The Distinctively Fluted Surface And Elongated Hills In This Image In Medusae Fossae On Mars Are Caused

Great image of the Kolhar Dunes on Mars!

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NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless Floating Free In Space!

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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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Stunning picture of the moon in colour!

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As we look back into the history of our landscape, a much older history lies above us.

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A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, according to new data from the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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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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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 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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The Moon's surface in high-resolution and true colour taken by the Yutu Rover.

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