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Silhouette of the ISS
This is a picture of the International Space Station silhouetted against the sun This picture was taken during the solar eclipse August 21st. If you were unaware, this is the one you probably heard in
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The Center of the Galaxy
This is a picture of the center of the galaxy taken by the Spitzer Telescope source This is a picture by the Spitzer Space Telescope of the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The core of galaxies
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The Shadow of Saturn
This is a picture of Saturn taken by the Cassini Spacecraft. source This picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2015, just at the last moment the shadow of Saturn is still covering the main ring.
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The Orion Nebula
This is picture of the Orion Nebula, taken by the Spitzer telescope source This is a picture of an active area of star formation within the Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula is one of the few nebula that
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The Sunflower Galaxy
This is a picture Messier 63, which is known as the Sunflower Galaxy source This image was taken by the Spitzer Telescope. Spitzer takes images in infrared, so what is mainly highlighted is dust clouds.
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Texas, From Space
This is a picture of central Texas from Apollo 9. source This picture was taken by Apollo 9 Astronauts. Interstate 35 can be seen on the right side of the picture. You can also clearly see many rivers
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The Omega Nebula
Here is another good looking picture by the Hubble Space Telescope source This is a picture of the Omega Nebula, also called M17, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Since this area has a lot of star
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Andromeda Galaxy in Red
This is a picture of Andromeda by the Spitzer Space Telescope source The Spitzer Space telescope is strange. To effectively function some parts of the telescope must be close to absolute zero, while others
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A Cool Nebula
This is a picture of a nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope source This nebula is right outside the star cluster NGC 2074, which is about 170,000 light years away. This is an active area of star
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Dried Mud on Mars
This picture appears to be dried mud on the surface of Mars source This picture was taken by the Mastcam on the Curiosity Rover. This area is now called the “squid cove”. The picture was modified so that
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Double Eclipse
This is a picture of a double eclipse taken by NASA source This picture was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The Earth is in the Upper left and the moon is in the upper right. Before this picture
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Close-Up Picture of Jupiter
The atmosphere of Jupiter has many intricate patterns source This is a picture was made by the citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset, which is made out of information taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.This is
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The Surface of Mercury
Mercury is a barren lifeless planet, right up next to the sun. source This is a picture of Mercury taken by the Messenger space probe. The Messenger spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury,
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Twin Jet Nebula
This is a picture of PN M2-9, otherwise known as the “Twin Jet Nebula”. source This is a picture of a planetary nebula, more specifically a bipolar planetary nebula. These form in binary star systems.
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Coronal Hole
The Sun is an integral part of our lives, spend some time actually looking at it source This picture was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the extreme ultraviolet side of the spectrum. The
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Saturn and it’s moon Prometheus
Prometheus is an interesting moon, luckily we have pictures source This picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft. The small white blog near the middle-top is Prometheus. Most of the moon is covered
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Starburst Galaxy
Some galaxies have a massive rate of star formation, and one is close by source This is a picture of NGC 1569, by the hubble space telescope. The galaxy can be found past the constellation of Camelopardalis
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Sunrise Above Earth
Astronauts aboard the ISS take some very cool pictures of Earth source This picture was taken by astronauts on expedition 50. In this picture you can see a sliver of daylight over the edge of the Northern
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Neptune and its Atmosphere
At the time this was the most detailed picture of Neptune we had. source This picture was taken by Voyager 2. This image was taken from about 16 million kilometers away. You can see many interesting features
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The Sword of Orion
Here is a picture of Orion taken by the Hershel Space Observatory. source This picture was taken by the Hershel Space Observatory, which is run by the European Space Agency. The Orion Nebula is the closest
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