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The volcano Maat Mons on the surface of Venus is displayed in this simulated view created from data taken by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.

When the Cassini spacecraft took a 2013 image from above Saturn’s pole, its rings didn’t intersect the planet. In the same Cassini image, but with Saturn’s rings edited out, the planet loses some of its luster.

Shells of cosmic dust appear like tree rings around the star Wolf-Rayet 140 in this JWST image. Wolf-Rayet stars are at an advanced stage of their lifecycles, releasing heavy elements into space, and this one is part of a binary system with an O-type star, one of the most massive star types known. The remarkable regularity of the shells' spacing indicates that the layers form like clockwork during the system's eight-year orbit, when the two stars in the binary make their closest approach to one another.