Mars-Curiosity - Self Portrait Sun 2 Earth days

2 Earth days

A dense plume of what is likely ash and smoke is streaming southward from the volcano and out over the Mediterranean Sea

to old cool stars

has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion - an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars and developing protostars

Mars-Curiosity - Self Portrait Sun 2 Earth daysThis self portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013), plus three exposures taken during Sol 270 (May 10, 2013) to update the appearance of part of the ground beside the rover. The updated area, which is in the lower left quadrant of the image, shows gray powder and two holes where Curiosity used