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This artist’s conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have uncovered two of these early objects, dating back to about 13 billion years ago. The monstrous black holes are among the most distant known, and appear to be in the very earliest stages of formation, earlier than any observed so far. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Credit: Tim Doucette.

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This 2016 Curiosity rover selfie shows the vehicle at the “Okoruso” drilling site on Mount Sharp’s Naukluft Plateau. The Martian scene is a mosaic of images taken with the arm-mounted Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

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Abhijit Patil, taken from Death Valley National Park, California

Aurorae fill the sky over California’s Death Valley on the night of May 10/11. The imager used a Nikon Z 6II mirrorless camera (astromodified) and 14–24mm lens at 14mm and f/2.8 (with a UV/IR-cut and Hα-pass filter) to take a 10-second sky exposure at ISO 2000 and 30-second foreground exposure at ISO 3200.