Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Saturn, You So Pretty
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In the latest from the Cassini mission, Saturn’s shadow on its rings shrinks as the planet tilts and orbits the sun, moving towards the planet’s solstice.
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The bright shape in this high-resolution photo, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is a newborn star covered in dust, only 40,000 years old. Similar low-mass stars live for an average of 100 billion years.
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Hubble archival images, taken a year apart, reveal a moon orbiting 2007 OR10, the third-largest dwarf planet in our solar system. Located in the Kuiper Belt, such moons formed long ago when the region was more crowded and celestial bodies collided.
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This false-color image, captured by ESA’s Earth-observing Proba-V mini satellite, shows Mokpo, a port city in South Korea, and the nearby islands. The mini-satellite maps land cover and vegetation across the planet every two days.
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A pair of shoebox-sized CubeSat satellites are ejected from a satellite deployer outside the International Space Station. More than a dozen satellites were ejected over Earth this week, and will study its upper atmosphere and interstellar radiation from the Big Bang.
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This enhanced color image shows Jupiter’s cloud tops, including a white whirling counterclockwise storm in the planet’s southern hemisphere.
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This image, taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a landslide and rocky deposit in Simud Valles, a channel on Mars shaped by ancient floods.
