Newly arrived and soon-to-depart members of Expedition 73 prepared for what is to come next during this, their final week all together aboard the International Space Station.

Connections are a basic piece of human existence, and they come in different structures \u2014 companionships, family bonds, heartfelt organizations, from there, the sky is the limit.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago. Schoolchildren in Chile chose this astronomical target to celebrate 25 years of operation by the International Gemini Observatory.