Orbiting into the daylight side of the dwarf planet, NASA's Dawn probe acquired new images of the bright spots that have grabbed scientists’ attention. Dawn will settle into near circular orbit during April 2015, then begin to gradually lower altitude for higher resolution views.
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.
