NASA has made a major contribution to our understanding of the universe with its various space missions
The mysterious mass has given away its presence only by controlling the orbital planes of a population of space rocks known as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) in the icy outskirts of the solar system.- Solar Pumpkin': This photo was posted on Halloween and shows active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern's face. The image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in October 2014, which watches the sun at all times from its orbit in space.
- Pluto: The dwarf planet sent a love note back to Earth via our New Horizons spacecraft, which traveled more than 9 years and 3+ billion miles. This was the last and most detailed image of Pluto sent to Earth before the moment of closest approach, which was at 7:49 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 14 - about 7,750 miles above the surface roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India.
- Italy from the International Space Station: Before drifting off to sleep, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (@stationcdrkelly) captured this images from the International Space Station and wrote, “ Day 180. Moonlight over Italy. #BuonaNotte Good night from @ISS! #YearInSpace.â€
- Messier 94 Galaxy: This image shows the galaxy Messier 94, which lies in the small northern constellation of the Hunting Dogs, about 16 million light-years away. Within the bright ring or starburst ring around Messier 94, new stars are forming at a high rate and many young, bright stars are present within it.
- Cosmic Archaeological Dig: Peering deep into the Milky Way's crowded central hub of stars, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of ancient white dwarfs smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars that inhabited the core.
- Super Blood Moon: It shows the Super Blood Moon behind the Washington Monument on Sunday, Sept. 27, in Washington, DC. The combination of a supermoon and total lunar eclipse last occurred in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033.
- Veil Nebula: This is the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. This view is a mosaic of six pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope of a small area roughly two light-years across, covering only a tiny fraction of the nebula's vast structure. This close-up look unveils wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun.
- Pluto's Largest Moon, Charon: The New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon - and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history. This high-resolution enhanced colour view of Charon was captured just before closest approach on July 14.
- Smoke Ring for a Halo: Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star system is named DI Cha, and while only two stars are apparent, it is actually a quadruple system containing two sets of binary stars. As this is a relatively young star system it is surrounded by dust.
- Water on Mars: New findings from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field.
Anything related to space has always excited us since our childhood days—from the solar system, planets, galaxies and even our own blue planet. NASA has made a major contribution to our understanding of the universe with its various space missions. Based on which, we have taken NASA’s top 10 photos and have put them here for you to explore the universe from the Earth.
NASA has made a major contribution to our understanding of the universe with its various space missions
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