Image Credits
 
  Various stages of the stellar life cycle in the galactic nebula NGC 3603. HST image by Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (Univ. Washington), You-Hua Chu (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and NASA; courtesy STScI.
 
  Polarization arising from my radiative transfer model of the young binary star KH 15D. See my KH 15D page for details of the model and more results.
 
  Intrinsic percent polarization, position angle, and polarized flux spectra of beta Lyrae, from Hoffman et al. (1998); see my beta Lyrae page for details and more results.
 
  Bow shock around the very young star LL Orionis in the Orion Nebula. HST image by C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt), courtesy NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).
 
  Artist's conception of the interacting binary star beta Lyrae as seen from a nearby planet, by Chesley Bonestell, 1976. Image copyright © Bonestell Space Art; used with permission.
 
  "Light echo" from an expanding dusty shell around the red supergiant star V838 Monocerotis. HST image courtesy NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI).
 
  Supernova 2004dj, a Type II-P ("plateau") supernova, in NGC 2403. HST image by A.V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), et al., courtesy NASA, ESA, and STSCI.
 
  Statistical graphic displaying losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812, by Charles Joseph Minard, 1869. See more details at Edward Tufte's page on information design.
 
  Urania, muse of astronomy. Artist and date unknown, published by Vouthier/Boutrois. From the Julius Waller Imprint Collection of the Helen A. Ganser Library, Millersville University, Millersville, PA.