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A runaway star lights the Flaming Star Nebula in this cosmic scene. Otherwise known as IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula's billowing interstellar clouds of gas and dust lie about 1,500 light-years away toward the constellation of Auriga.

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Frozen beneath a cracked and pitted region in Mars’ mid-northern latitudes lies a sheet of ice with about as much thirst-quenching potential as Lake Superior.

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A fiery sunset seen by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station looks toward the South Atlantic. With Earth’s surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image.

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Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.

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Wonderful shot of the Milky Way taken in Canada!

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Star formation in the tadpole nebula. Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga.

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The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. Image credit: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari.

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An image of a fresh crater on Mars! The crater spans approximately 30m (100 ft) in diameter and is surrounded by a large, rayed blast zone. Because the terrain where the crater formed is dusty, the fresh crater appears blue in the enhanced colour of the image, due to removal of the reddish dust in that area.

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Looking down on Earth from space, the Space Station crew photographed these clouds that seemingly float just above the thin blue envelope of the planet's atmosphere.

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A close up view of Saturn's north polar hexagon.

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Ancient layered rocks on Mars appear in pale whitish and bluish tones. The various colors and tones of the rocks record changes in the composition of the sediments.

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The full moon appeared 30% brighter and 14% bigger than average earlier this week.

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The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae on Mars are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock we see today. The image was acquired at 15:25 local Mars time on June 28, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Great picture of the moon between the clouds.

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Sharpless 129 is an H-alpha emission nebula commonly called the Flying Bat Nebula located in Cepheus very close to the famous IC 1396 (the nebula that contains the Elephant's Trunk). The large blue/green nebula inside it, which is over a degree long, is formally known as Ou4 but is colloquially called the Squid (or Giant Squid) Nebula.

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The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus.

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They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks.

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Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is an open star cluster that lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).

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Stunning picture of the moon in colour!

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An aurora australis and Milky Way over Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand taken a few weeks back.

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NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Free In Space!

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Photograph of Earth below Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

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A new dwarf planet has been found within our Solar System. The newly discovered object (2014 UZ224) located beyond Pluto's orbit is believed to be large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet.

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At the center of a spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away, the Hubble Telescope saw a bright, whitish patch surrounded by a mixture of stars, gas and dust.

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Barnard 150 (B150) dark nebula, also known as the Sea Horse Nebula, is a type of interstellar cloud that is extremely dense that it blocks the light from the background emission or reflection nebula making it block out background stars. The absence of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds.

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Wonderful image of a rocket powering through the clouds taken back in 2011.

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Stunning blue-tinted sunset caught on Mars as seen by the Curiosity Rover.

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Truly great view of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.

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The Moon's surface in high-resolution and true colour taken by the Yutu Rover.

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Great snap of Phobos (the largest of the two natural satellites of Mars) hovering over the planet itself.

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