This image captures the breathtaking beauty of a slot canyon, likely Antelope Canyon in Arizona, known for its sculpted sandstone walls and the ethereal light that filters down from above.
Westerlund 2 is a young cluster of thousands of stars — a cosmic garden where new suns rise from interstellar soil made of gas and dust. This close‑up view, roughly 12 light-years across, combines observations from NASA’s Chandra and @NASAWebb.✨
Red sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms in the mesosphere, the upper part of the atmosphere. They are usually triggered by positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes and appear as red 📸 @nicolas_escurat
This image of an atmospheric gigantic jet and red sprites by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers recently became viral. On July 3rd, aboard the International Space Station, she was taking a timelapse of Earth at night when this elusive phenomenon appeared