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Goodbye to the dark side
Stunning view of Saturn's night side, looking toward the sunlit side of the rings, by Cassini spacecraft cameras. Cassini ended its mission on September 15, 2017.
October 4, 2017
Moon and planet-rise, seen from space
This timelapse video shows a peaceful and breathless moonrise from the International Space Station, with Venus, Mars and Mercury also in view.
October 3, 2017
Waterglyph
Marc Toso tried 3 times to capture this ancient petroglyph known as a waterglyph, estimated to be between 2,000 and 1,000 years old. The 3rd time was the charm.
October 2, 2017
Night sky from sea caves
Two images of the Milky Way, taken on the same night from sea caves along the California coastline, hundreds of miles apart.
September 29, 2017
Passing spacecraft snaps Earth pics
OSIRIS-REx swept past Earth on September 22 and received a gravity boost toward its goal, asteroid Bennu, in 2018. It also acquired the images to make this stunning new Earth portrait.
September 26, 2017
Crop circles seen from space
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of circular farming patterns in Sharq El Owainat in southwestern Egypt.
September 26, 2017
Giant iceberg on the move
The calving of this iceberg in July reduced the size of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf by 12 percent. The berg hung near the coast awhile, but now it's seen drifting.
September 25, 2017
See it! Young moon and Jupiter
Wow! So many beautiful photos of something relatively hard to catch … the young moon returning to the evening sky this week next to the bright planet Jupiter.
September 22, 2017
