Kyoto Prefecture, Japan By Norihiro Kataoka

Plate 14. Nebulae. (Now “galaxy” is used to denote the feature in Andromeda.) An atlas of astronomy. 1892.

Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America by Alexander von Humboldt (1841)

On its last day, the Rosetta space probe captured this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from an altitude of about 16 kilometers above the surface during the spacecraft’s final descent on September 30, 2016.

(ESA)

Galileo’s Europa Remastered

A photo of Saturn. Took by Cassini with COISS on March 04, 2005 at 19:37:26. Detail page on OPUS database.

“Come on, guys.  It’s time for everyone to go home.”

Aurorae on Jupiter by NASA, ESA, Hubble