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Bringing distances nearer, to all appearances: vintage telescopes.

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Bright-rimmed, flowing shapes gather near the center of this rich starfield toward the boarders of the nautical southern constellations Pupis and Vela. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, the grouping of light-year sized cometary globules is about 1300 light-years distant.

Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ) & DSS;

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Solitude

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Jupiter seen by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft

Animation taken from video: Jeff Quitney

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Photo from NASA from the ISS

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Jupiter with moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

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10 favorite photos from every Apollo mission → Apollo 12 (November 14 – November 24, 1969)

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I love the glare off the astronaut in the first photo. I love the smudges on the windows. High quality.

8.5/10

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Caldwell 69 by NASA Hubble

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Caldwell 45 by NASA Hubble

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Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

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“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“ 

The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)

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It’s really a shame that we’re going to have to do this again when the billionaires decide they need space slaves.

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The Dancing Auroras of Saturn via NASA https://ift.tt/3w03S72

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Planet Saturn, observed by NASA’s Cassini probe on March 30, 2014.

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Johannes Kepler Observatory located in Linz, Austria.

by: H. Raab