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Cassini Shoots Stunning New Images of Saturn
Rhapsody in Black This spectacular image of Saturn, released June 7 by NASA, shows sunlight scattered through the uppermost part of the planet's atmosphere. The sun is eclipsed in this photo, but...
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Galaxy Closeup Reveals Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets
Centaurus A Black Hole Jets This composite of visible, microwave (orange) and X-ray (blue) data reveals the jets and radio-emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A's central black hole. NASA Goddard...
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Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Enters Orbit Around Huge Asteroid
Vesta, Up Close NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image...
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Time-Lapse ISS Video of Earth Lets You Orbit in HD
Flying Above Earth at Nightvia YouTubeAs they soar above Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts frequently train their cameras toward home, and their shots are stored on a massive archive...
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Space Telescopes Paint A New View of Eagle Nebula
A New View of the Pillars of Creation Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite of far-infrared images from Herschel and X-ray images from XMM-Newton shows how hot...
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ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way
ISS Over Africavia YouTubeThe International Space Station affords a pretty decent view The best space images are the ones that put our humble place in perspective, whether it's an image from the moon...
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Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Twister on the Martian Plains
A Twister on MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Pictured: a Martian dust devil twisting across the Martian Amazonis Planitia region. The 100-foot-wide column of swirling air was captured by the Mars...
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Video: Flying Objects Punch Through Saturnian Ring, Blazing Glittery Trails...
Saturn's Weirdest Ring This montage shows various objects blasting through Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails of dust in their wakes. NASA/JPL-CaltechScientists scrutinizing Cassini imagery...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
Curiosity's First Panorama This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of Curiosity's landing site in Gale Crater on Mars. The panorama was made from 130 different 144-pixel by 144-pixel thumbnails...
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New Speckly Image Shows Non-Planet Pluto In the Sharpest Detail Yet
Pluto and Charon This speckle image reconstruction of Pluto and Charon was obtained in visible light with the Gemini North 8-meter telescope using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI)....
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Check Out The Most Richly Detailed Image Ever Taken Of Uranus
The New Face of Uranus Two faces of Uranus, as seen from the Keck II telescope in Hawaii. The Keck telescopes' adaptive optics made this image possible. Lawrence Sromovsky, Pat Fry, Heidi Hammel, Imke...
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Here Is What 84 Million Stars Look Like. You're Welcome.
84 Million Stars This is a gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way. Click here to enlarge. ESO/VVV Consortium, Acknowledgement: Ignacio ToledoThis is the largest, deepest, and most...
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BigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars
Charitum Montes ESA's Mars Express took this high-resolution view of Charitum Montes, seen here in natural color. Centered around 53°S and 334°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 20 meters...
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Hubble Captures Earliest Views Yet Of The Universe
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 This new image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign reveals a previously unseen population of seven faraway galaxies, which are observed as they appeared in a...
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For The First Time, Astronomers See Giant Planets Helping Their Star Grow
Planets Helping Stars Grow This artist's impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...
View Article4-Billion-Pixel Panorama Lets You Explore Mars As If You Were Standing Next...
Pan and zoom among 400 images from Curiosity's cameras. If you were standing next to the Mars rover Curiosity, this is what you'd see. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together...
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Big Pic: A Hurricane On Saturn, In Incredible Technicolor
Saturn In TechnicolorThis spectacular, vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark...
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Big Pic: Hubble Space Telescope Captures The Ring Nebula In Astonishing Detail
The Ring NebulaNew images of the Ring Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope are redefining the way astronomers understand its shape.NASA, ESA, C.R. Robert O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), G.J....
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Time-Lapse ISS Video of Earth Lets You Orbit in HD
Flying Above Earth at Night via YouTube As they soar above Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts frequently train their cameras toward home, and their shots are stored on a massive...
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Space Telescopes Paint A New View of Eagle Nebula
A New View of the Pillars of Creation Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite of far-infrared images from Herschel and X-ray images from XMM-Newton shows how hot...
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