Jupiter’s Moon to the Andromeda Galaxy: 5 Breathtaking Photos From Space By NASA

Images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show a solar storm striking one of its navigation cameras. The rover captured wind gusts on Mars, along with specks caused by charged particles from the storm on May 20, 2024.

 

An image from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope provides a magical view of the Andromeda galaxy, depicting stars and dust clouds. The Andromeda spans nearly 3.8 degrees across the sky, close to the width of eight full moons lined up side by side.

 

NASA released an image created using three computer readouts of actual data with the Roman Coronagraph Instrument. The image shows the starlight leaking into the coronagraph's field of view with only fixed components called masks blocking the star at the center of the circle. Engineers used lasers and special optics to mimic the appearance of a star’s light as observed by the telescope, referring to the test as "digging the dark hole."

 

On March 7, NASA’s Juno mission captured a stunning image of Jupiter’s tiny moon, Amalthea. The photograph vividly shows Jupiter’s colorful belts, swirling storms, and the Great Red Spot.

 

In May, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured sunspots using its Mastcam-Z cameras. These regions, where solar flares erupt on the Sun's surface, sent charged particles toward Mars, allowing several NASA spacecraft to study them.