British Astronaut Tim Peake Taking A Selfie. That Union Flag Is The First Of Its Kind To Have Ever Experienced

Solar system - Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Credit: NASA, ESA, SDO, Messenger, Mariner 10, Apollo 17, Rosetta, Hubble, Cassini, Voyager 2 & New Horizons

Boston Dynamics has shown off its new version of SpotMini, but now it’s also catching us up with its bipedal Atlas bot, the most humanoid of its creations. Atlas can now jump from elevated block to elevated block, and do a complete about-face in the air. It can leap pretty high, and also do a backflip – and then celebrate its backflipping ability. –

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies.

Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Apollo 13 - Mission Control by NASA on The Commons

Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size Planet in the Habitable Zone

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Astonishing Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on November 27, 2013.

The faint rings of Uranus, shot in 1986, are made of countless fragments of water ice containing radiation-altered organic material.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures

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Beautiful Saturn, observed by the Cassini probe on November 27, 2013.

(Ian Regan)