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Amateur astronomer "If offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on." — Christa McAuliffe, Teacher and Challenger Astronaut

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A corona mass ejection erupts from our sun on August 31, 2012 by NASA

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Galaxy Group Hickson 90

Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive, Oliver Czernetz

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Double Boomerang

This image of galaxy PKS 2014-55, located 800 million light years from Earth

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Asteroid Gaspra's Best Face - July 12th, 1998.

"Asteroid 951 Gaspra is a huge rock tumbling in space. Gaspra became one of the best-studied asteroids in 1991 when the spacecraft Galileo flew by. In the above photograph, subtle colour variations have been exaggerated to highlight changes in reflectivity, surface structure and composition. Gaspra is about 20 kilometers long and orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter."

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In Wolf’s Cave

Credits: Catching the Light

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Esquinzo Playa ✨

📍 Fuerteventura

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The Seagull Nebula

Credits: Frank Barrett

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Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams.

Image credit & License: CFHT, Coelum, MegaCam, J.-C. Cuillandre (CFHT) & G. A. Anselmi (Coelum)

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

2006 August 3

M27: Not A Comet

Credit & Copyright: Rick Krejci (RicksAstro Astrophotography)

Explanation: While searching the skies above 18th century France for comets, astronomer Charles Messier diligently recorded this object as number 27 on his list of things which are definitely not comets. So what is it? Well, 20th century astronomers would classify it as a Planetary Nebula ... but it's not a planet either, even though it may appear round and planet-like in a small telescope. Messier 27 (M27) is now known to be an excellent example of a gaseous emission nebula created as a sun-like star runs out of nuclear fuel in its core. The nebula forms as the star's outer layers are expelled into space, with a visible glow generated by atoms excited by the dying star's intense but invisible ultraviolet light. Known by the popular name of the Dumbbell Nebula, the beautifully symmetric interstellar gas cloud is about 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. This intriguing color composite view was recorded through narrow band filters sensitive to emission from hydrogen atoms (shown in red) and oxygen atoms (shown in blue/green).

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)

NASA Official: Jay Norris.

A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC

& Michigan Tech. U.

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NGC 3132: The Southern Ring Nebula

Credits: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA, Donald Waid

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Hubble image of interacting galaxy UGC 181

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NASA Celebrates July 4th With a Stunning Hubble Cosmic Sparkler From the Dawn of Time - Science News

Ancient stars shine in red, white, and blue from a globular cluster almost as old as the universe itself in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Dotter (Dartmouth College); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A dazzling new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope resembles a red, white, and blue sparkler lighting up the night sky.…

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Crux & Carina at Numbung Dunes, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 35mm - ISO 4000 - f/2.8 Foreground: 4 x 30 seconds Sky: 4 x 25 seconds iOptron SkyTracker

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Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast

Award-winning astronomy and space science news, bringing you the latest discoveries from NASA, ESA, leading observatories and research insti

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LDN 43, Cosmic Bat

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Celebrate Your Special Day With Hubble

This is the Veil Nebula, which Hubble saw on July 1, 2020.

Have you ever looked up what our Hubble Space Telescope saw on your birthday? (Or your anniversary, or your pet's adoption day, or...)

We've given our popular interactive page a new look — and, just as importantly, it now shows you five different cosmic sights Hubble was checking out on the day that you picked.

Take a look!