Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Dying Star Insists on Being Dramatic About It
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NASA’s Hubble telescope took this photo of a star dying by discarding its outer layers of gas, leaving a white dwarf (the white spot in the middle) at its core.
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Shown in HiRISE infrared color, fissures lined with sand on the surface of Mars look blue, contrasting with the dust covering the rest of the terrain.
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This photo, taken at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, shows the Milky Way overhead, orange Mars on the left, and the magenta Carina Nebula in the upper middle.
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This photo, combining over two million seconds of exposure time taken of the Fornax constellation over the past decade, is the deepest image ever made of the universe.
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On Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, a river of methane (from the upper left) branches into Ligeia Mare, a methane-rich sea.
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On Mars, huge lava flows create channels and pits in the landscape, as captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
