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Schmitt with Flag and Earth Above
Geologist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed next to the American Flag during extravehicular activity (EVA) of NASA's final lunar landing mission in the Apollo series. The photo was taken at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet earth in the distant background.
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Swirls and Colors on Jupiter from Juno
What creates the colors in Jupiter's clouds? No one is sure. The thick atmosphere of Jupiter is mostly hydrogen and helium, elements which are colorless at the low temperatures of the Jovian cloud tops. Which trace elements provide the colors remains a topic of research, although small amounts of ammonium hydrosulfide are one leading candidate. What is clear from the featured color-enhanced image -- and many similar images -- is that lighter clouds are typically higher up than darker ones. Pictured, light clouds swirl around reddish regions toward the lower right, while they appear to cover over some darker domains on the upper right.
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Unseen photos of NASA's Apollo space missions
A new book brings together breathtaking photos taken by Apollo astronauts, many of which were previously unpublished.
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Halo of the Cat's Eye
Not a Falcon 9 rocket launch after sunset, the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symmetries are seen in the very central region of this composited picture, processed to reveal an enormous but extremely faint halo of gaseous material, over three light-years across. Made with data from ground- and space-based telescopes it shows the extended emission which surrounds the brighter, familiar planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a sun-like star. But only more recently have some planetaries been found to have halos like this one.
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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Jupiter looks a bit different in ultraviolet light. To better interpret Jupiter's cloud motions and to help NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft understand the planetary context of the small fields that it sees, the Hubble Space Telescope is being directed to regularly image the entire Jovian giant. The colors of Jupiter being monitored go beyond the normal human visual range to include both ultraviolet and infrared light.
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The Galaxy Tree
First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy.
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Lunar Eclipse of the Century | Pictures
A full moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon before a lunar eclipse in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece.
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Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 shortlist gallery
See amazing astrophotography from the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 shortlist
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U S High School Citizens Time Lapse Talk 17 Salad Melt ?One Day a Year… for the Salad. Yeah.John De Crevecouer Go for it.
One Day a Year… for the Salad. Yeah. John De Crevecouer Go for it.
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Postcard from the Ring Plane
On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings). "Above" and "below" the rings is mostly a matter of perspective here. All three moons and the rings orbit Saturn in roughly the same plane.
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A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible
Bright dots that look like snow are in fact stars.
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Play Saturns Rings Like a Harp
Sure, you've seen Saturn's rings -- but have you ever heard them?
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Twilight in a Western Sky
: A slender crescent Moon and inner planets Venus and Mercury never wander far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies,taken March 18,2018.
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Curiosity Rover: 2,000 Days on Mars
The Nasa robot this week celebrates 2,000 martian days investigating the surface of the Red Planet.
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Jupiter Storm Blooms in Rosy Photo by NASA Probe
A new photo shows a swirling maelstrom on Jupiter through rose-colored glasses.
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Stunning Mars images, from Curiosity
The Curiosity rover has sent back some beautiful new images of the foothills of Mount Sharp in Gale crater on Mars.
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Nasa reveals stunning pictures of Jupiter like nobody has ever seen before
Jupiter is covered in intense, massive storms far more complex than anyone had expected, Nasa has revealed. The geometric clusters of cyclones that cover the planet's poles are just one of the various discoveries reported by scientists studying data sent back from Nasa's Juno spacecraft, which is circling the planet. The team has seen the cyclones churning in Jupiter's deep atmosphere in far greater detail than ever before
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The Week's Coolest Space Images
Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week.
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NASA Probe makes History by Snapping the most Distant Photos taken Away from Earth
Breaking Voyager 1’s record
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Remarkable Image Captures Surface Details of a Dying Star Located 530 Light-Years Away
By combining the power of four telescopes, an international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image yet of a distant star—an observation that’s meshing well with pre-existing theories about the physical characteristics of giant stars.
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