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‘You Thought You Could Get Rid Of Me?’ Says Cassini Probe Emerging From Shadows To Confront Petrified NASA Administrator

WASHINGTON—Appearing silently and without warning in the space agency’s parking garage, the Cassini probe reportedly emerged from the shadows Monday and uttered “You thought you could get rid of me?” while confronting petrified NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot, Jr. “I bet you never thought you’d see me again, did you?” said the battered and scorched space craft, which reportedly came forth suddenly from behind a support column into the stark fluorescent light to confront the trembling NASA official. “Your mistake wasn’t trying to kill me, Robert—it was not finishing me off when you had the chance.” At press time, Lightfoot was reportedly on his knees begging Cassini for his life as he felt the cold metal of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator pressed directly against his temple.

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El Sol 18 8 2017 BN2 by Pepe Manteca on Flickr.

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This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1433.

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Hubble spies cosmic dust bunnies

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies.

Credit: NASA / ESA & Hubble

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Image of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015

Credit: NASA / New Horizons

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Heart of Orion

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The Great Nebula in Carina : In one of the brightest parts of Milky Way lies a nebula where some of the oddest things occur. NGC 3372, known as the Great Nebula in Carina, is home to massive stars and changing nebulas. The Keyhole Nebula , the bright structure just to the right of the image center, houses several of these massive stars and has itself changed its appearance. The entire Carina Nebula, captured here, spans over 300 light years and lies about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. Eta Carinae, the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Nebula in Carina has been a veritable supernova factory. via NASA

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Jupiters Clouds of Many Colors : NASAs Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles

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Pelican Nebula

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Whirlpool Galaxy

Messier 51, known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici. It was originally discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier on October 13, 1773.

Image credit: NASA / ESA

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Mountains of Dust in the Carina Nebula : It’s stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillar’s appearance is dominated by the dark dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Dust pillars such as these are actually much thinner than air and only appear as mountains due to relatively small amounts of opaque interstellar dust. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and highlights an interior region of Carina which spans about three light years. Within a few million years, the stars will likely win out completely and the entire dust mountain will evaporate. via NASA

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The Symphony of Northern Lights. Photo by Tom Charoensinphon. .

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The Horse Head nebula.

via reddit

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Iapetus, moon of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2007

Image credit: NASA / JPL

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Messier 96 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain on March 20, 1781. 

Image Credit: NASA/ESA & Hubble

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The Orion Nebula (M42) and Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977)

by: Joseph Brimacombe