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ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way
ISS Over Africa via YouTube The best space images are the ones that put our humble place in perspective, whether it's an image from the moon or a particularly stunning nebula. This one accomplishes...
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Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Twister on the Martian Plains
A Twister on Mars NASA/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...
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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-Caltech Scientists 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 Toledo In this picture, you are looking at a...
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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...
If you were standing next to the Mars rover Curiosity, this is what you'd see. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together 407 images from two Curiosity cameras to come up with...
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Big Pic: A Hurricane On Saturn, In Incredible Technicolor
Saturn In Technicolor This 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...
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Big Pic: Hubble Space Telescope Captures The Ring Nebula In Astonishing Detail
The Ring Nebula New 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),...
View ArticleMars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
After a couple days of black-and-white imagery and blurry color thumbnails, the Mars rover Curiosity has downlinked its first full-color, 360-degree view of its new home in…
View ArticleNew Speckly Image Shows Non-Planet Pluto In the Sharpest Detail Yet
This blurry image of Pluto and Charon may not seem that impressive at first glance, but consider this: The resolution here is equivalent to separating a pair of car…
View ArticleCheck Out The Most Richly Detailed Image Ever Taken Of Uranus
Uranus looks a lot like some of our solar system's other planets in these spectacular new images from the Keck Observatory. Rather than beholding a pale bluish orb (like…
View ArticleHere Is What 84 Million Stars Look Like. You're Welcome.
In this picture, you are looking at a central concentration of ancient stars in the bulging part of our galaxy. The bulge is full of dust, gas and most of the stars in the…
View ArticleBigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars
The high-resolution image above shows a region on Mars called Charitum Montes, a mountain range on the planet's southern hemisphere. The brighter features are covered in seasonal carbon dioxide frost....
View ArticleHubble Captures Earliest Views Yet Of The Universe
Ever since the Hubble Space Telescope's final upgrade, astronomers have been able to push it farther and farther in look-back time--that's a technical term--to the infancy of the universe. Now they...
View ArticleFor The First Time, Astronomers See Giant Planets Helping Their Star Grow
As young stars form, they hoover up dust and gas around them, and the remaining material spins into a flat, rotating disk. Planets start out as small clumps in that disk,…
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