astrophotography by bill w

Saturn 6th planet from the sun, second largest after jupiter a gas giant it has a slight yellowish color due to ammonia in the upper atm...

"my God it's full of stars" -Dave Bowman's final words prior to entering the monolith in 2001: a space odyssey.  contrar...

Aquila, the eagle, is a summer constellation.  It can be found here  in the summer evenings section: It’s brightest star, alpha aquil...

Caught a number of background quasars in the field of Abell 1367. quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) look like faint blue stars but t...

when distances get very large, astronomers measure the "red shift" of light to determine distances: more distant objects are ...

factoid: Abell 1367 has more galaxies brighter than mag 14 than any other galaxy cluster the term "deep sky objects" is used by ...

a solar prominence is typically a structure seen on the edge of the sun against the black background of space.  it often looks like an ar...