While films such as James Cameron's Avatar and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones depict spaceships powered by solar sails by emphasizing special effects over scientific accuracy, one of NASA's upcoming missions is planning to tell a big-screen story with a real-life solar sail.
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.
