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First ever black hole image released

NASA's Cassini probe just got closer to Saturn than ever before — here's what its death spiral is revealing To prevent Cassini from crashing into and contaminating the oceans on Saturn's moons, NASA has directed it onto a crash course with the planet itself.

Jupiter's clouds of many colors are seen in this image from our Juno spacecraft as it was racing away from the planet following its seventh close pass on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 km) above the cloud tops. Take a look: http://go.nasa.gov/2sBCBMe

Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3597 - the product of a collision between two galaxies - slowly evolving to become a giant elliptical galaxy. This type of galaxy has grown more common as the Universe has evolved, with initially small galaxies merging and progressively building up into larger galactic structures over time. See http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1602a/

ESA's deep-space tracking station in Malargüe, Argentina, will receive a €4m tech upgrade in the next 18 months to make it ready for future high-bitrate missions like BepiColombo, JUICE and Euclid. The upgrade was announced at the station today. News via http://www.esa.int/mlgupgrade Images credit: ESA/D. Pazos