Goodbye To M42 For This Year.  But I’ll See You Again In November.  Meanwhile I Can Look At This

Cassini gets up close & personal with icy Mimas

The first two images show off the giant Herschel crater, a distinguishing feature of this moon. The second gives a better view of the mountain peak within the crater. The shadows cast by the crater and mountain peak give a glimpse into just how massive this crater truly is. The last image is one of the clearest images of Mimas to date.

SPACE

Saturn,cassini

Did you see what is on www.astrotidbits.com?  Loads of astronomy related stuff, including lots of pictures.

Using a shortwave radio to listen to Jupiter and the Sun. 

Hubble has been 27 years in space, being launched in April 24, 1990. The first image it shoot was the star cluster NGC 3532.

This “Pyrite Sun” may look like a sand dollar, but it is actually a concretion that was found in Illinois.