1.
IMAGES
1.1. THE EROS ASTEROID A montage of images of the asteroid Eros assembled from images acquired by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR...
1.1. THE EROS ASTEROID A montage of images of the asteroid Eros assembled from images acquired by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft on 23 December 1998, as the spacecraft flew by the asteroid at a distance of 2300 miles (3800 km). (Courtesy the NEAR team, NASA and Johns Hopkins University).
1.2.
DUST AROUND YOUNG STARS
Dramatic pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are providing a new look at what may be the early formative stages of planetary systems; see also section 4.1. (Courtesy D. Padgett (IPACEaltech), W. Brandner (IPAC). K. Staplefeldt (JPL) and NASA).