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Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week!
By Doris Elin Urrutia 9 hours ago Spaceflight
(Image: © NASA/ESA/E. Rivera-Thorsen )
An exoplanet-hunting mission captures a beautifully cosmic panorama, a Jupiter probe views the marbled cloud tops of the giant planet and the Cygnus cargo spacecraft reaches the space station. These are just some of the top photos this week from Space.com.
Celestial Panorama From TESS
(Image credit: NASA/MIT/TESS/Ethan Kruse/USRA)
This mosaic of the southern sky is a combination of 208 images snapped by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite during the alien-world-hunting missions first year of science operations. The Milky Way, the Orion Nebula (near the top) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (at the center) are visible in this mesmerizing composition.
Full Story: NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Spacecraft Snaps Spectacular Panorama of the Milky Way
More images with their articles:
https://www.space.com/32252-amazing-images.html