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September 6, 2017

First Official Pluto Feature Names

September 6, 2017

First Official Pluto Feature Names

This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows an overlay of the first official Pluto feature names.
August 25, 2017

Neptune from Saturn

August 25, 2017

Neptune from Saturn

On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Neptune and that planet's largest moon Triton. The Cassini mission is publishing this image to celebrate the anniversary of that event.
January 30, 2017

Young Star HD 141569

January 30, 2017

Young Star HD 141569

This image shows the dusty disk of planetary material surrounding the young star HD 141569, located 380 light-years away from Earth.
May 1, 2014

Blue Orb on the Horizon

May 1, 2014

Blue Orb on the Horizon

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft features a blue planet, Uranus, imaged by Cassini for the first time. Uranus is a pale blue in this natural color image because its visible atmosphere contains methane gas and few aerosols or clouds.
March 29, 2012

NASA's SOFIA Captures Images of the Planetary Nebula M2-9

March 29, 2012

NASA's SOFIA Captures Images of the Planetary Nebula M2-9

Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. This image is of the planetary Nebula M2-9.
December 16, 2008

Devastated Stellar Neighborhood

December 16, 2008

Devastated Stellar Neighborhood

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the nasty effects of living near a group of massive stars: radiation and winds from the massive stars (white spot in center) are blasting planet-making material away from stars like our sun.
October 27, 2008

Young Solar System in the Making (Artist Concept)

October 27, 2008

Young Solar System in the Making (Artist Concept)

This artist's diagram based on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope compares the Epsilon Eridani system to our own solar system. The two systems are structure
October 27, 2008

Double the Rubble (Artist Concept)

October 27, 2008

Double the Rubble (Artist Concept)

This artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system to our own, called Epsilon Eridani. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the system hosts two asteroid belts.
November 6, 2007

Our Solar System's Cousin? (Artist Concept)

November 6, 2007

Our Solar System's Cousin? (Artist Concept)

This artist's concept illustrates two planetary systems -- 55 Cancri (top) and our own. Blue lines show the orbits of planets, including the dwarf planet Pluto in our solar system.
February 13, 2007

The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star

February 13, 2007

The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star

This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful 'last hurrah' of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core.
March 16, 2005

Old and New Again

March 16, 2005

Old and New Again

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a false-color mosaic of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
February 8, 2005

Saturn's Blue Cranium

February 8, 2005

Saturn's Blue Cranium

Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently a serene blue, more befitting of Uranus or Neptune, as seen in this natural color image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
March 28, 2001

Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version

March 28, 2001

Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version

This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
November 6, 2000

The New Solar System

November 6, 2000

The New Solar System

This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula.
August 24, 2000

Hubble Finds Many Bright Clouds on Uranus

August 24, 2000

Hubble Finds Many Bright Clouds on Uranus

A recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope view reveals Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites.
June 10, 2000

Eros' North Polar Region

June 10, 2000

Eros' North Polar Region

This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows the north polar region of asteroid Eros is heavily cratered but the region to the left (part of the 'saddle') has a lower crater density.
June 2, 2000

Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach

June 2, 2000

Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach

This picture is part of NASA's Voyager 2 imaging sequence of Ariel, a moon of Uranus taken on January 24, 1986. The complexity of Ariel's surface indicates that a variety of geologic processes have occurred.
August 30, 1999

Miranda - Highest Resolution Color Picture

August 30, 1999

Miranda - Highest Resolution Color Picture

This color composite of the Uranian satellite Miranda was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986. Miranda, just 480 km (300 mi) across, is the smallest of Uranus' five major satellites
August 24, 1999

Miranda

August 24, 1999

Miranda

View of Miranda showing light and dark banded scarps near the boundary of the banded ovoid and a deep graben that bounds the ovoid in this region.
August 24, 1999

Miranda

August 24, 1999

Miranda

One wide-angle and eight narrow-angle camera images of Miranda, taken by NASA's Voyager 2, were combined in this view. The controlled mosaic was transformed to an orthographic view centered on the south pole.
August 20, 1999

Uranus - Montage of Uranus' Five Largest Satellites

August 20, 1999

Uranus - Montage of Uranus' Five Largest Satellites

Montage of Uranus' five largest satellites taken by NASA's Voyager 2.. From to right to left in order of decreasing distance from Uranus are Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda.
August 8, 1999

Neptune's Rings

August 8, 1999

Neptune's Rings

This wide-angle image from NASA's Voyager 2, taken in 1989, was taken through the camera's clear filter, and was the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
August 8, 1999

Neptune

August 8, 1999

Neptune

NASA's Voyager 2 obtained these images of satellite 1989N2 and revealed it to be and irregularly shaped, dark object. The satellite appeared to have several craters. The irregular outline suggests that this moon has remained cold and rigid throughout much
July 25, 1999

Neptune

July 25, 1999

Neptune

This image of Neptune was taken through the clear filter of the narrow-angle camera on July 16, 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. The image was processed by computer to show the newly resolved dark oval feature embedded in the middle of the dusky south
June 30, 1999

Uranus' Rings

June 30, 1999

Uranus' Rings

NASA's Voyager 2 took this wide-angle image of Uranus' rings as the spacecraft neared the plane of the rings less than an hour before closest approach to the planet.
June 30, 1999

Epsilon Ring of Uranus

June 30, 1999

Epsilon Ring of Uranus

NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this high-resolution image of the epsilon ring of Uranus on Jan. 23, 1986. This clear-filter image from Voyager's narrow-angle camera has a resolution of about 10 km (6 mi).
June 30, 1999

Rings of Uranus

June 30, 1999

Rings of Uranus

This silhouetted image of the rings of Uranus was taken by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on Jan. 24, 1986, just 27 minutes before its closest approach to the planet.
June 22, 1999

Uranus - Family Portrait

June 22, 1999

Uranus - Family Portrait

This 'family portrait' of Uranus' five largest moons was compiled from images sent back Jan. 20, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Even in these distant views, the satellites exhibit distinct differences in appearance.
June 21, 1999

Uranus Rings

June 21, 1999

Uranus Rings

NASA's Voyager 2 returned this picture of the Uranus rings on Jan. 22, 1986, from a distance of 2.52 million kilometers (1.56 million miles). All nine known rings are visible in this image.
June 21, 1999

Uranus Moon - 1985U1

June 21, 1999

Uranus Moon - 1985U1

Several craters are seen on the surface of 1985U1, one of several small moons of Uranus discovered by NASA's Voyager 2. The spacecraft acquired this single image, the only close-up it obtained of any of the new moons, on Jan. 24, 1986.
June 19, 1999

Rings of Uranus

June 19, 1999

Rings of Uranus

This NASA Voyager 2 image of the Uranian rings delta, gamma, eta, beta and alpha (from top) was taken Jan. 23, 1986.
June 19, 1999

Uranus Satellite - Miranda

June 19, 1999

Uranus Satellite - Miranda

This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken Jan. 23, 1986, as the spacecraft neared Uranus. Miranda is the innermost of the five Uranian satellites known from Earth-based observations.

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