Imagery captured in the days leading up and following the Sun erupting with an X-28 class solar flare in October 2003. According to NASA, the coronal mass ejections "saturated the (Solar and Heliopsheric Observatory) cameras with snow-like artifacts."
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
