Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Charon Has Some Serious Boo-Boos
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4722">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona</a>01SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-05
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.
<a href="http://www.gemini.edu/node/12429">Gemini Observatory/AURA/B. Reipurth, C. Aspin, T. Rector</a>02SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-02
A stunningly detailed photo of emerging gas jets streaming from a region of newborn stars. The Herbig-Haro 24 Complex contains no less than six jets streaming from a small cluster of young stars embedded in molecular cloud.
<a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20151001">NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute</a>03SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-01
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history. New Horizons captures the best color and highest resolution images yet of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The photo reveals a surprisingly complex and violent history. There is a belt of fractures and canyons just north of the equator, stretching more than a thousand miles across Charon. It’s four times as long as the Grand Canyon and twice as deep in some places.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/a-fresh-perspective-on-an-extraordinary-cluster-of-galaxies.html">NASA</a>04SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-04
Galaxy cluster SPT-CLJ2344-4243, nicknamed the Phoenix Cluster, is always breaking records. It has the highest rate of cooling hot gas and the most powerful producer of X-rays of all known clusters. Astronomers have now observed x-ray cavities caused by what they believe to be one of the largest black hole energy outbursts ever recorded.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia19917/dark-recurring-streaks-on-walls-of-garni-crater">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona</a>05SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-06
Dark narrow streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred yards long. They are hypothesized to be formed by flow of briny liquid water on Mars.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19975">NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA</a>06SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-07
A color-coded topographic map of Occator crater on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest. The crater, which is home to the brightest spots on Ceres, is approximately 56 miles (90 kilometers wide).
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-sees-a-spiral-galaxy-s-brights-and-darks">ESA/Hubble & NASA and S. Smartt </a>07SPoW-Sept27-Oct3-03
NGC 613's core looks bright and uniformly white in this image, but lurking at the center of this brilliance lies a dark secret. As with nearly all spiral galaxies, a monstrous black hole resides at the heart. Its mass is estimated at about 10 times that of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole and it is consuming stars, gas and dust. As this matter descends into the black hole's maw it radiates away energy and spews out radio waves. However, when looking at the galaxy in the optical and infrared wavelengths used to take this image, there is no trace of the dark heart.
