Floating Above the Earth

Our Solar System is a place of unimaginable beauty. Home to the Sun, eight planets, and a variety of smaller celestial objects, we have only recently been able to appreciate it fully. Thanks to the marvels of technology, robotic spacecraft have extended our view across vast distances, enabling us to see what was once hidden from our view.

Join us now and examine some of the most recent images of our Solar System. The images in this gallery have been hand-selected by Sea and Sky for their visual beauty and represent some of the best views ever obtained of the Solar System.

Click on an image above to begin a slide show. Use the buttons under each image to navigate through the slide show. You can use the buttons on the right side of the image window to select another image gallery and begin a new slide show. You may also listen to relaxing atmospheric music by clicking on one of the five numbered buttons to the right of the image window. Your Web browser must support Adobe Flash in order to hear the music. If you do not have the Flash plugin for your browser, you can download it here.