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NASA has released a somber view of Saturn, created from some of the final images captured by the Cassini spacecraft. An annotated version of the image highlights the region of Saturn’s cloud surface in which Cassini ended its epic mission by diving into the atmosphere of the gas giant.

Our brains attempt to identify the true color of an object under changing light conditions is called "color constancy." Cameras don't have this ability, but bees do, and the way they interpret color under varying light conditions could lead to more accurate image-processing.

​​The European Southern Observatory has released a colossal 615 megapixel visible light image of a stunning collection of bright young stars that make up the Messier 18 open cluster. The detailed imagewas captured by the 2.6 m VLT Survey Telescope located at the ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

​The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the full disk of Mars prior to the Red Planet's closest approach to Earth in 11 years. Hubble snapped the Red Planet on May 12, 2016, at a distance of 50 million miles from Earth.

​NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunning, and seemingly impossible view of Saturn's iconic ring system intersecting with a second set of phantom rings.

The cosmos came into sharper focus this week with astronomers releasing the highest resolution astronomical image yet. The image of a black hole in a galaxy 900 millions light years away is detailed enough to show the equivalent of a US 50-cent piece on the Moon.

High resolution images snapped by NASA's Dawn spacecraft capture four of Ceres' craters in stunning detail. Dawn recently completed transitioning to its third and final mapping orbit, which will see it collect its most detailed images to date from a height of roughly 240 miles above the surface.

NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft has returned the most detailed view ever of a region of the dwarf planet Pluto. The image was taken on July 14th by the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from less than 9,550 miles (15,400 km) above the planet's surface.

​NASA has released two images showcasing a full rotation of the Dwarf Planet Pluto and its unusually large moon Charon.

A new image released from the Hubble Space Telescope is granting viewers a stunning view that encapsulates the beauty and complexity of the famous Veil Nebula.

During a planned calibration maneuver, ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has captured a stunning shot of a huge swathe of the Martian environment. The image, snapped on February 25, captures a number of impressive features present on the surface of the Red Planet.

ESO's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument has been focusing in on a patch in the night sky previously featured in Hubble's Deep Field South image. After only 27 hours, the instrument has captured detailed measurements of more galaxies with more detail than ever before.