Cosmic Wonderland ~ NASA's Composite Beauty!

NASA aesthetically photo-composited data from Chandra, ROSAT, Spitzer, and SuperCosmos observatories to make this Cosmic Wonderland image!

Laniakea ~ Our Supercluster Neighborhood!

Thanks to Randy from Cool Infographics for spotlighting nice Nature coverstory on Laniakea, our home supercluster!

Soap Bubble Nebula ~ NASA Spots Cygnus!

NASA APOD spots Soap Bubble Nebula in Cygnus constellation!

Imaging Progress ~ Pillars of Creation Revisited!

NASA shares updated imagery of the Pillars of Creation! Thanks to Zach Noble at The Blaze for spotting this!

Fishhead Nebula ~ NASA Spots Star Formations

NASA APOD spots the Fishhead Nebula!

Energetic Flare ~ NASA APOD spots Sharp Sun!

NASA APOD spots an Energetic Flare!

Terra Incognita ~ Larsen's Epic Adventure Painting

Artist Bryan Larsen was commissioned to paint Terra Incognita, an epic adventure weaving youthful imagination and historic figures into a Martian future! Quent Cordair, purveyor of fine artworks, has kept everyone appraised of the painting in progress...

"The painting features famous inventors and discoverers such as Alan Turing, Rosalind Franklin, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus and John Harrison. [And, of course, the] two little astronauts!"

Click through to see the full imagery (and also buy limited edition print) and read Larsen's progress reports!

Ring Nebula ~ Gaseous M57 Composite Image!

NASA APOD spots Ring Nebula M57!

Horsehead Nebula ~ Composite NASA Imagery!

Lovely NASA APOD image of Horsehead Nebula!

Chandra Images ~ Four Supernovas Shared!

txchnologist spots NASA's Chandra anniversary images...

"To celebrate Chandra’s 15th anniversary, four new images of supernova remnants -- the Crab Nebula, Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58 -- were released by the space agency. These supernova remnants are very hot and energetic and glow brightly in X-ray light."

Moonwalk One ~ NASA's Epic Apollo 11 Docu!

io9's Mika McKinnon points out that NASA shares Moonwalk One...

"This documentary gives an in-depth look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. NASA archival footage, as well as reactions to the mission around the world, shows the enormous impact that the moon landing had."

Stellar Wind Machine ~ Wolf-Rayet Star 124...

NASA APOD spots Stellar Wind Machine...

V838 Mono ~ Timelapse Hubble Stellar Echo!

Weather.com spots V838 Monocerotis timelapse steller light echo!

Cat's Eye Halo ~ NASA Spots Planetary Nebula!

NASA APOD spots Halo of the Cat's Eye...

Star Factory ~ NASA APOD spots Messier 17...

NASA APOD spots Messier 17 -- the Star Factory...

Illustris ~ First Realistic Universe Simulation...

DailyGalaxy spotlights the first realistic universe simulation Illustris...

"A set of large-scale cosmological simulations, including the most ambitious simulation of galaxy formation yet performed. The calculation tracks the expansion of the universe, the gravitational pull of matter onto itself, the motion or "hydrodynamics" of cosmic gas, as well as the formation of stars and black holes. These physical components and processes are all modeled starting from initial conditions resembling the very young universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang and until the present day, spanning over 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution. The simulated volume contains tens of thousands of galaxies captured in high-detail, covering a wide range of masses, rates of star formation, shapes, sizes, and with properties that agree well with the galaxy population observed in the real universe."

Elephant's Trunk ~ NASA Spots Globular Nebula!

NASA APOD spots unusual globule, the Elephant's Trunk nebula image by Rector & Schweiker...

Inside Orion ~ NASA Spotlights Nebular Core!

NASA APOD spots Inside the Orion Nebula...

Edible Planets ~ Spherical Concentric Layer Cake!

LOL, Spherical Concentric Layer Cakes...

"This tutorial will show you the most basic and least equipment-heavy way of baking the concentric layer cake as seen in both the Earth cake and Jupiter cake. You can stop at half way and just make a hemisphere cake, or make two hemispheres and join them into one as in this video."

P.S. Neatorama's John Farrier spots Beth Klosterboer's Earth Cake with Rock Candy Core...

Colliding Galaxies ~ NASA APOD spots Antennae!

NASA APOD spots Coverta's Antennae Galaxies in Collision...