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aspnotes: Go home train, you are drunk :D This is funny 😂
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Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height of about 2650 km from Lunar surface on August 21, 2019. Mare Orientale basin and Apollo craters are identified in the picture. #ISRO
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Chamaeleon II Dark Cloud A small constellation hiding near the south celestial pole, The Chamaeleon boasts no bright stars. Stars are forming within its constellation boundaries though, in a complex of dark, dusty molecular clouds. Some 500 light-years di
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Elements in the Aftermath Massive stars spend their brief lives furiously burning nuclear fuel. Through fusion at extreme temperatures and densities surrounding the stellar core, nuclei of light elements ike Hydrogen and Helium are combined to heavier ele
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IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The n
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The North America Nebula in Infrared The North America Nebula can do what most North Americans cannot – form stars. Precisely where in the nebula these stars are forming has been mostly obscured by some of the nebula’s thick dust that is opaque to visible
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Chandrayaan 2 Launch On July 22nd this GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) MkIII rocket vanished from sight into a cloud bank an instant after this dramatic snapshot was taken. Launched from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre it carried the Cha
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The Veins of Heaven Transfusing sunlight through a still dark sky, this exceptional display of noctilucent clouds was captured earlier this month, reflected in the calm waters of Vallentuna Lake near Stockholm, Sweden. From the edge of space, about 80 kil
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Cygnus Skyscape In brush strokes of interstellar dust and glowing hydrogen gas, this beautiful skyscape is painted across the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy near the northern end of the Great Rift and the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Composed with three
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HDR: Earth’s Circular Shadow on the Moon What could create such a large circular shadow on the Moon? The Earth. Last week’s full Moon – the Buck Moon – was so full that it fell almost exactly in a line with the Sun and the Earth. When that happens the Ear
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Moonquakes Surprisingly Common Why are there so many moonquakes? Analyses of seismometers left on the moon by the Apollo moon landings reveals a surprising number of moonquakes occurring within 100 kilometers of the surface. In fact, 62 moonquakes were de
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Apollo 11 Landing Panorama Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquili
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Eagle Aurora over Norway What’s that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days before this 2012 image was taken, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Although most of this
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The Eagle Rises Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view from lunar orbit. The 3D anaglyph was created from two photographs (AS11-44-6633, AS11-44-6634) taken by astronaut Michael Collins during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. It features
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Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon Where were you during the Great American Eclipse of 2017? A year ago last week, over 100 million of people in North America went outside to see a partial eclipse of the Sun, while over ten million drove across par
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Messier 20 and 21 The beautiful Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. About 5,000 light-years away, the colorful study in cosmic contrasts shares this well-composed, n
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Comet, Heart and Soul The greenish coma of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner stands out at the left of this telephoto skyscape spanning over 10 degrees toward the northern constellations Cassiopeia and Perseus. Captured on August 17, the periodic comet is the kn
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Active Prominences on a Quiet Sun Why is the Sun so quiet? As the Sun enters into a period of time known as a Solar Minimum, it is, as expected, showing fewer sunspots and active regions than usual. The quietness is somewhat unsettling, though, as so far
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Seeing Titan Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, Saturn’s largest moon Titan really is hard to see. Small particles suspended in the upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding Titan’s surfac
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Launch of the Parker Solar Probe When is the best time to launch a probe to the Sun? The now historic answer – which is not a joke because this really happened this past weekend – was at night. Night, not only because NASA’s Parker Solar Probe’s (PSP) lau
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M86 in the Central Virgo Cluster Is there a bridge of gas connecting these two great galaxies? Quite possibly, but it is hard to be sure. M86 on the upper left is a giant elliptical galaxy near the center of the nearby Virgo Cluster of galaxies. Our Milky
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The Pencil Nebula in Red and Blue This shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometers per hour. Near the top and moving up in this sharply detailed color composite, thin, bright, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a cos
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Eclipsed Moon and Mars over Mountains There is something unusual about this astronomically-oriented photograph. It’s not obvious – it was discovered only during post-processing. It is not the Moon, although capturing the Moon rising during a total lunar e
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Live: Cosmic Rays from Minnesota Cosmic rays from outer space go through your body every second. Typically, they do you no harm. The featured image shows some of these fast moving particles as streaks going through Fermilab’s NOvA Far Detector located in
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Trapezium: At the Heart of Orion Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the d
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Central Cygnus Skyscape Supergiant star Gamma Cygni lies at the center of the Northern Cross, famous asterism in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Known by its proper name, Sadr, the bright star also lies at the center of this gorgeous skyscape, featurin
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SPA Employee Recognized as One of “35 Under 35” in the Space Industry - Benzinga http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNG9WCTeXSLA3PFgKzI_M_QVG6eQMg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=TkdlW5HELYTa3gH2p5XABg&url=http://www.benzing
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