Sharpless 129 Is An H-alpha Emission Nebula Commonly Called The Flying Bat Nebula Located In Cepheus

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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The South Pole of Mars looks like a tasty ice cream!

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Wonderful image of a rocket powering through the clouds taken back in 2011.

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UV Spectrograph of Mars!

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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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Frozen beneath a cracked and pitted region in Mars’ mid-northern latitudes lies a sheet of ice with about as much thirst-quenching potential as Lake Superior.

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

Stunning blue-tinted sunset caught on Mars as seen by the Curiosity Rover.

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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 rocky planet discovered within the habitable area of the star nearest to our Sun may be covered with oceans.

The planet, named Proxima b, may be an ocean planet similar to earth.

In fact, it may even be the first exoplanet (outside of our Solar System) to be visited by robots from Earth in time.

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