Venus from Open Space PopGrip canvas and The Hubble Heritage Team

and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

known as NGC 3293

This image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth

This stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet

Venus from Open Space PopGrip canvas and The Hubble Heritage TeamVenus is a dim world of intense heat and volcanic activity. Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway 'greenhouse effect.' The scorched world has temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction of most planets. Distance from the sun: About 67 million miles, about 3 4 as far as the Earth is from the