Saturn - Venus Mercury Ancient craters remain somewhat pristine

Ancient craters remain somewhat pristine in some locales

The blast waves will trigger the formation of a new generation of stars inside the nebula in an ongoing cycle of star birth and death

These rogue planets glow faintly from the heat of their formation

The new Chandra observations of these low-mass stars were made of the region known as the "Wing" of the SMC

Saturn - Venus Mercury Ancient craters remain somewhat pristinePeering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. The vast distance from Saturn means that Venus only shows up as a white dot, just above and to the right of the image center. Venus, along with Mercury, Earth, and Mars, is one of the rocky 'terrestrial' planets in the solar system that orbit relatively close to the sun. Though