The moment the Sun rises on the Moon

Admire the most beautiful cosmic images posted in National Geographic magazine in the past week.

This figure illustrates the ULAS J1120 0641 quasar . This is a distant quasar. The most solar system is discovered. It is powered by a black hole with 2 billion times the mass of the Sun. The scientists calculated that the quasar could appear about 770 million years after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.7 billion years ago.

The Moon probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the US Space Agency (NASA) recorded the last sunrise on June 10 at the Tycho crater on the Moon. This 82 km wide basin can be seen from the Earth with the naked eye.

A NASA satellite recorded the Nabro volcano in Eritrea on June 24. Nabro Volcano is located near the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Smoke from this volcano has caused many flights in the vicinity to be postponed and canceled.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope just captured the latest image of the M78 Nebula. This nebula consists of two circles with the glow of the newly born stars.

It seems that Saturn's Titan Moon is partially cut by an arc around the planet. The image was recorded by NASA's Cassini probe on June 27. Unlike the Earth's Moon, Titan Moon is largely covered by nitrogen gas.