A long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, or corona, erupted out into space. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second.
This graceful arc traces an Atlas V rocket climbing through Thursday's early morning skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Inside the rocket's Centaur upper stage were NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), now in separate orbits within Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.
The Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Hints of changing colors and subtle details are brought out in this remarkable sketch of the cosmic ring.
The European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands uses visible green laser beams for stabilizing and communicating with telescopes on the other islands.
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