Young Stellar Grouping in Cygnus X (by NASA Goddard Photo and Video) Credit: NASA/IPAC/MSX
APOD: 2011 November 23 - The View from Chajnantor Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America), TWAN
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Aurora Over Greenland photo by Juan Carlos Casado
APOD: 2011 June 30 - Star Factory Messier 17 Credit: ESO, INAF-VST, OmegaCAM “Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this degree wide field of view spans almost 100 light-years, courtesy of the European Southern Observatory’s new VLT Survey Telescope and OmegaCAM.”
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APOD: 2011 June 24 - The Big Dipper photo by: Rogelio Bernal Andreo