Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Day in the Life of Pluto
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/a-day-on-pluto-a-day-on-charon"> NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</a>01SPoW-Nov20-07
New Horizons releases a composite photo that captures an entire “Pluto day,” which is is 6.4 Earth days long. The multiple images show the dwarf planet from 10 angles, offering details of Pluto’s many features.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/northwest-australia-from-the-space-stations-earthkam"> NASA/EarthKAM.org</a>02SPoW-Nov20-06
The EarthKAM program allows students to control a camera aboard the International Space Station. Here is an image of the northwest corner of Australia, taken remotely by a student. The program hopes to teach participating students about evironmental science, geography and space communications.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-s-stereo-a-resumes-normal-operations">NASA/STEREO</a>03SPoW-Nov20-01
Here the sun has been colorized green to show wavelengths of 195 angstroms, which are invisible to the human eye. It was taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager aboard STEREO-A, which until the first of this month had limited capabilities because of its position behind the sun.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-views-a-young-elliptical-galaxy">ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU</a>04SPoW-Nov20-02
ESO’s VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive "monster" galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy. By discovering and studying more of these galaxies than ever before, astronomers have for the first time found out exactly when such monster galaxies first appeared. The newly discovered massive galaxies are marked on this image of the UltraVISTA field.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1545b/">ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU</a>05SPoW-Nov20-03
A few of the newly discovered massive galaxies are shown in close-up on these small subsets of the UltraVISTA field.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-views-a-young-elliptical-galaxy">ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt </a>06SPoW-Nov20-04
The galaxy is NGC 3610 is unique. Though it is an elliptical galaxy, it contains a very bright disk commonly found in spiral galaxies. Scientists have determined this means NGC 3610 is fairly young, still bearing signs of the collision of the two or more disk galaxies that formed it.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/a-day-on-pluto-a-day-on-charon">NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</a>07SPoW-Nov20-08
New Horizons captured images of the largest of Pluto's five moons, Charon, rotating over the course of a full day. The best currently available images of each side of Charon taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation of the moon.
