
ALT A close-up selfie of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, showing its head-like mast, cameras, and intricate mechanical components. The rover's Mastcam-Z cameras appear like a pair of "eyes," and its SuperCam instrument, a circular lens at the top, is prominently visible. Wires, joints, and other hardware are detailed against the backdrop of the Martian surface, with a hazy, beige sky and rocky terrain in the distance.

ALT A Gilded Age editorial cartoon of a frowning Uncle Sam giving a blood transfusion to a gargantuan business-man whose waistcoat is labeled 'protected monopolies.' The businessman's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background has been replaced with a halftoned EU flag whose blue field is covered in circuit-board traceries. The floor beneath the figures is an abstract, pinkish pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- EFF https://www.eff.org/files/issues/eu-flag-11_1.png CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

ALT This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud in infrared light as seen by the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Golden brown ribbons of dust ripple across a roughly circular shape that nearly fills the image, fading at the edges into an orangish glow. Small, glowing, white patches in the galaxy show where newborn stars are heating up the dust around them. The largest and brightest star-forming region, in the center-left of the galaxy, is called 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. The image is watermarked “Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI.”















