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Looking down on Earth from space, the Space Station crew photographed these clouds that seemingly float just above the thin blue envelope of the planet's atmosphere.

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Sharpless 129 is an H-alpha emission nebula commonly called the Flying Bat Nebula located in Cepheus very close to the famous IC 1396 (the nebula that contains the Elephant's Trunk). The large blue/green nebula inside it, which is over a degree long, is formally known as Ou4 but is colloquially called the Squid (or Giant Squid) Nebula.

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A fiery sunset seen by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station looks toward the South Atlantic. With Earth’s surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image.

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This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, named the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

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Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars.

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Astronomers have spotted a spectacular gamma-ray binary system in a galaxy right next to our very own. It is the first to be found outside the Milky Way and is also the brightest one yet discovered. See more space content with the Telescope Scene!

Here is the Cat’s Eye Nebula (aka NGC 6543) taken from Hubble. It is one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen. Planetary nebulae form when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers, creating amazing and confounding shapes as seen in the image.

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Truly great view of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.

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The Red Planet isn't always—well, red. As seen in this false-color image from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars orbiter, sometimes Mars is blue. 

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An aurora australis and Milky Way over Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand taken a few weeks back.

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