Pictures from space! Our image of the day
By Space.com Staff 6 hours ago
Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite pictures from space here, and if you're wondering what happened today in space history don't miss our On This Day in Space video show here!
The Nereidum Mountain Range
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
Sept. 3, 2020: This color-coded topographic view shows the Nereidum Mountain range, which lies
on the surface of Mars in the planet's southern hemisphere. The image shows a region within the
mountain range which is a part of the large Argyre impact basin, one of the biggest impact
structures on the entire Red Planet.
Plasma propulsion
(Image credit: SENER)
Sept. 2, 2020: The Helicon Plasma Thruster, developed by the European Space Agency by SENER
in Spain, completes a test firing in this image. The thruster, which uses high power radio frequency
waves to turn propellant into a plasma, is designed to propel small satellites and maintain large
megaconstellations of satellites.
Riding a blast wave
(Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz)
Sept. 1, 2020: This brilliant streak of light is a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave,
as spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The blast, which is about 2,400 light-years away, was
from a supernova explosion that tore apart a dying star 20 times more massive than our sun
between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Galactic tails
(Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Cramer et al.; CC BY 4.0)
Aug. 28, 2020: In this image, which combines data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (which
is installed on the Hubble Space Telescope) and the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, you can see a
cosmic tail emerging from the spiral galaxy D100.
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