I've mentioned Astronomy Picture of the Day here before. Lately they have had some astonishingly beautiful pictures, and it seems like a good time to highlight their excellent site again.
Last Friday's picture is a startling edge-on view of Saturn's rings accompanied by one of its small, icy moons. This image was taken by the Cassini spacecraft a couple of weeks ago as it passed through the plane of Saturn's rings on regular orbital path about the giant planet.
A few days earlier, APOD presented a gorgeous close-up of Orion's belt, three stars that are spotted easily in the winter skies even in the diffuse glow of Boston's light pollution. But they never look quite like they do here!
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