The Tarantula Nebula is More Than A Thousand Light-years In Diameter, A Giant Star Forming Region Within

NGC 1973/5/7 is a reflection nebula 1/2 degree northeast of the Orion Nebula. The three NGC objects are divided by darker regions. It is also called The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.

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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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NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever observed in planetary nebulae.

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Here’s an illustration of what living on the moon could look like.

UV Spectrograph of Mars!

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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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Truly great view of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.

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The amount of trackable objects currently orbiting Earth. These include satellites and are mainly referred to as forms of space debris.

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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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One of the new high resolution images of Earth taken from the weather satellite GOES 16.

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