diff --git a/docs/footprints.rst b/docs/footprints.rst
index 106de665f..f6451bdef 100644
--- a/docs/footprints.rst
+++ b/docs/footprints.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ To demonstrate this, we take the same example as in the :ref:`quickstart` guide,
 As before, we now reproject the MSX image to be in the same projection as the 2MASS image, but we do this with two algorithms::
 
     from reproject import reproject_interp, reproject_exact
-
     array_interp, footprint_interp = reproject_interp(hdu2, hdu1.header)
     array_exact, footprint_exact = reproject_exact(hdu2, hdu1.header)
 
diff --git a/docs/healpix.rst b/docs/healpix.rst
index 8e4b4d208..1249a9a8e 100644
--- a/docs/healpix.rst
+++ b/docs/healpix.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ specify the output shape using ``shape_out``) or as a FITS
 :class:`~astropy.io.fits.Header` object.
 
 To demonstrate these functions, we can download an example HEALPIX map which
-is a posterior distribution map from the `LIGO project
+is a posterior probability distribution map from the `LIGO project
 <http://www.ligo.org/scientists/first2years/>`_::
 
     from astropy.utils.data import get_pkg_data_filename
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 93594094f..49216ef35 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ A common use case is that you have two FITS images, and want to reproject one
 to the same header as the other. This can easily be done with the *reproject*
 package, and we demonstrate this in the following example. We start off by
 downloading two example images from `http://data.astropy.org <http://data.astropy.org>`_,
-namely 2MASS K-band and MSX band E images of the Galactic center::
+namely a 2MASS K-band image and an MSX band E image of the Galactic center::
 
     from astropy.io import fits
     from astropy.utils.data import get_pkg_data_filename