Jupiter can be seen above the moon at night on May 12, 2013 in Duchang, China. It is rare to see Jupiter move so close to the moon.

A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M-class solar flare from the same region was subsiding. The images include light from the 131-, 171- and 304-angstrom wavelengths.

A GIGANTIC storm 1250 miles wide has been pictured on the surface of Saturn. The hurricane - which resembles a rose surrounded by green foliage - was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft over the north pole of our solar system’s sixth planet. Scientists calculate that the winds in the vortex are travelling as fast as 330 miles per hour. The snap is thought to be one of the first sunlit images of Saturn's North Pole. The area was in complete darkness when the spacecraft first arrived in 2004 as it was Northern Winter at the time. Scientists snapped the storm using different filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.