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This is Pluto as never seen before in human history.

NASAs Cassini spacecraft captured Saturns rings and planet Earth and its moon. This is only the third time that Earth has been capture from the outer solar system.

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Mother

By cocooned

It was very dark in that room, for the windows were mostly shards of broken glass and what was left of them was covered with thick curtains. There was no furniture, nor a carpet; nothing to absorb the sound of my breathing or the cold that seeped heavily into my bones. I remembered what I came for, and quickly found the keys that I had abandoned just a few minutes ago on the dusty mantelpiece.

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Lost in Thought by Michael Shainblum

The Lonely Galaxy

Most galaxies are part of a group or cluster where a neighboring galaxy is never far away. Galaxy NGC 6503 however, is an exception. This galaxy has found itself in a  lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void. The Local Void is a huge stretch of space that is at least 150 million light-years across.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA

Closer to Heaven

Pelican Nebula.

Credit: Tony and Daphne Hallas

IC 4603 by  Alessandro Falesiedi

The Eagle Nebula in Mapped Color.

Credit: Russell Croman

Mars

Saturn and Titan