Something Beautiful

Saturn and Titan

Photos of planet Saturn are almost always beautiful. Try this one of Saturn and Titan, one of its moons

Astrophoto site

The photos here are so stunning, so unexpected, so unimaginably beautiful and strange, that some of them bring tears to the eye -- Astrophoto gallery.

Great Globular Cluster

M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, at the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.

Magellans Large and Small

Is it just me, or is there something touching about this astrophotograph of the two Magellanic clouds or, more accurately, galaxies?

The Milky Way

An impressive photo of our home galaxy and the two Magellanic Clouds.

Moon and Pleiades

At the wonderful Astronomy Photo of the Day site -- the Moon and Pleiades, over Menton, France.

Comets

A recent entry at the Astronomy Site of the Day shows Comet Schwassmann Wachmann 3, May 2006, just as it is breaking up.

Seeing a comet brings back memories of these two marvelous comets from the late 1990s -

Comet Hyakutake, 1996
Comet Hale-Bopp, 1997

There have been some noteworthy examples already in the twenty-first century -

Comet LINEAR, early 2004
Comet Bradfield, April 2004 (animation: 3 views)
Comet Pojmanski, Narch 2006

Turning to the very distant past, Phoebe, a rather peculiar moon of Saturn, might have started out as a comet.

Ever-photogenic Saturn

Saturn is beautiful from so many angles. Here, in one photo, is the planet itself, its rings, and an enigmatic moon.

Astrophotography

I don't think they get better than these photos by Noel Carboni.   (Thanks to Steve at nutlog for the tip.) 

Five QTVRs

Five wonderful QTVR (Quick-time virtual reality) photos, arranged roughly from the smaller,  man-made to the great and natural --

General Assembly, United Nations, New York City

London, England

Elves' Chasm, Grand Canyon

Mt. Everest, Nepal

Moon