Top 10 NASA Images That Will Blow Your Mind

By Sheetal Kumari | August 27, 2024

The grandeur of NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy, is clear in this Hubble Space Telescope image.

Galaxy Evolution

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Jupiter appeared to "stare" back at Hubble like a Cyclops when Ganymede's shadow crossed the Great Red Spot, creating an eerie 10,000-mile-wide "eye" effect on April 21, 2014.

Jupiter's Stormy Eye

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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting spiral galaxies collectively called Arp 300.

Cosmic Collisions

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The corona of a supermassive black hole appears as pale, conical swirls above the accretion disk in this illustration.

Black Hole Beauty

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The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center lies a white dwarf star.

 Nebula Nirvana

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NASA's Voyager 2, approaching Saturn on August 25, 1981, captured Saturn's bright rings and northern hemisphere in July, revealing changes since Voyager 1's 1980 visit.

Saturn's Rings

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The western hemisphere of the Blue Marble (Earth), created in 2002.

 Earth from Space

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Explore the rugged, alien landscape of Mars.

 Mars Landscape

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The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.

Supernova Remnant

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The image shows a central portion of the Hubble Deep Field, created from exposures taken in 1995. The Hubble Deep Field covers a piece of sky about 1/13th the diameter of the full Moon.

Hubble Deep Field

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