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This artist’s conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have uncovered two of these early objects, dating back to about 13 billion years ago. The monstrous black holes are among the most distant known, and appear to be in the very earliest stages of formation, earlier than any observed so far. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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This 2016 Curiosity rover selfie shows the vehicle at the “Okoruso” drilling site on Mount Sharp’s Naukluft Plateau. The Martian scene is a mosaic of images taken with the arm-mounted Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

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A large, glowing orange-tan disk — the Sun — fills most of the frame against a black sky. A thin, dark, needle-like silhouette crosses near its left edge, trailing a bright, feathery plume that distorts and refracts the image of the disk, extending below it. A faint dark smudge of clouds sits near the center of the disk, as well as small dark specks of sunspots.s

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Pascal Fouquet, taken from Titusville, Florida

The Falcon Heavy booster carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aloft transits a rising Sun just after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. The photographer captured the moment with a Nikon DSLR and zoom lens at 500mm equipped with a 16.6-stop neutral-density solar filter. The exposure was 1/1250-seconds at f/8 and ISO 320.