“Is Anyone Out There?” Self-portrait By Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean, 2000.

Artworks by Lucio Perinotto  

1936-1945 | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

1953-1959 | North American F-100 Super Sabre

1936-1942 | Latécoère Laté 298

1941-1945 | Hawker Typhoon

1934-1936 | Caudron C.460 Racer

1938-1948 | Supermarine Spitfire

1936-1945 | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Comet NEAT revealed in close-up by the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona on May 7, 2004.

(HubbleSite)

A Colorful Moon The Moon is normally seen in subtle shades of grey or yellow. But small, measurable color differences have been greatly exaggerated to make this telescopic, multicolored, moonscape captured during the Moon’s full phase. The different colors are recognized to correspond to real differences in the chemical makeup of the lunar surface. Blue hues reveal titanium rich areas while orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron. The familiar Sea of Tranquility, or Mare Tranquillitatis, is the blue area in the upper right corner of the frame. White lines radiate across the orange-hued southern lunar highlands from 85 kilometer wide ray crater Tycho at bottom left. Above it, darker rays from crater Copernicus extend into the Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium) at the upper left. Calibrated by rock samples from the Apollo missions, similar multicolor images from spacecraft have been used to explore the Moon’s global surface composition. Image Credit & Copyright: László Francsics

A 1979 work by space artist Don Dixon shows dwarf planet Pluto as seen from one of its moons. (Cosmographica)

‘antipode’

Conjunction: Jupiter and Saturn

Credit: Vladimir Mach

David A. Hardy

“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”

—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)