Space photo of the week — Extraordinary images of our sublime universe
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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
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Space photo of the week: The sun's corona blooms during back-to-back solar eclipsesComposite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar activity began to peak.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: Astronaut spots 2 nearby galaxies from SpaceX capsuleNASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean.
By Jamie Carter Published
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope spots a secret star factory in the Sombrero GalaxyThis week, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, revealing the first-ever mid-infrared observations of the hat-shaped wonder.
By Jamie Carter Published
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