How can you not be intrigued by this picture of the emerald nebula? It is courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Always a good place to get your extra-terrestrial fix.
This depiction, showing NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space around the sun known as the heliosheath is courtesy of NASA. Another good site for your space-related browsing.
Then, of course, there’s always the Hubble Site.
The above spectacular image documents star formation in Centaurus A
More down-to-earth, this picture of Eta Carinae was taken with a store-bought Canon DSLR.
The man who took it is Alan Dyer, and, if you want to take pictures like that, he shares his photographic secrets with you at his website Amazing Sky.
In June 2011, ESA’s Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe
an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the Martian moon Phobos.
The above pictures of the rather lumpy moon plus a video of the event are displayed on their website.
Finally, we have the spectacular Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
Again, from a store bought DSLR using widely available off the shelf lenses.
Video at the host website plays more clearly
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