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Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole’s extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different parts of the disk, producing the warped image.

Found - Three Black Holes On Collision Course

A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.

Naming of New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov

An optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an instrument called a coronagraph that will fly aboard the WFIRST space telescope.

SOLAR ORBITER IN MAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION FACILITY

Worlds orbiting stars other than our sun are “exoplanets,” and they come in many sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets. This illustration of a "super-Earth" represents the type of planet that the TESS mission aims to find outside our solar system.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this M7 class solar flare erupting from the Sun on Oct. 2, 2014.

Melt ponds on large sea ice floes north of Greenland, as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on Sept. 9, 2019.

Clarence Strait, Australia