Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Sun-Making Machine
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-dazzles-in-false-color">NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</a>01SPoW-06
A new false color image of Pluto released by New Horizons. The photo was enhanced to show differences in the dwarf planet’s texture and composition.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-looks-in-on-a-galactic-nursery">ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>02SPoW-03
Hubble Space Telescope captures the NGC 1140, a dwarf galaxy experiencing a starburst, an exceptionally high rate of star formation. The small galaxy is creating one star the size of our sun a year, the same rate as the much larger Milky Way.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18325">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>03SPoW-02b
A ‘mother daughter’ portrait of two of Saturn’s moons, Dione (top) and Tethys (bottom). Named after Greek mythology, the moons are believed to have formed out of the same disk when Saturn was young.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth">NASA</a>04SPoW-01
This photo was taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), capturing the sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. The color photos were made with the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), using three separate images to create this high res view.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/new-horizons-captures-two-of-plutos-smaller-moons">NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI</a>05SPoW-05
Two of Pluto’s smaller moons, Nix (left) and Hydra (right). Nix has enhanced color taken by Ralph while Hydra remains in black and white taken by LORRI. Scientists note Hyrda’s strange shape and have estimated the moon to be only 34 miles long and 25 miles wide.
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-s-breathtaking-farewell-to-new-horizons">NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</a>06SPoW-04
New Horizons final image of Pluto taken on July 15. The dwarf planet is silhouetted against the sun and highlighting Pluto’s atmosphere, which appears to be much larger than scientists first predicted.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1530/">ESO/R. Maiolino</a>07SPoW-02
A photo of BDF 3299, a far away galaxy seen when the Universe was less than 800 million years old. Taken by the ALMA and the Very Large Telescope, the image shows a bright red spot which is a large cloud of material assembling a young galaxy.
