... Have you ever seen a "star" drifting slowly overhead, but not known what it was? ... A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander . ... AE Aurigae is the bright star below and left of center in this evocative portrait of IC 405, also known as the Flaming Star Nebula. Embedded in the cosmic cloud, the hot, variable O-type star energizes the glow of hydrogen along convoluted filaments of atomic gas, its blue starlight scattered by interstellar dust. ... The International Space Station Expands Again . ...