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China's Yutu rover rides away from Chang'e 3 Moon lander
December 22, 2013
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Everything we've learned about Pluto this week
NASA’s New Horizons has sent back a trove of new data about the dwarf planet - from ice plains to atmospheric haze.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day, July 27: Milky Way and Aurora Over Antarctica
Snow, aurora, Milky Way, aurora, snow
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M5 (NGC 5904)
Globular cluster in the constellation Serpens
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NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
Astronomy Picture of the Day, October 2, 2014
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NGC 6357: A Cathedral to Massive Stars
Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 18, 2012
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M6 - The Butterfly Cluster (NGC 6405)
An open cluster near the tail of the constellation Scorpius
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Glowing 'Ghost of a Star' Captured By Chile's Very Large Telescope
This glowing space bubble looks like something from Star Trek, but it's actually a planetary nebula captured by the Very Large Telescope.
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The Moon Passing in Front of the Earth, As Seen from 1 Million Miles Away
Last month, NASA shared the first full photo of Earth captured with its new DSCOVR camera that's floating 1 million miles away. R camera that’s floating 1 million miles away. Today it released another amazing series of shots, with this one showing the moon floating across the face of the Earth. The 20-second video above strings a number of the pictures together.
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From Space, Astronaut Snaps Photo of Planets Aligned
Scott Kelly caught the moon, Earth, Venus, and Jupiter in a row from his perch on the International Space Station.
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Brocchi's Cluster (aka The Coathanger or Collinder 399)
Sometimes described as an open cluster but more likely an asterism, the Coathanger was first described in 964 AD and is found in the constellation Vulpecula.
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Gomez's Hamburger
A planetary nebula; not edible
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M7 (NGC 6475, Ptolemy's Cluster)
Open cluster in the constellation Scorpius
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17 Spectacular Photos Of This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower
The best meteor shower of the year is upon us right now. If you go outside to a dark enough place, far from the city lights, you may spot tons of shoo...
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Asterism - Orion's Belt
From east to west the stars comprising the belt are: Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak.
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M8 (NGC 6523) - The Lagoon Nebula
Emission nebula found in the constellation Sagittarius
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Earth and Jupiter Seen in a Single Photo Taken From Mars
Planetary conjunctions are beautiful to photograph from Earth, but send a camera to another planet in the Solar System, and you can shoot a planetary conju
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M1: The Crab Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope
This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments that appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town.
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Spactacular Centaurus A galaxy
Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material. Hubble’s new observations, using its most advanced instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3, are the most detailed ever made of this galaxy. They have been combined here in a multi-wavelength image which reveals never-before-seen detail in the dusty portion of the galaxy.
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Hubble Captures an Image of Twin Jet Nebula
The Twin Jet Nebula, also known as PN M2-9, was discovered by the German-American astronomer Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. Ordinary planetary nebulae have one star at their center, bipolar nebulae like the Twin Jet Nebula have two. The two stars at the heart of the nebula circle one another roughly every 100 years.
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