Ghost Nebula

This ghostly image was obtained in August 2009 with the vision of wide-field Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. This cloud of cosmic dust, called vdB 141, is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 1,200 light-years away. 

Chasing clouds on Venus

Often spotted clouds blue sky of Earth, but Venus is never clear. This planet is permanently surrounded by a solid covering of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, about 20 kilometers thick.

This image, taken by the European spacecraft Venus Express on December 8, 2011 when it was at about 30,000 miles from Earth, shows the top of the clouds of Venus in ultraviolet wavelengths.

NASA Release: Suomi NPP Captures Night View of U.S. Before Hurricane Sandy's Landfall

Axis Hurricane Sandy made a historic landfall on the New Jersey coast during the night of October 29, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA / NOAA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of the storm. This image provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a composite or verschillende satellite passes over North America jobs 18 hours before Sandy's landfall.