20. Here's what 7 years on Mars will do to a rover. This image shows NASA's Curiosity rover at the beginning of its mission versus now, seven years later.
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19. Images of Arrakoth, a Kuiper Belt Object orbiting 4 billion miles from Earth, helped scientists understand how this strange object formed.
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18. NASA's Juno spacecraft illuminates bright streaks of haze in Jupiter's atmosphere.
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16. As it approached the Sun in April, comet ATLAS disintegrated. Hubble captured this image of the comet's pieces.
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15. The Japanese Space Agency collected samples from an asteroid in 2020. Here's a close-up image of the asteroid Ryugu as the Hayabusa2 spacecraft descended.
14. On May 31st, SpaceX's Crew Dragon successfully docked with the International Space Station — carrying the first crew to fly on a commercial spacecraft.
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13. Hubble snapped this picture of a glittery galaxy, KK 246, resides in a region of empty space called the Local Void.
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12. People in Central Africa, the Southern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, Northern India, and South Central China got to enjoy a total solar eclipse in June.
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11. Astronauts on the International Space Station captured this picture of the aurora borealis shimmering over the Indian Ocean.
10. Saturn, in all its glory, and two of its tiny moons, captured by Hubble.
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9. NASA launched the Mars rover Perseverance on July 30.
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8. The Andromeda Galaxy's halo stretches so far that it's actually bumping into the Milky Way.
7. A crisp view of Jupiter and its ocean moon Europa, captured by Hubble.
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6. This Hubble images shows off the NGC 5643 galaxy in the Lupus constellation.
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5. In October, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission punched the asteroid Bennu to kick up rocks and dust. The craft will bring the material back to Earth.
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4. No, this isn't the Eye of Sauron. It's the most detailed image of a sunspot ever taken.
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3. This illustration shows how 40,000 stars in the Milky Way will move across the sky in the next 400,000 years.
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2. On December 7, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off for its 100th successful launch.
1. A complete X-ray map of the galaxy was completed earlier this year.
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