Hubble image of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, about 20,000 years-light from Earth (left). This impressive shape is caused by the red supergiant star at the middle of the image.

Space Research

Isabel's Eye. Hurricane Isabel, photographed from the International Space Station, barreling towards Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (September 15, 2003).

Neptune

Fascinating Shapes of a nebula, NASA.

Launch views of the Columbia for the STS-1 mission, April 12, 1981. The same Space Shuttle came apart on February, 2003, killing the seven crew members in that fatal accident.