Moonrise From Space Taken At The ISS!

Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.

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Here is what Mars would look like with oceans.

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An image of a fresh crater on Mars! The crater spans approximately 30m (100 ft) in diameter and is surrounded by a large, rayed blast zone. Because the terrain where the crater formed is dusty, the fresh crater appears blue in the enhanced colour of the image, due to removal of the reddish dust in that area.

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The Milky Way from the Bahamas.

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High resolution image of the Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's year 6 of activity composite production.

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Here is a coloured snapshot of Saturn's North Pole from the Cassini spacecraft.

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NGC 1973/5/7 is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. The three NGC objects are divided by darker regions. It is also called The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.

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Here is a picture of the sun without any glare.

Still a very powerful star!

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The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.

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Photograph of Earth below Saturn's rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

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