The Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Jean Claude Canonne, Philippe Bernhard, Didier Chaplain, Nicolas Outters, and Laurent Bourgon<\/p><\/div>\n

[ThTh1]<\/strong> Two of my favorite objects in the sky are the Magellanic Clouds. They are visible to the naked eye (albeit only in the Southern Hemisphere). A group of amateurs recently took an incredible deep image of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Phil Plait<\/a> has the details.<\/p>\n

[ThTh2]<\/strong> You would think, after studying the Sun since literally the dawn of civilization, it wouldn’t surprise us. You would be wrong<\/a>. Fermi, with its gamma-ray-sensitive eyes, is discovering all kinds of things about the high-energy processes in the upper regions of the solar atmosphere.<\/p>\n

[ThTh3]<\/strong> The Whirlpool Galaxy is another of my personal favorites. Here’s a flyby of this amazing galaxy.<\/p>\n