Oh, Saturn. This beautiful photo of the ringed beauty is the farewell photo taken for the last time by the Cbadini spacecraft. This great view was the last complete picture of the planet that took the Cbadini spacecraft before accelerating towards its death on September 15.
They come from outer space, and in this case, a comet called 45p came from the neighborhood of Jupiter. Comets of the Jupiter family as 45p oscillate around Jupiter and the Sun every five or seven years. Little is known about its composition, so when scientists discovered 45p this year, they were thrilled to detect nine gases that originated in the comet, from carbon monoxide to methane. Comets like these are relics from the early days of the solar system, so any opportunity to study what is done is a rare pleasure.
This photo covers an unfathomably large area of our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, but hidden in this image are two black photoburning holes. The team that took this image was looking for a specific star, but instead, they found these supermbadive black holes, which together have a whopping 200 million times the mbad of our sun. But they look so small!
Hello galaxy! Our own Milky Way dazzles in this photo taken in the Atacama desert in Chile. Do you see that bright region in the center? That is the core of our galaxy, and it shines so brightly because the region contains about half a million stars.
Do you think the fourth tug of July was memorable? Pluto and Charon make you beat. In an epic push-pull game, these two large bodies are in orbit around each other. Each time they move to each other their gravity pulls the other, heating the inside of both bodies. Because of this, scientists think that each could contain an ocean of liquid water beneath their surfaces.
Notice something missing in this galaxy? Hubble broke this lovely bright picture of the dwarf galaxy NGC 4625, which only has one arm! Most spiral galaxies like this have at least two arms, so what happened? It turns out that a nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4618 is probably the culprit. By interfering with its severity, it seems to have knocked down its neighbor's appendage!