
Saturn is beautiful.
NASA’s InSight lander flipped open the lens cover on its Instrument Context Camera (ICC) on Nov. 30, 2018, and captured this view of Mars. Located below InSight’s deck, the ICC has a fisheye view, creating a curved horizon. Some clumps of dust are still visible on the camera’s lens. One of the spacecraft’s footpads can be seen in the lower right corner. The seismometer’s tether box is in the upper left corner.
Nick Blade (187030201) wrote:Planet with 30 huge rings discovered 420 light years away - and each one is tens of MILLIONS of miles wide
The massive rings were seen eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407
There are gaps in the rings, which indicate exomoons may have formed
Their diameter is more than two hundred times as large as Saturn's rings
If we could replace Saturn's rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon
The Gaia spacecraft gathered observations for this all-sky view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies between July 2014 and May 2016, releasing the data on April 25, 2018. This image shows all the stars' colors and brightness (top), the total density of stars (middle) and the distribution of interstellar gas and dust across the galaxy (bottom).