NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Free In Space!

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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Barnard 150 (B150) dark nebula, also known as the Sea Horse Nebula, is a type of interstellar cloud that is extremely dense that it blocks the light from the background emission or reflection nebula making it block out background stars. The absence of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds.

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The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. Image credit: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari.

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A runaway star lights the Flaming Star Nebula in this cosmic scene. Otherwise known as IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula's billowing interstellar clouds of gas and dust lie about 1,500 light-years away toward the constellation of Auriga.

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Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, joins the moon and Mercury as the only known airless worlds with frozen water on the surface.

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A high resolution photo of Venus.

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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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A close up view of Saturn's north polar hexagon.

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A shot caught by Mars Rover showing a crumbling layered butte on Mars.

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