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The Sun, as of December 2, 2016.

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During descent

SSTO Orbital Lander

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A selection orbs of the Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows:

Mercury was photographed by Mariner 10.

Venus was imaged by the Magellan spacecraft’s radar.

Earth and its Moon were photographed by Galileo.

Mars Global Surveyor took the image of Mars.

Jupiter was photographed by Cassini as it traveled to Saturn.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images were taken by the twin Voyager spacecraft.

(NASA)

Rick Guidace’s concept art depicting the rings of Uranus in polar rotation

Overhead view of the caldera at the summit of Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest volcano in the Solar System. View from the Mars Express space probe. (NASA)

Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close-up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star. The inner region sends out clock-like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

The neutron star at the very center of the Crab Nebula has about the same mass as the sun but compressed into an incredibly dense sphere that is only a few miles across. Spinning 30 times a second, the neutron star shoots out detectable beams of energy that make it look like it’s pulsating.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapshot is centered on the region around the neutron star (the rightmost of the two bright stars near the center of this image) and the expanding, tattered, filamentary debris surrounding it. Hubble’s sharp view captures the intricate details of glowing gas, shown in red, that forms a swirling medley of cavities and filaments. Inside this shell is a ghostly blue glow that is radiation given off by electrons spiraling at nearly the speed of light in the powerful magnetic field around the crushed stellar core.

Read more about this image HERE. 

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