Image of the Day: 29/9/14

(Photo Credit: Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC)

A few days after the calendar officially announced that autumn had arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, the Moderate Resolution Imagingi Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of fall colours around the Great Lakes as the season made a visible impact on the North American landscape.

Image of the Day: 22/9/14

(Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University)

Saturn is a gigantic ball of rotating gas that is completely unlike Earth in many ways but one: its weather. Our home planet and Saturn both experience similar weather phenomenons, however the gas giant is also home to some of the most bizarre weather witnessed in our Solar System, such as this swirling storm, known as “the hexagon”, which was photographed by the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft.

Dust within Milky Way revealed in new 3D map

(A small section of the map shows how the dust is arranged at a distance of 9000 light years. – Photo Credit: Sale et al/IPHAS)

An international team of astronomers have created a new three-dimensional map of the Milky Way’s interstellar dust by mapping the dust present between distant stars.