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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
—James Thurber
Mother and Daughter
Dione was the daughter of Tethys in Greek mythology. In the real world, Saturn’s moons Tethys and Dione are not mother and daughter. They are more like sisters since they’re believed to have formed out of the same disk around Saturn.
Dione is the upper moon in the picture; Tethys is the lower.
Image Credit: NASA
NGC 5468
We see the galaxies around us in various orientations. NGC 5468 is a spiral galaxy which we see with an almost dead-on top-down view. Over the last couple of decades, NGC 5468 has hosted a number of supernovae: SN 1999cp, SN 2002cr, SN2002ed, SN2005P and SN2018dfg. Despite being just over 130 million light-years away, the face-on orientation of the galaxy with respect to us makes it easier to spot such new “stars” as they appear.
Image Credit: NASA / ESA
A Giant and a Dwarf
Video Credit: ESO
New Discoveries About the Sun
Video Credit: NASA
OSIRIS-REx at Bennu
Video Credit: NASA
