Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Galaxy With a Big, Dark Secret
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A lenticular galaxy, like the bright light shining in this photo captured by NASA’s Hubble telescope, is more unusual than elliptical and spiral galaxies. Studies suggest this one contains a huge black hole.
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This sky map of galaxies and globular clusters, documented by ESA’s Gaia satellite, is part of the largest survey of celestial objects yet.
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These lakes and streams on Mars’ surface appeared roughly a billion years after an earlier era of wet conditions on the planet, suggesting that there have been multiple periods of weather conditions suitable for microbial life on Mars.
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In this photo, Hubble captured a comet in the act of breaking apart, approximately 67 million miles from Earth. The blocks, made of ice and dust, are each about the size of a building; they’re drifting away from the comet at the walking speed of an adult, scattering along a 3,000-mile trail.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn’s northern hemisphere. Saturn, where one year lasts for 30 Earth years, will approach its summer solstice in May 2017.
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Some galaxies, including NGC 3718 and NGC 3729, pictured above, are algorithmically analyzed by machines able to recognize astrophysical similarities. The technique is now also used on images of cancer.
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This black hole has had a tough time in the past five years; not enough glowing fuel has fallen into it, so it doesn’t shine as brightly as it could.
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