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The prominent ridge of #emission featured in this #sharp, colorful #skyscape is cataloged as IC 5067. Part of a largeremission nebula with a distinctive shape, popularly called The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years following the #curve
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In this early May #night #skyscape, a mountain road near Bursa, Turkey seems to lead toward #bright planets Mars and Saturn and the #center of our Milky Way #Galaxy, a direction nearly opposite the Sun in #planet Earth's sky. The brightest #celestial beac
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What forms #lurk in the #mists of the Carina Nebula? The dark #ominous figures are actually molecular clouds, knots of #molecular #gas and #dust so thick they have become #opaque. In comparison, however,these clouds are typically much less #dense than Ear
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In #front of a #famous #background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees. Known as quiver trees, they are actually #succulent aloe #plants that can #grow to tree-like #proportions. The quiver tree #name is derived from the #histori
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#Jupiter has #auroras. Like near the #Earth, the #magnetic field of our #Solar System's largest #planet compresses when impacted by a #gust of charged particles from the #Sun. This magnetic #compression funnels charged particles towardsJupiter's poles and
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#Planets, stars, nebulas and a #galaxy -- this impressive image has them all. Closest to home are the two #planets Mars (right) andSaturn (#center), #visible as the two bright orange #spots in the upper half of thefeatured #image. On the #central right ar
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Shown in this #Hubble #Space #Telescope image, NGC 4394 is the archetypal #barred #spiral #galaxy, with bright spiral #arms emerging from the ends of a #bar that cuts through the galaxy’s #central #bulge. These arms are peppered with young blue #stars, da
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These !cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away, in the #fertile starfields of the #constellation Cepheus. Called the #Iris #Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers, though. Still, this #deep #telescopic image sh
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Makemake, second #brightest #dwarf #planet of the #Kuiper belt, has a #moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake's moon reflects #sunlight with a #charcoal-#dark surface, about 1,300 times #fainter than its parent body. Still, it was spotted in #Hubble #Space #Telesc
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The combined #light of stars along the Milky Way are reflected by these #cosmic #dust clouds that soar some 300 light-years or so above the plane of our #galaxy. Dubbed the Angel #Nebula, the faint apparition is part of an expansive complex of #dim and re
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A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal uses data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and four ground-based telescopes to determine the distance from a star to the inner rim of its surrounding protoplanetary disk. Researchers used a method call
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What makes this #spiral #galaxy so long? Measuring over 700,000 light years across from top to bottom, NGC 6872, also known as the #Condor galaxy, is one of the most elongated barred spiral galaxies known. The #galaxy's protracted #shape likely results fr
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It's easy to get #lost following the intricate strands of the Spaghetti #Nebula. A supernova remnant cataloged as Simeis 147 and Sh2-240, the glowing #gas #filaments cover nearly 3 degrees -- 6 full moons -- on the #sky. That's about 150 light-years at th
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#Newborn stars are forming in the #Eagle #Nebula. This image, taken with the Hubble #Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous #globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of #molecular #hydrogen #gas and #dust. The #giant pillars are #light years in l
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Blown by the #wind from a massive star, this #interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar #shape. Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble #Nebula. Although it looks delicate, the 7 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of
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A #prototype 13-kilowatt #Hall #thruster is tested at #NASA's Glenn #Research #Center in #Cleveland. This prototype demonstrated the #technology readiness needed for industry to continue the development of high-#power #solar #electric #propulsion into a f
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Inner #planet #Venus and a thin #crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in #planet Earth's skies. Taken near dawn on April 6, this #timelapse #composite shows them both rising just before the #Sun. The mountaintop #Teide Observatory #domes on the
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Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched the #Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, an #astronomical #satellite that transformed our #knowledge of the high-#energy #sky. Over its nine-year lifetime, Compton produced the first-ever all-sky survey in #gamma rays, the
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This #computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the #core of a galaxy. The black #region in the center represents the black hole’s event #horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerf
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Is this the #real #world? Or is it just fantasy? The truth started with a dream -- a dream that the #spectacular Seljarlandsfoss waterfall in southern #Iceland could be photographed with a #backdrop of an aurora-filled sky. Soon after a promising #space #
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It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble #Nebula, is being pushed out by the #stellar wind of #massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a #giant #molecular cloud, visible to the right. At this place in #space, an irresistible
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Despite being less #famous than theirandnbsp;ellipticalandnbsp;andandnbsp;spiralandnbsp;#galactic cousins,andnbsp;irregular dwarf galaxies, such as the one captured in this #NASA/#ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, are actually one of the most common types
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#Fantastic shapes #lurk in clouds of glowing gas in the #giant #star forming #region NGC 6188. The #emission #nebula is found about 4,000 light years away near the #edge of a large #molecular cloud unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern #constella
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#Point or tilt to see a #spectacular view of Mars #visible to the Curiosity rover last December. In the #foreground, part of Curiosity itself is visible, including its dusty #sundial. Starting about seven meters back, the #robotic #rover is seen posing in
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The #southern part of Orion, the famous #constellation and #mythical #hunter, appears quite picturesque posing here over a famous volcano. Located in the Canary #Islands off the northwest #coast of Africa, the #snow-peaked #Teide is one of the largest vol
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How #massive can a normal #star be? Estimates made from #distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open #cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our #Sun, making it one of the most #massive stars known. This star is the
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The spiral arms of bright, active galaxy M106 sprawl through this remarkable multiwavelength #portrait, composed of image data from radio to #X-rays, across the #electromagnetic spectrum. Also known as NGC 4258, M106 can be found toward the northern #cons
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#ACE and #Earth(Thomas Zurbuchen) #Mission: advanced composition explorer ACE Tag: #Advanced Composition #Explorer,#NASA #iss #science #astronomy #Galaxy
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