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Imagining Apollo 13 on the Lunar Surface via NASA https://ift.tt/2wyrnf0

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Edward White Taking the First Spacewalk by an American (desktop/laptop) Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

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Neutron Star Has a Wayward Wake (NASA, Chandra, 06/01/06)

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HiPOD 18 April 2020: North Polar Layered Deposits

  The North Polar layered deposits of Mars form a layered stack of dusty ice up to three kilometers thick. The differences from layer to layer are thought to reflect differences in the climate of Mars that existed when the layers were formed. We can see these internal layers exposed on the faces of the many troughs and scarps that cut through these deposits. One of these scarp faces is shown here; it is situated at the head of a large canyon (named Chasma Boreale) that cuts through these polar layered deposits. The section of the layered deposits that is exposed on this cliff face is unusual in that, as well layers of dusty ice, there are also layers of sand present. Small structures, called cross-beds, visible in the sandy layers indicate that each layer was originally a dune field that only later became covered with ice. Some of this sandy material is being removed from the cliff face and is forming new dunes at the foot of the cliff. ID: PSP_008244_2645 date: 29 April 2008 altitude: 321 km

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Hubble Views Galaxy From Famous Catalog

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Dotted across the sky in the constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel) is the galaxy cluster highlighted here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: SPT-CL J0615-5746, or SPT0615 for short. First discovered by the South Pole Telescope less than a decade ago, SPT0615 is exceptional among the myriad clusters so far catalogued in our map of the Universe — it is the highest-redshift cluster for which a full, strong lens model is published.

SPT0615 is a massive cluster of galaxies, one of the farthest observed to cause gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing occurs when light from a background object is deflected around mass between the object and the observer. Among the identified background objects, there is SPT0615-JD, a galaxy that is thought to have emerged just 500 million years after the Big Bang. This puts it among the very earliest structures to form in the Universe. It is also the farthest galaxy ever imaged by means of gravitational lensing

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev et al

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A large quasar group - the largest structure in the known universe at 4 billion light years across. Discovered by astronomers at UCLan in 2013 [1200x1920]

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The Orion Nebula

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Spectacular (by Rune Engebø)

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The Helix Nebula (desktop/laptop) Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

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February 7, 1984: Bruce McCandless goes on an untethered walk in space.

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February 9, 2010 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour photographed from the ISS as the orbiter approached the space station. (NASA)

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In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima. This is the view of debris in Earth’s magnetic field from a surveillance aircraft.

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Surround Sound - Orion Service Module for Artemis 1 Undergoes…