picture August 2, 2019
Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia

The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photograph just after sunrise. The strip of land outlined by morning sunglint is the northern […]

Valles Marineris, Mars

Most Beautiful Picture June 4, 2019
Mars

Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 2500 kilometers from […]

M87 Black Hole

Most Beautiful Picture April 11, 2019
M87 black hole

This photograph of the M87 galaxy black hole is the first image of a black hole in history! This first image of a black hole shows a bright ring with […]

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Most Beautiful Picture March 23, 2019
Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2017)

So extensive, it is visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem. Stretching 2,300 km along Australia’s northeast coastline, this complex of shallow water […]

Supersonic Shockwave

Most Beautiful Picture March 11, 2019
Supersonic Shockwave

Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft flying in formation. These two U.S. Air […]

Lunar panorama

Most Beautiful Picture January 11, 2019
Chang’e-4 lunar mission panoramic picture

The Chinese lunar mission Chang’e-4 took this panoramic picture of the far side of the Moon. Amazing picture of a desolated landscape. Photo: CNSA/Thomas Appéré

Distant Earth

Most Beautiful Picture January 9, 2019
Earth seen from Saturn

On July 19, 2013, NASA spacecraft got one rare and unique view of Earth. While exploring Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took the image of Earth from a distance of about 1.45 billion […]

Ultima Thule

Most Beautiful Picture January 3, 2019
Ultima Thule

First image of Ultima Thule, January 2, 2019. This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New […]

InSight Mars Sol 0

Most Beautiful Picture November 29, 2018
InSight Mars Sol 0

NASA’s InSight Mars lander acquired this image of the area in front of the lander using its lander-mounted, Instrument Context Camera (ICC). This is the first image of the mission. […]

Robot MASCOT landing on Asteroid Ryugu

Most Beautiful Picture October 3, 2018
Robot Mascot landing on Asteroid Ryugu

This photograph received from Hayabusa2 spacecraft and made available by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on October 3, 2018, Japan time, shows the shadow of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 over […]

Saturn

Most Beautiful Picture August 10, 2018
Saturn

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and […]

Solar Eclipse

Most Beautiful Picture July 27, 2018
Solar Eclipse Sequence

The solar elements in this sequence were taken at 5 minutes interval except the diamond rings which were about one minute before and after the max totality. The positions of […]

Milky Way

Most Beautiful Picture May 15, 2018
Milky Way

There are about 1.7 billion stars in this picture! Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map […]

Square Kilometre Array

Most Beautiful Picture March 31, 2018
SKA overview

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a large multi radio telescope project aimed to be built in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Curiosity Mars Rover, NASA

Most Beautiful Picture March 18, 2018
Curiosity Mars Rover, NASA

This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it’s been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start […]

Jupiter’s clouds

Most Beautiful Picture January 5, 2018
Jupiter's clouds

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere. Jupiter completely fills the image, with […]

World Water Day

Most Beautiful Picture March 22, 2017
World - water

All water on Earth is represented in the big blue globe. The medium blue globe represents all the fresh water, indicating that the rest of the water is salty. Finally, the […]