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The Dancing Auroras of Saturn via NASA https://ift.tt/3w03S72

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The Far Side Of Pluto. 📷 NEW HORIZONS TEAM/NASA

Ultraviolet 25 Image Composite of the Sun

Jupiters Clouds of Many Colors : NASAs Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles

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Path traced by these planets as seen from Earth

Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter

Guys. Guys. Look at how high-definition this is. LOOK AT IT. This isn’t a movie. This isn’t CGI. This is OUR FUCKING SOLAR SYSTEM. A;LSKJFA;WFEW

Juno Captures Elusive ‘Brown Barge’ : A long, brown oval known as a “brown barge” in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. (via NASA)

Jupiter in Near-Infrared  Jupiter and Ganymede in Near-UV and Blue 

 by Judy Schmidt

Small Collisions Make Big Impact on Mercury’s Thin Atmosphere by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center https://flic.kr/p/YDt6y1

This image shows an enhanced colour, daytime and stereographic image of Jupiter’s south pole. 

It was imaged by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter.

Are you a superhero fly with IR-vision? If so, this is how you see Titan. (the largest moon of Saturn, it’s 50% bigger than ours, with a thick atmosphere) @nasa

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Planet Jupiter, observed by NASA’s Juno probe on December 16, 2017. Processing by David Marriott.

This shot of Pluto, taken by New Horizons just minutes after closest approach

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory /Southwest Research Institute/Ian Regan.

Rhea and Saturn by Gordan Ugarkovic