Category: Picture of the Month

This is the new and highest resolution map of the universe’s most abundant gas. hydrogen.

Nicknamed as Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is built within a natural basin in the Guizhou province of China.

Our Sun is most likely formed some five billion years ago in a similar stellar nursery such as NGC7129.

From left to right, Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, and Europa can be seen in this telescopic view alongside the Moon.

This view of the night side of Pluto was captured by New Horizons last July when the spacecraft was 21000 kilometres from the planet.