It always gives me pleasure to go through NASA's archives, of thousands upon thousands of remarkably beautiful Space pictures. As usual, I've gleaned the most striking and impressive ones to share with you. Here is my new list of Space wonders.
Triton
Triton is Neptune's largest moon. This picture was taken in 1989 by Voyager 2, the only Spacecraft to ever pass by it. Voyager, at that time, also found evidence for ice volcanoes on the eerie surface of windy, cold Neptune.
Earth Rise
This is a remarkably rare picture, taken from deep space. It catches the earth rising above the Moon's limb.
Europa
Beautiful Europa is one of the smallest of Jupiter's moon. Europa is about the size of our own Moon, and also keeps one face pointed towards her home planet, Jupiter. Hers is the smoothest surface in the Solar system, and is covered with ice crystals.
The Blue Snowball
This blue snowball is a planetary nebula. This simply means that it's a ring of dust and gas which were blown off after a large star imploded (or exploded). Some colours here were added to highlight the steady emission of ions.
Mercury
Mercury stands closest to the Sun than any other planet in our Solar System. As a result of this, it is difficult for observers from earth to photograph this particular planet. Here is a rare photo taken by Mariner 10 (after 3 "drive-bys" in 1974 and 1975).
A Star Is Born
An impressive picture of a cute, young star.
Crab Nebula
A fantastic shot of a star which exploded just under a thousand years ago.
Io's Surface
Io is one of my favourite moons of Jupiter. I've saved pictures of her before, but here it is clear that her surface is filled with volcanic activity. Io is the Solar System's most volcanically active body. Her surface is ever changing because of the constant lava flows.
*All of the images shown above have been taken from the Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive.
Other Works in This Series of Space Pictures
Hell it is so ugly. Looks as like a picture of a persons butt who has colon+cancer+some martian gooey stuff. No. sorry, it looks even uglier than that!