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This spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope showcases the complex nebula, N44.

New born stars in NGC-346 by the JWST/NASA Cropped mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at the southern hemisphere of Jupiter on Feb. 17, 2020, during the spacecraft’s most recent close approach to the giant planet.

On the night 175 years ago on Sept. 23-24, 1846, astronomers discovered Neptune, the eighth planet orbiting our Sun.

NASA has snapped a picture of Jupiter and its moons from a lunar observatory. The image shows what Jupiter looks like from an unusual space vantage point.

Evolutionary scientists would like nothing better than to find life (in any form) outside Earth. But so far this has been lacking. The pages of the book on astrobiology (the study of life in the universe) remain blank, figuratively speaking. Regardless, some astronomers have predicted alien contact in just three years1 and half of humanity “believes in” aliens.2 Recently, a space exploration milestone has been achieved with NASA passing the 5,000 mark in terms of discovering exoplanets (

Version A of the Mars installment of our solar system poster series.