Editor's Choice Fine Picture Archive (3)

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Cassini Sees Saturn Rings. As of July, 1st 2004 (June, 60th EDT), NASA/European ESA/Italian Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission successfully entered Saturn orbit setting the stage ... click to picture and text

A View of Saturn's Rings. Barely more than a week ahead of entering Saturn's orbit for its four-year tour of Saturn's system, NASA/ESA/Italian Space Agency Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ... click to picture and text

An Historical Sunspot at Sun. The Sun kindly provided us lately with a fine picture. Since July, 17th a large sunspot appeared on eastern limb ... click to picture and text

Life Precursors in Haze Layers?. Cassini-Huygens is a NASA/ESA/Italian Space Agency mission to Saturn. Like Galileo had been the first mission ever orbiting a gas giant, Cassini-Huygens will ... click to picture and text

A Planetary Nebula. Planetary nebula NGC 246 vision has been enhanced thanks to NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and its dust-piercing infrared capacity. Spitzer Telescope discovered that ... click to picture and text

A Planetary World in the Making. Io is one of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter i.e. the larger moons of the icy giant. Being ... click to picture and text

Planetary Exploration from Mars! The importance of what is seen at Mars since mid-August decided us to display three pictures at the same time ... click to picture and text

A Galaxy Merger. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, the fourth of NASA great space observatories, launched in August 2003, is piercing the deep dust shrouds of the Universe. It's working in ... click to picture and text

The Fornax Cluster. The fall of galaxies towards galaxy clusters' centers is another cause of stars formation as such motions are bringing gases to be compressed. Galaxy clusters are themselves forming ... click to picture and text

A Shepherding Moon at Saturn. At gas giants, some minor moons are associated with the ring systems like e.g. at Jupiter where four small moons are generating the faint ... click to picture and text