Two days after a NASA spacecraft hit the asteroid Dimorphos, a telescope from Chile captured its new tail, the result of this impact. This is how humans leave their mark in outer space. Photo courtesy of NOIRLab.
CUBESAT LICIACube's purpose is to witness the collision of DART with the asteroid Dimorphos and collect data on experimental results, which marks the first attempt by humans to change the orbit of celestial bodies. But this tiny device "decided to look back" its home, thus producing this photo of our earth moon system .
This is a new interpretation of the Stefan quintet, where four galaxies and another distant galaxy intersect visually, creating this chaotic scene. It was one of the first objects observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, another NASA space observatory, NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory , is illuminating new details of this magical space area. Light blue bands are shock waves formed by collisions in galaxies. The gas in it is heated to tens of millions of degrees. Image source: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO;IR (Spieter): NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech ;IR (Webb): NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
In this image of the surface of Europa , you can see the comparison between the minimum and altitude processing photos of NASA Juno spacecraft (arriving at Jupiter in July 2016). The added color contrast on the right highlights the surface's characteristics. Image data from JunoCam cameras were transmitted to experts on Earth after the spacecraft flew over Europa at the minimum distance from its surface. Think about it - this is the ice surface of a distant world, and we humans have almost arrived! Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing: Navanit Krishnan
Two interacting galaxies, known as Arp-Madore 608-333, appear to float side by side in this photo of the Hubble Space Telescope. Although they appear calm and undisturbed, they distort slightly due to mutual gravity, which not only distorts but also destroys both galaxies.
