Space photo of the week: Dry ice ‘geysers’ erupt on Mars as spring hits the Red Planet
What it is: Geysers of gas and dust on Mars Where it is: The south polar area of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it’s so unique:…
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve ‘impossible’ planet mystery
A picture of NGC 346 from the Hubble Space Telescope(left)and the James Webb Space Telescope(ideal). (Image credit: Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones( UK ATC ), Guido…
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Space photo of the week: Galaxies teeter toward collision in the sparkling depths of Virgo
The Antlia Cluster(Abell S636)is a group of a minimum of 230 galaxies situated about 130 million & light-years away in the instructions of the constellation Antlia(the Air Pump). (Image credit:…
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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan’s ‘eye,’ 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft’s historic landing on Saturn’s largest moon
(Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/ University of Arizona ) What it is: Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan Where it is: Around 750 million miles(1.2 billion kilometers) from Earth When it was shared: May…
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Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to capture
UGC 10043 is among the couple of spiral nebula we see edge-on. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel) What it is: Spiral nebula UGC 10043 Where it…
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Chandra spot a cosmic ‘Christmas Wreath’ sparkling in the galaxy next door
This picture of NGC 602 is a composite of X-ray(red )and infrared (orange, yellow, green and blue)light from the Chandra and James Webb area telescopes, respectively. (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO;…
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Space photo of the week: Astronaut spots 2 nearby galaxies from SpaceX capsule
A long-duration picture catches the view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from a window on the SpaceX Dragon team spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/Don Pettit ) What it is:…
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Space photo of the week: Hubble uncovers the true identity of an odd galaxy โ and it’s not spiral or elliptical
The uncommon galaxy NGC 4694 has characteristics distinct to the 2 primary galaxy types, spiral and elliptical. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) What it is: The galaxy NGC…
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Space photo of the week: Stare into the ‘bloodshot eyes’ of a haunting galaxy pair
JWST and Hubble’s brand-new composite image reveals the galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 with bright-red “blood-soaked” eyes. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) What it is: The spiral nebula…
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar ‘H-bomb’ exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph
This Hubble Space Telescope image includes the binary star system R Aquarii. (Image credit: Image credit: NASA, ESA, Matthias Stute, Margarita Karovska, Davide De Martin(ESA/Hubble ), Mahdi Zamani(ESA/Hubble)) What it…
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