15 Astonishing Facts About Space That Puts Everything Into Perspective!

At the center of a spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away, the Hubble Telescope saw a bright, whitish patch surrounded by a mixture of stars, gas and dust.

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Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is an open star cluster that lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).

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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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Once upon a time, Mars had lakes, or at least wetter conditions than it does today. The latest from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud, evidence of an ancient era when these sediments were deposited were.

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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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Star formation in the tadpole nebula. Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga.

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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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Great image of the Kolhar Dunes on Mars!

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This is how SpaceX intends to send humans to Mars.

Pretty insane!

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True colour image of Mars taken by India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.

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