A Son of the Rock

Astronomy Picture of the Day was 20 years old on Jun 16^th. It has been on a bit of a roll recently.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (Jun 14^th):-

The Black Eye galaxy (Jun 18^th):-

On 23^rd Jun there was this star bubble round Sharpless 2-308:-

This is a picture of Zeta Ophiuchi (Jul 5^th) which is travelling to the left at 24 kilometres per second thus causing the bow-shock in the interstellar dust as shown:-

The next day gave us this picture of clouds near Rho Ophiuchi

Then Jul 8^th had this stunning scene of Dione, Saturn and Enceladus (Saturn is visible only as a faint arc and its rings are edge-on):-

Fly-over Ceres, Jun 10^th, a composite of still pictures:-

It’s exciting times for NASA as New Horizons is getting very close to Pluto. See yesterday’s picture:-

Wonderful stuff.