▲NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's moon, Europa, in the late '90s.

▲The Hubble Space Telescope caught a blue supergiant star called Icarus, the farthest star humans have yet to see. The panels show the star becoming brighter as the years progress.

▲Taken in July 2018, this satellite photo shows light from the County Fire along with the smoke streaming southwest toward San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

▲The NGC 4536 galaxy is a hub of extreme star formation situated in the constellation of Virgo.

▲Landscapes associated with gullies and ridges that look like terrestrial moraines suggest that these deep craters on Mars may be rich with ice!

▲The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the formation of Dunes on the wildly variant planet surface.

▲The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also captured rugged cliff edges on the planet, making for a stunning visual texture.

▲The Cassini spacecraft provided one of the last looks at Saturn in 2016, after having arrived in 2004.

▲The Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft was successfully captured by the ISS's Canadarm2, bringing more than 7,600 lbs (3,447 kg) of research and supplies with it.

▲The International Space Station's view of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, UT, reveals stunning and bizarre colors.

▲NASA released an artist's depiction of a black hole surrounded by a disk of orbital material, and with a jet of hot gas flowing into it, called plasma!

▲Each one is special, particularly because each one means more solar charge for the station!

▲What you're seeing is the result of a collision between two galaxies, causing clouds of gas to compress and stir, resulting in the formation of a star!

▲This stunning composite image of a supernova remnant was put together using data from five telescopes and almost the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

▲You can't see it but the sun's surface is actually spitting and spouting solar flares and coronal ejections, like this two-hour long activity captured from 2017.

▲The record Category 5 storm was captured driving toward Florida, passing the eastern end of Cuba. It looks much more beautiful and calm from space!

▲The Cassini spacecraft lingers above Saturn's northern hemisphere just before making its final dive.

▲The heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097 is surrounded by a bright star-forming ring. Remember that when you're waiting in traffic this week.

▲NASA captured an incredibly picturesque image of the dwarf galaxy named NGC 5949.

▲In a composite image assembled from 12 photographs, Saturn's huge northern storm twists along its surface in a gorgeous display.

▲NGC 4394, a barred spiral galaxy situated about 55 million light-years from Earth, has bright spiral arms peppered with young blue stars, dark cosmic dust, and bright, fuzzy regions of star formations.

▲NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was 476,000 mi from Pluto's surface when it took this photo in 2015.

▲High-energy particles on the pole of Jupiter form a brilliant collection of stunning Auroras in this NASA composite.

▲One of the most colorful regions of the planet is located on the northwest rim of the Isidis impact basin. Prime real estate for the humans planning to move!

▲NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent an incredible 520 days in space, but at least he had one of the best seats in the galaxy.

▲The Alberto storm is pictured closing in on the Florida Panhandle in May 2018.

▲Astronauts on the ISS captured star trails and blurred terrestrial lights in this time exposure as they sailed around planet Earth.

▲Located 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, the Bubble Nebula is a whopping seven light-years across. The nebula also gets excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow! Aw.

▲At the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on January 8, 2016. The galaxy's orientation clearly reveals the galaxy's striking spiral structure: a flat and dust-mottled disc surrounding a bright galactic bulge. NGC 4845's glowing center hosts a gigantic version of a black hole, known as a supermassive black hole.

▲NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye, so you can look at the sun.

▲Earth's gorgeous Aurora borealis display only gets better from space. If you want to learn more about this magical natural phenomenon, click here.

▲This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, including the most massive star to ever be detected in the universe as of yet.

▲Dark narrow streaks on the walls of the Garni crater on Mars are linked to the first pieces of evidence that water may flow on the planet's surface during its summer months.

▲A crewed mission written into the best-selling novel and Hollywood film lands in this region of Mars called the Acidalia Planitia.

▲Expanding remains of the Veil Nebula are currently 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth. And it's just a short 2,100-light-year trip away from us!

▲The quintet of Saturn's moons!

▲The Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon Dione and all her pores. She wasn't ready for the photo!

▲The Calabash Nebula is the result of a star transforming from a red giant to a planetary nebula, blowing gas and dust into space in a breathtaking display.

▲NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo in 1979, showing the massive anticyclone that is Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The storm is 3.5x the size of Earth, and is equally as beautiful as it is tumultuous.

▲The super star cluster Westerlund 1 is home to one of the largest stars ever discovered—a red supergiant with a radius over 1500x that of our Sun!

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The Cassini spacecraft took a rare picture of the pale blue dot from beneath Saturn's rings. Everything seems less stressful when you look at it from Saturn.

▲Jupiter's distinguishing feature was captured at a distance of 10,274 mi (16,534 km) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

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A spacecraft made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. It ventured into the Sun’s outer atmosphere, enduring extreme heat and radiation to aid scientists in studying the Sun’s behavior.
"This close-up study of the Sun allows Parker Solar Probe to take measurements that help scientists better understand how material in this region gets heated to millions of degrees, trace the origin of the solar wind (a continuous flow of material escaping the Sun), and discover how energetic particles are accelerated to near light speed."

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In our day-to-day lives, it's easy to forget that our planet isn't the only one out there. Indeed, NASA has been hard at work exploring the far reaches of our own galaxy, as well as uncovering a tiny fraction of the universe's innumerable wonders.

On March 11, NASA has successfully launched the SPHEREx telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California. This mission aims to create a comprehensive 3D map of the universe by surveying over 450 million galaxies and more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way. SPHEREx will investigate cosmic inflation, galaxy evolution, and search for water and organic molecules in interstellar clouds, enhancing our understanding of the universe's origins.

Whether you're looking to be reminded of the vastness of existence, or you just want to see some more stunning extraterrestrial photography, check out this gallery.

NASA launches SPHEREx to study millions of galaxies

NASA’s new space telescope is set to explore the origins of the universe

12/03/25 por StarsInsider

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Whether you're looking to be reminded of the vastness of existence, or you just want to see some more stunning extraterrestrial photography, check out this gallery.