This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of 2024, less than two months after it launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Stars that lie between 150 to 300 light-years away appear in the mosaic as tiny dots of light, representing roughly 0.1% of the full sky that surrounds Europa Clipper. The four brightest stars visible in the image are Alchiba, Algorab, Gienah and Kraz from the Corvus constellation.
