Odyssey Olympus Mons
The 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft snapped this image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, in March.…
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Starliner Aurora
A bright green aurora trails below and behind the Starliner spacecraft, which is docked to the International Space Station. Starliner’s…
chang’e 6 landing
This animation shows before and after views of the landing site of Chang’e 6, a Chinese mission that landed on…
chang’e 6 landing 24 06 03
The engine on the Chang’e 6 lander kicks up dust as the spacecraft touches down on the Moon on June…
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solar flare 24 05 27
A massive solar flare erupts from the lower left limb of the Sun on May 27 in this sequence of…
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Another Day, Another Flare
A powerful solar flare erupts from the Sun on May 14 in this X-ray image from Solar Dynamics Observatory. A…
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24 05 08 sandworm
Pillars of dust and gas look like a “Dune” sandworm ready to gobble up a spiral galaxy in this recent…
24 04 29 south_atlantic_anomaly
This color-coded maps shows the strength of Earth’s magnetic field at the surface, with the field stronger in the red…
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Bright Dragon’s Egg
A pair of brilliant stars is eroding a surrounding cloud of dust in this recent image from the European Southern…
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24 04 07 eclipse map
This map shows the path of the April 8 total eclipse across the United States, with times of greatest eclipse…
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