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NASA plans to send a spacecraft to within 6.5 million kilometers of the sun's surface next summer. Here’s an artistic rendering of the Parker Solar Probe heading toward the Sun. On May 31, the spacecraft was named to honor astrophysics Eugene Parker who discovered the solar wind in 1958. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).

May 2017 – Science Images

June 1, 2017

Engineer Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of a giant bank of xenon short-arc lamps at the DLR German national aeronautics and space research center in Germany. When switched on, what is being called the world’s largest artificial sun creates combined intensity that's 10,000x stronger than sun's light on Earth's surface and produces temperatures of around 2,982° Celsius. The photo was taken on 3/21/17 (AP)

March 2017 Science Images

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February 2017 Science Images

March 1, 2017

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released 7/25/16, reveals the vibrant core of the galaxy NGC 3125. The galaxy is located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, Judy Schmidt)

July 2016 Science Images

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October 2015 Science Images

November 2, 2015

Mother and baby share a smile (FennecCooper/Creative Commons

Babies Smile to Make You Smile Back

September 24, 2015

Most people agree that there’s something very special about a baby’s smile. But is there a purpose behind that smile? What are they trying to communicate to us? A new multidisciplinary study has found that babies smile to get you to interact with them and smile back. Writing in the recent issue of the journal PLOS […]

“There’s no place like home!” A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. (NASA)

July 2015 Science Images

July 31, 2015

A red aurora as seen from the International Space Station and tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly on June 22, 2015. (NASA)

June 2015 Science Images

June 29, 2015

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