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The Great Red Spot

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The surface of Mars, as seen by the Curiosity Rover

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A fireball over Mount Rundle by Brett Abernethy

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Last Sunrise From a Year in Space

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a series of five sunrise photographs on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as he prepared to depart the space station and return to Earth aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. 

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Comet Lovejoy by Simon W

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Astronaut Scott Kelly captures a Earth/Moon/Venus/Jupiter alignment from the ISS

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Clouds casting thousand-mile shadows when viewed from the ISS

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The Rose Galaxies

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Astronaut Scott Kelly returning from Space

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Mercury

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A shooting star over Mount Rainier by Tanner Wendell Stewart

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The Milky Way Meteor Shower by jeremyjonkman on Flickr.

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hubble’s panorama of the carina nebula, some 7500 light years away from earth, and about fifty light years in length here. stars old and new illuminate clouds of cosmic dust and gas, like the clumping hydrogen from which they were born. 

the top star seen at the bisection of the first two panels, part of the eta carinae binary star system (most stars are in binary systems), is estimated  to be more than a hundred times the mass of the sun - large enough to go supernoava in about a million years. 

it also produces four million times as much light as the sun, and was once the second brightest star in the night sky. but surrounding dust and gas has dimmed our view of the star, though it’s still visible in the night sky to all but those in the most light polluted cities.

the fifth panel shows ‘the mystic mountain,’ where nascent stars in the dust cloud are spewing hot ionized gas and dust at 850,000 miles an hour. eventually, the ultraviolet radiation from these stars will blow away the dust, leaving visible the stars, like the cluster seen at the top of the panel, which were formed only half a million years ago.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 January 27 

An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky 

Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured last summer next to Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA. The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves, ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up. Unlike auroras powered by collisions with energetic charged particles and seen at high latitudes, airglow is due to chemiluminescence, the production of light in a chemical reaction. More typically seen near the horizon, airglow keeps the night sky from ever being completely dark.

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Alexander Pohl

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Interesting even though Lunar (Earth Moon) isn’t a planet but if they are going to add it to this why not display all the other moons from each planet I mean Jupiter has more than 49 and that number if constantly changing

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Spectacular “Space Glass” Pendants Let You Hold the Cosmos in the Palm of Your Hand