Grand Tour - Visions of the Future NASA f-35 The Tarantula Nebula shelters thousands

The Tarantula Nebula shelters thousands of young and still-forming stars

This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 29

This photo represents only a very small moment of that incredible spectacle and photos that I could have taken with an expert eye

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massive planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury

Grand Tour - Visions of the Future NASA f-35 The Tarantula Nebula shelters thousandsNASA's Voyager mission took advantage of a once every 175 year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune using each planet's gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable science from