Window on Infinity: A New Year’s Photo Album From Space
The universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, and has been gorgeous for every one of them—as this year-end collection of images from 2013 helps prove.
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A still image taken from a NASA movie of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon," released Dec. 4, 2013. The movie, made from images obtained by Cassini's imaging cameras, is the first to show the hexagon in color filters, and the first movie to show a complete view from the north pole down to about 70 degrees north latitude.
