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Colorful Aurora over Iceland!

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High resolution image of the Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's year 6 of activity composite production.

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A high resolution photo of Venus.

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Beautiful night-time shot of a landscape rock formation with the Milky Way covering the sky.

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NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever observed in planetary nebulae.

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NASA’s Curiosity snaps picture of beautiful dunes on Mars.

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Stunning image taken in Tasmania, Australia showing when the Milky Way and Aurora Australis meet.

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When an asteroid or other object impacts the surface of a planet, material that was originally beneath the surface is thrown up and out causing scenes like this image captured by NASA’s Mars orbiter. Source: NASA

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Here is the Cat’s Eye Nebula (aka NGC 6543) taken from Hubble. It is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen. Planetary nebulae form when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers, creating amazing and confounding shapes as seen in the image.

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The Sombrero Galaxy is one of the most unusual looking barred spiral galaxies visible from Earth. Its bright nucleus, large central bulge and spiral arms threaded through with a thick dust lane make it look a little like a hat from Mexico. The dust lane is a ring that circles the bulge of the galaxy, and it is rich with gas, dust, and hydrogen gas. Source: Space-Facts.

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The Red Planet isn't always—well, red. As seen in this false-color image from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars orbiter, sometimes Mars is blue. 

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One of the new high resolution images of Earth taken from the weather satellite GOES 16.

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The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.

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Once upon a time, Mars had lakes, or at least wetter conditions than it does today. The latest from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud, evidence of an ancient era when these sediments were deposited were.

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The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

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Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars.

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Here is what Mars would look like with oceans.

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A view of Earth and its moon from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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NGC 1973/5/7 is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. The three NGC objects are divided by darker regions. It is also called The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.

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Pandora, one of Saturn’s moons close up! Just in, this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of this moon. 

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Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. The image shows the stunning diversity of Europa’s surface geology. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has been broken up and re-frozen into new patterns.

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Fantastic image of the "Eye of Africa" taken from the ISS.

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The Cartwheel Galaxy is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is an estimated 150,000 light-years diameter, and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 × 10⁹ solar masses; it rotates at 217 km/s.

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Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, joins the moon and Mercury as the only known airless worlds with frozen water on the surface.

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The Tadpole Galaxy is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth toward the northern constellation Draco.

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Hurricane on Saturn's North Pole.

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The Milky Way from the Bahamas.

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The atmosphere of Pluto.

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The first time humans saw Earth from the Moon.

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Here is what the Earth looked like 4 billion years ago during the Hadean eon.

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