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Space photo of the week: Hubble catches a 'baseball galaxy' with a black hole heart
By Jamie Carter published
ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy with an almost perfectly round disk and an active black hole lighting up its starry guts.

Space photo of the week: Ancient 'labyrinth of night' on Mars, one of the biggest mazes in the solar system
By Jamie Carter published
Take a trip through the maze-like valleys and canyons of a unique place in the solar system: Mars' 'labyrinth of night.'

Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a dwarf galaxy
By Jamie Carter published
The irregular dwarf galaxy UGC 8091 is likely a building block of ‘grand design’ galaxies like our Milky Way.

Space photo of the week: An eerie look at Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system
By Jamie Carter published
In our favorite space image of the week, NASA's Juno spacecraft got an unprecedented look at Jupiter's volcanic moon Io from just 930 miles away.

Space photo of the week: Uranus 'rings' in the New Year in stunning James Webb telescope image
By Jamie Carter published
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a stunning new portrait of ice giant Uranus, featuring its frigid rings and 14 of 27 moons.

Space photo of the week: Shimmering 'Christmas Tree Cluster' wishes happy holidays to the universe
By Robert Lea published
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helped to build a particularly festive image of the gas, dust, and young stars of NGC 2264, also known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster."

Space photo of the week: Swirling 'Spanish Dancer Galaxy' stares down NASA's Hubble
By Jamie Carter published
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snaps the dramatic swirling lines of spiral galaxy NGC 1566, also known as the Spanish Dancer Galaxy.

Space photo of the week: 'Magical' Milky Way cuts through the Valley of the Moon in Chile's Atacama Desert
By Jamie Carter published
Astrophotographer Petr Horálek shot this image of the Milky Way dazzling above strange geological formations in the desert close to the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile.

Space photo of the week: China's 'heavenly palace' space station looms in 1st complete image
By Harry Baker published
Chinese astronauts recently captured the first clear shot of the completed Tiangong space station as they were leaving the orbiting habitat to return to Earth.

Space photo of the week: Battling black holes pull two galaxies apart
By Jamie Carter published
Space photo of the week The Gemini South telescope captured the chaotic aftermath of a billion-year-old collision between two spiral galaxies — and their super-close supermassive black holes.
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