Wonderful shot of the Milky Way taken in Canada!
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Beautiful contrasts in surface textures of Comet 67P 8.9 km away from the surface.
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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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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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The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.
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