New Photographs From The European Space Agency

Apollo 13 - Mission Control by NASA on The Commons

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies.

Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Colorful Moon Mosaic 

Credit: Noel Carboni

Boston Dynamics has shown off its new version of SpotMini, but now it’s also catching us up with its bipedal Atlas bot, the most humanoid of its creations. Atlas can now jump from elevated block to elevated block, and do a complete about-face in the air. It can leap pretty high, and also do a backflip – and then celebrate its backflipping ability. –

The faint rings of Uranus, shot in 1986, are made of countless fragments of water ice containing radiation-altered organic material.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures

Astonishing Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on November 27, 2013.

Look up at the super blue blood full moon Jan. 31 – here's what you'll see and why

by Shannon Schmoll

During the early hours of Jan. 31, there will be a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a supermoon – all at the same time. None of these things is really all that unusual by itself. What is rare is that they’re happening all together on one day.

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Solar system - Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Credit: NASA, ESA, SDO, Messenger, Mariner 10, Apollo 17, Rosetta, Hubble, Cassini, Voyager 2 & New Horizons

Aurora over Svolvear, Norway

Image Credit: Max Rive