Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy

Gallery of Astronomy This page is a gallery of featured pictures that the community has chosen to highlight as some of the finest on Commons. Examples of other galleries : Space exploration Satellite images Sky Waxing half moon over Brofjorden 1 Bontecou Lake Milky Way panorama Man in front of the Milky Way Super moon over City of London from Tate Modern 2018-01-31 6 Pedra Azul Milky Way Linnutee - Milky Way (9) copy Star trails with sunset at La Hague lighthouse Bunker under the Milky Way Iridiumi satelliidi sähvatus 360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky 360° panorama in Death Valley at night Top of Atmosphere Mercury, Venus and the Moon Align Martian sunset 2012-03-14 21-42-55-file-etoiles-14f-2min-3d ~ 280° panorama of the starry sky in Brandenburg Heavens Above Her Savault Chapel Under Milky Way BLS Perseiid Milky way seen from bolivian high altiplano 03 International Space Station star trails - JSC2012E039800 Top See also: Sky (category) Galleries   Eclipse Solar eclipse 1999 in France Solar eclipse in France 1999, protuberances The progression of solar eclipse of August 1, 2008 in Novosibirsk, Russia Solar annular eclipse of January 15, 2010 in Jinan,Republic of China Solar Eclipse May 20,2012 Lunar eclipse 04-15-2014 by R Jay GaBany Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17 Top See also: Eclipse (category) Galleries   Planets (including dwarf planets) Mercury Mercury 2006 Transit of Mercury Top See also: Mercury (category) Galleries   Venus 2012 Transit of Venus from SF Venus globe Top See also: Venus (category) Galleries   Earth North America from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP Earthrise over Compton crater -LRO full res First photograph taken by man of Earthrise Earthrise The Earth seen from Apollo 17 Mosaic of the Arctic Africa and Europe from a Million Miles Away Blue Marble Western Hemisphere Blue Marble Eastern Hemisphere Turbulent Tropical Skies Top See also: Earth (category) Galleries   Mars PIA22349 – Gullies of Matara Crater Mars in true colour by OSIRIS Victoria crater from HiRise Victoria Crater, Cape Verde, Mars Victoria crater in Mars Valles Marineris on Mars Terraformed Mars Olympus Mons Image taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing descent of Phoenix with a crater in the background. NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau Martian Dust Devil Trails Hellas Chaos on Mars Water ice layers in Olympia Rupes, Mars Gullies in Galle crater, Mars Gullies in Kaiser crater, Mars Strong wind erosion in Medusae Fossae, Mars Top See also: Mars (category) Galleries   Jupiter Jupiter Blues Jovian Tempest Jupiter 790106-0203 Voyager 58M to 31M reduced PIA22946-Jupiter-RedSpot-JunoSpacecraft-20190212 Top See also: Jupiter (category) Galleries   Saturn PIA17218 – A Farewell to Saturn, Brightened Version Saturn's rings in visible light and radio Saturn with auroras Saturn during Equinox Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet Light The Day the Earth Smiled Jewel of the Solar System Saturn eclipse Saturn Top See also: Saturn (category) Galleries   Neptune Neptune Full Top See also: Neptune (category) Galleries   Pluto Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT Top See also: Pluto (category) Galleries   Other planets Fomalhaut planet Artist's impression of an ultra-short-period planet Top See also: Planets (category) Galleries   Natural satellites PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic.jpg/2 Io highest resolution true color.jpg/2 Phobos colour 2008 Lune-Nikon-600-F4 Luc Viatour Lunar libration The total phase of the June 15 lunar eclipse lasted an impressive 100 minutes FullMoon2010 Full moon partially obscured by atmosphere Moon view from earth In Belgium Full Moon view from Earth LRO Tycho Central Peak Mimas Cassini Saturn's moon Iapetus Top See also: Natural satellites (category) Galleries   Comets Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp Comet 67P on 19 September 2014 NavCam mosaic C2014 Q2 Top See also: Comets (category) Galleries   Stars Cosmic ‘Winter’ Wonderland The Sun by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - 20100801 August 2010 CME SDO Multi-Wavelength 2006 Transit of Mercury 2012 Transit of Venus from SF SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit -- Path Sequence Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun - August 31 The violent youth of solar proxies Relative star sizes The star formation region NGC 3324 Pismis 24 R136 HST 2009-12-15 "light echo" around V838 Monocerotis Generations of stars can be seen in this new infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA Unveils Celestial Fireworks as Official Hubble 25th Anniversary Image Top See also: Stars (category) Galleries   Nebulae Messier 78.jpg/2 Elephant Trunk NGC 3372a-full VST image of the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17 (Omega Nebula) Cygnus-Wall The star formation region Messier 17 Rosette Nebula Helix Nebula Helix Nebula Crab Nebula Heart and Soul nebulae ESO - The Carina Nebula (by) Eta Carinae Nebula Carina Nebula The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula Nebulosa de Eta Carinae o NGC 3372 Lagoon Nebula (ESO) Lagoon Nebula (a set of 3 pictures) Orion Nebula The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula Generations of stars can be seen in this new infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. North America Nebula Different Slant on Orion (495636660) Spitzer's Orion NGC 6302 Hubble 2009.full Eaglefairy hst big 30 Doradus, Tarantula Nebula A New View of the Tarantula Nebula Filigree and Shadow Rho Ophiuchi Rho Ophiucus Widefield VISTA's infrared view of the Orion Nebula Simeis 147 EmissionNebula NGC6357 IC 2944, Nicknamed the Running Chicken Nebula NGC 2467 and Surroundings NGC6960 Barnard 33 Pillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3-UVIS full-res NASA-SNR0519690-ChandraXRayObservatory-20150122 Top See also: Nebulae (category) Galleries   Galaxies M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg/3 M81 UGC 1810 and UGC 1813 in Arp 273 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope) Hubble Peers into the Storm (29563971405) Colliding galaxies Sombrero Galaxy Sombrero, Hubble images Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 ESO - Milky Way Messier 81 HST Spiral galaxy NGC 1672 Field of galaxies Andromeda Galaxy (with h-alpha) Stephan's Quintet Hubble 2009.full M82 Near colliding NGC 2207 and IC 2163 as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Large Magellanic Cloud Messier 51 Galaxy Antennae, Hubble images Guisard - Milky Way Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way False-color photograph of Milky Way core regions Center of the Milky Way Galaxy IV – Composite Firestorm of Star Birth in Galaxy Centaurus A NGC 2683 Spiral galaxy The southern spiral galaxy NGC 300 The irregular galaxy NGC 55, who is slowly spinning around and towards NGC 300, in the early stages of a lengthy merging process. Play media This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. Play media This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. This wide field image shows the area around the spiral galaxy NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth. This chart shows the location of the NGC 300 galaxy within the constellation of Sculptor. This image composite shows the spiral galaxy NGC 300, as well as the position of the stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy. This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus A M82 HST ACS 2006-14 Starburst in NGC 4449 Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst shining through two young galaxies in the early Universe Needle Galaxy NGC 4565 Top See also: Galaxies (category) Galleries   Others Black hole - Messier 87 Play media BBH gravitational lensing of gw150914.webm Play media This sequence gives a close-up view of the southern spiral galaxy NGC 300 Play media This zoom sequence starts with a view of part of the faint southern constellation of Sculptor and finish with a close-up of NGC 300 galaxy Play media This video zooms in NGC 300 onto the position of the system containing the stellar-mass black hole, and finishes with an artist’s impression of the system. Algol AB movie imaged with the CHARA interferometer Top Galleries   Unsorted The FPCBot will place images here, they can manually be sorted into more specific sections. When moving away images do not remove the gallery itself and let this section be the last on the page.