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Dec 20, 2021 · From the dramatic births and deaths of stars, to galactic glamor shots and planetary close-ups, here are some of the most breathtaking space photos of 2021.
- A Newborn Star's Outburst
- A Martian Immersion
- A Black Hole's Magnetic Field
- Evil Eye Galaxy
- Storms of Jupiter
- Moody Venus
- Perseverance Touching Down
- Trippy Nebula
- Colliding Galaxies
- Big Old Ganymede
This captivating picture focuses on a newly formed protostar violently ejecting long streams of matter at incredible speeds, a rare phenomenon known as a Herbig-Haro object. As the matter hits surrounding gas, the collisions erupt in bright, colorful bursts. The star itself isn't visible amidst this flurry captured by Hubble, but its presence is fe...
NASA's Perseverance rover captured a panorama of the Octavia E. Butler Landing site on Mars, providing us earthlings with an immersive, 360-degree view of its new Martian home as of Feb. 18. The sweeping vista of the 28-mile-wide Jezero Craterformed by a meteorite impact lets us imagine what it's like to be right there along for the mission. Within...
At the center of the Messier 87 galaxy some 55 million light years away lies a black hole. In 2019, a collection of scientists that observed the object using an array of telescopes around the globe released the first-ever image of a black hole, which depicts the light surrounding its dark center, almost like a blurry lava donut. In 2021, we got a n...
NGC4826, also known as the Evil Eye or Black Eye galaxy, is a spiral galaxy about 17 million light years away from Earth. The gas in the inner part of the galaxy rotates in one direction, while the gas further away from the center rotates in the opposite direction, an odd trait for a galaxy. One theory suggests this is because Evil Eye is the resul...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, collecting all kinds of data to demystify the big, billowy gas giant and help scientists understand more about our solar system. In this imagetaken by Juno and color enhanced by citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik, we see an impressively vivid collection of circular, swirling storms amidst i...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a hellish mission to the sun where it will gather as much data as it can before its fiery demise, and on the way it passed by Venus. This image, taken by the probeas it zoomed by in July 2020, gives an almost eerie look at one of our closest planetary neighbors. The dark area on Venus is part of the Aphrodite Terra h...
It's a big year for Mars, in case you hadn't already noticed. This image captures the moment just before NASA's Perseverance touched the surface of the red planet where it will live out its days indefinitely. The dramatic photo was taken by the rover's jetpack-like lander as it hovered 60 feet above the surface, lowering the rover softly to the gro...
The Veil Nebula is supernova remnant that's so large and bright that it can be seen from Earth in clear conditions (the best views are in the fall) with nothing more than a pair of binoculars. This new look at it from the Hubble Space Telescope uses five filters to show off the psychedelic array of ionized gases that make up its body. The nebula is...
IC 1623, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is known as an "interacting galaxy system." What you're looking atis the chaotic collision of two spiral galaxies. The duo is roughly 275 million light-years away from Earth, their coupling giving off a brilliant array of light wavelengths from across the spectrum. Eventually they'll marry in a furio...
Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede was captured in vivid detailby NASA's Juno spacecraft in June. Ganymede is the biggest moon in our solar system — it's actually bigger than the planet Mercury. Similar to a handful of other moons in our system, there's evidence pointing to a liquid ocean lurking below its thick, icy crust. While Juno's primary focus on i...
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