Europa clipper captures Uranus with star tracker camera

NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view—representing 0.1% of the full sky around the spacecraft—Uranus is visible as a larger dot near the left side of the image.