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Hot Shots: We Pick NASA's Best Photos
Every day, NASA posts a new "Image of the Day" on its Web site. These are the best of the best, from photos of the sublime beauty of space to incredible perspectives of Earth.
- Twice in the past 116 years, in 1892 and 2007, comet Holmes inexplicably erupted when it sped past Jupiter towards the asteroid belt. The Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of the comet five months after the most recent occasion, when the comet became a million times brighter than normal.read moreNASAShare
- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Sarychev volcano during an eruption. Located in Russia's Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean north of Japan, this volcano on Matua Island is one of the most active in the chain, with three major eruptions in the past 25 years.read moreNASAShare
- A monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of newly forming and young stars lies at the center of this coiled galaxy. The black hole has the mass of over 100 million suns. Compare that to the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which has the mass of a few million suns.read moreNASAShare
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Hot Shots: We Pick NASA's Best Photos
Every day, NASA posts a new "Image of the Day" on its Web site. These are the best of the best, from photos of the sublime beauty of space to incredible perspectives of Earth.
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