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In this Hubble Space Telescope image, researchers has revisited one of Hubble’s most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret.

This 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, constellation.

Appearing as strings of orange dots, the brightest sets of dots belong to asteroids Klotho and Lina. Both orbit out in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

In March 2017, Peggy Whitson broke the then-spacewalking record for female astronauts.