An Aurora Australis And Milky Way Over Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand Taken A Few Weeks Back.

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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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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Here is a picture of the sun without any glare.

Still a very powerful star!

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The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

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A view of Earth and its moon from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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The atmosphere of Pluto.

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Beautiful contrasts in surface textures of Comet 67P 8.9 km away from the surface.

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks towards Saturn, surrounded by the icy lanes of its rings.

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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Great snap of Phobos (the largest of the two natural satellites of Mars) hovering over the planet itself.

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