Space photo of the week — Extraordinary images of our sublime universe
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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
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10 jaw-dropping space photos that defined 2024From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told us about our beautiful cosmos.
By Brandon Specktor Published
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Space photo of the week: Hubble captures a cosmic snow angel created by a bright, young starCreated by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the star-formation process can get.
By Shreejaya Karantha Published
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Chandra spot a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' sparkling in the galaxy next doorThere's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new image.
By Jamie Carter Published
