NASA’s Juno spacecraft provides a stunning aerial view of a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io. It managed to get within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the Jovian moon’s surface, obtaining the first close-up images of its northern latitudes.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this dazzling image of bright barred spiral galaxy NGC 3783 located 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. We see it face-on, with its bright center crossed by a glowing bar and surrounded by tightly-wound spiral arms that form a circular shape with relatively clear edges.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a surreal image of dwarf irregular Galaxy I Zwicky 18, located 59 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This image was captured using Hubble’s near-infrared and visible-light instruments, revealing faint, older stars that suggest the galaxy’s star formation could have started as far back as 10 billion years ago .
NASA’s next-gen Advanced Composite Solar Sail System that could help revolutionize space travel for generations to come. Put simply, solar sails utilize the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, either angling toward or away from the Sun so that photons bounce off the reflective sail to boost a spacecraft.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes tilted spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Apus. This galaxy is known for its heavy star-forming activity, as well as hosting an active galactic nucleus at its core.
While not as intriguing as a galactic question mark, this peculiar Bok globule is just as mysterious. Captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Bok globule you see here is basically opaque, dark knots of gas and dust that are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula NGC 281.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collected a rock sample from the Jezero Crater and named it ‘Comet Geyser’. Why? The core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps as part of an ancient Martian beach.