Ancient Layered Rocks On Mars Appear In Pale Whitish And Bluish Tones. The Various Colors And Tones Of

This illustration shows an alien planet named OGLE-2007-BLG-349 orbiting a pair of red dwarf stars. It was originally thought that the exoplanet may only have one sun according to astronomers. However, the Hubble Space Telescope has found a second star.

The first time humans saw Earth from the Moon.

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

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Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. The image shows the stunning diversity of Europa’s surface geology. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has been broken up and re-frozen into new patterns.

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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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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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Looking down on Earth from space, the Space Station crew photographed these clouds that seemingly float just above the thin blue envelope of the planet's atmosphere.

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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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Hurricane on Saturn's North Pole.

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