... The Great Nebula in Orion . ... Interplanetary Spaceship Passes Earth . ... Last Thursday an interplanetary spacecraft flew right past the Earth. ... The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) . ... Jovian Aurora . ... These two recently released Hubble Space Telescope close-ups show the Northern and Southern lights ... on Jupiter. Like aurora on Earth, these Jovian aurora are caused by charged particles funneled into the atmosphere above the planet's North (right) and South poles by magnetic fields. ...