Saturn - Venus Mercury This image was taken on

This image was taken on July 6

The blast waves will trigger the formation of a new generation of stars inside the nebula in an ongoing cycle of star birth and death

it also ushered in a whole new class of planets called Hot Jupiters: hot

This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 29

or outward from Saturn

Saturn - Venus Mercury This image was taken onPeering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. The vast distance from Saturn means that Venus only shows up as a white dot, just above and to the right of the image center. Venus, along with Mercury, Earth, and Mars, is one of the rocky 'terrestrial' planets in the solar system that orbit relatively close to the sun. Though