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Mojave Desert

A very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn

If Andromeda were brighter, this is how it would look in our night sky.

Distance to Earth: 2.537 million light years.

Night sky over Paradise Valley

Jupiter’s Stormy North

See Jupiter’s northern polar belt region in this view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

This color-enhanced image was taken on Dec. 16, 2017 at 9:47 a.m. PST (12:47 p.m. EST), as Juno performed its tenth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 5,600 miles (8,787 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 38.4 degrees north.

Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. This image has been processed from the raw JunoCam framelets by removing the effects of global illumination. Jónsson then increased the contrast and color and sharpened smallscale features. The image has also been cropped.

Images taken by the International Space Station (ISS)