Planet Saturn Size:48" x 24" (122cm x 61 cm) Messier 43

Messier 43

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

The cluster is veiled by a mask of dust

The Hubble Space Telescope's Fine Guidance Sensors refined the distance to the Pleiades at about 440 light-years

Planet Saturn Size:48" x 24" (122cm x 61 cm) Messier 43Saturn's peaceful beauty invites Cassini for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecrafts approach to the planet. By this point in the approach sequence, Saturn was large enough that two narrow angle camera images were required to capture an end to end view of the planet, its delicate rings and several of its icy moons. The composite image is a 1x2 mosaic made of these images. Moons visible in this mosaic: Epimetheus (113