Jan 21, 2017 7:00 AM

Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Pulsar Spins Right Round, Baby, Right Round

<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubbles-slice-of-sagittarius">ESA</a>
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This image from part of the Sagittarius constellation shows red stars, which are cooler, and white and blue stars, which are hotter.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21377">NASA</a>
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On the gas giant Jupiter, eight huge storms, known as the “string of pearls”, rotate through its southern hemisphere; in this photo, colors have been enhanced to highlight turbulent clouds swirling southeast of one of the storms.

<a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/geminga/">NASA</a>
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Geminga is a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star moving through the Milky Way. The photo shows blue and purple X-rays combined with infrared data.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA12289">NASA</a>
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Dunes on Mars, like the one pictured above, are darker than they are on Earth. On Earth, dunes are made of white quartz; on Mars, they’re made of dark basalt, a volcanic rock.

<a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/geminga/">NASA</a>
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This pulsar, or neutron star, rotates about five times per second and is about half a million years old.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21263">NASA</a>
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The rock surface on Mars shown here may have begun as cracks in drying mud over three billion years ago.

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This mosaic map of Pluto is based on three images. The Sputnik Planitia glacier is at the center of the map.

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