Space photo of the week — Extraordinary images of our sublime universe
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Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million yearsBeautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines brightly after its last approach to the sun for hundreds of thousands of years.
By Shreejaya Karantha Published
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope reveals mysterious 'light echo' in the broken heart of CassiopeiaBeautifully captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this image shows interstellar gas and dust lit up by a dead star in Cassiopeia.
By Shreejaya Karantha Published
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope shocks scientists with image of ancient galaxy roaring back to lifeThe James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: Dry ice 'geysers' erupt on Mars as spring hits the Red PlanetNASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve 'impossible' planet mysteryNew James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: Galaxies teeter toward collision in the sparkling depths of VirgoAn ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.
By Jamie Carter Published
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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 moonTwenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.
By Shreejaya Karantha Published
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Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to captureIn this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its unusually big bulge.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: Hubble celebrates 10 years of hunting giantsBehold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
By Shreejaya Karantha Published
