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The Pillars of Creation in this star-forming region reveal young stars through #Chandra's X-rays (red/blue), with one hidden in a pillar. Webb's infrared adds more detail (red, green, blue).
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Infrared Uranus, its rings and Moons captured by the monster 10 meter W. M. Keck Observatory Telescope in Hawaii
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NGC 7331 and Beyond Image Credit : Ian Gorenstein Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus
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In 2019, biologist Eleanor Lutz combined five different data sets to produce this image of every known thing in our solar system with a diameter bigger than 10 kilometers.
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The Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (SagDIG) is located nearly 3.4 million light-years away, making it the furthest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way.
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Jim Irwin with the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon. Mons Hadley is in the background. Taken on 31 July 1971
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An amazing high resolution image of Saturn taken by NASA's space probe Cassini.
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Enceladus, Saturn's 6th largest moon, has a warm ocean with hydrothermal vents. This is the first ever discovered outside of Earth, and makes for the most habitable off-world environment ever found.@
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Most "moonlet" asteroids are shaped like upright footballs, but Dimorphos (before NASA's DART spacecraft impacted it) was more like a squished sphere.
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The Cassini spacecraft's final full photo of Saturn, taken shortly before plunging into the gas giant's atmosphere in 2017
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The Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (SagDIG) is located nearly 3.4 million light-years away, making it the furthest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way.
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Iapetus is a rugged, icy moon of Saturn. It’s notable for its enormous equatorial ridge & multiple massive craters. This majestic moon features a stark contrast between its dark
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This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on January 1, 2024, showing a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos where water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake
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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.
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You've all seen the new SpaceX rocket engine, here's the bottom plumbing of the upcoming Orion space Capsule built by Airbus and Lockheed that will go to the moon.
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The Soyuz capsule hangs from the International Space Station over a stream of aurora.
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Mineral Moon that i shot from Italy, Just in time for yesterday's International Moon Day
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On July 21, 1969 the ascent stage of the Lunar Module was captured by Michael Collins making its approach to the Command and Service Module, with the Moon below, and Earth far in the distance.
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55 years ago today (20 Jul 1969) humans landed on the moon. Wheels on luggage had not been invented yet, but we did this. ❤️📸
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The breathtaking view of Saturn, captured by the Cassini spacecraft, spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across 👀❤️
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