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01Hubble captured this sparkling image of galaxy NGC 5559 and the bright spots along its arms. These illuminated regions are stellar nurseries with the youngest stars seen in blue.
02This gif captures two solar flares that occurred on the morning of September 6. The second is the largest flare from the sun since it began its new 11-year solar cycle in 2008.
03The material making up Saturn’s B rings, seen here in false color, are still a conundrum to scientists. These incredibly detailed snapshots taken by the Cassini spacecraft are the highest resolution images ever taken.
04Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus slowly rotates over 15 minutes in this gif made up of six composite images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
05The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this photo of the region Melas Chasma, the widest area of Mars’s Valles Marineris canyon—the Martian equivalent of Earth’s Grand Canyon. The lighter features are different kinds of sulfates, a byproduct of minerals evaporating in water. Melas Chasma was likely once covered in water some billions of years ago.
06The Juno spacecraft has been studying Jupiter’s glowing aurora, seen here in an animated reconstruction. Jupiter’s northern lights contain up to 30 times more electricity than the strongest aurora’s on Earth. Scientists are using Juno to better understand what might be fueling these dazzling displays.
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