Looking Down On Earth From Space, The Space Station Crew Photographed These Clouds That Seemingly Float

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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Fantastic image of the "Eye of Africa" taken from the ISS.

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An aurora australis and Milky Way over Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand taken a few weeks back.

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

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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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Great image of the Kolhar Dunes on Mars!

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Ancient layered rocks on Mars appear in pale whitish and bluish tones. The various colors and tones of the rocks record changes in the composition of the sediments.

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True colour image of Mars taken by India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.

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