The Week's Coolest Space Photos
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Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week.

A Coronal Hole Faces Earth (Header Image)

Coronal holes are areas of open magnetic field that spew out charged particles as solar wind that spreads into space. If that solar wind interacts with our own magnetosphere it can generate aurora. In this view of the sun in extreme ultraviolet light, the coronal hole appears as the dark stretch near the center of the sun.

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Two Titans

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this fascinating world […] A large, bright and feathery band of summer clouds can be seen arcing across high northern latitudes in the view at right.

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A Baby Blanket For Stars

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it's one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system.

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The Wavy Clouds Of Saturn

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Clouds on Saturn take on the appearance of strokes from a cosmic brush thanks to the wavy way that fluids interact in Saturn's atmosphere.

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Jupiter, From A New Angle

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran

This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft. The tumultuous Great Red Spot is fading from Juno's view while the dynamic bands of the southern region of Jupiter come into focus. North is to the left of the image, and south is on the right.

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