This Shot From The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Shows A Maelstrom Of Glowing Gas And Dark Dust Within

The amount of trackable objects currently orbiting Earth. These include satellites and are mainly referred to as forms of space debris.

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The Cartwheel Galaxy is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is an estimated 150,000 light-years diameter, and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 × 10⁹ solar masses; it rotates at 217 km/s.

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Hurricane on Saturn's North Pole.

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NASA’s Curiosity snaps picture of beautiful dunes on Mars.

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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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This illustration shows an alien planet named OGLE-2007-BLG-349 orbiting a pair of red dwarf stars. It was originally thought that the exoplanet may only have one sun according to astronomers. However, the Hubble Space Telescope has found a second star.

View of Earth from the moon's horizon as captured from the Apollo 11 command module on July 1969. 

A new dwarf planet has been found within our Solar System. The newly discovered object (2014 UZ224) located beyond Pluto's orbit is believed to be large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet.

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Here is a picture of the sun without any glare.

Still a very powerful star!

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Pandora, one of Saturn’s moons close up! Just in, this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of this moon. 

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