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10 jaw-dropping space photos that defined 2024

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The first private spacecraft to ever reach the moon, Odysseus , landed on the moon in February .

NASA 's Juno spacecraft captured the closest view of Io in decades when it swooped within 930 miles ( 1,500 kilometers ) of the volcanic moon's surface.

The first image of an individual star, known as WOH G64, was captured by an astrophotographer in August .

Researchers captured the groundbreaking image using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile .

The sun belches pink in this photo, taken by NASA astrophotographer Keegan Barber , thanks to the sun's hydrogen, which emits reddish light at high temperatures.