Here's why astronauts don't use pencils in space.

NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft, launched in August 2011, took five years to reach and settle into orbit around the gas giant, which is more than 415 million miles from Earth. The probe is photographing Jupiter's poles for the first time, detecting bizarre cloud formations, recording mysterious auroras, and scanning deep into the planet's thick cloud tops, sending every piece of information it can get back to Earth.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman makes some amazing photos from the International Space Station and shares it via Twitter. The views are simply stunning and worth seeing.

Astronaut Tim Peake has been aboard the International Space Station for 6 months and here is what beauty he managed to capture.