SpaceX Photobombs the Moon and More of the Week's Best Space Images

Hubble views a distant galaxy

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz)

This stirring image of UGC 11105, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the distant, almost comically perfect, spiral galaxy, which is located approximately 110 million light-years away from Earth in the Hercules constellation.

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An artistic rendering of NASA's Orion spacecraft returning to Earth

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The Orion spacecraft, the Moon, and Earth

With Artemis 2 Flying Home, NASA Is Already Teasing Artemis 3

The agency is already formulating the next Artemis mission, which will test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and one or both of NASA’s Moon landers.

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