Composed Of Gas And Dust, The Pictured Pillar Resides In A Tempestuous Stellar Nursery Called The Carina

ON THIS DAY: An impressive impact crater on Mars, observed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 19, 2013. (NASA)

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Meteor impact craters of the world

False color image of Uranus taken with the Hale Telescope and the Palomar Observatory. The rings are the red pieces.

Image credit: Palomar Observatory & Hale telescope

The Space Shuttle Challenger at a foggy Cape Canaveral, 1984.

(NASA/Department of Defense)

Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.

In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe

Credit: NASA/ESA

A new detector can use neutrinos to help us take a peek inside Earth!

The dusty, star-forming galaxy took shape in the first billion years after the Big Bang and is likely to be one of the first galaxies to ever form, says Min Yun, astrophysicist of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.