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Fountains of Enceladus
Fountains of Enceladus

Recent Cassini images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of…

Black Widow Nebula Hides in the Dust
Black Widow Nebula Hides in the Dust

In this Spitzer Space Telescope image, the two opposing bubbles are being formed in opposite directions by the powerful outflows…

Cosmic Pearls
Cosmic Pearls

Two decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. Since that first sighting,…

Io’s Colorful Face
Io’s Colorful Face

Io is a colorful place. The closest large moon of Jupiter, Io has the most volcanic activity of any moon…

Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust
Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust

This intriguing image of the intriguing ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star reveals startling new details of one of the…

Go for Launch
Go for Launch

NASA senior managers completed a detailed review of space shuttle Discovery’s readiness for flight and selected Oct. 23, 2007, as…

Chimborazo and Tungurahua
Chimborazo and Tungurahua

Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor captured this image or Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo on September 16, 2001. Snowcapped…

The ATHLETE Rover
The ATHLETE Rover

JPL leads in the development of the ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) robotic vehicle. Other members of the team include…

Attacking Mars
Attacking Mars

The Spirit rover attacked Mars again in September 2005. However, what might look like a military attack was once again…