The Hubble Space Telescope’s Planetary Camera captured this black and white view of Jupiter in 1991. It shows the fine detail in the clouds that cover the planet. Comparison with images taken by ...

NASA astronaut Ed White is seen floating above Earth in the vacuum of space during the first American spacewalk on June 3, 1965.

"While some say, 'everything looks worse in black and white,' I cannot disagree ... it directly overhead and moving like that' (photo) Gorgeous deep space photo captures the Andromeda Galaxy ...

But there was a time not so long ago when images from space had the power to truly amaze, a time when a photo of, say, Ed White floating in the void boggled the mind and inspired the imagination.

NGC 6357 is known as an emission nebula, a region of space where gas is ionized by extreme ultraviolet radiation, which, in the case of NGC 6357, is caused by its massive young blue-white stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Planetary Camera captured this black and white view of Jupiter in 1991. It shows the fine detail in the clouds that cover the planet. Comparison with images taken by ...