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Iconic Photographs of Earth from Space

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there.

On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026 - “Hello World!”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026 - “Earthset”

Apollo 8 (William Anders), 1968 - “Earthrise”

Artemis II (Reid Wiseman), 2026

Voyager I, 1977

Mars Curiosity Rover, 2014 - “Martian Astronomer”

Cassini–Huygens, 2006 - “The Day The Earth Smiled” [NASA-enhanced composite RGB photo]

Voyager I, 1990 - “The Pale Blue Dot”

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In celebration of Juno's 50 orbits around Jupiter

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Jupiter Ascending

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🌌🌠✨ © Hubble space telescope

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Jupiter's Galilean Moons: Io, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede ©

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From Astronomy Picture of the Day**; March 2, 2025**:

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound NASA, ESA, Hubble; Sonification: G. Salvesen; Data: M. Rafelski et al.

Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your cursor over the featured image and listen! The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) was created in 2003-2004 with the Hubble Space Telescope staring for a long time toward near-empty space so that distant, faint galaxies would become visible. One of the most famous images in astronomy, the HUDF is featured here in a vibrant way -- with sonified distances. Pointing to a galaxy will play a note that indicates its approximate redshift. Because redshifts shift light toward the red end of the spectrum of light, they are depicted here by a shift of tone toward the low end of the spectrum of sound. The further the galaxy, the greater its cosmological redshift (even if it appears blue), and the lower the tone that will be played. The average galaxy in the HUDF is about 10.6 billion light years away and sounds like an F#. What's the most distant galaxy you can find?

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Jupiter Ascending

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Seoul, South Korea

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2017.8.15 Kubuneguchi Station

叡山電鉄 鞍馬線 貴船口駅

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Swirls of Jupiter

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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GORGEOUS!

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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble, License, Judy Schmidt

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#iceland 🇮🇸

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Jupiter Ascending

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The beautiful rings of Saturn in near infrared taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2014. 🪐

📷: NASA / Maksim Kakitsev

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Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017.

The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712) and Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695).

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