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February 8, 2021: (Mars) Happy New Year! The new year on Mars began yesterday, February 7, 2021. These images show that the planet is entering a new year. The image on the left was taken on February 6, and the image on the right was taken on February 1. Both were taken by the visual surveillance camera on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter. 

The years on Mars lasted about 687 Earth days, because the planet orbited the sun almost twice as long. This new Martian year is designated as Mars Year 36. - Chelsea Gohd

February 5, 2021: The European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission took this cold picture of New York City on February 4, 2021, showing the city covered in snow. The most recent snowstorm was classified as "major" and affected most of the northeastern United States. New York declared a state of emergency due to heavy snow and high winds. 

Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an earth observation mission consisting of two satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The two monitor and image our planet, orbiting it from space. ——Chelsea Gold

February 2, 2021: In this otherworldly selfie, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins takes out his camera during a spacewalk with NASA astronaut Victor Glover on February 1st I took a picture of myself. Can astronauts see when they walk in space? This selfie shows my vision reflected from my face mask. Let you hold your breath! "Hopkins wrote on Twitter, where he shared a space selfie. —Chelsea Gold

February 1, 2021: On January 27, NASA astronaut Victor Glover's first spacewalk can be seen outside the International Space Station. Today, he and NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins (Mike Hopkins) carried out the second spacewalk, during which they completed the installation of lithium-ion battery adapter board on the port 4 (P4) truss. Various tasks. This is the last part of a series of battery replacement spacewalks that began as early as January 2017. - Chelsea Gohd

January 29, 2021: Here you can see the first complete upper stage of the Ariane 6 carrier rocket from the European Space Agency being loaded into a container and transported from the Ariane Group in Bremen, Germany to Germany The DLR German Aerospace Center in Podhausen. There, it will conduct a heat test, or a test that ignites all engines while the launch vehicle remains stationary. These tests will be conducted under near-vacuum conditions and will help prove that the aircraft is ready for flight. ——Chelsea Gold

January 28, 2021: In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC Technology Center in the Netherlands is working on an important mission. Due to fears of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, most ESA employees continue to work from home, but certain activities are still taking place on site. The laboratory is supporting various tasks, including the development of new anti-radiation coatings, which are tested by exposing them to ultraviolet light and vacuum-ultraviolet light. ——Chelsea Gold

January 27, 2021: Today, NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins walk out of the International Space Station for Glover’s first space Walking or extravehicular activities (EVA). In this photo, you can see Glover preparing for a spacewalk, this will be his first time. During the EVA, the two will install a new antenna on the Columbus module outside the space station. ——Chelsea Gold 

January 26, 2021: NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover will step out of the International Space Station tomorrow (January 27, 2021) During the spacewalk, the two will install European payloads outside the space station. In this picture, you can see European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen installing the Columbus Ka-band (ColKa) terminal during the test at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, which is one of the equipment to be installed during the upcoming spacewalk . ——Chelsea Gold

January 25, 2021: These images taken from the International Space Station show the Earth's luminous colored aurora and lights from cities below the Earth's surface. Aurora is a natural phenomenon. When charged particles from the sun interact with gases such as oxygen or nitrogen in the atmosphere of our planet, the sky will show colorful light, usually green, red, yellow or white. ——Chelsea Gold. 

January 22, 2021: NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins smiled brightly in a photo released on January 21, 2021 on the International Space Station. The photo shows Hopkins with some other crew members and a pair of spacesuits in the background, surrounded by equipment, conducting scientific experiments and training for the upcoming spacewalk. ——Chelsea Gold

January 21, 2021: NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy located 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning star markings in this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy was first discovered in 1798, and the easiest thing to recognize is its long "arms", which clearly hover around its core. ——Chelsea Gold

January 20, 2020: The Matisse experiment on the International Space Station is marked with a "do not touch" sign. This experiment tested the antibacterial ability of the hydrophobic (water-repellent) surface of the space station. Through such experiments, researchers can learn more about how bacteria and other microorganisms live in space, and how the crew can keep the space station free of pathogenic microorganisms. ——Chelsea Gold

January 19, 2021: Copernicus Sentinel-2 This stunning, sandy, ochre-toned landscape seen from space is the Tanezrouft Basin (a desolate area in the Sahara Desert). The extremely arid plain has a hot climate, scarce water and vegetation, and is even nicknamed the "land of terror". This photo was taken as part of Copernicus Sentinel 2, a mission consisting of two satellites and part of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program. ——Chelsea Gold

January 18, 2021: NASA’s first space launch system giant rocket ignited its four main engines on January 16 at the agency’s Stanislas Space Center near St. Louis Bay, Mississippi. The key Heat test, which apparently frightened some of the nearby birds, came from a photo of NASA photographer Robert Markowitz.

During the test, as the last test in a series of tests called Green Run, the SLS rocket started the engine in just over 1 minute, which is less than the 8 minutes required by NASA to replicate a full launch into orbit. However, despite its shorter duration than planned, the test provided a dazzling sight for bystanders (and birds) at the test site. NASA engineers are analyzing the test results. -Tariq Malik

January 15, 2021: The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the remnants of a growing gaseous supernova, called 1E 0102.2-7219, from a supernova explosion that occurred during the fall of the Roman Empire 1700 years ago. The star that exploded in this event came from the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy approximately 200,000 light years away from our own Milky Way. 

When a supernova event occurs, people living in the southern hemisphere of the earth will be able to see the light from this explosion, although there is no known human record of the event on Earth. ——Chelsea Gold

January 14, 2021: The "biological asteroid" payload from the University of Edinburgh operates at the European Space Agency's Kubic facility in the Columbus module of the International Space Station. The micro laboratory contains asteroid-like rock fragments and microorganisms (a mixture of bacteria and fungi). Scientists hope to use this experiment to better understand how these tiny creatures interact with asteroid-like matter, which can provide information for future asteroid mining efforts. ——Chelsea Gold

January 13, 2021: In this view of space taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, you can see that most of Spain is covered with thick snow. This photo was taken at 5:40 AM Eastern Time (1040 GMT) on January 12th. It shows that most of Spain was covered in snow after the Philomena storm, which brought The biggest snowfall in Spain in 50 years. 

Copernicus Sentinel-3 is a two-satellite mission that uses various instruments to observe and monitor the earth's surface from above. ——Chelsea Gold

January 12, 2021: Astronauts conduct space flight exercises on Earth in a variety of unique ways, including underwater. In this picture, astronauts conduct an exercise designed for the International Space Station underwater in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory operated by NASA. In this test facility, the astronauts are completely clothed as if they are about to take a spacewalk and perform a spacewalk mission underwater in a simulated space station. 

Later this month, NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins will test their training as they will begin spacewalks, here During the period, they will install a small refrigerator-sized device outside the space station's Columbus module. ——Chelsea Gold

January 11, 2021: This strange green light is actually a new type of star that has only recently been observed under X-rays. Scientists believe that this star is formed by the fusion of two white dwarfs (star cores left by stars like our sun) to form a new object that emits X-rays instead of being destroyed in a collision. ——Chelsea Gold

January 8, 2021: In this stunning image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 6946, nicknamed the "Firework Galaxy", can be seen. This galaxy has an explosive nickname because our Milky Way has an average of only 1-2 supernovae per century, while NGC 6946 has 10 in the last century. 

The "Firework Galaxy" is located at the border of Cepheus and Cygnus, 25.2 million light-years away from Earth, and its structure is between a complete spiral and a rod-shaped spiral. ——Chelsea Gold

January 7, 2021: From a distance, it may look like an artistic mosaic, but it is actually 366 images of the sun throughout 2020 taken by the European Space Agency’s Proba-2 satellite. Proba-2 continuously monitors the sun. In this group of photos, one image is selected every day (the "extra" day starts on February 29, 2020, which is a leap day). These images were taken by Proba-2's SWAP camera (capturing ultraviolet wavelengths to show the extreme atmosphere of the sun), and there are many "Easter eggs", including the partial solar eclipse visible on June 21 and December 14. - Chelsea Gohd

January 6, 2021: This close-up photo shows a perfectly-grown radish. These radishes are the control crops of radishes currently grown as part of the Plant Habitat 02 (PH-02) experiment in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station. This radish crop is grown in an advanced plant habitat at NASA's Kennedy Space Center space station processing facility in Florida. ——Chelsea Gold

January 5, 2021: The astronauts currently living and working on the International Space Station took a group photo to mark the occasion of the New Year of 2021 in 2020. NASA astronaut Victor Glover shared this photo on Twitter with the text "God bless you, this new year! I pray for new strength, compassion and truth, we can all be Surrounded by family and friends..." Glover flew to the space station as part of SpaceX's Crew-1 mission, the company's first fully operational manned space mission. ——Chelsea Gold

December 28, 2020: This carrot crop on the International Space Station is a welcome green scene for astronauts living in the orbital laboratory. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins planted space vegetables in Plant Habitat-02 as part of an experiment to study how plants grow in space and how it affects the nutrition and taste of plants eaten by astronauts. -Tariq Malik

December 25, 2020: In 1968, three NASA astronauts spent an unprecedented Christmas on Earth. That's because Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders are visiting the moon. This iconic image of Earth emergence was taken by astronauts on Christmas Eve, showing all of humanity from a vantage point in the lunar orbit. -Tariq Malik

December 24, 2020: SpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype lifts off from a launch pad near Boca Chica, Texas. This photo is of an amazing 12-layer rocket test fire on December 8. The finned spacecraft flew to an altitude of nearly 8 miles, flipped and slid back to Earth, causing an epic explosion during the landing attempt. Despite the explosion, SpaceX praised the test launch as a successful test of the Starship concept. A new type of aircraft called SN9 is already on the launch pad waiting for its own test flight

On December 23, SpaceX released a new video review showing the flight of Starship SN8. -Tariq Malik

December 23, 2020: This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the Einstein ring GAL-CLUS-022058s. When light from a distant object (such as a galaxy) passes through a very large object, an Einstein ring is created. Due to a process called gravitational lensing, this light is bent and distorted into this amazing, bright curve or "ring." Scientists can use these rings to study galaxies that may be too dark or too far to be seen. ——Chelsea Gold

December 22, 2020: This "space bubble" was created by a multi-scale boiling experiment (also known as Rubi). Rubi is installed in the fluid science laboratory in the Columbus capsule of the International Space Station to help researchers understand the role of boiling in the weightless environment of space. In this picture, you can see the electrostatic force pulling the bubbles upward. ——Chelsea Gold

December 21, 2020: In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, you can see the galaxy NGC 1947, which is a lenticular or disk galaxy that has lost most of its interstellar material. Lenticular galaxies, because they have lost material, do not have much star formation inside them. This galaxy was discovered nearly 200 years ago and is located in the constellation Dorado (Dolphinfish) 40 million light-years away from Earth. ——Chelsea Gold

December 17, 2020: After a heavy snowfall, in this photo taken on the Copernicus Sentinel 3 mission, the snow-capped Alps can be seen from space. Copernicus Sentinel-3 consists of two satellites and collects data for the European Copernicus Environmental Monitoring Program. Through this image, it captured the aftermath of two blizzards in the Austrian and Italian Alps, during which the snowfall reached 9.8 feet (3 meters). ——Chelsea Gold

December 16, 2020: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a dark vortex on Neptune that suddenly reversed direction. The storm was discovered using Hubble in 2018 and started in the northern hemisphere of Neptune and traveled towards the equator. Scientists predict that as this happens, storms will become less and less visible. However, in August 2020, scientists using the Hubble Telescope noticed that the storm changed direction and returned north. ——Chelsea Gold. 

December 15, 2020: In this photo taken from Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Virginia, you can see Saturn and Jupiter close in the sky at sunset. Saturn and Jupiter will approach a "great conjunction" on December 21. In this exciting astronomical event, the two planets looked very close in the sky, and the distance between each other was only one tenth of a degree. ——Chelsea Gold

December 14, 2020: The 64 crew members of the expedition, including NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi, will jointly explore drugs to treat cancer and heart disease. The crew also replaced the American spacesuits in the SpaceX cargo dragon supply ship. One of the spacesuits has returned to the space station, and the other will return to Earth for maintenance. ——Chelsea Gold

December 11, 2020: This photo seems to be too cartoonish, too shiny and unrealistic, but it is another stunning and unique view of the universe taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. To capture this photo, Hubble used a single infrared filter in its Wide Angle Camera 3 (WFC3). This image depicts stars near the center of the active galaxy Caldwell 96 (or NGC 2516). There are also many visible (albeit blurry) background galaxies in the image. ——Chelsea Gold

December 10, 2020: SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype SN8 was carried out from SpaceX’s facility near Boca Chica at 5:45 pm Eastern Time (2245 GMT) last night (December 9, 2020) Made the first high-altitude test flight, Texas. After a spectacular takeoff, SN8 guided itself back to the ground and landed near the launch pad. Although the vehicle performed well throughout the test, it landed a bit too fast and landed explosively. Nevertheless, the advantages of the test flight are still many, and the SpaceX team, especially its founder Elon Musk, is very excited about the process. ——Chelsea Gold

December 9, 2020: This small shiny piece of metal comes from the test part of the so-called launch interface ring, which can be held in place during the satellite's difficult journey from earth to space. As part of the European Space Agency's project, the ring removed from this segment was 3D printed with an aluminum-magnesium-scandium alloy. The project aims to improve the technology called LIRAM (Additive Manufacturing Launch Interface Ring). ——Chelsea Gold

December 8, 2020: In this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, you can see the sparkling, sprawling wonders of space. The feature in this picture is the galaxy SDSS J225506.80+005839.9. The name of this galaxy is very long (not very attractive) and can be seen in the right middle of this picture. The recently discovered galaxy is about 500 million light-years away from the Earth, and it is a perfect example that space telescopes such as Hubble can find. ——Chelsea Gold

December 7, 2020: The Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand shows its eye-catching colors in this stunning image taken from space. This image was taken by the Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission, which consists of two satellites orbiting the earth, searching for data on the surface of the earth and paying close attention to water bodies and their changes over time. ——Chelsea Gold

Friday, December 4, 2020: This stunning close-up shows a view of the first stage engine of the Soyuz 2 rocket, which launched three new Gonets-M communications satellites and a military nanosatellite to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The launch took place at 10:14 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday (December 2) (0114 GMT or 3:14 AM on Thursday, December 3, Moscow time) at the Plesetsk Space Launch Site in northern Russia. You can watch the wonderful release video here. -Tariq Malik

November 30, 2020: Hubble Space Telescope discovered galaxy NGC 2770 in this close-up view. For many years, this galaxy has been home to four different observing supernovae, which makes it unusual and especially interesting for scientists studying the distant universe. A supernova discovered in the Milky Way, SN 2015bh, was initially thought to be not a supernova, but a strange explosion of an ancient massive star. However, it was later correctly classified as a supernova produced when a star with 8-50 times the mass of the sun died. 

November 27, 2020: As people flock to online stores and in person to participate in the annual Black Friday promotions, NASA wants you to think more about Black Hole Friday. 

This picture is an artist's depiction of a black hole. The black hole has such a strong gravitational force that even light cannot escape it. Those who fall in can't get out. Check out our black hole primer here. While looking for Black Friday deals, you are a friend of cosmic facts! -Tariq Malik

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November 26, 2020: For 20 years, American astronauts have regularly celebrated Thanksgiving on Earth on the International Space Station. But this is not always the case. 

Before the International Space Station (which welcomed the first astronauts in 2000), Space Thanksgiving was a sporadic event. The first space Thanksgiving took place in 1973, when the Skylab 4 trio (Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, and William Pogue) visited NASA's Skylab space station. 

Space Thanksgiving Day 2020: This is what the astronauts eat in orbit (video). On that day, they actually chose to combine the two meals for a holiday dinner instead of lunch because of their busy schedule. Unlike today, the astronauts have no special Thanksgiving dinner food. -Tariq Malik

November 24, 2020: NASA astronaut Shannon Walker started working on the International Space Station after launching into the Orbital Laboratory on Sunday, November 15, 2020. Walker and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi took the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, named Resilience, as part of the Crew-1 mission. 

November 23, 2020: In this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the dim galaxy UGC 12588 looks a bit like a cosmic cinnamon bun. The spiral galaxy can be found in the Andromeda constellation, it looks round with some white accents (adding to its dessert-like appearance). 

Now, although UGC 12588 is a spiral galaxy, its star and gas "arms" are quite weak and rotate tightly at its center, making it slightly different from the "classical" spiral galaxy. 

Tuesday, November 18, 2020: In this photo from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the planetary nebula IC 4593 shines like a bright purple amethyst in space. 

IC 4593 is about 7,800 light-years away from Earth and is the farthest planetary nebula that Chandra can observe. According to NASA’s image description, this view includes some visible light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and an X-ray view of Chandra. The Hubble view is pink and green tones, while Chandra's X-ray detection shows purple.

Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They are superheated bubbles from a dying star that form when the star sheds its outer layer as it contracts. — Tariq Malik

Tuesday, November 17, 2020: Against a backdrop of clouds, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft approached the International Space Station with four Expedition 64 crew members. This photo was taken from the Orbital Laboratory. The spacecraft docked with the space station at 11:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday (November 17 0401 GMT). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 16, 2020: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, with a crewed dragon on top, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to transport four new expedition 64 crew members to the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission took off from Launch Site 39A yesterday (November 15) at 7:27 pm EST (November 16, 0027 GMT) and is expected to be at 11 pm EST tonight ( 0400 GMT November 17). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, November 11, 2020: The three brightest planets in the night sky show off their colors in this montage taken by the new technology telescope of the European Southern Observatory at La Sila Observatory in Chile. After an interruption during the coronavirus pandemic, the telescope took these images to test its instruments before resuming scientific operations. 

The relative size of the three planets in this montage is proportional to their apparent size in the night sky. Mars looks a bit bigger than usual, because this photo was taken in mid-October while the red planet was in an opposition. In its orbit, it is directly opposite the sun in the earth's sky. On October 6, the red planet was also at the closest position to the earth. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, November 10, 2020: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rockets are ready to launch NASA’s Crew 1 mission to the International Space Station. The rocket was launched vertically from the launch pad at the 39A launch site of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and was launched from the horizontal integrated facility overnight. SpaceX plans to launch the Crew-1 mission on Saturday (November 14) with NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker, and Japan's Soichi Noguchi. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 9, 2020: As SpaceX’s next Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts arrives at launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida before launch on November 14, A new space dragon was born. After a short trip from the processing facility at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, the spacecraft arrived at SpaceX's Pad 39A hangar on November 5. 

As part of the Crew-1 mission, the spacecraft will launch four astronauts to NASA's International Space Station. This is SpaceX's first manned flight for NASA under the agency's commercial crew plan. Crew-1 astronauts — NASA’s Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi — arrived at the launch site on Sunday.

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Friday, November 6, 2020: In this photo taken by the European Southern Observatory's astronomer Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos (Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos), the moon’s “halo” is in The night sky above the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile glows like a sphere. This optical phenomenon occurs when moonlight is refracted by tiny ice crystals and water droplets in the atmosphere. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, November 5, 2020: NASA's first lunar exploration Orion spacecraft is preparing for the 2021 historic Artemis 1 launch. The spacecraft consists of a crew cabin built by Lockheed Martin and a service module from the European Space Agency, wrapped in its upcoming protective three-piece fairing.

Artemis 1 will use NASA's first space launch system giant rocket to launch the Orion capsule during its lunar journey at the end of 2021. The following is an in-depth study of NASA's Artemis project, which aims to return humans to the moon by 2024.

Wednesday, November 4, 2020: The Joint Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is ready to launch the NROL-101 mission for the National Reconnaissance Agency. The mission is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida at 5:54 pm Eastern Time (2254 GMT) today. You can watch it live on Space.com emission. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, November 3, 2020: This is election day for the earth in space, but the only American who has left the earth has voted in today's 2020 presidential election. 

We don’t know who NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is. She is shown in the homemade voting booth on the International Space Station, but we know how. Since 1997, astronauts entering space during elections have been able to vote in orbit, when NASA and Texas election officials established a cosmic absentee voting procedure for any American trapped in space on polling day . Rubens launched on October 14th, voted on October 22nd and shared her views on the polling station.  

Monday, November 2, 2020: Hurricane Zeta churned in the Gulf of Mexico in this photo taken from the International Space Station as a Category 2 storm approached Louisiana. The upper foreground of the image is the Russian Progress 76 cargo supply spacecraft, which is docked with the Russian Pirs module. At the bottom of the frame is the Russian Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft, which brought three crew members to the space station on October 14. — Hanneke Weitering

October 30, 2020: On Halloween, the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a "pumpkin spot" composed of two galaxies just beginning to collide, spanning 109,000 light years. The galaxies NGC 2292 and NGC 2293 are pumpkin orange because the aging stars in the galaxy are red. 

October 29, 2020: This photo shows the Canadaarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station, which continues to orbit the Earth from 254 miles (409 kilometers) away. The robotic arm in cooperation with Canada helps repair the space station, and astronauts use it to complete space walks outside the space station. 

October 28, 2020: NASA Expedition 64 astronaut Kate Rubins floats on the International Space Station, where she will live, work, and research with her crew as part of countless scientific experiments. Rubens was launched to the space station with two Russian astronauts on October 14, 2020. 

October 27, 2020: NASA’s Orion spacecraft is one step closer to completion and launch to the moon. Here, prepare to install and fix three spacecraft to discard fairings around the Orion spacecraft. Orion will fly as part of the agency's Artemis program and will allow the first female and second male to land on the moon. 

October 26, 2020: The galaxy NGC 2799 (left) and the galaxy NGC 2798 (right) form a "galactic waterfall", which stands out in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These are interacting galaxies, they affect each other and may even merge eventually. 

October 23, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy (Chris Cassidy) returned to Earth on October 22, 2020 after spending some time on the International Space Station. Here you can see Cassidy outside the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft. He and his astronauts Ivan Wagner and Anatoly Ivanishin landed near the town of Rezkazgan in Kazakhstan. . 

October 22, 2020: In this series of 16 images, you can see NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft using its 11-foot-long robotic arm, TAGSAM, to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020. The "head" of the robotic arm briefly landed on the surface of the asteroid, and it spewed out a burst of nitrogen. This gas agitated the asteroid material and collected it in a container in TAGSAM. 

October 21, 2020: The Hubble Space Telescope, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of its exploration and discovery earlier this year, took this photo of the star formation nursery formerly named J025157.5+600606. This particular type of stellar nursery is the so-called "free-floating evaporation balloon" or frEGG. 

October 20, 2020: Ten solar panels of the European Space Agency Juice (Jupiter Ice Moon Probe) spacecraft are ready to become solar wings. These panels arrive at the Airbus Defense and Space Company in the Netherlands. There are five solar panels on each side of the spacecraft. These panels will be folded in the launcher and then finally unfolded like the wings of a probe. 

Monday, October 19, 2020: In this photo taken by Yuri Beletsky, the European Southern Observatory's photography ambassador, the Orion constellation Orion is in the Atacama large millimeter in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The sub-millimeter array (ALMA) glitters above. This view shows two of the 66 radio telescopes that make up ALMA. ALMA is located on the top of the Chajnantor plateau at an altitude of 16,000 feet (5,000 meters), providing a dark, dry sky, which is essential for observing the universe at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths. — Hanneck Wetlin

October 16, 2020: Yesterday (October 15), the European-Japanese probe BepiColombo passed Venus on its long and tortuous journey to Mercury, one of its nine gravity-assisted maneuvers. At Venus, the spacecraft took many pictures with the camera on its Mercury transmission module. The probe will eventually reach Mercury's orbit in 2025. 

October 15, 2020: European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet trains at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation for the 2021 International Space Station mission. Here, he is being trained in a time experiment, which was run for the first time in 2017 to explore the hypothesis that time accelerates under microgravity. 

October 14, 2020: Today at 1:45 AM Eastern Time (0545 GMT), NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and astronauts Sergey Ryzhkov and Sergey Kud -Sverchikov launched together from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. After quickly arriving at the space station, the three will begin to live and work in the orbital laboratory for six months. 

October 13, 2020: The Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission of the European Space Agency discovered Chile's Laguna San Rafael National Park from space. There are five instruments on this orbiting satellite, which can not only observe the earth below, but also monitor atmospheric conditions such as temperature and humidity. 

October 12, 2020: A miniature camera crashed into deep space after being ejected by the China Tianwen-1 Mars rover 15 million miles away. This photo was released on October 1st and was taken when Tianwen-1 was heading to Mars. The camera can take photos of Tianwen-1, which is equipped with a Mars orbiter, lander and rover, and will arrive on the red planet in February 2021. 

October 9, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, currently stationed on the International Space Station, posted a photo on Twitter showing the sunset from space. His photo shows the sunset being captured by the camera as the space station's robotic arm maneuvered around the Cygnus spacecraft. 

October 8, 2020: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope completed a series of milestone tests, simulating the constant vibrations and rattling of the conditions it will experience when launched into space. These tests are more formally referred to as "acoustic" and "sine vibration" tests, and are performed in two separate facilities at Northrop Grumman's Space Park in California. 

October 7, 2020: Expedition 64's main and reserve crew pose together on October 6, and then the main crew will launch to the International Space Station on October 14. From left to right are the main crew NASA astronaut Kate Rubins (Sergey Kud)-Roscosmos Sverchkov and Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikov, then Roscosmos backup crew member Petr Dubov, Roscosmos Oleg Novitskiy and NASA astronaut Markde Hei.

October 6, 2020: This morning (October 6), SpaceX launched the 13th batch of Starlink satellites into low earth orbit. The 60 satellites were launched on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from the 39A launch pad of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The takeoff took place after a two-week launch delay due to bad weather. Read the full text!

October 2, 2020: In this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the Lupus (wolf) stands out in this photo. This galaxy is about 60 million light-years away from Earth, and is the most recent home of supernova 2017cbv. 

October 1, 2020: The twin SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets can be seen in this single photo taken at the Kennedy Space Center before the company’s latest Starlink launch attempt on October 1, 2020. SpaceX continues to launch its Starlink satellites in batches and is committed to building a satellite constellation to provide Internet services on Earth.

September 30, 2020: Last Sunday (September 20), the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission was transferred from the Thales Alenia space facility to Cannes, France. The mission includes the Rosalind Franklin rover, which has a special drill bit that can collect samples from under the surface of Mars.  

September 29, 2020: NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Roscosmos astronauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov are three astronauts scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station on October 14 as part of Expedition 64. Here you can see the astronauts inspecting the interior of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan during fitness. 

September 28, 2020: In the tail of Ursa Major, the spiral galaxy NGC 5585 can be seen, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Milky Way is composed of stars, dust and gas clouds, and a large amount of dark matter. 

September 25, 2020: In this photo taken by the Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission, Tarawa Atoll, a remote Pacific country located in the Republic of Kiribati, can be seen from space. Kiribati is an independent island country with an ocean area of ​​1,351,357 square miles (3.5 million square kilometers) and a total land area of ​​only 309 square miles (800 square kilometers).  

September 24, 2020: This is the first Orion spacecraft that will fly to the moon and is located in the Neal Armstrong operations and inspection facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft will fly as part of NASA'a Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the lunar surface in 2024. 

September 23, 2020: The stellar wind from R Aquila forms a variety of shapes, clustered together like petals. This image was taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in Chile as part of the ATOMIUM project. 

September 22, 2020: This global infrared mosaic of Enceladus (one of Saturn's moons) was made using data from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. This image shows five different infrared views of Enceladus. Enceladus is the side facing Saturn, its trailing side and its north and south poles. 

September 20, 2020: Chile's European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope 4 telescope launches a "laser guide star" in the night sky as part of the telescope's adaptive optics system.

Unit 4 is one of the four independent 8.2-meter telescopes that make up the Very Large Telescope, which is part of the European Southern Observatory located high in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The telescope's adaptive optics system uses a powerful laser as a guide star to help its adaptive optics system correct the distortion of the earth's atmosphere in astronomical observations.

September 18, 2020: This stunning image of the new Jupiter by the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 25, 2020, and shows the planet's turbulent spinning storm. In the photo, you can see the ripples of the planet’s atmosphere, Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot, and the planet’s eye-catching colors. 

September 17, 2020: This metal mesh antenna reflector was created as part of the European Space Agency AMPER (Advanced Technology for Mesh Reflector with Improved Radiation Pattern Performance) project. Researchers are developing this mesh reflector technology to improve the performance and functionality of large antennas. 

September 16, 2020: The Copernicus Sentinel 1 satellite captured this image of the Amazon River winding from space through the Amazon rainforest in South America. The colors in this image are from the two polarizations of the Copernicus Sentinel 1 radar mission, and they have been merged into one image.

September 15, 2020: A large amount of smoke from California can be seen from space, as you can see in this image taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on September 10. There are currently as many as 100 wildfires in California, and they have spread to Washington and Oregon.

September 14, 2020: The spiral galaxy NGC 2835 shines on the head of the constellation Hydra, as shown in this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is about half the width of the Milky Way, and in its center there is a supermassive black hole millions of times larger than our sun. 

September 11, 2020: These "galactic fireworks" are the colored stars that make up the globular cluster NGC 1805, as shown in this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of thousands of stars is located on the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. 

September 10, 2020: The structure is the skeleton or frame and base of the European service module. It will be part of NASA's Orion spacecraft. As part of the agency's Artemis program, it will send humans back to the moon. This "backbone" of the Orion spacecraft was built at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. 

September 9, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy took this photo of Typhoon Poseidon from the International Space Station. The typhoon caused 7 million people to be ordered to evacuate and reached the Korean peninsula after hitting Japan. 

September 8, 2020: The Hubble Space Telescope observes the faint, tilted blue and orange stars of the NGC 2188 galaxy, estimated to be about 50,000 light years wide. This galaxy, thought to be half the size of the Milky Way, is located in the constellation Columba (pigeon). 

September 4, 2020: This image shows Kachi Bay, also known as Kachi Bay, which is an entrance to the Arabian Sea on the west coast of India. This photo was taken by the Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission, which consists of two satellites. Each satellite of the mission is equipped with a high-resolution camera that allows the satellites to track changes in water bodies on the earth. 

September 3, 2020: This color-coded topographic map shows the Nereidum mountain range on the surface of Mars in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The image shows an area within the mountains that is part of the large Argyll impact basin, which is one of the largest impact structures on the entire Red Planet. 

September 2, 2020: The Helicon plasma thruster developed by Spain's SENER by the European Space Agency completed the test fired in this picture. The thruster uses high-power radio frequency waves to convert the propellant into plasma and is designed to propel small satellites and maintain a large satellite constellation. 

September 1, 2020: This bright light streak is a small part of the explosion wave of the Cygnus supernova discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. The explosion was about 2,400 light-years away from us and was caused by a supernova explosion that tore apart a dying star 20 times the mass of our sun between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. 

August 31, 2020: On Saturday (August 30, 2020), SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida, carrying the SAOCOM 1B Earth Observation Radar satellite for Argentina And two small carpool payloads. This is SpaceX's 15th launch this year. It was successfully launched at 7:18 PM Eastern Time (2318 GMT). Soon after launch, the first stage of the booster landed perfectly on Earth. 

August 28, 2020: In this image that combines data from the Advanced Sky Survey Camera (mounted on the Hubble Space Telescope) and the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, you can see the cosmic tail emerging from the spiral galaxy D100. 

August 27, 2020: This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the huge, fluffy nebula NGC 595. The nebula is located about 3 million light-years from the Earth in the Triangular Galaxy and consists of ionized hydrogen.  

Tuesday, August 26, 2020: In this photo taken from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Hurricane Laura looks terrifying in the orbit of the Gulf of Mexico. 

Cassidy captured this scene on August 25, when Laura reached hurricane status while advancing toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm is expected to make landfall on Thursday, August 27, with an intensity of a Category 3 storm. -Tariq Malik

Monday, August 24, 2020: The Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile saw the double-barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365. It is called the barred spiral galaxy.

NGC 1635 is located in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, 56 million light-years away. According to the European Southern Observatory, its double-bar structure is rare and is believed to be caused by the rotation of galaxies and the complex dynamics of stars. -Tariq Malik

August 21, 2020: The Hubble Space Telescope captured a spectacular cosmic firework show in this image of the galaxy NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meat Hook Galaxy due to its unusual shape. This galaxy hosts the white dwarf supernova SN2015F, which was first discovered in March 2015. 

August 20, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy shared this photo of Hurricane Genevieve taken from the International Space Station. This huge storm circling over the Pacific Ocean has developed into a category 4 hurricane. 

August 19, 2020: This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2597 was discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. In the image, you can see a mass of hot gas with two dark "ghost cavities" about 100,000 light years away from its bright center. Ghost caves are considered to be ancient relics erupting around black holes. 

August 18, 2020: SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission is its first manned, fully operational Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, and it is preparing to launch before October 23, 2020. This is the crew portrait of the crew of SpaceX Crew-1 official news. From the left, you can see NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

August 17, 2020: Hubble Space Telescope Wide Angle Planetary Camera 2 captured this image of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae. In this picture, there are approximately 35,000 stars near the center of the cluster. In this image, you can see the natural colors of stars, which allows scientists to determine information such as the age of the stars and their composition. 

August 14, 2020: After four months of total darkness, on August 11, the sun finally rises at the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica. Here, you can see ESA-sponsored doctor Stijn Thoolen (left) and engineer Wenceslas Marie-Sainte (right) celebrating the sunrise. The pair is one of 12 staff members who have worked, lived, and researched on the space station for a year. 

August 13, 2020: Astronaut who will fly as part of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission, Crew Dragon commander NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, pilot and NASA astronaut Victor Glover and mission specialist, NASA astronaut Shannon Walker and mission specialist And JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The four people will travel to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. 

August 12, 2020: Copernicus Sentinel 2 captured this photo of Mauritius Island from space on August 11, which declared an "environmental emergency" after the oil spill. In the image, you can see the MV Wakashio ship reportedly carrying about 4,000 tons of oil stranded near an important wetland area. 

August 11, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy took this breathtaking photo of the Galapagos Islands from his current position on the International Space Station. Cassidy recently bid farewell to other astronauts Bob Benken and Doug Hurley, who successfully returned to Earth safely and completed the SpaceX Demo-2 mission in the process.

August 10, 2020: The setting sun formed a row of colorful clouds above the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, where the Great Telescope is located. In addition to the colorful clouds, you may also see the "Sun Pillar" in the upper left corner of this picture. The sun pillar is a bright beam of light created when tiny ice particles in the atmosphere reflect ambient light. 

August 7, 2020: This image of Saturn taken by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope reveals the planet’s rotation, turbulent atmosphere, and striking, iconic rings. You can even see the mysterious "hexagon" of this planet. The hexagonal storm is constantly spinning at its north pole, right on the "top" of the planet. 

August 6, 2020: On Sunday (August 2), NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned to Earth in the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, Successfully completed the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to and from the International Space Station. This is the first splash-and-fall landing in the United States in about 45 years. 

August 5, 2020: This stunning image taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the "space butterfly", the planetary nebula NGC 2899. The gas of the nebula formed the shape of a cosmic butterfly, which stretched to a maximum of two light-years from its center. This striking structure gleams in the Milky Way. 

August 3, 2020: Yesterday (August 2), NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned to Earth aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavor, which flew into space on May 30. With the successful splash and fall, SpaceX's Demo-2 mission has been completed, and the company will continue to perform its first manned Crew Dragon spacecraft mission, namely Crew-1. 

July 31, 2020: NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbro can be seen in this photo. MacArthur shared this photo on SpaceX’s Twitter and they are practicing how to drive the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. The pair will account for half of the crew members that SpaceX plans to perform on the Crew-2 mission to the space station in 2021. 

July 30, 2020: Today, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover was successfully launched from Florida on the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. The mission has been proceeding smoothly as it embarked on a seven-month trip to the Jezero Crater on Mars, which will land on February 18, 2021. 

July 29, 2020: ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Thomas Pesquet receive mission training for the International Space Station at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Pesquet will join the crew of SpaceX's Crew-2 mission, which will be the second fully operational manned mission of the company's Crew Dragon vehicle. Matthias is training for his first flight to the space station. However, detailed information about this task has not yet been announced. 

July 28, 2020: The star cluster NGC 2203 is dazzling in images taken by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster contains many interesting features, including stars that are about twice the mass of the sun. When studying this cluster, astronomers hope to better understand the timeline and life of stars. 

July 27: NASA astronaut Bob Behnken took this incredible Hurricane Hannah (now classified as tropical) from the International Space Station last Friday (July 24). Storm) photos.

"The picture of this storm was taken on Friday in the Gulf of Mexico because it began to observe the structure from @Space_Station. #HurricaneHanna," Behnken wrote on Twitter. 

July 24, 2020: This eye-catching photo shows the NEOWISE comet and the International Space Station. This 10-second exposure image shows the motion of the space station as a straight yellow line, while the comet is shown as a diffuse luminous object that seems to fall from the sky. Comet NEOWISE was the closest to Earth yesterday (July 23). 

July 23, 2020: Today, the European Space Agency will work with some partners to analyze the preparations for a trip to Mars named after the pioneering chemist who discovered the double helix structure of DNA by the ExoMars robot Rosalind Franklin (Rosalind Franklin) Scheduled for 2022. 

July 22, 2020: NASA astronaut Doug Hurley took this incredible photo of Brazil’s Sobradinho Reservoir and the San Francisco River from the International Space Station in July Post it to Twitter on the 21st. Hurley flew to the space station in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on May 30 as part of the Demo-2 mission, and will return to Earth on August 2. 

July 21, 2020: Although it may look like a cosmic space brain, it is actually an image of G292.0+1.8. This is a young, oxygen-rich supernova remnant. Scientists believe it’s There is a pulsar in the center, surrounded by outflow material. This photo was taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory 

Observations using Chandra have provided strong evidence that there is a pulsar in G292.0+1.8. Through such observations, astronomers can study the connection between pulsars (a magnetized rotating neutron star that emits electromagnetic radiation) and massive stars. 

In this picture, you can see an expanding gas shell 36 light-years in diameter. The gas contains elements such as oxygen, neon, magnesium, silicon and sulfur. 

July 20, 2020: A gleaming galaxy shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, called PGC 29388, gleams in the ocean of more distant galaxies. It is a dwarf elliptical galaxy, so named because it is "small" (relatively speaking) "only" about 100 million to a few billion stars. 

July 17, 2020: This image shows the twin tails of comet NEOWISE that appeared on July 5. The image was created by processing data from the WISPR instrument on NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and shows a larger comet tail composed of dust and gas and an elongated upper ion tail. This comet appeared this month, and astronomical observers in the northern hemisphere like to observe this comet. 

July 16, 2020: The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft was subducted by the sun, and these images of the sun were taken on May 30, 2020 using its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). This is the first solar view released by the probe today. In these images, you can see the upper atmosphere of the sun with a wavelength of 17 nanometers, which lies in the extreme part of the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

July 15, 2020: The Minotaur 4 rocket is scheduled to be launched today from NASA's Wallops Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission will place a secret NROL-129 payload consisting of four top secret spy satellites into the orbit of the US space force.

"This will be our first U.S. Space Force mission, and Volops's first dedicated NRO mission," said Ryan Ross, head of the Launch and Targeting Department of the Space and Missile Systems Center and Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Ross. Said in the air. Mandatory declaration. "We look forward to continuing to launch national priority satellites for our NRO partners."

July 14, 2020: In this photo taken last week and posted to Twitter on July 13, 2020, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy works on a piece of equipment on the International Space Station. In the image, Cassidy is processing equipment on the sliding table of the Japanese experimental module, a deployer called Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer. 

July 13, 2020: This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 7513. The galaxy is about 60 million light-years away from us and is located in the constellation Sculptor, moving at an astonishing 972 degrees from the Earth in miles per second (1,564 kilometers). 

July 10, 2020: Every summer, electric blue stripes appear in the upper part of the Earth's atmosphere in the northern hemisphere. They usually hover in the middle layer above the North Pole (about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the earth's surface), but sometimes they form in the lower atmosphere and appear in other parts of the world. 

This image shows the luminous (or luminous) cloud image on June 23. The image was made using data from NASA's Ice Astronomy In the Middle (AIM) vehicle, centered on the North Pole. 

July 9, 2020: Scientists create a new, detailed map of the universe, showing the universe in X-ray radiation. The map uses more than one million X-ray sources observed by eROSITA (Extended Roentgen Survey with Imaging Telescope Array), which are instruments on the German-Russian satellite mission Spectrum-Röntgen-Gamma or Spektr-RG. 

July 8, 2020: This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the fluffy (or flocculent) feather-like features of the spiral galaxy NGC 2275. The galaxy is located in the constellation Cancer, 67 million light-years away.

July 7, 2020: Astronaut Ivan Vagner, currently on the International Space Station, photographed this stunning new luminous cloud on Earth from the space station. Luminous clouds are the highest clouds in the earth's atmosphere, and they appear at altitudes of 43-59 miles (70-95 kilometers). 

July 6, 2020: In this image, you can see part of the Taurus molecular cloud created using data from the European Space Agency Herschel and Planck Space Telescopes. The bright stripes in this image show the emission of interstellar dust particles of different wavelengths. The overhanging pattern of the lines shows the direction of the magnetic field.  

July 2, 2020: This elevation map of the Jezero Crater on Mars shows the location in rainbow colors, with lighter colors indicating higher elevations. This Mars crater is the preferred landing site for NASA's Perseverance Rover, formerly known as the Mars 2020 Rover, and will be launched to the red planet this summer. 

July 1, 2020: In this picture, Expedition 63 flight engineer NASA astronaut Doug Hurley (middle left) and astronaut Ivan Vagner (middle right) help NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy on June 26, 2020 Be prepared for the spacewalk on the day. Cassidy and Benken walked out of the space. They replaced the aging Ni-MH batteries on the space station with new lithium-ion batteries. The two began another battery swap spacewalk today (July 1). 

June 30, 2020: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy took this photo during a spacewalk with Bob Behnken on Friday, June 26, 2020 A photo of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docking with the International Space Station with the curvature of the earth in the background. During this spacewalk, the two astronauts replaced the aging nickel-metal hydride batteries with brand new lithium-ion batteries on the space station. 

June 29, 2020: This new image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the incredible extension of the galaxy NGC 5907 (also known as the Blade Galaxy). This is a spiral galaxy, much like our home Milky Way. However, you cannot see the bright spiral shape of the galaxy in this picture, because this picture was taken facing the edge of the galaxy. 

Friday, June 26, 2020: In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on June 25, 2020, you can see the star HBC 672, nicknamed "Bat Shadow." This strange feature got its name because it looks like a huge, shadowy wing. But its name is more meaningful because a team led by astronomer Klaus Pontoppidan of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducted a new Hubble observation that looks like "Bat wings" are "flapping". " 

Thursday, June 25, 2020: This composite image shows the International Space Station as it passes in front of the sun. This image consists of six different frames taken from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and shows the space station moving at approximately 5 miles per second on June 24, 2020. There are currently five astronauts on the space station, including Expedition 63 NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy, Douglas Hurley and Robert Benken and Roscosmos astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020: On May 30, as part of the company's Demo-2 mission, NASA senior astronaut Doug Hurley was launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. He took photos from the space station This incredible photo. The sights Hurley saw from space showed amazing cloud formations over the South Pacific. "Cloud art in the South Pacific," Hurley wrote next to the picture he shared on Twitter.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020: Author, journalist, and researcher Lee Brandon-Cremer created this panorama of the International Space Station using three images taken by European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano on the space station. 

Brandon Kramer said in a statement from ESA: “Thousands of photos are taken every spacewalk. Sometimes I see a few photos. One day I realize that I can stitch these photos together. Together to expand the scene and show the astronauts in a broader sense."

Monday, June 22, 2020: During an annular eclipse, the moon will not cover all the sun. Instead, it left a bright "ring of fire" on its edge. The 2020 annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21, 2020. In this picture, you can see the solar eclipse that occurred in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China on June 21, 2020. 

Friday, June 19, 2020: The Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302, is depicted in a wonderful image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This nebula is located in the constellation Scorpio, about 3,800 light-years away from Earth. The striking butterfly shape of the nebula extends an incredible distance, more than two light years. — Chelsea Gold

Thursday, June 18, 2020: This stunning image of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its perijove 27 flight over the gas giant planet. Perijove is the point closest to the center of the planet in the orbit of a probe (such as Juno) on Jupiter. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill processed the images using data collected by Juno during the flyby on June 2, 2020. -Chelsea Gold

Wednesday, June 17, 2020: The Atmospheric-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM), which monitors thunderstorms on Earth from the International Space Station, celebrates its second anniversary this week. ASIM is installed outside the European module of the space station, launched in April 2018, and began scientific operations on June 14, 2018. The payload looks for electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere of the earth-known as red sprites, blue jets, and sprites-which appear as bright flashes that extend upward and into space. Because these events occurred above thunderstorms, it is difficult to study them from the ground, but the pilot of the aircraft reported seeing them during the flight. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 16, 2020: In a 360-degree panoramic view of the Paranal Observatory in Chile, star observers point to the beautiful arches of the Milky Way. The stargazer in this photo is Babak Tafreshi, the photography ambassador of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). On the left is the telescope that forms the ESO extra-large telescope array. The array consists of four boxy unit telescopes and four smaller auxiliary telescopes. Telescope composition. This image was recently selected as ESO's Picture of the Week. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 15, 2020: In this color photo seen from the International Space Station, green and purple aurora flashes above the orange glow of the Earth’s upper atmosphere. On June 7, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy took this photo while the space station was orbiting over the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica. — Hanneke Weitering

Friday, June 12, 2020: In this new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 2608 is "photobombed" by two stars in our Milky Way. Bright Milky Way stars in the foreground of the Hubble Deep Space image usually appear in the form of lens flares, as seen in the lower right corner of this image. The other is just above the center of NGC 2608. All the other spots of light scattered in the black abyss around the Milky Way are not stars, but thousands of other distant galaxies. "NGC 2608 is just one of countless similar structures," the Hubble scientist said in a statement. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, June 11, 2020: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just passed another important milestone before its scheduled launch in 2021. In a recent test at the Northrop Grumman plant in Redondo Beach, California, the new observatory deployed and expanded its deployable tower assembly. This part of the telescope combines its iconic golden mirror with the spacecraft’s The scientific instrument and the propulsion system are separated. NASA said in a statement that having this space there will allow the telescope's cooling system to "reduce its instruments to the astonishingly low temperatures required to perform the best science." — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, June 10, 2020: In this photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sunday (June 7), the waning moon rises from the Earth’s blue horizon, which is the strawberry full moon passing through Two days after the outer shadow of the earth, it caused a subtle penumbra lunar eclipse. When the space station was operating over the Atlantic Ocean, an expedition 63 crew member captured this sight, not far from the coast of the African country of Angola. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 9, 2020: During the penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday (June 5), the strawberry full moon rises over Ponte da Ajuda, a historic bridge near the border of Portugal and Spain. Astrophotographer Sérgio Conceição took this composite image of the rising moon from Elvas, Portugal at the end of the solar eclipse. During this subtle lunar eclipse, the moon passed through the faint outer part of the earth's shadow, called a penumbra, which made its surface show a slight tea stain. Conceicao told Space.com in an e-mail: "It can be seen that the moon was born with a stronger pink color and began to turn white when it rose." — Hanneck Wettering

Monday, June 8, 2020: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft approached the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Bob Benken and Doug Hurley. This photo was taken by an astronaut in May It was taken at the Orbital Laboratory on the 31st, shortly before the spacecraft docked with the space station. When this photo was taken, the space station was operating over southwestern Turkey, including the coastal city of Demre, which was regarded as the gray area under the manned dragon spacecraft. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, June 5, 2020: Astrophotographer Guillaume Doyen captures the stunning view of the dome of La Silla Observatory in Chile, with the starry sky shining orange. This soft orange glow is the result of the interaction of solar particles with the earth’s atmosphere, causing the air to emit visible light. 

An official from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said: “The night’s aura is particularly strong. Even after the sun sets, you can see the intense orange and red light rippling in the sky with the naked eye.” La Silla, in the picture description Say. The TRAPPIST-South telescope of the European Southern Observatory is famous for discovering the TRAPPIST-1 system of Earth-sized exoplanets, visible in the foreground of the image. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, June 4, 2020: In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, glittering stars shine like cosmic snowflakes. The image shows the globular cluster NGC 6441 located 13,000 light years from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Although it is difficult to count, the combined weight of the stars in this cluster will be 1.6 million times the mass of the sun. This photo was released on June 1st by the Hubble Science Team of the European Space Agency. — Tariq Malik

Wednesday, June 3, 2020: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station this weekend will return on the company’s unmanned spacecraft called "Of course I still love you" ashore. After launching the Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rocket landed vertically on the drone, which is located hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida. It arrived in Port Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday (June 2). — Hanneck Wetlin  

Tuesday, June 2, 2020: SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board, this is an astronaut taking pictures in the orbital laboratory on Sunday (May 31) Photo. The foreground of the image is the robotic arm of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which is connected to the Kibo laboratory module in Japan. The Crew Dragon spacecraft was docked at the Harmony Port of the space station at 10:16 am Eastern Time (1416 GMT) on Sunday, while both spacecraft flew approximately 262 miles (422 kilometers) over the northern border of China and Mongolia. ). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 1, 2020: A pseudo-color infrared exposure photo shows SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and the first Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The historic 39A launch site was launched into space. The historic launch on Saturday (May 30) was the first commercial flight into orbit and the first launch from the United States by NASA astronauts in nearly a decade. NASA astronauts Bob Benken and Doug Hurley arrived safely on the International Space Station on Sunday morning. — Hanneck Wetlin  

Friday, May 29, 2020: The massive star cluster Westerlund 2, seen in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is full of young stars and is surrounded by dense interstellar dust clouds that are forming asteroids. In the process. However, Hubble observations show that the stars in the center of the cluster do not have the same supply of planetary construction as the stars near the periphery of the cluster. The absence of dust in the center of Westerlund 2 is caused by the "strong ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar wind" emitted by the largest and brightest stars in the cluster. These stars gather in the core of the cluster and erode and blow away all the dust. Hubble The official said in a statement. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 27, 2020: Before the rocket is scheduled to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, the sun sets for the last time behind the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the 39A launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Weather permitting, the Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s manned dragon spacecraft will launch Demo-2 from this historic launch pad today at 4:33 pm Eastern Time (2033 GMT). Task. There will be Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board, and they will be the first NASA astronauts to take a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station. SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted this photo on Twitter on Tuesday night (May 26). — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, May 26, 2020: This picture was taken on Monday (May 25) on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s historic 39A launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just before the rocket launch The first manned flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station two days ago. NASA astronauts Bob Benken and Doug Hurley will be the first people to be launched into orbit from the United States in nearly a decade after they took off on the Crew Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday (May 27) . SpaceX and NASA officials completed the final launch preparation review on Monday and announced that the mission "started" launch, but officials are paying close attention to some potentially troublesome weather that may cause the launch to this weekend (May 30-31) . — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, May 25, 2020: In this photo released by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday, May 24, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and its Falcon 9 rocket stand at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center The top of the 39A launch pad, in the dazzling twilight sky. The spacecraft is ready to go. According to a commercial crew contract with NASA, the first astronauts will be sent into orbit from the United States since 2011. Read our full report here. — Tariq Malik

Friday, May 22, 2020: SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is ready to be launched on the Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at the 39A launch site. On Wednesday (May 27), two NASA astronauts will fly to the International Space Station for the first manned test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket arrived at the launch site on Thursday (May 21). — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, May 21, 2020: Petr Horálek, the photography ambassador of the European Southern Observatory, bathed in the light of the Milky Way in this cosmic selfie surrounded by a telescope. The panoramic image shows Horálek standing among the many antennas that make up the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Atacama Desert. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 20, 2020: Tropical Cyclone Amphan, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal, is approaching eastern India and Bangladesh in this photo taken on Tuesday (May 19) by NASA’s Terra satellite . The storm made landfall near Sagar Island in the Indian state of West Bengal today, near the Bangladesh border. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, May 19, 2020: In this circular fisheye view, the dusty arc of the Milky Way stretches across the night sky. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) photo ambassador Mahdi Zamani took this photo on the Cerro Armazones mountain in northern Chile. "Because the sky is extremely clear and dark, thousands of stars and dusty clouds that make up the Milky Way can be seen," the European Southern Observatory said in the image description. The elusive zodiacal light is displayed in the upper right corner, while the faint orange aura illuminates the entire night sky. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, May 18, 2020: Two spiral galaxies collectively known as Arp 271 appear to be about to collide. Two interacting galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427, have formed a material bridge through which new stars begin to form. According to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), if galaxies eventually collide with each other, the collision will trigger a wave of new star formation in the next few million years. The European Southern Observatory says that in the next 5 billion years or so, when our own Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy, this same type of interaction may occur in our own Milky Way. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 15, 2020: During a drop test conducted by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule model contains two crash test dummies inside. In the water. SpaceX conducted a series of such drop tests in March 2019 to understand how different wind and parachute dynamics affect the capsule during the splash, and to ensure that its astronauts can return to Earth safely. Less than two weeks from now, the real Crew Dragon spacecraft will send astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, May 14, 2020: Hundreds of millions of years ago, two distant galaxy clusters collectively called Abell 2384 collided, passed through each other, and formed a “bridge of hot gas” spanning more than 3 million light-years between the clusters The new composite image of Abell 2384 shows that a supermassive black hole lurking in the center of these galaxy clusters is shaping the galactic bridge by ejecting it with powerful jets of high-energy particles. 

The new image combines X-ray data from the European XMM-Newton Telescope and NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (shown in blue), as well as radio observation data from India’s giant metric-wave radio telescope (shown in red) and digital Optical data. Sky Survey (displayed in yellow). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 13, 2020: Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-13 cargo replenishment spacecraft has a shiny cymbal-shaped solar array. The photo shows the grip of the Canadaarm2 robotic arm on the International Space Station. In hand, just before the ship sailed on Monday (May 11). NG-13 cargo ship, delivered 7,500 pounds. The supplies (3,400 kg) provided to the crew of the three-person expedition 62 at the station in February will fly in orbit alone in the next few weeks, deploy micro-satellites and conduct fire experiments. It will return to Earth on May 29 and burn safely in the Earth’s atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, May 12, 2020: This winter landscape may look like an ancient, frosty river on Mars, but this image was taken by satellites orbiting our own planet. The meandering waterway that flows through this frame is the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It is the fourth longest river in Europe, with a total length of approximately 1,400 miles (2,200 kilometers). NASA’s Terra satellite used its advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) instrument to capture a portion of the Dnieper River near the city of Oster, Ukraine, which images the earth to map and monitor the changing planet s surface. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, May 11, 2020: To commemorate the 75th anniversary of European victory (marking the end of World War II in Europe) and to commemorate the frontline medical staff of the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan posted on Twitter This photo of World War II floats on the medical armband of the Dome Observatory of the International Space Station. 

Morgan tweeted on May 8: “Like the first responders on the front lines today, 75 years ago, combat medical staff bravely faced great danger to save fellow #Soldiers on the battlefield.” “This World War II The medical armband accompanied me to @space_station and will soon live at @NatlArmyMuseum." Morgan returned from the space station in April after spending 272 days in the orbital laboratory. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 8, 2020: This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3583. NGC 3583 is located in the constellation Ursa Major, about 98 million light-years away from Earth, and its size is about three-quarters of ours. Milky Way. However, although the Milky Way has four different spiral arms surrounding its galaxy core, NGC 3583 has two long arms that can extend into the universe. Astronomers have observed two supernova explosions in this galaxy, one in 1975 and one in 2015. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, May 7, 2020: In this photo taken by Kevin M. Gill of Los Angeles, California on Wednesday night, May, which is close to the full moon, is called the Flower Moon, in the twilight sky twinkling. This morning at 6:45 AM Eastern Time (1045 GMT), the moon reached full phase. According to NASA, this is the fourth and last "super moon" in 2020, although some astronomers are divided on whether it is eligible to be a "super moon." — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 6, 2020: Astronomers announced today that this is the black hole closest to the Earth, which is quietly lurking in the center of this wide-field image of the telescope constellation. The newly discovered black hole is about 1,000 light-years away from the Earth, and astronomers initially thought it was a binary star system. But a thorough observation of the star system named HR 6819 revealed the third invisible object that affected the star's orbit. Although the black hole itself is invisible, the stars in the HR 6819 system are bright enough to be seen in the dark, clear sky of the southern hemisphere without a telescope. This image of HR 6819 was taken as part of the Digital Sky Survey 2. — Hanneke Weitering

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020: This photo of the Earth taken from space, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, features the Greater New York City area, including West Chester, Long Island, and parts of New Jersey. On April 28, an expedition 63 crew member captured this view of the Big Apple from approximately 257 miles (413 kilometers) overhead. — Hanneke Weitering

Monday, May 4, 2020: When an astronaut on the International Space Station photographed the Earth in the dome of the International Space Station, he photographed almost the whole of Mexico at one time. The shot was taken from the central window of the cupola, below which you can see the golden solar panels of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft. You can find an annotated version of this image provided by NASA here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 1, 2020: A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the gleaming spiral galaxy NGC 4100, which is full of small stars. The spiral arms of the galaxy are scattered with bright blue starlight radiating from hot newborn stars. NGC 4100 is located in the constellation Ursa Major, about 67 million light-years away from Earth. It belongs to a galaxy called the Ursa Major galaxy cluster. Hubble scientists said in a statement that it is about three-quarters the size of the Milky Way, which is also a spiral galaxy, and in this new view, it "looks almost across the entire sky." The Space Telescope took this photo with its advanced sky survey camera and released it today (May 1). — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 30, 2020: In this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, strange spider-like features appear on the surface of Mars. These spider-like landforms are called "spider-like" landforms by scientists, which literally means "spider-like". These features appear because the climate of this red planet is so cold that during the winter on Mars, carbon dioxide freezes from the atmosphere and accumulates into ice on the surface. When ice begins to melt in the spring, carbon dioxide will sublimate back to the atmosphere, or change from a solid to a gas, and when the gas is trapped below the surface, it leaves deep grooves in the terrain. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 29, 2020: In a deep-sky image of countless distant galaxies of various shapes and sizes, a tiny dwarf galaxy occupies the center. The small elliptical galaxy in the foreground of this new Hubble Space Telescope image is called PGC 29388. It contains between 100 million and several billion stars, which pales in comparison to our Milky Way, which has between 25 and 400 billion stars. The Hubble scientist said in a statement: "As beautiful as the surrounding space, this sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope undeniably snatched the show. The image was released on April 20, a few days before the telescope celebrated its 30th anniversary. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 28, 2020: In this gorgeous view of the night sky taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) photography ambassador Petr Horálek, the arc of the Milky Way gleams over the La Sila Observatory in Chile. In the center of the image is the ESO 3.6-meter telescope, and on the left is the Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler telescope. You can see the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud below the right wing of the Milky Way's arc. These are the two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Saturn is visible below the left side of the arc, and Jupiter emits bright light directly above it and slightly to the left. You can view a 360-degree version of this image here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, April 27, 2020: In this photo taken by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Rome Virtual Telescope Project, the bright "evening star" Venus shines near the new moon. Yesterday (April 26) Venus and the moon were close in the evening sky, and tomorrow (April 28) Venus will reach its maximum brightness in a year. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, April 24, 2020: Happy birthday, Hubble! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, NASA released this new image of the “cosmic underwater world,” which is full of stars and colorful clouds of interstellar dust and gas. This image shows the huge red nebula NGC 2014 and its smaller blue companion NGC 2020, both of which are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way 163,000 light-years away from Earth. Hubble scientists said in a statement that Hubble scientists nicknamed this picture "cosmic reef" because this large nebula "similar to a part of a coral reef floating in the vast sea of ​​stars." — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 23, 2020: In this photo taken during the peak of the annual Lyra meteor shower, a "meteor" passes through the Milky Way. Photographer Tina Pappas Lee took this photo at 4:45 AM local time on Wednesday (April 22) on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Just below the meteor, the two brightest planets in the night sky, Jupiter and Saturn, are visible side by side. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 22, 2020: Happy Earth Day from space! Forty-eight years ago, NASA’s Apollo 16 crew captured a magnificent view of the Earth rising from the moon’s horizon shortly before landing. On April 20, 1972, astronauts took this photo. This photo seems to be inspired by the famous "Earth Rise" photo of Apollo 13. On the same day, the Orion Lunar Module and NASA Space Officer John Young, Apollo 16 Commander and Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke. Command module pilot Ken Mattingly remained in orbit during 71 hours on the ground. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 21, 2020: In this photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, a series of SpaceX's Starlink Internet satellites orbit over the gray-green aurora of the Earth. NASA said in a statement that these tiny satellite tracks were captured at 5:25 pm Eastern Time (2125 GMT) on Monday (April 13), when the station was moving Passing over the South Indian Ocean at an altitude of approximately 231 nautical miles (428 kilometers). illustrate. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is keen to track objects in Earth’s orbit. He said that the satellites in the picture appear to belong to about 60% of the satellites launched by SpaceX for its new star chain constellation. The fifth batch of satellites. The company plans to launch the seventh batch of satellites on Wednesday (April 22). — Hanneck Wetlin

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Monday, April 20, 2020: In this photo taken at the La Sila Observatory in Chile, a "meteor" struck the night sky near the Earth's two galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The foreground of the image is two of the three new ExTrA (transiting exoplanets and their atmospheres) telescopes at the observatory. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, April 17, 2020: The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft returning from the International Space Station with three astronauts landed on Earth before landing in Kazakhstan. NASA astronauts Jessica Mel and Drew Morgan and their Russian astronaut Oleg Skripochka today at 1:16:43 AM Eastern Time (0516 GMT or Kazakhstan) 11:16 am local time) safely landed in the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 16, 2020: The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new view of this peculiar spiral galaxy with a ring in its winding galaxy arm. This galaxy, called NGC 2273, is officially named the barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar composed of stars and pinwheel arms. But there are also several ring structures in the spiral arms of this galaxy. NGC 2273 has an inner ring and two outer "pseudo rings". Astronomers believe that these rings are formed by spiral arms that appear to be tightly wound into a closed ring. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 15, 2020: The earth's fluffy clouds and blue horizon provide a gorgeous backdrop for the Soyuz MS-16 crew spacecraft. Here you can see three expedition 63 crew members approaching the International Space Station . The Soyuz arrived at the orbital laboratory on Thursday (April 9) with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. An astronaut from the International Space Station took this photo from about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 14, 2020: An astronaut from the International Space Station took this photo of the southern aurora over the Indian Ocean on April 8, 2020. At that time, the space station was approaching the southernmost end of its orbit and was preparing for the arrival of three new crew members. — Megan Bartles

Monday, April 13, 2020: On April 10, the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo flew over the earth, which slowed the probe's speed enough to turn its trajectory toward the inside of the solar system. The next day, the spacecraft took the final image of the earth, which was a delicate and bright crescent in the vast space. — Megan Bartles

Friday, April 10, 2020: Fifty years ago today, NASA astronauts Jack Swift, Jim Lovell, and Fred Hayes and the space they will launch the next day Take a photo with the model of the aircraft to perform the mission named Apollo 13. The flight even faced challenges. Before launch, the crew would experience a catastrophic explosion in the mission's service module, but all three returned safely to Earth. — Megan Bartles

Thursday, April 9, 2020: Today (April 9) after lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:05 AM Eastern Time (0805 GMT or 1:05 PM), The Russian Soyuz rocket and three expedition 63 crew members flew to the International Space Station (Kazakh local time). About six hours later, the Soyuz MS-16 crew module arrived safely at the orbital laboratory, with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner on board. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 8, 2020: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, the almost full pink moon rises above the cloud-covered earth. This photo was taken on Monday (April 6), the day before the supermoon, or the full moon coincides with the perigee of the moon, which is the point on its orbit closest to the earth. Because the full moon in April is traditionally called the pink moon, the super moon last night is called the "super pink moon." — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 7, 2020: In this new image from NASA's Juno spacecraft, hazy clouds move across Jupiter's northern hemisphere. These slender cloud bands are composed of haze particles floating above the cloud features at the bottom of the planet. Although the origin of these slender clouds is still a mystery, scientists believe that these hazy features may be related to Jupiter’s jets. NASA officials said in a statement: “The two jets in Jupiter’s atmosphere are located on either side of the area where narrow-band haze is usually present. Some researchers speculate that these jets may affect the formation of high haze.” t

The Juno orbiter took this image during its 25th close flyover of Jupiter (also known as perijove) at 12:29 pm Eastern Time (1729 GMT) on February 17th, when the spacecraft was away from the planet The maximum amount of cloud cover is approximately 15,610 miles (25,120 kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, April 6, 2020: In this color-enhanced image from NASA’s Cassini orbiter, Saturn’s moons Rhea and Janus Tango are on either side of the planet’s famous ring system. Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea (Rhea) is visible in the foreground, while the smaller moon Janus is in the far end of the ring. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill recently used calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on March 28, 2010 to process this view of Saturn and its two satellites 10 years ago. — Hanneke Weitering

Friday, April 3, 2020: A new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the special structure of a spiral galaxy with only one star arm rotating around its center. Although most barred spiral galaxies are characterized by a unique rod-shaped star structure centered on the nucleus of the galaxy, this barred spiral galaxy is different from most other galaxies. This strange galaxy is called NGC 4618. It is 21 million light-years away from Earth and is located in the constellation Canes Venatici. When the astronomer William Herschel discovered it in 1787, people first thought it was a star cluster. Astronomers now believe that gravitationally interacting galaxies with nearby galaxies may have affected the shape of this galaxy. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 2, 2020: In this photo taken by the astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Italian Virtual Telescope Project on Wednesday (April 1), the bright Venus begins to travel through the Pleiades star cluster, also known as "Seven Sisters". Venus will reach its maximum brightness of the year at the end of this month, and tomorrow (April 3) will approach the Pleiades star cluster at close range, when the two celestial bodies will conjunct-which means they share the same longitude-8 For the first time in years. During the conjunction, Venus will be located a quarter of a degree southeast of the Pleiades star cluster, the brightest star in the cluster. Look for this pair in the evening sky in the west. You can also watch a live broadcast from the virtual telescope project here from 1:30 PM Eastern Time (1730 GMT). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 1, 2020: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its huge primary mirror, bringing the new observatory a major step forward in preparation for launch in 2021. The entire 256-inch (6.5-meter) primary mirror assembly is expanded into the same configuration as it was deployed in space. This critical test occurred in early March, just before NASA's center was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The work of the Webb Telescope was temporarily suspended on March 20. It is scheduled to launch in March 2021, but even before the coronavirus pandemic, the date is expected to be postponed. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, March 31, 2020: Although most spiral galaxies clearly define the twisted arms surrounding the galaxy's core, other galaxies have mottled spiral arms that cannot be clearly distinguished, similar to cotton wool. Because of this hairy appearance, the galaxy NGC 4237 shown in the Hubble Space Telescope's new image is classified as a "flocculent" spiral galaxy. NGC 4237 is located in the constellation of coma, 60 million light-years away from the earth, or "Berenice’s hair". A hole is formed inside the clue galaxy. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, March 30, 2020: The city lights of Malaysia and Indonesia illuminate the earth under blue and orange auras, while the ship lights of the Bay of Bengal glow in the night view of the earth as seen from space. An expedition 62 astronaut took this photo from the International Space Station on March 21, when the space station was operating at an altitude of 262 miles (422 kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, March 27, 2020: Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas slowly brightens in the night sky as it prepares to orbit the sun in a few months. Astrophotographer Mike Cuffe took these two images of the green comet through his backyard telescope on Monday (March 23). In the first stacked image, the comet appears blurry as it passes through a fixed star background. For the second image, the telescope is fixed on the comet, so the background stars appear as short trajectories behind the clearer image of the comet. Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on May 23, about a week before it reaches perihelion or the closest point to the sun. It will brighten significantly during this process and may be visible to the naked eye in late April or May. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, March 26, 2020: The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is ready for launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida. The rocket is scheduled to launch the sixth and final advanced ultra-high frequency satellite (AEHF-6 ). AEHF-6 will be the first national security mission of the Space Force, and this Atlas V will be the first rocket with the new logo of the Space Force. You can watch the live broadcast here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, March 25, 2020: The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) launches its laser guide star into the night sky above Chile, creating a beam of light that scribes an arc over the Milky Way. Astronomers use giant laser beams like this to help their telescopes correct for distortions caused by turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere, which can make stars appear to flicker. For VLT observations, astronomers rely on the laser guide star facility at the Chilean Paranal Observatory. The photos in the foreground are the four domes of the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, March 24, 2020: After the first complete recovery mission profile test performed by landing and recovery crews from the NASA Kennedy Space Center Exploration Ground Systems Team, NASA’s Orion Crew Module floats in the Pacific Ocean by John P. · Procedures for the Artemis 1 mission behind the USS Mursa, March 13. The Artemis 1 mission is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2021 and will mark the first unmanned test flight of NASA's space launch system giant rocket and Orion spacecraft. After landing, the airbag on the top of the spacecraft will ensure that the space capsule floats vertically. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, March 23, 2020: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, drilled a hole in a rock feature called "Hutton" before heading to the Greenhoff Gable, which is behind and left of the rover Rocky mounds on the side. This panorama combines the 86 images taken by the Mars Handheld Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the Curiosity robotic arm on February 26, the 2,687 day or "sol" of the Mars rover mission on the red planet. . You can view an annotated version of this image here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, March 20, 2020: In the magnificent view of the earth seen from the International Space Station, the green aurora clashes with the orange aura. On Tuesday (March 17), as the space station passed through Kazakhstan, an expedition 62 crew member took this photo from 263 miles (423 kilometers) above the earth. Three weeks later, three new space station crews plan to launch from Kazakhstan to the orbital laboratory. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian astronauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner took off on a Soyuz rocket on April 9. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, March 19, 2020: In this stunning night sky photo, on the Chilean mountain Cerro Armazones, the construction site of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ELT), the complete arc of the Milky Way gleams in the shadow of the photographer Glow. ELT is scheduled to open in 2025 and will become "the world's largest eye in the sky", with the main mirror being 39 meters (128 feet) long. ELT will scan the sky with light of optical and near-infrared wavelengths to find the world outside the solar system, especially potential terrestrial exoplanets. It will also help astronomers study how planets, stars, galaxies and black holes formed in the early universe. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, March 18, 2020: A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a stellar nursery outside the Tarantula Nebula. This bright pink space cloud is called LHA 120-N 150 and is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is more than 160,000 light-years away from Earth, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Hubble scientists said in a statement that this colorful nebula is rich in new star formation and "the concentration of massive stars is abnormally high. By studying LHA 120-N 150, astronomers hope to learn more about massive stars." The type of environment you are in. The stars are formed.-Hanneck Wettering

Tuesday, March 17, 2020: Today, to commemorate St. Patrick's Day on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan posted this photo on Twitter, in which the Irish flag is flying above the Orbital Laboratory Dome Observatory On one of the windows. A solar panel on the space station can be seen through the window, and the earth provides a cloudy background. In addition to this photo of the national flag, Morgan also posted a photo of Ireland on Twitter, also known as the Emerald Island, which he took from the space station. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, March 16, 2020: A new perspective on the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, featuring most of the east coast of the United States, stretching from New York City to South Carolina. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan shared this photo on Twitter last Thursday (March 12). In the foreground on the left side of the screen is Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-13 cargo supply spacecraft, which arrived at the space station on February 18. On the right is part of the Canadian Arm 2 robotic arm of the space station. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, March 13, 2020: New images of the spiral galaxy NGC 1589 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the bright central bulge of the galaxy, with a supermassive black hole lurking in a cluster of closely arranged stars. Hubble astronomers said in a statement that this galaxy "was once a scene of intense cosmic hunger." 

NGC 1589 is located in the constellation Taurus, 168 million light-years away from the earth. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1783. The Milky Way," the Hubble team said. Now, astronomers are using the Hubble Telescope to look for any evidence of stellar fragments thrown out when the star tears. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, March 12, 2020: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, city lights illuminate southeastern China at night. The large and bright light cluster near the center of this picture represents Shanghai, the most densely populated city in the country, located on the coast of the East China Sea. The small but dense cluster on the left side of Shanghai is Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province and the largest city in the province in China. In the lower left corner of the picture is Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, which is also the "zero place" of the new coronavirus outbreak. This photo was taken on March 5, when the International Space Station passed the Asian continent at an altitude of approximately 259 miles (417 kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020: In this starry night sky photo taken by Chirag Upreti, the Milky Way twinkles over Yellowstone National Park. This panoramic view combines 10 frames taken from the "Mounds and Jupiter Platform" in Mammoth Hot Springs, and you can enjoy the superb view of Jupiter, which is shining on the right side of the Milky Way while reflecting from the water below. Saturn can also be seen in the photo, shining on the left side of the Milky Way, directly above the cluster of stars known as the Teapot. 

"You can see the Dark Horse Nebula apparently jumping over the mound and to the right of Jupiter," Upretti told Space.com. "It is an amazing experience to see the stars and the Milky Way with your own eyes. Knowing that you are standing on a terrain determined by the raw power of a super volcano. This is an incredible place where you can feel the connection between the earth and the night sky." — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, March 10, 2020: In this photo taken by NASA photographer Joel Kowsky on Monday (March 9), this year’s first supermoon passes through Washington Clouds above the United States Capitol. Also known as the "worm moon", the full moon of March almost coincides with the moon's perigee, or the closest point on the moon's elliptical orbit to the earth. The moon officially full moon at 1:48 PM Eastern Time (1748 GMT) on Monday, approximately 13 hours later, at 2:33 AM Eastern Time (0633 GMT) today, reaching the perigee. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, March 9, 2020: The dragon-shaped cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today, marking the end of the era of the private spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. The Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft seen here is the last SpaceX Dragon captured by a robotic arm and connected to the space station. Future SpaceX Dragon replenishment flights will use the company's new Dragon 2 version, which can stop at the station by itself. 

NASA astronaut Jessica Meyer posted this photo on Twitter after using the space station's robotic arm to capture the Dragon capsule. She wrote: "From now on, SpaceX will automatically dock to the space station. This Dragon capsule has been on the space station twice before-sustainability is essential to future space exploration." — Tariq Malik

Friday, March 6, 2020: New images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter reveal a strange, deformed impact crater on Mars called the Moore Crater. Although most craters are roughly circular in shape, the outline of Morey Crater is more like an omelette. The black walls of the crater look ridged and corrugated, while dark brown and black sand dunes smear the bottom of the crater. The tall mountain in the center is a pile of material that was ejected from the Martian terrain when the initial impact occurred millions of years ago. As erosion, wind, and glacial activity shaped the surface of this planet, the distorted appearance of Moreux Crater formed over a long period of time. The image was created using data collected by a high-resolution stereo camera on the Mars Express when the spacecraft flew over the area in October 2019. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, March 5, 2020: A new view of New York City captured from the International Space Station, showing the city’s skyline in incredible detail. NASA astronaut Jessica Meyer photographed the city from the Orbital Laboratory, which orbits the Earth at an altitude of approximately 250 miles (400 kilometers). "Recently, @Space_Station can clearly see the bustling #NYC day and night," Meier tweeted on Wednesday (March 4). "Central Park looks very attractive. The skyline of Midtown reminds me of metal pin art." — Hanneck Wettering

Wednesday, March 4, 2020: A new global view of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus shows the small moon’s “tiger pattern” cracks and frosty plumes in stunning detail. This artist's illustration of Enceladus is based on a global map that was stitched together by NASA's Cassini mission scientists based on images collected by the spacecraft during the first 10 years of exploring the Saturn system. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, March 3, 2020: Two white oval storms in Jupiter's atmosphere were found to merge into one. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these anticyclonic storms using its JunoCam imager on December 26, 2019, when the spacecraft was completing its 24th perijove, or flying over the Earth at close range. At that time, Juno was passing about 44,900 miles (72,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud top, at about 60 degrees south latitude. 

NASA said in a statement that NASA has been tracking the larger of these two storms for years, and scientists have observed it swallowing several smaller storms in the past. Just a few months before this photo was taken, it narrowly avoided merging with the same storm when the two approached at close range as they rolled in the turbulent atmosphere of the planet. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, March 2, 2020: A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, which has long, curved spiral arms and a bright galactic nucleus. German-British astronomer William Herschel discovered this galaxy 60 million light-years away from Earth about 234 years ago. At the time, astronomers didn't even understand how such spiral arms existed because they believed that the rotating core of the galaxy would eventually wind them so tightly that the spiral would disappear. It was not until the 1960s that astronomers came up with an explanation.

A Hubble official said in a statement: "In fact, the spiral arm is not like a rigid structure, but a denser area in the galaxy disk, and its dynamics are similar to the dynamics of traffic jams." The density of cars increases in the center of the congestion, where they move more slowly. Spiral arms work in a similar way; when gas and dust pass through the density wave, they are compressed and stagnated before moving out of them. ." — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, February 28, 2020: The European Space Agency’s Qarman CubeSat is deployed from the International Space Station to perform a mission to burn in the Earth’s atmosphere to study the physics of its own hot reentry. On February 19, Qarman was officially named "QubeSat for the Thermodynamic Research and Measurement of Ablation Air", and it was ejected from the Nanoracks cube dispenser on the space station.

"Since then, we think it will take about 6 months to re-enter the atmosphere-finding out how accurately we can predict Qarman's orbital decay is part of the reason for our mission, related to the study of space debris," Olivier Chazot The head of the aerospace department of the Belgian Von Carmen Institute said in a statement. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, February 27, 2020: In this magnificent view taken by astrophotographer Yuri Beletsky, the night sky above Chile's Paranal Observatory is shining with vitality. This colorful phenomenon occurs because atoms and molecules in the earth’s atmosphere interact and emit radiation. Therefore, the sky will never be completely dark. Airglow is only visible in places far away from man-made light pollution, such as the Paranal Observatory. This photo was taken from the Visible and Infrared Astronomical Survey Telescope (VISTA) of the European Southern Observatory. You can hardly see the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on top of Cerro Paranal in the distance. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, February 26, 2020: In this satellite image from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP meteorological satellite, tropical cyclones Ferdinand and Esther hover over Australia. This image combines data collected by Suomi NPP during two passes through Australia on Monday (February 24). The diagonal marks the edge of the strip between the passage of two satellites, which are approximately 90 minutes apart. Esther made landfall near Queensland on Monday and has since been downgraded to a tropical depression. Ferdinand, seen off the northwest coast of Australia, formed over the weekend and is now a Category 2 storm, but it is not expected to make landfall. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, February 25, 2020: NASA's Orion spacecraft is lifted into a hot cage before entering the vacuum test chamber of NASA's Plum Brook test station in Sandusky, Ohio. The spacecraft will perform the Artemis 1 mission, an unmanned test flight that will be launched on NASA's new space launch system giant rocket sometime in 2021. After this mission, NASA plans to use the Orion spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, February 22, 2020: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mourns the loss of a scientific icon on the death of the famous mathematician and "hidden figure" Katherine Johnson at the age of 101. Johnson joined the National Aviation Advisory Committee in 1953 as the so-called man-machine for the agency's offices in Langley, Virginia. There, she worked in the Western Region Computing Department, an all-black unit in the isolation center, and stayed there when NACA became NASA in 1958. 

Johnson’s calculations as a human computer mapped the trajectory of astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic space flight in 1961, when he became the first American to enter space, and later that year John Glen’s first Orbital flight. You can see our complete memorial here. -Tariq Malik

Friday, February 21, 2020: The Straw Hat galaxy may have a smooth "edge", which indicates that it has not had any galaxy collisions in the past, but new data from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that this seemingly undamaged galaxy hides a section A violent past. According to NASA, the galaxy’s faint outer halo provides some forensic clues that the galaxy had multiple collisions with other galaxies billions of years ago. 

"These latest observations of sombrero are subverting traditional theory. They only show that there are only a small number of older, metal-poor stars in the halo, plus a large number of metal-rich stars that are usually only found in galaxy disks. And the central bulge," Hubble officials said in a statement. "Past major galaxy mergers are a possible explanation, although the solemn straw hat shows no messy evidence of recent large-scale galaxy mergers." — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, February 20, 2020: In this photo from the lunar occultation on Tuesday (February 18), Mars is hiding behind the lower limbs of the new moon. Shortly before the occultation began at 4:38 AM local time, astrophotographer BG Boyd took this photo of the new moon as it began to glide over the red planet in the early morning sky of Tucson, Arizona. About an hour later, Mars reappeared from the dark edge of the moon. In this photo, the planet looks like a small orange spot, barely touching the bottom edge of the crescent moon. You can view more occultation photos and videos here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, February 19, 2020: In this photo taken by NASA astronaut Jessica Meyer, the last moon appears faintly behind the Canadaarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station. On Tuesday (February 18), she and her Expedition 62 crew member Andrew Morgan used Canada Arm 2 to capture the arriving Cygnus cargo spacecraft. "The powerful @csa_asc #Canadarm2 is ready to fight because @AstroDrewMorgan and I practiced our exercises to capture the #Cygnus that is moving towards us, loaded with nearly 7,500 pounds of science, cargo, and @Space_Station supplies," Meir tweeted on Saturday (February 15). "Even the moon has appeared, eagerly waiting for #ARTEMIS," she added, referring to NASA's Artemis program, which aims to get astronauts on the moon in 2024. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, February 18, 2020: In this new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 2008 shows off its gleaming galactic tentacles. The galaxy was originally discovered in 1834 by astronomer John Herschel, about 425 million light-years away from Earth, and located in the southern constellation of the painter Pictor. NASA said in a statement that NGC 2008 is classified as a Sc-type galaxy, which means that it is a spiral galaxy with a "relatively small central bulge and more open spiral arms." "Spiral galaxies with a larger central bulge tend to have tighter arms and are classified as Sa galaxies, while those in between are classified as Sb type." — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, February 14, 2020: Happy Valentine's Day from space! In this photo taken by astrophotographer Miguel Claro, the Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805, twinkles in deep space. The Heart Nebula is located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, 7,500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cassiopeia. At the tip of the heart is a bright fish-shaped knot called the Fish Head Nebula. For more romantic pictures from all over the universe, please check out our universe Valentine’s Day gallery. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, February 13, 2020: An astronaut from the International Space Station captured this image of a luminous or "luminous" cloud in the upper atmosphere of the Earth. These clouds composed of tiny ice crystals are only visible at astronomical dusk, when the sun is just below the horizon, but the clouds are still illuminated by sunlight. Below the blue clouds, the lower part of the atmosphere exudes the iconic reddish color of the sunset. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, February 12, 2020: The planetary nebula NGC 2392, also known as the "Eskimo Nebula", is the colored remains of a star that died about 4,200 light years from Earth, leaving behind an intricate layer A bright sphere composed of shapes and patterns. The star did not die from a supernova explosion, but burned all of its fuel, causing it to cool, expand, and shed its outer layers. This image combines data collected through NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013, and citizen scientist Kevin Gill recently reprocessed the image to show the detailed structure of the nebula. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, February 11, 2020: The Antares rocket carrying Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-13 cargo spacecraft prepares for an almost super-snowy moon at NASA’s Wallops Facility in Virginia Down launch. The cargo replenishment mission was originally scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station on Sunday (February 9), but due to abnormal data from ground support equipment, NASA suspended the launch at the last minute. It is now scheduled to launch before 4:05 PM Eastern Time (2105 GMT) on Thursday (February 13). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, February 10, 2020: The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida on an Atlas V rocket to perform a historic mission to study the poles of the sun. Last night at 11:03 pm Eastern Time (0403 GMT), the Atlas V rocket successfully launched the solar orbiter from Space Launch Center 41. This time-lapse photograph shows its bending into space path. In the next 20 months, the solar orbiter will perform a series of gravity-assisted maneuvers, first flying from Venus and the Earth, and then heading to the interior of the solar system, where it will study the sun at close range and capture unprecedented images of our star’s poles. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, February 7, 2020: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to discover a relatively new crater on this red planet. Although low-resolution images can help scientists identify craters on the surface of Mars, high-resolution images like these can help them determine the age of the craters. For example, radial features called "rays" extend outward from the center of a crater, indicating that the crater is relatively young, as these features usually erode over time. The so-called "jet blanket" of black basalt (shown in blue here) formed a splash-like pattern near the impact site. NASA estimates that the crater at Valles Marineris was created sometime between February and July 2005. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, February 6, 2020: In an aerial shot by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, the Soyuz MS-13 crew module carrying three astronauts home from the International Space Station landed on On the snowy grassland of Kazakhstan. The capsule landed at 4:12 am Eastern Time today (0912 GMT or 3:12 pm local time). NASA’s record-breaking astronaut Christina Koch and European Space Agency astronaut Lu Capamitano and Russian astronaut Alexander Skvortsov. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, February 5, 2020: After successfully launching 60 Starlink satellites on January 29, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster landed vertically on the company's unmanned ship in the Atlantic Ocean, "Of course I still love you." This is the third launch and landing of this reusable rocket booster, and SpaceX's 49th recovery of the Falcon 9 booster. This launch brings the total number of SpaceX's Starlink satellites to 240. The company has obtained permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch up to 12,000 Internet satellites, but this number may increase to 30,000. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, February 4, 2020: On Friday (January 31), the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft drifted away from the International Space Station after ground controllers used the Canadaarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station to send it out . Although most of the departing cargo ships returned to Earth directly after completing their mission to the space station and burned out in our planet’s atmosphere, this cargo ship named SS Alan Bean still has a task to solve before its fiery demise. It will spend about a month in orbit to deploy a series of small satellites that will conduct various scientific experiments in space. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, February 3, 2020: In this photo from the La Sila Observatory in Chile, the two brightest planets in the night sky, Venus and Jupiter, meet in front of the gleaming core of the Milky Way. Zdenek Bardon, the photo ambassador of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), spent three nights trying to capture this image of the planets meeting in late November, because clouds and humidity partially blocked the view. Due to the high altitude, La Sila Observatory usually has clear skies and low humidity; it is located on a mountain in the Atacama Desert at an altitude of nearly 8,000 feet (2,400 meters). Although Baden may be unlucky because you have to wait a few days to see the clear sky, this stunning photo is worth the wait! — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, January 31, 2020: Three NASA astronauts peek out from an external camera on the International Space Station through the windows of the International Space Station Dome Observatory. From left, all the flight engineers Christina Koch, Jessica Mayer and Andrew Morgan of Expedition 61 are preparing for the arrival of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-12 cargo spacecraft. The cargo spacecraft arrived at the orbital laboratory on November 4, 2019. The Cygnus spacecraft just left the space station this morning and embarked on a one-month secondary mission to deploy small experiments in orbit before it burns in the Earth’s atmosphere. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, January 30, 2020: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Center 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida, on Wednesday (January 29) for its evolving satellite Internet constellation Provide 60 new Starlink satellites. This reusable rocket was successfully launched and landed for the third time in this mission named Starlink 3. SpaceX managed to "catch" half of it with a net-waving boat named "Ms. Tree" Payload fairing. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, January 29, 2020: The picture shows NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan working outside the International Space Station to complete the restoration of a dark matter experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer during a spacewalk on January 25 . He and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Palmitano spent 6 hours and 16 minutes working outside the orbital laboratory. This was their fourth spacewalk to repair the $2 billion experiment. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday. January 28, 2020: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, the vibrant gray-green aurora illuminates the upper atmosphere of the Earth. This photo was taken on January 22, when the station was operating 261 miles (420 kilometers) above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North America. Beneath the northern lights is a layer of jam-colored airglow, which is a kind of light caused by ultraviolet rays that triggers a chemical reaction in the upper part of the earth's atmosphere. On the other hand, auroras are produced when charged particles from the sun ionize or excite particles in the atmosphere, and they only appear near the north and south poles of our planet. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, January 27, 2020: In this new view of the Hubble Space Telescope, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1022 shows off its dark red dusty tendrils. Although most barred spiral galaxies have a distinct stellar bar at the center, the bar inside NGC 1022 is more difficult to identify. To discover faint features, look for the rotating arms that emerge from both ends. Hubble took this image of NGC 1022 as part of the black hole study, which is located at the center of most (if not all) spiral galaxies like this galaxy. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, January 24, 2020: A new satellite view of the Taal volcano that erupted in the Philippines on January 12 shows that an island is now completely covered by thick volcanic ash. The volcanic eruption on Luzon Island blew ash from 9 miles (14 kilometers) into the air, and strong winds blew large amounts of ash into neighboring areas, especially the Agungsilo area that is visible to the southwest of Taal Volcano. The European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission obtained this photo of the area on Thursday (January 23). — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, January 23, 2020: In this stunning long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Christina Koch on the International Space Station, light trails traverse the earth as star trails hover overhead. On the top of the frame is the solar panel of the space station. Below, lightning is scattered on the surface of the earth, while orange aura illuminates the atmosphere. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, January 22, 2020: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to conduct an unmanned flight suspension test on the company's manned dragon spacecraft. The mission was launched on Sunday (January 19) and conducted an important test of the capsule's emergency suspension system, which will take the astronauts to safety in the event of a problem during the launch. The Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully separated from the Falcon 9 rocket (destroyed during the test) during the flight, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean about 9 minutes after liftoff. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, January 21, 2020: In this new view of Gum 26, the star-forming region of the Milky Way, colorful stars gleam in a sea of ​​cosmic dust and gas. Located in the constellation Vela, 20,000 light-years from the Earth, Gum 26 is a hydrogen-rich emission nebula, also known as the H II region, where collapsing dust and gas clumps are actively forming new stars. This new image of the stellar nursery was taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, January 17, 2020: In this photo, the Ariane 5 rocket rises from between the silhouettes of two palm trees into the cloud-covered night sky of Kuru, French Guiana. Photo of Liana Aerospace's first launch this year. After the rocket was launched from the Guyana Space Center at 6:05 pm local time (4:05 pm Eastern Time or 2105 GMT), it served as the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization yesterday (January 16). And the Indian Space Research Organization launched two communications satellites. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, January 16, 2020: In this photo taken by NASA photographer Ben Smegelsky, the full moon of January rises from behind the NASA aircraft assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the right side of the vehicle assembly building is the mobile launcher, which NASA will use to launch its new space launch system rocket and Orion crew spacecraft. The agency plans to return astronauts to the moon in 2024. — Hanneke Weitering

Wednesday, January 15, 2020: The arc of the Milky Way forms a glowing dome above Residencia at the European Southern Observatory. Residencia is the hotel for astronomers and appeared in the James Bond movie "Quantum Comfort." Residencia is located on the top of Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert, where the Paranal Observatory is located. There are also two adjacent galaxies in this photo, called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, which are located below the gleaming arc of the Milky Way. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, January 14, 2020: Earth is not the only planet with a cold North Pole. This image of the North Pole of Mars taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter shows that part of the planet’s polar ice cap is crimson troughs and depressions, indicating that strong winds have been blowing in the area. Although there is no snow on Mars, storm clouds can bring dust into the atmosphere, causing erosion, and changing the appearance of the landscape over time. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, January 13, 2020: In this photo taken by Stojan Stojanovski on Friday (January 10), the full moon rises from the icy mountains of Macedonia. Stojanovsky captured this scene of the rising moon near the town of Kuratika, shortly before the penumbra lunar eclipse cast a subtle shadow on the surface of the moon. (See the lunar eclipse photos in this Space.com gallery.) — Hanneke Weitering

Friday, January 10, 2020: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, dense brown smoke from the Australian bushfires spread across the Tasman Sea. This photo was taken on January 4, when the station was operating 269 miles (433 kilometers) above the Tasman Sea. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, January 9, 2020: New images show that the Swan Nebula is one of the largest and brightest star-forming regions in the Milky Way, and it has only recently formed the bird-shaped cloud we see today. This composite image of the Swan Nebula combines data from NASA’s flying telescope SOFIA (Infrared Astronomy Stratosphere Observatory), NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Telescope. In this image, astronomers discovered nine new protostars, regions where dust and gas collapsed to form new stars. They were able to determine the age of different features in the nebula. 

A NASA official said in a statement: “The central region is the oldest, most evolved, and probably the first to be formed.” “Then the northern region was formed, and the southern region was the youngest. Although the northern region was more advanced than the southern region. The area is old, but the radiation and stellar winds of previous generations of stars disturbed the material there, preventing it from collapsing to form the next generation." — Hanneck Wettering

Wednesday, January 8, 2020: In this long exposure photo launched on Monday (January 6), the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flew into space with the company's 60 Starlink Internet satellites. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida at 9:19 PM Eastern Time (Tuesday at 0219 GMT) and then returned to Earth for a drone landing, marking this special assistance. The thruster flew for the fourth time. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, January 7, 2020: This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the huge spiral galaxy UGC 2885, which may be the largest known galaxy in the local universe. UGC 2885 is located in the constellation Perseus, 232 million light-years away from the Earth. Its width is approximately 2.5 times that of the Milky Way, and it contains 10 times the number of stars. However, it is a relatively quiet galaxy, and the formation rate of new stars is only half that of the new stars in the Milky Way. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, January 6, 2020: With the annual quadrant meteor shower over the Earth this weekend, NASA astronaut Christina Koch (Christina Koch) captured several meteors in the world A scene of burning in the atmosphere below the space station. At the same time, the bright gray-green aurora illuminates the distant sky, and there is a soft orange aura. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, January 3, 2020: In this photo taken by Yuri Beletsky, an astrophotographer of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the green and yellow aura together with the gleaming core of the Milky Way is The telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile provides a beautiful backdrop. The telescope in the picture is one of the four small auxiliary telescopes of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Array. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, January 2, 2020: In this photo taken from the International Space Station, a vivid green atmosphere covers the upper atmosphere of the earth under the starry night sky. An astronaut took this picture on December 29, when the station was orbiting about 260 miles (420 kilometers) above northern Iran as the orbital laboratory was about to pass the Caspian Sea. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, January 1, 2020: The Hubble Space Telescope used its advanced sky survey camera to capture a magnificent view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4455 in the constellation Coma or Berenice's Hair. The image was released on December 30. The galaxy is 45 million light-years away, and its home constellation is the only star pattern named after a real person in history: Queen Berenice II of Egypt.

According to ESA, Berenice was the queen of the ancient Greek city Cyrene (in current Libya) and later ruled Egypt after marrying her cousin Ptolemy III Euergetes. In order for Ptolemy to return safely from the battlefield, she offered a lock of her hair to the gods. — Tariq Malik

Tuesday, December 31, 2019: In this stunning image from NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting the largest planet in the solar system, the vortex cloud band on Jupiter is churning. This image is an enhanced view of citizen scientist Björn Jónsson, who processed images taken by Juno’s JunoCam on November 3, when the spacecraft was 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud top. 

Small "pop-up" storms can be seen above the brighter areas in the clouds. According to NASA's description, they are most visible on the right. — Tariq Malik

Monday, December 30, 2019: In this dazzling photo of photographer Yuri Beletsky released by the European Southern Observatory on December 30, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert The sky above the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory is shining with colors. In the foreground is one of the auxiliary telescopes (ATs) of the European Southern Observatory), used to form the Very Large Telescope (VLT), bathed in a weird yellow-green light, while the Milky Way is shining overhead. — Tariq Malik

Friday, December 27, 2019: This view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows cosmic snowflakes, a complex structure that forms part of the so-called Christmas tree cluster. "The newly discovered newborn star has pink and red spots in the center. It seems to be formed at regular intervals along a linear structure. Its structure is similar to the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of snowflakes. Therefore, astronomers nicknamed it the United States. NASA officials explained in the image description, "Snowflake Cluster." The Spitzer Space Telescope is an infrared space observatory. —Tariq Malik

Thursday, December 26, 2019: A dazzling video of the first stage engine of the Russian proton rocket launching the Electro-L 3 weather satellite into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 24, 2019. Christmas Eve is released here, as well as an overview of the mission. — Tariq Malik

Wednesday, December 25, 2019: In this stunning photo taken by European Space Agency astronaut Luca Palmitano on the International Space Station, the Earth is a snowy winter wonderland. Palmitano took this photo on Christmas Eve (December 24), posted it on Twitter, and sent a holiday message to everyone. 

"Winter landscape: the moon rises from the snow-covered world," he wrote. Palmitano commanded the expedition 61 crew of the space station. You can see their Christmas and holiday video messages from space here! — Tariq Malik

Tuesday, December 24, 2019: The spiral galaxy IC 2051, seen in the Hubble Space Telescope image, is shaped like a flying saucer with a cluster of stars in the center of its flat disk. This type of galaxy uplift is thought to affect the growth of supermassive black holes lurking in the centers of most spiral galaxies, and they play a key role in the evolution of galaxies. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, December 23, 2019: Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner popped out of its heat shield as it parachuted to Earth before its historic landing on Sunday (December 22). At 7:58 AM Eastern Time (1258 GMT), after only about 48 hours in space, the unmanned capsule landed safely at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It was originally scheduled to land six days after visiting the International Space Station, but due to an anomaly during the launch process, it entered the wrong orbit, and Starliner never reached the orbital laboratory. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, December 20, 2019: This morning, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Below (from left to right), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (left), ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno and NASA Director Jim Bridenstine at NASA Kennedy Space Central observation. The flight proceeded as planned, until about 15 minutes after liftoff, Starliner was unable to complete its orbital combustion due to an abnormality. Starliner was originally scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on Saturday (December 21), but now it will land early on Sunday (December 22) without reaching the space station. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, December 19, 2019: NASA scientists discovered a glowing gas cloud that looked like a lollipop near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. "Lollipops" are about 190 light-years long and contain ionized gas that emits radio waves. Astronomers discovered it using an instrument called the Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2mm Observer, or GISMO, and the radio telescope on Pico Veleta, Spain. You can view the fully annotated version of this image here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, December 18, 2019: The Arianespace Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Guyana Space Center in French Guiana to carry the latest exoplanet hunting satellite of the European Space Agency. The Characterize Exoplanet Satellites (CHEOPS) mission was launched at 3:54 am today (5:54 am local time; 0854 GMT) and will study the alien world to learn more about their characteristics and determine Which (if any) may be hospitable to alien life. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, December 17, 2019: Jupiter becomes psychedelic in this new full-scale image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Citizen scientist Prateek Sarpal created this view of Jupiter using data collected by the orbiter's JunoCam instrument on September 12 during his 22nd perijove or close approach. Sarpal named this creation "Extreme Heart, Thought Camera". You can download and edit more stylish Jupiter art and original images from Juno for free in NASA's JunoCam portal. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, December 16, 2019: In this photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the interstellar comet Borisov appears to be facing a distant spiral galaxy. Hubble took this picture on December 12, when the interstellar comet was passing through the inner solar system. At that time, the celestial body was approximately 260 million miles (420 million kilometers) away from Earth, and the unnamed background galaxy (officially named 2MASX J10500165-0152029) was nearly 5 billion light-years away from Earth. Since Hubble is tracking the motion of the comet, which shuttles through space at a speed of approximately 109,000 mph (175,000 km/h), the galaxy looks blurry. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, December 13, 2019: In this photo taken by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite, green algae hovering in the Baltic Sea. Green comes from chlorophyll in phytoplankton, or tiny plants floating on the water. Chlorophyll makes these algae visible from space, allowing satellites to track these tiny creatures. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, December 12, 2019: In this deep-sky image taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, thick interstellar dust and gas clouds penetrate into the star-forming region RCW 36, also known as Gum 20. RCW 36 is located in the constellation Vela (Sail) about 2,300 light-years away from the Earth. It is part of a larger star-forming complex called Vela Molecular Ridge. Astronomers use an instrument called a focal length attenuator and low dispersion spectrometer (FORS) on the VLT to capture this image of RCW 36. Some parts of the image are covered with dust and gas, and the background light cannot pass through. These dark areas are the most abundant areas of star formation. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, December 11, 2019: When SpaceX's Dragon CRS-19 cargo supply ship approaches the International Space Station, astronauts use Canadaarm2 robotic arms to reach out and grab the upcoming spacecraft. The "Dragon" docking with the station on Sunday (December 8) carried more than 5,700 pounds. (2,585 kg) Supplies and scientific experiments for the crew of Expedition 61. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, December 10, 2019: Scientists pieced together this portrait of the galaxy named NGC 3175 using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's wide-angle camera3. The galaxy gave its clumsy name to a group of neighbors our own galaxy group, the local group, which astronomers think is very similar. But NGC 3175 and its companions are about 50 million light-years away from us. —— Megan Bartles

Monday, December 9, 2019: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster triumphantly returned to Port Canaveral, Florida on December 7, 2019, and launched a dragon cargo ship for NASA's CRS-19 mission two days later . This Falcon 9 rocket flew for the first time during the CRS-19 mission. It was launched from Space Launch Complex-40 on December 5, and then returned to Earth for a precise landing on the SpaceX unmanned spacecraft Of Course I Still Love You. The mission "Dragon" capsule entered space for the third time. It arrived at the station on Sunday, December 8. --Tariq Malik

Friday, December 6, 2019: In this color photo taken at the La Sila Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, a meteor passes across the Milky Way, taken by the European Southern Observatory's photo ambassador Babak Tafreshi. The starry night sky and the orange airglow near the horizon are reflected in the mirror of the Swedish-European Southern Observatory's submillimeter telescope. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, December 5, 2019: Wildfires have been raging in southern and eastern Australian states since October. New images from NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP weather satellite show billowing fires near the coast of New South Wales. Thick smoke. NASA officials said in a statement that another Suomi-NPP image taken in November showed smoke from Australian wildfires sweeping across the South Atlantic, and the smoke has since spread to half of the world. The satellite obtained this image at 2:45 pm local time on Wednesday (December 4). At that time, there were 116 burning bush and grass fires in New South Wales alone. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, December 4, 2019: European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano (Luca Parmitano) passes through Venezuela's Barraguana Peninsula while working outside the International Space Station on Monday (December 2). This is the third spacewalk conducted by Palmitano and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan. The spacewalk duo has been working hard to repair the particle detector experiment outside the space station, called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, December 3, 2019: In this night sky photo taken by European Southern Observatory photographer Petr Horálek, the Milky Way and one of its cosmic neighbors twinkle over the La Sila Observatory in Chile. That galactic neighbor is a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Directly below it is the 7-foot (2.2 m) MPG-ESO telescope, which scans the universe for high-energy gamma-ray bursts, or the most powerful explosions. universe. The smaller telescope on the left is the 3-foot (1 meter) Schmidt telescope, which has studied galaxies, star clusters, dwarf planets, and supernovae for nearly 50 years. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, December 2, 2019: In this image of the north pole of Mars, spiral grooves of ice and dust revolve around the red planet’s polar ice cap. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill created this map using images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter. In addition to the swirling ice patterns that scientists believe are created by wind, the image also shows a deep canyon called Chasma Boreale, which passes directly through the ice sheet. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, November 29, 2019: Although it is common for galaxies to coexist peacefully near the same universe, the two galaxies are a bit too close and uncomfortable. The galaxies NGC 6286 (right) and NGC 6285 (left), collectively referred to as Arp 293, pull strands of gas and dust out of the galaxy into interstellar space by pulling each other through strong gravitational forces. This causes the galaxy to look "blurred" and blurred from our perspective of the earth. The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of this pair of galaxies, located in the constellation Draco, more than 250 million light-years away from Earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, November 27, 2019: On November 22, NASA astronaut Drew Morgan held a special space camera outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk with European Space Agency astronaut Luca Pamitano Work. This is their second spacewalk together. They are dedicated to repairing a dark matter experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. The spacewalk duo will set off again on December 2 for their third spacewalk. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, November 26, 2019: Centaurus, about 135 million light-years away from Earth, is a bright emission line galaxy NGC 3749, as can be seen from the Hubble Space Telescope image. Astronomers can learn a lot about galaxies by studying the spectrum of galaxies, especially the wavelength of light emitted or absorbed by the elements it contains. The European Space Agency said in a statement that NGC 3749 shows a strong emission line, which means it is "exploding with star formation and vibrant newborn stars." — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 25, 2019: On November 21, NASA’s Orion spacecraft was loaded on the belly of the Super Guppy aircraft on the runway of the launch and landing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will perform the first Artemis mission and will be transported to NASA's Meihuaxi Station in Sandusky, Ohio for testing. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, November 22, 2019: European Space Agency astronaut Luca Palmitano "stands on" the end of the Canadaarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station during the first of four spacewalks, with NASA Astronaut Drew Morgan repaired the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment together. 15. The spacewalk duo are here again today; they set off at 7:02 am Eastern Time (1200 GMT) this morning for the second spacewalk, which is expected to last approximately 6.5 hours. You can watch it live on Space.com. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, November 21, 2019: The spiral galaxy NGC 772 can be seen in new images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It has some striking similarities with the Milky Way we call home. It has spiral arms and glows. Core and dark dust belt. But there are some key differences between NGC 772 and the Milky Way. 

On the one hand, NGC 772 does not have the rod-like structure of stars straddling the center of the Milky Way. According to NASA, NGC 772 is classified as a peculiar, rodless spiral galaxy, which means it is "somewhat strange in size, shape, or composition." NGC 772 is located in the constellation Aries, about 130 million light-years away from the Earth, and its size is about twice the size of the Milky Way. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, November 20, 2019: The debris shield that once protected NASA’s Alpha magnetic spectrometer from micrometeoroids was removed and thrown into by two astronauts during a spacewalk on November 15 Float out of space and leave the International Space Station. European Space Agency astronaut Luca Palmitano used special tools to remove 13 screws and 10 fasteners to release the debris shield. Then NASA astronaut Drew Morgan abandoned the shield and threw it to the earth , Burning in the atmosphere. This is the first of four spacewalks carried out by these two astronauts to repair a poorly-conditioned particle detector experiment, which was not designed to be served by astronauts in orbit, which makes these spacewalks The most challenging spacewalk ever. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, November 19, 2019: Babak Tafreshi, European Southern Observatory's photo ambassador, shines the Milky Way above the Visible and Infrared Astronomical Survey Telescope (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile in this stunning night sky view. Located on the top of a rocky mountain in the Atacama Desert, VISTA is the world’s largest telescope for measuring the sky under near-infrared light. Although the surrounding environment is barren, the altitude and surrounding environment of VISTA are very suitable for astronomy, and there is almost no cloud cover or light pollution affecting the field of vision. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 18, 2019: In this “space selfie” taken by European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano during a space walk last Friday (November 15), he The helmet visor reflects almost the entire view of the International Space Station. He and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan spent 6 hours and 39 minutes on a complex repair of a sick particle detector experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The two will begin the second of four spacewalks on Friday, November 22, when they will continue to study AMS. — Hanneck Wetlin

Related: The best astronaut selfies in space  

Friday, November 15, 2019: The moon’s “halo” illuminates the night sky above the 3.6-meter telescope at La Sila Observatory in Chile. This phenomenon occurs when the moon is about 22 degrees above the horizon, when light is refracted by the cold cirrus clouds. "The light that does this tends to'cluster' at the angle with the smallest deviation from the original path. For the special shape of the ice crystals lurking in the cirrus clouds, the minimum deviation angle is exactly 22 degrees," the European Southern Observatory official said in the description . — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, November 14, 2019: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad (front) Richard Gordon (left) and Alan Bean (top center) walk out of Astrovan and head to NASA, Florida The launch pad of the Kennedy Space Center launched on November 14, 1969. Today, 50 years ago, the launch of Apollo 12 kicked off NASA's second manned mission to the moon and the first precise lunar landing. Mission Commander Conrad and Bean, who were the pilots of the lunar module, landed their Dreadnought Lander during a short moonwalk on NASA's Surveyor 3 spacecraft. — Tariq Malik

Related: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 12 with these webcasts. More: Apollo 12: How the keen eyes of a passionate scientist led to the first precise moon landing 50 years ago  

Wednesday, November 13, 2019: Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft departed from the asteroid Ryugu last night and began its journey back to Earth. This is one of the photos of the Dragon Palace taken shortly after Hayabusa 2's departure. As the asteroid drifts farther in space, the spacecraft will continue to conduct "farewell observations" to it. It will return to Earth with a sample of the asteroid's surface at the end of next year. You can view Hayabusa2's latest images here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, November 12, 2019: Can you spot the tiny Mercury in this photo of the Sun? The European Space Agency’s Proba-2 satellite captured this image of Mercury transit yesterday at 10:43 AM Eastern Time (1543 GMT), about halfway through Mercury’s 5.5-hour journey through the solar disk. Hours later. The planet is shown as a black dot directly above and to the right of the center of the sun. Are you still trying to watch it? You can find more rare Mercury transit photos in this gallery. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 11, 2019: The tiny planet Mercury passes the sun's hot corona and enters its bright disk, marking the beginning of a rare transit of this planet this morning. The transit began at 7:35 a.m. Eastern Time (1235 GMT), when Mercury crossed the edge of the sun. It will take 5 hours and 28 minutes to travel across the surface of the sun today, and you can watch it online. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, November 8, 2019: When the Hubble Space Telescope turned its gaze to a distant galaxy called the "sunburst arc," it saw not one but 12 separate images of cosmic objects. That's because there is a huge cluster of galaxies in the foreground, which distorts the light with its strong gravity. This illusion is called a gravitational lens, and Albert Einstein first described this phenomenon in his general theory of relativity. A NASA official said in a statement: "This'amusement park mirror' effect not only stretches the background galaxy image, but also creates multiple images of the same galaxy." — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, November 7, 2019: In this composite image from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Jupiter looks like a giant swirling space marble. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill processed this image using data collected by Juno during its 23rd close flyby of Jupiter (called perijove) on Sunday (November 3). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, November 6, 2019: In this photo taken by expedition 61 astronauts, the Canadaarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station captured an upcoming Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The Cygnus spacecraft, named SS Alan Bean, arrived at the orbital laboratory on Monday (November 4), carrying approximately 8,200 pounds. (3,700 kg) supplies and scientific experiments for a crew of six. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, November 5, 2019: In this photo taken from inside the observatory by the photo ambassador of the European Southern Observatory Babak Tafreshi, the Milky Way is peeking through the opening of the VLT Sky Survey Telescope (VST). VST is located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It is the largest telescope on the planet and can observe the sky under visible light or electromagnetic radiation wavelengths visible to the human eye. In front and in the middle of this view is the OmegaCAM instrument, which can capture wide-field images up to 256 million pixels. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, November 4, 2019: After a successful launch pad suspension test this morning, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule floated back to Earth above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Today’s mission is an unmanned test of the spacecraft’s suspension system, which will take astronauts to safety in the event of an abnormal situation during launch. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, November 1, 2019: In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the spiral galaxy NGC 1706 may seem a bit isolated while drifting in the universe, but this lone galaxy does not lack neighbors. NGC 1706 belongs to a group of dozens of galaxies, all of which are connected by mutual gravity. It is located in the constellation Dorado, the swordfish, about 230 million light-years from the earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, October 31, 2019: Happy Halloween from space! This terrible space cloud is called "the ghost of Cassiopeia." The nebula is located in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 550 light-years from the Earth, and strong radiation from nearby stars is slowly causing its clouds to dissipate. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to take this photo released on Halloween last year​​. (This year, Hubble scientists released another special Halloween photo of space ghosts that look more creepy.) — Hanneke Weitering

Wednesday, October 30, 2019: The picture shows the Antares rocket that will launch the next batch of cargo to the International Space Station shortly after arriving at the launch pad this weekend (October 29). The rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft will take off from NASA's Wallops Facility in Virginia on Saturday, November 2. It weighs approximately 8,200 pounds. (3,700 kg) Supplies and scientific experiments for the crew of Expedition 61. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, October 29, 2019: In this magnificent view of the International Space Station, before sunrise, a small crescent moon flickers above the earth's blue horizon. NASA astronaut Christina Koch shared this photo in space on Monday (October 28), one day after the moon has reached a new stage. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, October 29, 2019: New images released by NASA’s InSight Mars lander over the weekend show that the spacecraft’s thermal probe (an instrument called a “mole”) is trying to penetrate Mars Encountered obstacles in the soil. The mole tried to detect a target depth of 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters) underground. It recently got help from a spoon on InSight's arm after being stuck in the mud. This operation helped the mole to move. However, new images from the cameras deployed by the InSight instrument show that the thermal probe appears to have jumped out of the hole and is now leaning to the side. NASA plans to provide an update on the mole situation sometime today. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, October 25, 2019: NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars for the past 7 years, took a new selfie on the red planet this month. The image is a panorama composed of 57 images taken by the Mars Handheld Lens Imager (MAHLI). The image is located at the camera at the end of the rover's robotic arm, and the rover's robotic arm is in all frames that make up the composite image. Invisible. When Curiosity took this selfie on October 11, it was exploring an area called "Glen Ative" within Gale Crater, where it had recently drilled two holes visible on the left. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, October 24, 2019: In this photo from the International Space Station, star trails hover above the earth, while bright lightning and city lights illuminate the surface and sky of the earth. The image was synthesized from more than 400 photos taken by NASA astronaut Christina Koch in 11 minutes, when the space station sailed from Namibia to the Red Sea. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, October 23, 2019: In this photo taken by astrophotographer Gerard Hüdepohl, the full moon shines over the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The observatory is located on the top of Paranal Mountain at 8,500 feet (2,600 meters) above sea level, where there are multiple telescope facilities. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) array and the VLT Survey Telescope are both visible on the top of the peak on the left side of this photo, and four smaller auxiliary telescopes are located on the top of the smaller peak on the right. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, October 22, 2019: On October 18, NASA astronauts Jessica Meyer and Christina Koch stopped to take selfies during her historic first all-female spacewalk. In the reflection on the mask of her spacesuit, you can see part of the exterior of the International Space Station and planet Earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Related: The best astronaut selfies in space  

Monday, October 21, 2019: A new perspective from NASA's Juno spacecraft shows a swirling jet stream in Jupiter's northern hemisphere. This dark vortex cloud belt is called "Jet N4." Juno captured this close-up photo during a flyby on September 11, when the spacecraft was about 7,540 miles (12,140 kilometers) from the planet's cloud top. Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson created this enhanced image using data from the spacecraft JunoCam imager. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, October 18, 2019: The Milky Way shines above the four antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), the telescope array in northern Chile. These antennas are located at the ALMA array operating site near the Chajnantor Plateau, approximately 16,400 feet (5,000 meters) above sea level, the facility is one of the tallest man-made structures in the world. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, October 17, 2019: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, the first quarter moon rises from the thin blue atmosphere of the Earth. On October 5, when the moon was winding up, one of the six Expedition 61 crew members on board took this photo. It becomes a full moon on Sunday (October 13), and when it reaches the third quarter, the moon will be half-lit again on Monday (October 21). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, October 16, 2019: While capturing images of the Crab Nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope accidentally captured an asteroid in our solar system passing through the foreground. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant located in the constellation Taurus, approximately 6,300 light-years away from Earth. You can see an asteroid numbered 2001 SE101 across the screen from the lower left corner to the upper right corner of the image. German citizen scientist Melina Thévenot discovered asteroid light bombs in this 2005 Hubble image as part of the European Space Agency's "Hubble Asteroid Hunter" citizen science project. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, October 15, 2019: In this lucky photo from the La Sila Observatory in Chile, a mysterious bird and its seemingly huge claws take a view of the universe with an all-sky camera. The all-sky camera continuously transmits real-time views of the 1.54-meter telescope in Denmark, allowing online viewers to see the operation of the telescope and observe the Milky Way—and occasionally glimpses of local wildlife. Officials at the European Southern Observatory, which operates the telescope facility, have not yet been able to determine the species of birds that inhabit the all-sky camera, but they suspect it is a nocturnal bird of prey. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, October 8, 2019: This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3717, a dust vortex about 60 million light-years away. The galaxy is located in the direction of the constellation Hydra, Sea Serpent, and is tilted in this view, so Hubble can feel its spiral shape, but not in a side view. — Tariq Malik

Monday, October 7, 2019: Now this is an office with the ultimate vision. NASA astronaut Drew Morgan poses for a photo during a spacewalk on Sunday, October 6, to start an epic 10-time spacewalk marathon, replacing old batteries on the space station’s solar array grid with new batteries . 

Morgan was not alone in the spacewalk. NASA astronaut Christina Koch, as the head of EVA (extravehicular activities), ventured out with Morgan. She was wearing a red striped spacesuit and actually took this photo! (You can see Koch taking pictures in the reflection of Morgan's mask).

Read our full story here and get a summary of the spacewalk. The next EVA in the series will be held on Friday, October 11. — Tariq Malik

Friday, October 4, 2019: In this bird's-eye view of NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, three space station crews, including the first UAE astronaut, ride on their The Soyuz spacecraft landed and returned to Earth, and he took a helicopter to join the search and recovery team. On the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft are NASA astronaut Nick Hager, Russian astronaut Alexei Ovchinin, and the first astronaut of the United Arab Emirates Hazza Ali Almansuri. They landed in Kazakhstan at 6:59 am EST (1059 GMT or 4:59 pm local time) on Thursday (October 3). — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, October 3, 2019: In this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus bears the planet’s faint E ring. The E ring is one of the outermost rings of Saturn. Scientists believe that it is composed of geysers on Enceladus and ice droplets ejected from plumes. The Cassini captured the data from this image on March 15, 2017, exactly six months before its mission ended with an epic crash on Saturn. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill recently processed this image using red, green, and blue filtered images from the Cassini narrow-angle camera. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, October 2, 2019: In new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, huge “bubbles” of dust and gas burst as new stars form. According to NASA, each of these bubbles contains hundreds of thousands of stars. The shape of these cosmic bubbles comes from stellar wind radiation emitted by massive young stars, which can push the cloud's material outwards, causing it to "expand" or expand. 

As part of the Milky Way Project, citizen scientists helped NASA map these bubbles, which is mapping star formation across the Milky Way. You can find an annotated version of the image here, which points out all the different bubbles. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, October 1, 2019: In this new image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a spiral galaxy with gas "tentacles" swims across the South Pole Triangle constellation. The galaxy named ESO 137-001 is stripping hot gas as it travels through space, where interstellar gas clouds pull matter out of the galaxy through a process called ram-pressure stripping. This will form a long trajectory behind the galaxy, stretching 260,000 light years. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, September 30, 2019: In the remote Chilean Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is laying the groundwork for what will soon become the world's largest ground-based telescope. The telescope called the Very Large Telescope (ELT) will have a primary mirror with a diameter of 129 feet (39.3 m), a 14-foot (4.2 m) secondary mirror, and a 12-foot (3.75 m). Workers are currently constructing foundations for the huge observatory, which will have a dome-shaped enclosure that is 243 feet (74 m) high. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, September 27, 2019: What may look like a large, bright smudge in this Hubble Space Telescope image is the dwarf galaxy Messier 110. It is located in the constellation Andromeda and is a satellite of the spiral-shaped Andromeda Galaxy. Messier 110 does not have the same spiral structure, but a smooth and featureless structure. But Messier 110 is not the only strange spot in this picture; there is a black spot near the center of the picture, which is a cluster of interstellar dust and gas. Another dark cloud appeared directly above the bright core of Messier 110. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, September 26, 2019: The Suomi NPP weather satellite yesterday captured the scene of a huge sandstorm in Southern Africa. The coastal towns watched as the sky turned red from the thick dust and sand raised, and strong winds pushed these winds towards the Atlantic Ocean. 

Suomi NPP, jointly operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), watched the dust storm while flying over the scene at 2:25 pm local time (1225 GMT). NASA officials said in a statement that the area affected by the storm is located to the north and south of the Orange River, which is part of the border between Namibia and South Africa. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, September 24, 2019: In this incredible photo taken by NASA astronaut Christina Koch, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying three Expedition 61 crew members approaches On the International Space Station, she captured this scene from the window of the Orbital Laboratory. The crew took off on a Russian Soyuz rocket this morning and is expected to arrive at the space station at 3:45 pm Eastern Time (2045 GMT). — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, September 24, 2019: Soon after the rocket was erected on the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the arm of a mobile gantry was closed around the Soyuz rocket, which will launch three to the International Space Station. Expedition 61 crew members. On Wednesday (September 25), the rocket will be used in conjunction with NASA astronaut Jessica Mel, Russian astronaut Oleg Skripochka, and the first astronaut of the United Arab Emirates, Haza Ali Al Mansu. Launch the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft together. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, September 23, 2019: An astronomical observer gazes at the dusty core of the Milky Way in this gleaming photo taken on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This plateau is one of the highest and driest places on earth, and is a great place for stargazing. For this reason, it was selected as the site of the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, September 20, 2019: This view of the red planet is part of a larger image of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, showing bright clouds over the planet’s icy north pole, with darkness and darkness further south The dusty plains are in sharp contrast. Mars Express took this photo with its high-resolution stereo camera. Be sure to view the entire "slice" of Mars here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, September 19, 2019: In the magnificent view of the International Space Station, the city lights around the Nile River and its delta flicker at night. At about 1:00 a.m. local time on September 2, when Expedition 60 astronauts took this photo, the International Space Station was flying 255 miles (410 kilometers) above the border between Sudan and Egypt. — Hanneke Weitering

Wednesday, September 18, 2019: In this photo taken by European Space Agency (ESA) photographer Alessandro Mancini, a brilliant aurora appears to be studied from Concordia, Antarctica The glowing green plume of smoke from the station rose. 

"I looked away from the horizon and dusk. There was a streak in the sky that was not the Milky Way. At first it was just a white cloud, but there is no doubt-the green is visible, the curtains-like the waves in the sky are unmistakable. ," Nadja Albertsen, ESA’s on-site doctor, wrote in a blog post after witnessing the aurora at the remote research station. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, September 17, 2019: In this photo taken from the International Space Station, a thin middle layer of cloud illuminates the Earth's atmosphere. European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano (Luca Parmitano) tweeted this photo from space and wrote: "The mid-level clouds south of the Indian Ocean add color to the sunset." Mid-level clouds , Also known as luminous clouds, form 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 kilometers) above the earth's surface. At this altitude, water vapor can freeze into ice crystal clouds. In comparison, the average height of the orbit of the International Space Station is 250 miles (400 kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, September 16, 2019: In this photo taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, the faint galaxy UGC 695 twinkles in deep space. UGC 695 is located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (sea monster). It is considered a low-surface-brightness galaxy, which means that it is darker than the background of the Earth's atmosphere, making it difficult to observe. Although galaxies like this do not contain as many stars as their brighter galaxies, they are rich in dark matter. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, September 13, 2019: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galactic neighbors of the Milky Way, obtained a new close-up from this image taken by the VISTA telescope of the European Southern Observatory at the Paranal Observatory in Chile . VISTA stands for Astronomical Visible Light and Infrared Survey Telescope, and has been studying this dwarf galaxy and its smaller sibling, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) for the past decade, imaging these two galaxies with unprecedented detail. The LMC is about 163,000 light-years away from the earth, while the SMC is slightly further away, 200,000 light-years away from the earth. Both are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, September 12, 2019: In this infrared view of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's South Pole looks a little disturbing. At the center of a 5,000-mile (8,000-kilometer) wide storm, there is a weird red "eye" that looks similar to the eye of a hurricane on Earth. However, this strange vortex behaves differently from hurricanes on our planet. Its cloudy ring rises 20 to 45 miles (30 to 75 kilometers) above the center of the storm. Cassini captured this photo from Saturn's orbit in 2006, and citizen scientist Kevin Gill reprocessed it using near-infrared filtered images. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, September 11, 2019: After the terrorist attack on New York City on September 11, 18 years ago, the Landsat 7 satellite of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) captured this image from space. In this image obtained by the satellite's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument on September 12, 2001, a plume of smoke can be seen rising from Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center was destroyed. You can see more pictures of satellites and astronauts from the plume from space here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, September 10, 2019: The group of sparkling stars captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is an irregular dwarf galaxy named UGC 685. Although its shape may be difficult to discern at first glance, UGC 685 is a rodless spiral galaxy. It is located in Pisces, about 15 million light-years away from Earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, September 9, 2019: When NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flew over the Schroter Crater on the red planet, it captured some interesting views of the small craters at the bottom of the crater. The two impact craters shown here are located within Schroth Crater, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) wide, and they contain some complex dune structures at the bottom of their crater. These Martian dunes are formed by wind and are very similar to the way that sand dunes on Earth are formed. — Hanneck Wetlin  

Friday, September 6, 2019: From this astronaut's perspective on Earth from space, bright turquoise ripples on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea shortly after Hurricane Dorian crossed the Bahamas. On Wednesday (September 4), European Space Agency astronaut Luca Palmitano tweeted on the International Space Station: "It's only a few miles from the storm, and the Caribbean is very quiet." To view photos of Hurricane Dorian from space , Please check out this Space.com gallery. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, September 5, 2019: In this image from the GOES-16 weather satellite, four tropical cyclones sweep across the Western Hemisphere at the same time. When GOES-16 captured data on this natural-color composite material on Wednesday (September 4), Hurricane Dorian in the Atlantic and Hurricane Juliet in the Pacific were both Category 2 storms. Since then, Hurricane Dorian has intensified into a Category 3 storm. At the same time, Tropical Storm Fernand has made landfall in northeastern Mexico, and Tropical Storm Gabriel is intensifying over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. You can view a higher resolution full version of this image here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, September 4, 2019: In this new view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3351, huge bubbles of hot gas erupt from the galaxy's nucleus. These bubbles can affect the formation of new stars in the interstellar medium, or the space between stars in galaxies. This process of redistributing mass and energy in star-forming galaxies is called "stellar feedback," and it is the driving force for the evolution of galaxies. 

This particular galaxy, also known as Messier 95, is located in the constellation Leo, about 33 million light-years away from Earth. Astronomers took this picture using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chilean Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, September 3, 2019: Hurricane Dorian hovering from the east coast of Florida in this photo seen from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Christina Koch shared this photo of the storm during the Labor Day holiday yesterday (September 2), when she and her Expedition 60 crew took a day off. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, August 30, 2019: In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a planetary nebula is located in the constellation Centaurus, about 10,000 light years away. The planetary nebula is the last stage of the life of a red giant because it ejects a layer of ionized gas and the star's core collapses on its own. Observing planetary nebulae gives us a glimpse of the future of the sun. — Passant Rabbi

Thursday, August 29, 2019: The European Space Agency's deep space antenna faces space, waiting for signals from an ongoing mission. The antenna is located in Western Australia and provides daily support for missions orbiting Mars, the Gaia Observatory, and Europe’s first mission to Mercury, BepiColombo. — Passant Rabbi

Wednesday, August 28, 2019: Astronaut Christina Koch took an image of the SpaceX Dragon capsule flying over the Canadian Rockies on its way back to Earth. The spacecraft set off from the International Space Station on August 27, bringing a large number of scientific experiments and other equipment to Earth for analysis by NASA staff. — Passant Rabbi

Tuesday, August 27, 2019: As the devastating fire continues to sweep the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, astronaut Luca Parmitano captured the grim picture of the International Space Station smog. Palmitano posted these pictures on Twitter on August 26, saying that thick smoke could be seen thousands of kilometers away from the man-made fire. According to the Brazilian Space Research Center (INPE), this year’s Amazon fire reached a record high, an increase of about 80% over the previous dry season. — Passant Rabbi

Monday, August 26, 2019: The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of a dying star, with its outer layers peeling off and launching them into space. This stellar object initially confused astronomers, who recorded the star as two objects instead of one due to the symmetrical lobes on both sides. However, these lobes are formed by expanding clouds of material that spread outward in the opposite direction, with the star in the center. — Passant Rabbi

Friday, August 23, 2019: Astronaut Luca Parmitano (Luca Parmitano) captured a magnificent view of the African continent from the International Space Station, marveling at the "skin of the earth." This picture shows red clay in Africa, a clay rich in iron and aluminum that covers most of the African continent. (However, Palmitano did not specify which part of Africa he flew over.)-Passant Rabbi

Thursday, August 22, 2019: Several fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, devastating the ongoing fight against climate change. Environmentalists blamed the fire on people who wanted to create more space for agricultural land. However, according to the Brazilian Space Research Center (INPE), this year’s fires have reached the highest level in history, an increase of about 80%. On August 11, NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture of the Brazil fire, which was seen from space. — Passant Rabie

Wednesday, August 21, 2019: Two years ago today, a rare coast-to-coast solar eclipse swept across the continental United States. Millions of spectators from Oregon to South Carolina briefly turned day into night. Photographer Petr Horálek of the European Southern Observatory created this stunning composite image of the moon and the sun by combining multiple exposures of different durations. The moon is illuminated by the light reflected by the earth, and some pink prominences can be seen on its edge. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, August 20, 2019: In this new close-up photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, Jupiter's Great Red Spot and several smaller storms are presented in intricate details. Astronomers used images from the telescope's wide-angle camera 3 to stitch together a flat, stretched map of the entire planet. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, August 19, 2019: Can you spot meteors in the Milky Way? After taking this photo of the night sky in Mount Rainier, Washington on July 30, astrophotographer Tony Corso was surprised to find a tiny trail of a meteor near the center of this photo. Look for short streaks on the right edge of the dusty band of the Milky Way. 

This meteor is likely to be a member of the Aquarius meteor shower in the Southern Delta or the Alpha Capricornus meteor shower, both of which peaked at the end of July. It may also be a Perseid meteor, although the shower did not reach its peak until about two weeks later. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, August 16, 2019: In this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, the top-down view that looks like a jellyfish glowing in deep space is actually the planetary nebula NGC 2022. The cosmic sphere of ionized gas is located at its center from a dying red giant star. When the star throws matter into space, its core shrinks and becomes hotter, while emitting ultraviolet radiation, illuminating its gas shell. — Hanneck 

Thursday, August 15, 2019: In this time-lapse image of the South American solar eclipse on July 2, the sun sets from behind the Andes, and the moon passes directly in front of it, forming a ring in the evening sky. Stunning “diamond ring” effect. Astrophotographer Chirag Upreti used his images taken in Bellavista, Argentina to create this composite image.

"The whole thing happens about 11 degrees above the horizon, which is emotionally exciting to the naked eye, especially because it forms a beautiful connection with the earth so close to the horizon," Upretti told Space.com . — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, August 14, 2019: In this image of the starry sky taken by astrophotographer Omid Qadrdan during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, two meteors traverse the night sky near the Milky Way's nearest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. In this photo, you can also see Messier 110, a tiny satellite of Andromeda, which appears as a fuzzy "star" above and to the left of the galaxy's bright core. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, August 13, 2019: In this fisheye view of Stojan Stojanovski, several bright Perseid meteors dash across the sky near a wildfire in Macedonia. He took this photo during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower last night. In what appears to be a circle of smoke, the Milky Way is faintly visible behind four bright meteors, and a smaller meteor can be seen in the distance. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, August 12, 2019: In this color night sky photo taken by astrophotographer Petr Horálek, the arc of the Milky Way is shown by the Visible Light and Infrared Astronomical Survey Telescope (VISTA) at the European Southern Observatory at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. ) Glitters above. Almost invisible at the top of the mountain in the background is the European Southern Observatory's very large telescope array. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, August 9, 2019: In the universe about 3,400 light years away from the Earth, there is a bird-shaped cloud of dust and gas called the Seagull Nebula or Sharpless 2-296. The VLT survey telescope of the European Southern Observatory at the Paranal Observatory in Chile captured this new view of the cosmic seagull, which is rich in new star formation. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, August 8, 2019: To commemorate International Cat Day, today we shared an iconic image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a cosmic cloud of dust and gas with three shapes resembling a “toe bean”. Different characteristics. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory used data from the second digital sky survey in 2010 to create this image of the nebula. You can view more photos of the Cat's Paw Nebula here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, August 7, 2019: During a recent test of NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, an engineer photographed the telescope’s huge primary mirror reflector from the telescope’s smaller secondary mirror. Photo. If you look closely, you can see that part of the secondary mirror is reflected from the golden panel that forms the primary mirror of the telescope. This photo was taken during a test run by NASA engineers on the mechanism for deploying the secondary mirror support structure. After the telescope is launched into space, it must perform a series of operations to "unfold" all its components. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, August 6, 2019: NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars today seven years ago and took this selfie on the way to Mount Sharp, a mountain located 3 miles (5 kilometers) in the middle of Gale Crater . When Curiosity arrived on the red planet in 2012, it landed in the same crater. Since then, it has traveled more than 13 miles (21 kilometers), stopping along the way to drill everywhere on the surface of Mars. In this photo, you can see two drill holes near the base of the rover. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, August 5, 2019: In this new view of NASA's Juno spacecraft, Jupiter's Great Red Spot and a smaller Jupiter storm hover over Jupiter's southern equatorial belt. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill created this view using data collected by the spacecraft JunoCam imager during a close flyby on July 21. At that time, Juno was about 26,697 miles (42,965 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud top. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, August 2, 2019: In this Hubble Space Telescope image, what looks like a long and narrow star is actually a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. From our position in the universe, we can see the edge of this galaxy. This galaxy named NGC 3432 is located in the constellation Leo Minor, about 45 million light-years away from Earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, August 1, 2019: The medal from the European Astronaut Center floats in microgravity in front of the Earth's windows of the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Luca Palmitano posted this photo from space on Twitter this morning. Parmitano said that the medal was launched with all European astronauts, adding that this tradition began after his first mission in 2013. He returned to the orbital laboratory on July 20. "I took it with me for the first time-proudly-for the first time," he said. — Hanneck Wettering

Wednesday, July 31, 2019: In this stunning photo by astrophotographer Tony Corso, a meteor, Jupiter, and the Milky Way illuminate the sky over the snow-capped Mount Rainier in Washington State. Night sky. On July 29, he took this photo at the peak of two dueling meteor showers, namely the Aquarius meteor shower in the southern delta and the Alpha Capricorn meteor shower. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, July 30, 2019: Good morning from the International Space Station! NASA astronaut Nick Haig posted this almost full moon photo on Twitter. This photo is behind the earth, with a fluffy cloud covering the ground below. Several snow-capped mountains can be seen through the clouds at the bottom right of the image. (The Hague did not specify the mountains in the photo.) — Hanneke Weitering

Monday, July 29, 2019: In this photo from the European Space Agency’s new SPECULOOS Observatory in Chile, the strange-shaped Centauri A galaxy shimmers in deep space. This is one of the "First Light" images from SPECULOOS (representing "Looking for a habitable planet EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars"). Centaur A, also known as NGC 5128, is one of the brightest celestial bodies in the night sky in the southern hemisphere. It is located in the constellation Centaurus, 11 million light-years away from Earth. Astronomers believe that Centaurus A used to be an elliptical galaxy that collided with a small spiral galaxy, and this collision was the cause of the galaxy's irregular shape. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, July 26, 2019: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket landed in Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida after launching the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off at 6:01 pm Eastern Time (2201 GMT) yesterday, put the cargo spacecraft into orbit, and then returned to Earth. Over 5,000 pounds. (2,268 kg) Crew supplies and scientific experiments are installed in the Dragon spacecraft. It is scheduled to arrive at the space station on Saturday. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, July 25, 2019: The colorful core of the Milky Way shines above Residencia at the European Southern Observatory. This is a building in the James Bond movie "Quantum Comfort" that was destroyed in a dramatic explosion (with the aid of computer graphics , Not real explosives). Residencia welcomes astronomers and other tourists at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, which is home to a very large telescope array and several other telescope facilities. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, July 24, 2019: Can you spot the rover in this photo of Mars? NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) took photos of the Curiosity rover passing through an area called "Woodland Bay" from space. The rover is currently climbing a mountain called Aeolis Mons (also known as Mount Sharp), a 3-mile (5 km) high mountain in the center of Gale Crater. MRO took this image on May 31 using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, July 23, 2019: In this photo from NASA's Earth Observatory, thick smoke from wildfires is mixed with the vortex storm system over Russia. The natural color image was created using data collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on Monday (July 21). According to NASA, as of Tuesday, the largest wildfires in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Buryatia had burned more than 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, July 22, 2019: The Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft approached the International Space Station with three new Expedition 60 crew members. NASA astronaut Drew Morgan, European Space Agency astronaut Luka Pamitano and Russian astronaut Alexander Skvortsov from Saturday (July 20) on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan took off and arrived at the orbital laboratory in about 6 hours. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, July 19, 2019: Tomorrow (July 20) on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a Soyuz rocket will send three people into the International Space Station, which stands high in Kazakhstan. On the launch pad of the Konur Cosmodrome. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Russian astronaut Aleksandr Skvortsov will take off at 12:28 pm EST (1628 GMT) as crew members of Expeditions 60 and 61 Start the six-month mission. -Hanneck Wettering 

Thursday, July 18, 2019: The full moon of July, also known as the Thunder Moon, passes through the shadow of the Earth from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning (July 16-17). Astrophotographer Zaid Abbadi photographed a partial lunar eclipse in Amman, Jordan, and produced this composite image, showing the moon's trajectory in the sky as it gradually darkens in the shadow of the earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, July 17, 2019: A full-scale projection of NASA's Saturn V rocket illuminates the Washington Monument to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 moon mission yesterday (July 16). The Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the moon is 363 feet (111 meters) high, and its projection span is approximately 555 feet (169 meters) two-thirds the height of the Washington Monument. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, July 16, 2019: The Saturn V rocket carrying three Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon soars behind an American flag shortly after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When the rocket broke the sound barrier, a ring of steam formed around the second stage of the rocket. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission, which sent the first astronauts to the moon on July 20, 1969. — Hanneke Weitering

Friday, July 12, 2019: A long-exposure photo of a lightning storm seen from space makes the earth look like fluffy dry lint. At the same time, the earth’s city lights flashed across the land below, which was caused by the earth’s rotation and the fast orbit of the International Space Station, where NASA astronaut Christina Koch took this photo. In the background, star trails orbit the North Star Polaris. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, July 11, 2019: The Close-up Imager (CLUPI) camera, which will be launched on the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover in 2020, prepares for missions to Mars by studying Martian meteorites on Earth. This meteorite named "Exhibit 0102.226" was discovered in Oman in 2001. Scientists at ESA's ESTEC Technology Center in the Netherlands borrowed the space rock from the Natural History Museum in Bern, Switzerland, and calibrated it before it traveled to the red planet. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, July 10, 2019: In this photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, the moon illuminates the starry night sky as an effect called "Aura" makes the Earth’s atmosphere emit a subtle green light . This green luminescence is the result of the interaction of atmospheric particles with ultraviolet radiation from the sun. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, July 9, 2019: During a water current test at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's new mobile launcher in Florida, a huge water stream gushes from Pad 39B. The launch tower will support NASA's new space launch system giant rocket's upcoming first Artemis mission to the moon. In this test conducted on July 2nd, approximately 400,000 gallons of water were poured on the mobile launcher. — Hanneke Weitering

Monday, July 8, 2019: During the total solar eclipse last Tuesday (July 2), bright pink prominences appeared around the solar atmosphere as the moon blocked its bright surface. These prominences are composed of magnetic field lines composed of plasma wound in the chromosphere of the sun, and these features can extend all the way to the sun's corona. The prominence can only be seen during a total solar eclipse, when the brightest part of the sun is blocked by the earth's moon. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, July 5, 2019: This composite of polarization images taken by the European Southern Observatory's Lasila Observatory in Chile shows details of the sun's dazzling corona during the total solar eclipse on July 2. The corona is only visible as a whole, and it can reveal information about the magnetic activity on the surface of the sun. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, July 4, 2019: Today (July 4), two NASA astronauts brought home their holiday wishes from the International Space Station. Christina Koch and Nick Hague are the only two Americans currently living outside the earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, July 3, 2019: In this aerial shot of a total solar eclipse taken by drone, the sky above the Lasila Observatory in Chile darkens. Thousands of spectators gathered at the observatory to watch the solar eclipse. In the foreground are several telescopes of the observatory, while the Andes Mountains provide a breathtaking backdrop. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, July 1, 2019: Photos of the Earth taken from the International Space Station reveal the cold mountain tops of the Andes in South America. Tomorrow (July 2), a total solar eclipse will pass this mountain range. When the moon completely obscures the sun, parts of Chile and Argentina will witness a total eclipse, while other parts of South America will see a partial solar eclipse. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, June 28, 2019: NASA’s mobile launcher arrives at NASA’s 39B launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final testing in preparation for the launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) giant rocket and Orion spacecraft. The mobile launcher will be used to launch Artemis 1, which is the first planned mission of NASA's Crescent Exploration Program. It arrived at the launch pad on June 27 and will stay there for the rest of the summer as NASA prepares for a historic unmanned test flight around the moon. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, June 27, 2019: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, the full moon of June, also known as the strawberry moon, looms over the horizon of the earth. The image was taken on June 17, when the space station was orbiting 254 miles (409 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Guam. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, June 26, 2019: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket starts the engine for a spectacular night launch from NASA's historic 39A launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission was launched early Monday morning and carried payloads for the U.S. Air Force’s space test program, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Planetary Society. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 25, 2019: On Monday night (June 24), a Soyuz capsule carrying three crew members home from the International Space Station descended to Earth in the first quarter of the moon. At 10:47 pm Eastern Time (0247 GMT or 8:47 am local time June 25th), NASA astronaut Anne McLean, Russian astronaut Oleg Kononenko and Canada Space Agency astronaut David St. Jacques landed in the southeast of Dzhezkazgan town on the steppes of Kazakhstan). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 24, 2019: Several asteroids "bombed" this deep space galaxy image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The composite image shows the curved trajectories of 20 different asteroids, some of which were not discovered until they appeared in Hubble's field of vision. This image, originally published for the first time in 2017, shows the parallel field of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. It is being revisited as part of the European Space Agency's new Hubble Asteroid Hunter citizen science project. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, June 21, 2019: In this deep-sky image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, countless stars fill the cosmic voids around the irregular galaxy IC 10. IC 10 is located in the constellation Cassiopeia, 2.2 million light-years away from the Earth. It is the closest known starburst galaxy, or a galaxy that is forming a large number of new stars. It is a member of the Local Group, which is a collection of more than 50 galaxies including the Milky Way. This photo won 10th place in the Hubble Hidden Treasure Contest, which called on the public to help sift through Hubble’s large number of images to find the most beautiful ones that did not receive the publicity they deserve. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, June 20, 2019: A photo of the new Earth from space with a clear view of the peninsula of southern Italy, the peninsula commonly referred to as "boots," and the island of Sicily. The northern part of the country is obscured by endless clouds. On June 9th, an astronaut from the International Space Station took this photo while passing the Mediterranean Sea in Italy. At that time, the space station was orbiting 255 miles (410 kilometers), which was high enough to see the curvature of the earth. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Outside the International Space Station, Japanese small satellite orbit deployers launched three small cube satellites into low earth orbit to perform the BIRDS-3 mission, which is a plan to help countries build the first satellite a part of. This batch of CubeSats includes Nepal's first satellite NepaliSat-1 and Sri Lanka's first satellite Raavana-1. The third is a Japanese cube satellite named Uguisu. The three arrived at the space station on the Cygnus cargo spacecraft in April, and the crew of Expedition 59 sent them into space on Monday (June 17). — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 18, 2019: Today, ten years ago, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the agency’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) aboard the Atlas 5 rocket Fly into space. At 5:32 pm Eastern Time (2132 GMT) on June 18, 2009, a rocket with two spacecraft lifted off from Launch Site 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. A few months later, LCROSS deliberately hit the moon, but LRO is still strong today. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 17, 2019: In this panoramic photo taken by the European Southern Observatory's photography ambassador Petr Horálek, the arc of the Milky Way extends to the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile. In the night sky here, you can also see the cross constellation (also called the Southern Cross) above and to the right of the nearest antenna, and the red-pink emission nebula Carina Nebula on the right of the Southern Cross. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, June 14, 2019: On Wednesday (June 12), the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted through a layer of clouds in thick fog at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The rocket successfully put three Earth observation satellites into Earth orbit for use by the Canadian Space Agency, and then returned to Earth for landing. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, June 13, 2019: In this photo taken from the International Space Station, a cloud of clouds covers the Pacific Ocean as the rays of the setting sun reflect off the water. An expedition 59 astronaut took this picture on Tuesday (June 11), when the space station was flying about 650 miles (1,050 kilometers) from the coast of San Francisco at sunset. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, June 12, 2019: In this gleaming image taken by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Roger Wesson, a satellite flare illuminates the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Paranal Mountains, Chile The sky above the array. The four main unit telescopes that make up the VLT are shown in the figure. The four smaller auxiliary telescopes of the array are not shown in the figure. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 11, 2019: NASA’s Juno spacecraft discovered this dark, weird hole in the center of the cloud vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere. This dark spot is located in the Jupiter jet stream, surrounded by bright high-altitude clouds, which appear brighter when they rotate in the sun. Juno took this photo on May 29, when the spacecraft was about 9,200 miles (14,800 kilometers) from Jupiter's cloud top. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 10, 2019: In this photo taken from the International Space Station, lime-green aurora flashes over Antarctica. "Years ago, in Antarctica, I looked up at the aurora for inspiration on a six-month winter night," NASA astronaut Christina Koch tweeted from space. "Now I know they are just as awesome from above." 

In the foreground of the image, two Russian spacecraft are docked at the orbital laboratory: the Soyuz MS-12 crew spacecraft and the Progress 72 cargo ship. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, June 7, 2019: A new crater on the surface of Mars shows darker-toned Martian soil that was exposed after the impact lifted up the loose soil on the top. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to take this color-enhanced image of the crater on April 17. Scientists believe that the crater formed sometime between September 2016 and February 2019. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, June 6, 2019: In this photo from NASA's Cassini orbiter, Saturn's strange Arctic vortex looks like a psychedelic cyclone. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill processed this image using data collected by Cassini during its close flyby of Saturn on November 27, 2012. At the end of the Cassini’s 20-year mission in 2017, the aging spacecraft crashed into the planet’s atmosphere. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, June 5, 2019: This bright diffuse object that glows in deep space is the elliptical galaxy NGC 4621, also known as Messier 59. It is about 50 million light-years away from Earth and is a cluster of nearly 2,000 galaxies in Virgo. The Hubble Space Telescope used its advanced sky survey camera to capture a new view of the galaxy. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, June 4, 2019: In this photo from the International Space Station, a snowman-like figure protrudes from the top of the clouds, making the Earth's atmosphere look like a strange winter wonderland. "It's like a giant snowman," Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint Jacques wrote when he released this photo from space on Saturday (June 1). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, June 3, 2019: In this photo of the universe taken by the European Southern Observatory's photography ambassador Petr Horálek, the colorful night sky shines over the La Sila Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. When the bright green airglow is faintly visible near the horizon, the red emission nebula adorns the Orion constellation overhead. One of them is the Barnard ring, which forms an arc around the Orion molecular cloud complex. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 31, 2019: This vivid photo from Roscosmos shows the agency's heavy Proton-M rocket carrying the communications satellite Yamal-601 into orbit. The rocket and satellite were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 30, 2019. Read more about the release and watch the video here. — Sarah Lewin

 Thursday, May 30, 2019: A prototype NASA Orion space capsule equipped with emergency-stop motors passed by the agency’s large aircraft assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 22, 2019. NASA will launch the space capsule Ascent Abort 2 (AA-2) in 2019, and will inspect the Orion abort system on July 2 for flight testing. — Tariq Malik

Wednesday, May 29, 2019: Before launch on May 30, 2019, the Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the Yamal-601 telecommunications satellite rose from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket was launched on May 27. Proton Booster will launch Yamal-601 for Russian satellite operator JSC Gazprom Space Systems. This satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space Company and will replace the older Yamal-202 satellite currently in orbit. Want to know how Russia launches rockets? This is a photo tour of the Russian Space Center. — Tariq Malik

Tuesday, May 28, 2019: This stunning photo was taken on the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Christina Koch (Christina Koch) and Expedition 59 flight engineer. It looks a bit squashed. Koch shared this photo on May 24, 2019, about a week after it was taken. 

"The moon last weekend showed how the atmosphere is like a lens!" Koch wrote on Twitter. "The denser layers bend the light more, and when the light reflected by the moon passes through the denser atmosphere of the earth, it looks flatter." You can view more wonderful photos from the Expedition 59 staff here! — Tariq Malik

Monday, May 27, 2019: SpaceX photographers took this dazzling long exposure photo on May 24, 2019. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket powered by the company’s first 60 Starlink satellites took place on May 24, 2019. Entered space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. In several respects, this is a landmark launch for SpaceX. 

First, it launched a planned Starlink constellation consisting of 12,000 satellites to provide affordable Internet access to people all over the world. Second: This launch marks the third launch and landing of the Falcon 9's first-stage booster and is another step in SpaceX's reusable rocket program. You can view more Starlink launch photos here! — Tariq Malik

Friday, May 24, 2019: In this post-sunset photo taken by Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques, the lights of European cities flicker in a clear sky. "A cloudless night in Spain and southern France. I imagine people eating outside," Saint-Jacques tweeted on the International Space Station. Part of the station’s solar array is barely visible in the foreground near the top of the image. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, May 23, 2019: The world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma gives astronomers a star-studded performance at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. For this exclusive concert on May 1, 2019, Jack Ma asked to perform in a dark night venue under the glittering belt of the Milky Way. On the right side of the Milky Way are two of our galaxy neighbors, called the Magellanic Cloud, which shine through the subtle red and green aura above the horizon. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 22, 2019: In this photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, the blue moon is shrouded high above the thin blue veil of the earth's atmosphere. Since the full moon in May, also known as the "flower moon", is the third full moon in a season with four full moons, it is considered a blue moon according to the traditional or "seasonal" definition of the term. The modern definition of a blue moon is the second full moon in a month, the next time it occurs on October 31, 2020. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, May 21, 2019: In this photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station, bright sunlight reflects off the Andaman Sea near the mouth of the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. By aiming the camera at the "sunlight spot", where the sun reflects off the earth and directly enters the camera, astronauts can capture photos that emphasize the details of the Earth's coastline. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, May 20, 2019: Color images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show the Jezero Crater, an ancient lake bed on the red planet, where the agency plans to send The next Mars rover. The rover, named Mars 2020, is scheduled to launch next summer and will land in a 28-mile (45-kilometer) crater in February 2021. Spectroscopic data from the MRO imaging instrument showed that the sediments in the area were rich in minerals "indicating that the water has undergone a chemical change," NASA officials said in the description of the image. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 17, 2019: In this new image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the rotating Martian dunes are covered with carbon dioxide frost and dust. The image was taken by the orbiter's HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera and is the first in a series of new images that researchers will use to study the changing seasonal processes on Mars. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, May 16, 2019: Due to the gravitational pull of galactic neighbors, a spiral galaxy that once resembled the Milky Way has become a group of invisible stars and cosmic dust. In this Hubble image, NGC 4485-now classified as an "irregular" galaxy-is being distorted by the spiral galaxy NGC 4490, which lies outside the frame of the image in the lower right corner. 

NGC 4490 is also pulling "bright knots and huge gas regions, and huge star-forming regions where young, huge blue stars are born," European Space Agency officials said in the description of the image. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 15, 2019: In this dazzling scene taken by the Hubble Space Telescope released by the European Space Agency on May 10, 2019, the galaxy cluster SPT0615 paints a stunning image on the easel . This galaxy cluster is also known as SPT-CL J0615-5746, and it is one of the farthest galaxy clusters observed to cause gravitational lensing.

"When light from a background object is deflected around the mass between the object and the observer, gravitational lensing occurs," the ESA official said. "Among the identified background objects, there is SPT0615-JD, a galaxy believed to have appeared only 500 million years after the Big Bang. This makes it one of the earliest structures in the universe. It is also the farthest galaxy that has ever passed through. Gravitational lens imaging."-Tariq Malik 

Tuesday, May 14, 2019: Which direction in space is rising? For the Expedition 59 astronaut on the International Space Station, this is multiple choices. This is clear in this interesting weightless portrait of an astronaut taken in the Harmony Module of the space station on April 30. Seen here are: (clockwise from the top) NASA astronauts Anne McLean, Christina Koch, Nick Haig and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David St. Jacques. -Tariq Malik

Monday, May 13, 2019: 10 years ago today, astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis began the fourth and final maintenance mission of the Hubble Space Telescope. On May 13, 2009, astronauts grabbed this iconic telescope with a Canadian arm robotic arm. One of the STS-125 crew members took a photo of this iconic telescope. In the next five days, the crew performed five spacewalks and installed two new instruments on the Hubble Telescope. Wide Field Camera 3 and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, as well as some new batteries, sensors and gyroscopes. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 10, 2019: In this photo taken from NASA's InSight lander, gray clouds fly across the Martian sky. On April 25, the spacecraft used the instrument background camera installed below the deck to photograph the floating clouds of the red planet during sunset. Sitting on the soil in the foreground is the Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure (SEIS) instrument, which is looking for seismic activity or "Martian earthquakes." — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, May 9, 2019: The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship approaches the Harmony module of the International Space Station as astronauts manipulate the Canadaarm2 robotic arm to capture it. Dragon arrived at the station on May 6, carrying about 5,500 pounds. Supplies and scientific experiments for the Expeditino 59 crew (2,495 kg). — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, May 8, 2019: In this close-up view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the swirling clouds of Saturn look absolutely fascinating. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill created this false-color image using near-infrared data collected by Cassini on February 27, 2013. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, May 7, 2019: Long-exposure photos of the Falcon 9 rocket launch show that the rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, the booster was separated from the upper stage, and then the booster was lowered for unmanned operations The plane landed into orbit with the payload. The SpaceX rocket shown in the picture launched a dragon-shaped cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on "Star Wars Day" (May 4). — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, May 6, 2019: In this strange-looking panoramic photo at the Chilean Paranal Observatory, the Milky Way seems to have formed two tornado-like starlight pillars extending from the sky down to the surface of the earth. This illusion is the result of the photographer Petr Horálek of the European Southern Observatory projecting the entire 360-degree panorama onto a flat rectangular image. In fact, the Milky Way galaxy moves across the sky from one horizon to another; the fact that it appears to be scattered on top of the image is only the product of an illusion. Here you can also see the Magellanic Cloud, the Pleiades star cluster, bright Jupiter and several nebulae. You can view full-resolution images up close here. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, May 3, 2019: In this photo taken from the International Space Station, gray-green aurora illuminates the Earth’s atmosphere above the Indian Ocean. The foreground is the Columbus module, which is the research laboratory launched by the European Space Agency to the space station in 2008. — Hanneke Weitering

Thursday, May 2, 2019: In this view of Chile’s VLT Sky Survey Telescope (VST), the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft passes through a patch of stars. While Gaia scans the stars to create the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way to date, the European Southern Observatory's VST is closely monitoring the spacecraft from the earth to accurately measure its orbit, which improves the accuracy of the Gaia star map. The spacecraft appears as a series of dots near the bottom of the image, just to the left of the brightest star in the frame. — Hanneck

Wednesday, May 1, 2019: This peculiar landscape may look like it belongs to another planet, but it was discovered on Earth by NASA's Terra satellite. This image shows the rainwater flow forming a geometric drainage pattern called an alluvial fan. NASA’s Terra satellite found this feature on the border between China and Mongolia, with almost parallel streams covering an area of ​​approximately 10.9 x 22.6 miles (18 x 36.3 kilometers). — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 30, 2019: In this photo taken by Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques, fine clouds sweep over the Canary Islands. Saint-Jacques tweeted on the International Space Station yesterday, "It is easy to tell the direction the wind is blowing over the Canary Islands." — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, April 29, 2019: Meet Messier 100, a so-called "grand design" spiral galaxy with bright, clear spiral arms that curl tightly around its galaxy core. Messier 100 is located in the Coma constellation about 60 million light-years away from the Earth. It is a known "starburst" galaxy and a stellar nursery for new star formation waves. Astronomers use Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to capture this new view of Messier 100 as an astronomical survey called "High Angular Resolution Physics of Nearby Galaxies" (PHANGS) a part of. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, April 26, 2019: Earlier this year, heavy rains in Queensland, Australia flooded the Coral Sea near the Great Barrier Reef, and muddy water poured into the Coral Sea. The European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite, which monitors coastal waters, took this photo on February 10, a few days after the rain stopped. The high-resolution view shows the sediment flowing from the Burdkin River into the Coral Sea, not far from the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 25, 2019: Twenty-nine years ago today, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery used the Canadian arm robotic arm to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. This photo of the space shuttle cargo compartment shows the iconic telescope gleaming in the sun shortly after its release. — Hanneck Wetlin

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was launched on this day 29 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary of the beloved telescope, the Hubble team released this new image of the Southern Crab Nebula. This hourglass nebula is the product of the interaction between stars in a binary star system, in which a red giant star is providing material for its white dwarf companion. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 23, 2019: From this perspective, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko looks a bit like a rocky space cat! The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured this photo of the comet in October 2014, about a month before it landed on the smaller Philae lander and landed on the surface of the comet. At the time, Rosetta was 11.6 miles (18.6 kilometers) from the surface of the comet. The cat’s “ears” are twin peaks surrounding an area called “C. Alexander Gate”, named after Rosetta project scientist Claudia Alexander, who died in July 2015. — Hanneke Weitering

Monday, April 22, 2019: Happy Earth Day (Happy Easter)! This is how the astronauts looked at the Earth from the International Space Station during one of the 16 sunrises experienced on Easter Sunday (April 21). Since the orbiting laboratory orbits the earth at a speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h), astronauts will see the sun rise and set every 45 minutes while flying around the world. NASA astronaut Anne McLean posted this sunrise photo from space on Twitter last night. — Hanneck Wetlin

Friday, April 19, 2019: This is a colorful cosmic easter egg, starting your holiday weekend! The egg nebula seen from the Hubble Space Telescope view is a "pre-travel nebula," or a cloud of dust and gas ejected from a dying star, illuminated by the last light of the star. The faint egg-shaped nebula is located about 3,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It was first discovered by astronomers in the 1970s. It was the first such nebula that anyone had ever seen. Then it was filmed by Hubble in the 1990s. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 18, 2019: This is the last photo taken last week by the Israeli lunar lander named "Beresheet" before crashing into the lunar surface in a failed landing attempt. At that time, the spacecraft was about 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the surface of the moon, a few minutes before the mission control center lost contact with the spacecraft. Investigators believe that the "manual command" inadvertently caused Beresheet's main engine to shut down, and the lander crashed because it failed to slow down in time to perform a soft landing. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 17, 2019: A so-called "Jellyfish" galaxy named ESO 137-001 swims through a group of galaxies more than 200 million light-years away from Earth. This celestial jellyfish is a spiral galaxy, much like the Milky Way, but it has long hot gas "tentacles" flowing out of the galaxy's disk. Scientists are not sure how these gases were stripped, but NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, after its planned launch in 2021, may be able to reveal the origin of these tentacles through unprecedented detailed studies of them. This view combines visible-light images from the Hubble Space Telescope and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. — Hanneck Wetlin

Tuesday, April 16, 2019: At sunrise this morning, the Antares rocket that will launch the next batch of cargo to the International Space Station towers high above NASA's Pad-0A at the Wallops, Virginia flight facility. Tomorrow (April 17), the rocket will launch the Cygnus CRS-11 cargo spacecraft to the orbital laboratory with a weight of approximately 7,600 pounds. (3,450 kg) Supplies for the crew of the Expedition 59. — Hanneck Wetlin

Monday, April 15, 2019: As star trails hover over the castle of Nudal in Barrancos, Portugal, a meteor blasts the night sky. The dense light trail from the bright planet Jupiter crosses a few inches of the sky to its right, and the thinner light trail from the bright star Arcturus occupies the upper right corner of the image. Astrophotographer Sérgio Conceição took 80 frames on February 17, 2019 to create a time-lapse view of the night sky. — Hanneke Weitering

Friday, April 12, 2019: After the Saudi Arabian communications satellite Arabsat-6A was launched on Thursday (April 11), the two-sided boosters of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket were in Cape Canaveral, Florida The air base landed vertically at the same time. The third booster, the core stage, landed on an unmanned ship in the Atlantic Ocean shortly afterwards. This is the second successful flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket and the first commercial flight of this huge rocket. — Hanneck Wetlin

Thursday, April 11, 2019: Two sounding rockets created this colorful light display in the night sky during a mission to study the Earth's aurora. NASA’s Aurora Upwelling Rocket Experiment (AZURE) mission launched two Black Brant XI-A sounding rockets from the Andøya Space Center in Norway on April 5. — Hanneck Wetlin

Wednesday, April 10, 2019: Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques took this selfie on April 8 during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. — Hanneke Weitering

Tuesday, April 9, 2019: SpaceX’s Starhopper prototype appeared during a test operation at the company’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, near Brownsville, Texas. This photo was taken by the chief Executive Officer Elon Musk released on April 7, 2019.

Starhopper is the prototype of SpaceX's larger Starship spacecraft and its super-heavy boosters. The prototype will undergo a test jump at suborbital altitude to prove the technology required for SpaceX's 100-person interplanetary spacecraft to fly to the moon, Mars and other places in deep space. -Tariq Malik

Monday, April 8, 2019: Engineers prepare the optical section of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, for integration with the rocket. The new space observatory is scheduled to be launched by the Ariane 5 rocket in 2021. — Hanneck Wetlin 

Friday, April 5, 2019: In this new view of NASA's Juno spacecraft, a cyclone storm rolls over Jupiter's northern hemisphere. The rotating clouds look a lot like hurricanes on the earth, and fluffy clouds emerge from the spiral arms of the storm. Juno captured this scene with its JunoCam imager on February 12, when it was about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud top. — Hanneck Wetlin