Red, White, and Blue in Space Photography; Red, ... from the grainiest black and white images, ... translates infrared light as bright blue. In its images, ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

Red sprites and blue jets are still poorly understood phenomena. NASA/University of Alaska Fairbanks Blue jets may be bright, but their discovery was preceded by a longer-lasting, redder ...

It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from shooting stars.

Hello, readers, and welcome back to the last This Week in Space of 2022. As the year draws down to a close, American aerospace -- both public and private -- has gone as quiet as a winter's night.

Just in time for Independence Day, the James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a red, white and blue fireworks display, courtesy of an infant star.

JWST data shows up in this picture as red, orange, yellow, green and blue streaks, NASA said. Coded in these shades, you can see galactic trails of gas and growing baby stars speckling the dark ...

The new category of galaxies would be the third, falling outside the usual neat dichotomy of young, actively star-forming blue galaxies and their older, inactive red counterparts.

In some false-color images, which help show details scientists may not see in black and white, Mars also appears to be blue. A 2022 study also suggests Mars may have once been a blue, water ...

Solar Orbiter image of the sun in visible light, taken on March 22, 2023. Sunspots are cooler than the surrounding surface. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team Image of the sun's magnetic field. Red ...

Images from the European Space Agency’s newest telescope show the power of instruments that will create 3D surveys of a third of the sky, covering 10 billion years of cosmic history.