As part of my job, I had to look up some new images of galaxies and Saturn this past week. I know, my life is rough. I thought I'd share some pretty images with you all:

The Cassini spacecraft will be entering orbit of Saturn on July 1 - I'm thinking of throwing a party, I'm so excited. Why am I so excited? Check out the images it's already sending back!

This image was taken at a distance from Saturn corresponding roughly to one-third the average Earth-Sun distance:

And it can already spy Prometheus and Pandora shepherding the F-ring. Both moons are less than 70 miles in size, by the way.

My dear beloved Hubble Space Telescope takes the most amazing galaxy images. Here's a relatively new one of nearby NGC 300 - stars like grains of sand in another galaxy:

And this image shows one galaxy in front of another:

However, my favorite may well be these colliding galaxies:

Okay, so it's not a galaxy or Saturn, but if you look at the latest images from the SOHO spacecraft this weekend, you can see a bright comet plunging towards the Sun!